Nvidia RTX 3060, 3070 and 3080 laptop GPUs revealed in huge leak

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When Nvidia launched the RTX thirty family of GPUs late last twelvemonth, the best gaming PCs received a huge shot in the arm, with even the upcoming 3060 Ti reportedly beating the previous heavyweight 2080 Ti on a slew of benchmarks.

But those that savor their PC gaming on the go accept yet to receive the upgrade on the all-time gaming laptops. For now, Nvidia's virtually powerful mobile GPU around remains the 2080 Super. And while that chipset is certainly no slouch, allowing ray tracing and impressive VR performance on the go, it'southward clearly no lucifer for the next generation of Ampere GPUs.

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Thankfully, it looks similar the mobile cousins of the RTX xxx family may be on the way, and with united states of america very soon. Twitter user @momomo_us establish a now deleted listing on Dutch PC maker Skikk's website. Before information technology was pulled, the page showed a number of gaming laptops compete with an Nvidia RTX 3060 with 6GB GDDR6 memory, a RTX 3070 Max-Q with 8GB of GDDR6 and a RTX 3080 Max-Q with a whopping 16GB of GDDR6 RAM.

To be clear, simply because the product has the same name doesn't mean you should look the aforementioned level of operation as the desktop equivalents. Non only do these mobile chips patently use GDDR6 memory, rather than the GDDR6X found in their bulkier siblings, but the portable nature of laptops mean that GPUs have to be paired back for cooling and battery related reasons. That might be why the mobile RTX 3080 seemingly gets an extra 6GB RAM over its desktop version, to compensate for performance losses elsewhere.

Still, Nvidia achieved some pretty impressive operation from the mobile RTX 20 chips, bringing the delights of ray tracing to the modest, portable screen, so we're excited to see what the company can do with the next generation of laptop GPUs.

We likely don't have too long to wait for all of this to be made official. CES 2021 kicks off January 11, and Nvidia has already booked an event for the 11th entitled "GeForce RTX: Game On." While this could just be making the 3060 and 3080 Ti official, we'd be surprised if at that place wasn't a mention of the RTX xxx family coming to laptops as well, given the visitor has previously used CES shows to unveil new mobile GPUs.

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