Announced GeForce RTX 3060 for PCs, Bringing GeForce RTX 30 GPUs to Laptops

NVIDIA just introduced its new graphics card, the much rumored NVIDIA RTX 3060. This is a model that slightly increases the amount of memory on the RTX 3060 Ti, which is now 12GB instead of 8GB. Needless to say, she shares Ampere architecture with her sisters.

NVIDIA, of course, has highlighted the performance of this new GPU when it comes to ray tracing. And is that the new RTX has 13 Shader-TFLOPS, 25 RT-TFLOPS and 101 Sensor T-FLOPS. On paper it shouldn’t be a problem to play in more than decent quality with ray tracing. The new GPU can be purchased globally at the end of February for $ 329. At the moment the price in euros is not known.

The good news is that the arrival of this new graphics card encourages competition in a market segment, that of reasonably priced solutions, of enormous interest to a very wide range of users. Now we can only hope that AMD will also move tab and present one or more solutions that have a more competitive price than the one currently available for their graphics cards from the Radeon RX 6000 family. And, of course, we also have to cross our fingers that the problems of stock current ones disappear soon, although it is not clear that this will happen in the short term.

GeForce RTX 30 Family Comes to Laptops

The other great news that NVIDIA has brought us is none other than the launch of the GeForce RTX 30 graphics processors for laptops in the Max-Q version. These GPUs with Ampere architecture They implement the same technology that has given us such a good taste in the mouth on GeForce RTX 30 graphics processors for desktop computers, but incorporates modifications introduced by NVIDIA to keep the consumption and the rate of heat dissipation under control in scenarios of use of maximum stress.

According to NVIDIA, the laptops that will incorporate the GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q, As the Legion Slim 7 de Lenovo, they will offer us a higher performance than the teams that have opted for the current top-of-the-range GPU for laptops from this company. In fact, always according to NVIDIA (so the ideal is that we take these figures with caution), this graphics processor will offer us a sustained image cadence of 90 FPS at 1080p and with the highest quality graphics settings.

Laptops that will integrate a 1440p screen, such as the ASUS G15, will bet on the new GPU GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q. This graphics processor, again according to NVIDIA, will allow us to achieve a sustained image cadence of 90 FPS at this resolution and with the highest graphic quality, figures that make it significantly faster than an RTX 2070 GPU for laptops.

Finally, the most ambitious laptops will bet on a GPU GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q. We will find this graphics processor, among other options, in the Alienware m15, and it promises to deliver a sustained image cadence higher than 100 FPS at 1440p and with the highest graphic quality. Along with this chip will reside a VRAM memory map of up to 16 GB GDDR6.

One last note: NVIDIA has confirmed that the first laptops equipped with its new GeForce RTX 30 Max-Q GPUs will be available at end of this January. Fingers crossed for problems stock are definitely resolved and users can access these computers without falling, as is already happening if we stick to video game consoles and PC graphics cards, in the clutches of speculators.

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