From ExtremeTech: For as long as we can remember, the desktop-to-mobile GPU conversion math was pretty simple: The big chip goes in the desktop, and the smaller version goes in the laptop. That’s what Nvidia has been doing for years and is still doing. For example, its mobile RTX 4090 chip is the RTX 4080 desktop SKU, aka AD103. It’s not the full RTX 4090 AD102 die for thermal reasons, not to mention it would be ridiculously expensive and massive. Regardless, that’s been the pattern previously. Now Nvidia looks to be abandoning that strategy for its upcoming x60 series GPUs. For the first time we can recall, it will use the same die in both mobile and desktop versions of the RTX 4060. This could be good news for laptop gamers but bad news for desktop owners.
News of Nvidia’s plans comes from a reliable source, albeit on Twitter, so the usual dose of salt is necessary. Notorious leaker @kopite7kimi is reporting the upcoming desktop RTX 4060 will use the PG190 PCB with AD107. We already know the specs of this chip because Nvidia “launched” it as the RTX 4060 mobile at CES several weeks ago. Its specs include 3,072 CUDA cores, 96 texture mapping units, and 32 ROPs. It also has 96 tensor cores and 24 ray tracing cores as well. Its memory configuration is 8GB of GDDR6 running at 16Gb/s on a 128-bit bus. Its TDP is 115W, so we imagine the desktop version will be quite small.
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