Nvidia RTX 2080 and RTX 2070 graphics cards on gaming laptops?

Nvidia is set to release a series of new mobile graphics cards including mobile versions of the RTX 2070 and 2080 Super to power the best gaming laptops rumored to be.

Apparently, an internal source at Nvidia spoke with Wccftech and announced that new mobile cards will appear in May, and the disclosure will take place at the end of March – or, at least, that’s when the embargo is lifted.

Nvidia may also use older technologies to implement new budget graphics cards for laptops.

The source claims that at least six new laptop graphics cards are on the way – possibly more – and they include the RTX 2080 Super with 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM, which will replace the current RTX 2080 processor.

Nvidia will obviously keep the same price tag for the more powerful iteration of the 2080 graphics card, and this isn’t the first time we’ve heard of the new RTX 2080 Super. However, updating the mobile series of graphics cards, and the 2080 Super in particular, could turn out to be an insignificant iteration (at least if the new graphics card doesn’t reflect the boost we got in the desktop version).

There will also be an RTX 2070 Super (again with 8GB GDDR6) and a classic RTX 2070. Since these are new graphics cards, the new vanilla 2070 is likely to get higher clock speeds over the current mobile version.

The RTX 2070 Super will obviously offer a significant performance boost, but the price tag won’t go far from the RTX 2070 – which means the updated 2070 will be significantly cheaper.

That’s all the good news for high-end gaming laptops (assuming the rumors are accurate).

Not all?

There will also be a new GeForce RTX 2060 that will replace the existing RTX 2060 in what appears to be a frequency upgrade, although Wccftech suggests it could be a Super graphics card.

And what about the mobile version of the GTX 1650 Super, which was rumored earlier?

According to an internal source, this graphics card is not to be expected, but we will get two new entry-level graphics cards.

The new base model is the GTX 1650 with 4GB GDDR6 VRAM, which will be an upgrade to the current GDDR5 graphics card. The new graphics card will replace the younger GTX 1050, and with it will come the GTX 1650 Ti (with 4GB GDDR6 VRAM) to take over from the current 1650, offering more cores (the aforementioned source suggests that the new graphics card will offer 1,024 CUDA cores).

All this promises us a rather serious overhaul of Nvidia Turing mobile video cards. Most likely, the presentation of new video cards will coincide with the release of Intel’s 10th generation mobile processors.

As always, we can just wait and see how things go, but for anyone thinking of buying a new gaming laptop, it makes sense to wait to see laptops with new graphics cards in just a few months.