Nvidia has announced that they are making a lower-end RTX GPU available for new gaming laptops beginning this year.
These are the new GeForce RTX 3050 and RTX 3050Ti, which sits below the previous RTX 3060 in terms of performance.
That said, the two GPUs are Ampere architecture-based so they come equipped with RT and Tensor Cores. As such, these cards have support for ray-tracing and DLSS.
Nvidia isn’t disclosing performance numbers and comparison this time, but claims that from the use of DLSS, you can still get 60fps gaming at 1080p resolution on games like Minecraft RTX and Call Of Duty Black Ops Cold War.
Plus, Nvidia Broadcast is also supported, which adds noise removal, room echo removal and a green screen effect all done through AI.
The new gaming laptops making use of these new cheaper cards will start at $799 USD (roughly RM3,290), though from what we’ve seen, expect to see gaming laptops with ray-tracing capabilities to start around the RM4,000 mark. That’s 1K lower than the usual RM5,000+ gaming laptops with RTX cards usual comes in.
While this won’t make premium gaming laptop owners excited, the new range of RTX 3050 and 3050Ti GPU laptops will make ray-tracing capable PCs much more affordable this year. Expect to see OEMs announcing their slew of new gaming laptops in the coming weeks.