Some are already anticipating RTX 2080 Ti-levels of power – but we should be realistic about what we’re going to get here.
Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3070 chip for laptops has been snapped and the photo posted on Twitter, prompting excitement about how powerful this mobile GPU might be – and how soon it may arrive – but we’d be wise to temper any expectations at this point. The image was tweeted by HXL and appears to be a qualification sample of the GA104 mobile GPU, but of course, treat that with the usual caution around any early leak. The folks over at Tom’s Hardware can’t help but get excited (along with others) at the prospect of an RTX 3070 for laptops which maintains the same spec as the desktop version of the graphics card (i.e.5,888 CUDA cores). If true, it would mean we’d get a mobile GPU with equivalent performance to the RTX 2080 Ti (which the desktop RTX 3070 has been shown to pretty much match, going by Nvidia’s internal benchmarking).
