From PC Mag: Alongside Intel’s new mobile 10th Generation H Series processor launch today, Nvidia has announced that its GeForce RTX Super GPUs are coming to laptops.
The GeForce RTX 2070 Super and RTX 2080 Super, in particular, are making the jump from desktop to laptop, and will be in your favorite mobile machines later this spring. In addition, improved Max-Q technology will ensure that performance increases across every price tier, and in thin laptops as well as in chunkier ones. Most of the major PC makers already announced their new gaming laptops that will carry these new GPUs.
On the desktop, the GeForce RTX Super series arrived as something of a surprise in July 2019. (See our reviews of the GeForce RTX 2070 Super and GeForce RTX 2080 Super desktop cards for much more background.) The Super versions of the RTX 2070 and RTX 2080 delivered better performance than the original graphics cards at a lower price point. It was something of a course correction for Nvidia, lowering the eye-watering costs of its top-of-the line GPUs to something a bit more palatable. In practice, Super-izing the GeForce RTX 2070 turned it nearly into an RTX 2080, at a lower price than the original stock model.
The RTX Super cards were, essentially, upticked versions of the originals that added a nice percentage increase, but they didn't reinvent the platform. In our testing, we saw gains on different applications between 7 and 15 percent compared to the non-Super versions, and again at a lower price. For more details on how exactly Nvidia achieved this, head over to our reviews of the desktop cards mentioned above. This band of Super cards also includes the GeForce RTX 2060 Super, which will not be making its way to laptops, at least for the time being.
With laptops, you don’t directly pay in full for a GPU as you do when buying a desktop graphics card, but these mobile versions of the GeForce RTX 2070 Super and RTX 2080 Super GPUs will deliver better value to laptops nonetheless. It’s shifting the whole stack, and you will be able get in the GeForce RTX door with RTX 2060-bearing laptops starting at just $999. The GeForce GTX 1650 represents the low end of the current hierarchy, and laptops with that basic gaming GPU will sell starting at $699. Laptops based on the two RTX Super GPUs should remain roughly equivalent to the price tiers of existing laptops using the non-Super RTX 2070 and RTX 2080 chips.
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