GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti land on laptops, NVIDIA raises the bar | CES 2022

NVIDIA presented the new dedicated GPUs GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and RTX 3080 Ti intended for notebooks. Designed for laptops with starting prices of $ 1499 and $ 2499 respectively, they will begin to peep into the market from February, aboard models from Alienware, Razer, ASUS, MSI and many other companies – the company talks about over 160 new laptops coming with GeForce RTX 3000 GPUs and the latest CPUs from AMD and Intel.

The “GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop“is based on a GPU (GA103?) with 7424 CUDA core which operate between 1125 MHz and 1590 MHz in boost depending on the design. The new chip is accompanied by 16 GB of GDDR6 memory at 16 Gbps on a 256-bit bus. The TDP, based on the design, ranges between 80 and 150W. According to NVIDIA, the new RTX 3080 Ti Laptop delivers performance that surpasses the “old” Titan RTX for desktop systems (Turing, released December 2018).

The younger sister “GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop“if you present with 5888 CUDA core (GPU GA104), boost frequencies between 1035 and 1485 MHz depending on the project and 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on the 256-bit bus. The TDP ranges from 80 to 125W depending on the laptop configuration. This GPU, according to the company, is “up to 70% faster than the GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER. Both solutions should allow you to play smoothly at 1440p, as reported in the slides from NVIDIA.

Along with the new proposals, the US company introduced the fourth generation of Max-Q technologies, that set of technical solutions made to develop thin, fast and low noise designs. The fourth generation includes three new features: CPU Optimizer, Rapid Core Scaling e Battery Boost 2.0.

Based on the fact that on laptops, power is shared between GPU and CPU and CPU efficiency is critical for maximizing performance, NVIDIA has developed CPU Optimizer: it is a low-level framework, created together with the CPU manufacturers, which allows the GPU to “further optimize the performance, temperature and power consumption of the new CPUs. The result is that CPU efficiency is higher and power is transferred to the GPU for superior gaming performance “.

Rapid Core Scaling is a technology designed for those dealing with heavy programs such as Adobe Premiere Pro, Blender or Matlab. The technology allows the GPU to detect application requests in real time and use only necessary cores rather than all drives. In this way it is possible to release the power that can be used for run active cores at higher frequencies, according to NVDIA to achieve “up to 3X performance” for intense creative work while the notebook is running on battery power.

In the end, Battery Boost 2.0 is the new version of artificial intelligence that controls the entire platform to find the optimal balance in the use of power by the CPU and GPU, battery discharge, image quality and frame rate. All in real time. The result should be to have an excellent gaming experience even on battery, with an autonomy up to 70% greater than in the past.