Nvidia has unveiled two new laptop GPU options, as well as a new desktop graphics card, and has also hinted at a new flagship desktop GPU that’s in the works. The company announced the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, RTX 3080 Ti and budget RTX 3050 GPUs.
New laptops with these new GPUs will be available in February, with the RTX 3050 available for purchase starting at $249 this month. Let’s take a look at these new Nvidia RTX 30 series GPU offerings unveiled at CES 2022.
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and RTX 3080 Ti
The RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti are the latest additions to Nvidia’s 30-series GPU lineup of laptops. These are the flagship models of the line, promising desktop-class performance in a portable package.
The laptop version of the RTX 3080 Ti has 16GB of GDDR6 memory, up from 12GB for the desktop model. The mobile version, according to Nvidia, is faster than the previous generation desktop Titan RTX with 120fps at 1440p at Ultra settings.
Meanwhile, the laptop RTX 3070 Ti is claimed to be 1.7x faster than the RTX 2070 Super, at 100fps at 1440p Ultra settings. Laptops with the RTX 3070 Ti and 3080 Ti will be available starting February 1 for $1,499 and $2,499, respectively.
Nvidia RTX 3050
The new Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 graphics card, as the company’s premium choice, is built on the Ampere architecture. The GPU has 2560 CUDA cores, a peak frequency of 1.78 GHz, a base frequency of 1.55 GHz, 8 GB of GDDR6 memory, and a 128-bit memory bus.
It supports up to 4K 12-bit HDR 240Hz with DSC and HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 1.4a. The GeForce RTX 3050, according to Nvidia, can easily break the 60 FPS barrier in the latest AAA games at 1080p. The GPU has second-generation ray tracing cores as well as third-generation tensor cores for DLSS (deep learning supersampling) and AI, allowing users to zoom in for fast graphical zoom.
On January 27, partner OEMs will start selling the RTX 3050 for $249. However, the company doesn’t offer the Founder’s Edition, so you’ll have to get it through a partner.
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
The GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, Nvidia’s next “BF GPU”, has also been teased, but we’ll have to wait a little longer. The RTX 3090 Ti has a staggering 24GB of GDDR6X VRAM at 21Gbps. The graphics card will have 40 teraflops of GPU performance, which is about 11 percent faster than the 36 teraflops RTX 3090. There are an additional 78 teraflops dedicated to ray tracing and 320 teraflops dedicated to AI operations.
However, we expect a clearer idea of when the GPU will officially hit the market.