Are you ready for the ultimate gaming and content creation laptop experience?
If yes, then the year 2023 is going to be a banger.
This is because gaming and content creation laptops are going to get a lot better this
year, thanks to some new silicon from Intel and Nvidia.
Let's start with Intel, who are launching their new 13th generation Raptor Lake mobile
processors.
While Intel has announced many skews of mobile chips under their new 13th Gen Raptor Lake
umbrella, I am most excited about the Core i9-13980 HX processor.
This is the world's first 24-core laptop chip with a turbo frequency of 5.6 GHz, and it
promises to be a doozy.
It has 8 performance cores and 16 efficiency cores.
Basically Intel has doubled the number of efficiency cores in this chip compared to
last year's flagship model while still maintaining a 55-watt thermal envelope.
Intel says that this will result in up to 11% single-thread performance boost and up
to 49% multitasking performance boost, compared to last year's flagship chip.
Also the gaming performance will get a 12% boost.
Basically Intel wants all top-tier laptop makers to pair this chip with the fastest
Nvidia mobile GPUs and deliver a kickass gaming and content creation laptop.
On the Nvidia side of things, we are getting RTX 40 series mobile GPUs.
Laptops running on RTX 4090 and 4080 should be available starting Feb 8th with a starting
price of $1,999.
RTX 4070, 4060, and 4050 based laptops will launch on February 22nd with a starting price
of $999.
These GPUs promise to deliver some seriously impressive performance gains, even in lower-end
laptops.
The flagship RTX 4090 and 4080 GPUs are apparently powerful enough to play games across three
4K monitors at 60 frames per second.
Even the more mainstream RTX 4070, 4060, and 4050 GPUs are being billed as faster than
the outgoing RTX 3080.
They're quick enough to deliver 1440p gaming at up to 80fps, and are supposedly up to twice
as fast as a PlayStation 5.
Nvidia promises that these GPUs will also enable running professional tasks like 3D
modeling and AI-based media editing on a 14-inch laptop
Next let's talk about DLSS 3.
Nvidia claims that they have optimized DLSS 3 AI upscaling for mobile use.
Here is a game play captured on a pre-production RTX 4090 Laptop running at 1440p resolution.
As you can see here, DLSS 3 is doubling and sometimes tripling the fps while still offering
a crisp 1440p resolution.
Of course, this video was provided by nvidia, and we need to take these results with a grain
of salt.
Now, let's take a detailed look at the specs.
So the RTX 4090 mobile GPU has 9,728 Cuda cores with a boost clock speed ranging from
1,455 Mhz to 2,040 MHz.
It comes with 16 GB of low-voltage GDDR6 video RAM that helps boost battery life of laptops.
The number of Cuda cores and Video RAM reduces as we move down the lane from RTX 4090 to
4080 and all the way to the budget configuration.
For e.g. RTX 4050 has only 2,560 Cuda cores and 6 GB of Video RAM.
Now my concern with RTX 40’s architecture is its power efficiency.
We already know that RTX 40 series desktop GPUs are notoriously power-hungry.
So it remains to be seen how power efficient these new RTX 40 mobile GPUs will be in a
laptop body.
As of now, I don't have a full list of laptops with these new intel and Nvidia chips.
But expect rapid adoption from well-known brands like Acer, Alienware, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte,
HP, Lenovo, MSI, Razer and Samsung.
So if you are a gamer or a content creator waiting to buy a high performance laptop,
hold tight because we are in for a ride.
In the meantime if you are eying for a desktop GPU, checkout this video over here where I
compare video editing and content creation performance of the RTX 4090, 4080, and RX
7900 XTX.
So go ahead and watch these videos, and I will see you guys over there.
Bye!