Mainstream laptops could be gaming beasts thanks to Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 Ti

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Mainstream laptops could be gaming beasts thanks to Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 Ti

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While it might be near-incommunicable to find where to purchase the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080, there's another way to get the latest RTX graphics tech — and that'due south through gaming laptops with the new GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and RTX 3050 GPUs.

Nosotros first heard well-nigh these additions to Nvidia's laptop-course GeForce 30-series with the Samsung Galaxy Book Odyssey, the kickoff gaming laptop with the entry-level graphics cards. Now Nvidia has revealed more gaming laptops from the likes of Asus, Dell, Gigabyte, MSI, Razer and others that will go the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and RTX 3050.

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And that's a very good thing for people on a budget simply who want gaming ability that can be easily slotted into a laptop bag. Nvidia said that laptops with the GeForce RTX 3050 will beginning at $799, a good bit cheaper than machines with the more powerful GeForce RTX 3060, RTX 3070, and RTX 3080.

Yet these won't be underpowered gaming machines, as they'll target a polish 60 frames per 2d at 1080p resolution — plenty for most laptop displays — in the latest games. And the GPUs volition too offer the option for ray tracing support in a machine under $1,000.

The GeForce RTX 3050 Ti offers 80 tensor cores and 20 ray tracing cores while the RTX 3060 sports 64 tensor cores and xvi RT cores; both cards accept 4GB of video retention. Not surprisingly, they aren't going to deliver the functioning of a laptop with a GeForce RTX 3060 or indeed an older RTX 2060. However, laptops with the former start north of $999 and aren't like shooting fish in a barrel to find at the moment, while the later machines are beingness phased out and don't accept access to the latest Nvidia Ampere graphics compages.

Furthermore, Nvidia said that the pattern of the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and RTX 3050 will let for slim and portable laptops, edifice upon the already rather svelte gaming machines that fit in the more powerful laptop-class GeForce RTX 30-serial cards. As such, information technology'south no surprise that these new RTX 3050 carte volition exist constitute in the new Dell XPS xv and XPS 17, which are getting the new GPUs aslope the latest 11th Gen Intel Tiger Lake H-serial processors.

While these new graphics cards will not offer the blistering fast operation of their beefier and more expensive stablemates, they should offer content creators slim and calorie-free machines that tin can handle some decent gaming when it'southward time to clock out of work. And you can as well await to see a slew of upkeep-oriented gaming laptops that'll spec the new GeForce RTX cards with affordable yet capable processors from AMD.

Give how hard information technology its to detect the GeForce RTX 30-series cards in stock, also as higher-end gaming laptop, laptops with these budget GeForce GPUs could be a perfect stopgap until the semiconductor shortage eases. And when games starting time to outpace the capabilities of the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and RTX 3050, the laptops with these cards will still make for fantabulous workhorse machines.

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Roland Moore-Colyer is U.G. Editor at Tom's Guide with a focus on news, features and opinion manufactures. He often writes almost gaming, phones, laptops and other bits of hardware; he's likewise got an interest in cars. When not at his desk Roland can be plant wandering around London, often with a wait of curiosity on his face.

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