IMAGE: NVIDIA MARCH 2021 PCWorld 43
T
he only real problem with Nvidia’s
new GeForce RTX 30-series laptops is
that they can’t live up to their stunning
RTX 30-series desktop cousins.
No matter how impressively fast the mobile
CPUs are—and our first tests show they offer
everything from good to outrageous
performance—they will never measure up to
full-fat GPUs. Nor should they be expected to,
except in the messy stew of modern marketing
and consumer expectations.
So don’t expect this mobile GPU to be a
desktop GPU. But do expect RTX 30-serieslaptops to offer very impressive graphics
performance, even compared to some of the
biggest and heaviest laptops around.WHAT IS GEFORCE RTX
30-SERIES MOBILE?
Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 30-series is the highly
anticipated mobile version of its stellar
30-series desktop GPUs. Built on the same
8nm Samsung process as the desktop
models, the mobile GPU shares a lot of the
same goodness. They are not, however,
exactly the same.Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 mobile:
The fastest laptop GPU just arrived
It’s not a desktop equivalent, but it hammers RTX 2080. BY GORDON MAH UNG