Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 mobile: The fastest laptop GPU just arrived
The only real problem with Nvidia’s new GeForce RTX 30-series laptops is that they can’t live up to their stunning RTX 30-series desktop cousins.
No matter how impressively fast the mobile CPUs are—and our first tests show they offer everything from good to outrageous performance—they will never measure up to full-fat GPUs. Nor should they be expected to, except in the messy stew of modern marketing and consumer expectations.
So don’t expect this mobile GPU to be a desktop GPU. But do expect RTX 30-series laptops to offer very impressive graphics performance, even compared to some of the biggest and heaviest laptops around.
WHAT IS GEFORCE RTX 30-SERIES MOBILE?
Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 30-series is the highly anticipated mobile version of its stellar 30-series desktop GPUs. Built on the same 8nm Samsung process as the desktop models, the mobile GPU shares a lot of the same goodness. They are not, however, exactly the same.
For example, the desktop GeForce RTX 3080 packs 10GB of GDDR6X using a 320-bit bus and features 8,704 CUDA cores. It rocks 760GBps of memory bandwidth. Our review called it a “staggering
