As the cornerstone of their CES 2021 keynote, NVIDIA today has announced their GeForce RTX 30 series graphics adapters for laptops. Based on the same Ampere architecture and the same GPUs as NVIDIA’s existing desktop GeForce cards, the RTX 30 series for laptops will bring Ampere’s features and much of its performance to laptops, just tuned to the sub-150 Watt power requirements that come with a laptop. Laptops will be getting versions of the RTX 3080, RTX 3070, and RTX 3060, with the first of these new generation of laptops set to become available later this month, on January 26
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Though an obligatory step in the roll-out of a new GPU architecture, the release of laptop parts is an important one for NVIDIA and its OEM partners. Laptops represent an ever-growing share of the PC gaming market, and perhaps just as importantly for NVIDIA, it’s a market that, above entry-level discrete graphics, they have virtually complete control of. So a big part of NVIDIA’s fortunes hinge