Nvidia’s mobile GPU range has apparently been spotted – could a powerful RTX 5080 supercharge gaming laptops soon?
RTX 5080 model might be the next-gen Blackwell highlight, if the rumor mill is on the money
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
We’ve just caught a sighting ofNvidia’s RTX 5000 graphics cardsfor laptops, which is hopefully a hint that these next-gen GPUs are inbound to be revealed soon, as the rumor mill already believes.
The mobile Blackwell GPUs were spotted by leaker Harukaze5719 on X, posted up as part of the PCI Device ID database, likely by laptop makers (most, but not all, of the IDs discovered by the leaker pertain to mobile parts).
2980 / GB10229c0 / GB1022c18 / GB203M, GN22 / 5090 Mobile2c19 / GB203M, GN22 / 5080 Mobile2c2c / N22W-ES-A1 / @mooreslawisdead leaked the picture5070 Ti Mobile5070 Mobile5060 Mobile5050 Mobilehttps://t.co/PGWZsH221XOctober 27, 2024
As you can see in the above post, these are supposedly the RTX 5090 mobile GPU, plus the RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti and vanilla RTX 5070, RTX 5060 and RTX 5050.
Those are the modelsNvidiahas on the boil in theory, but obviously take this with a liberal quantity of salt – and we don’t get any spec info here, just the purported GPUs that could make up the Blackwell family forgaming laptops.
The rumor mill has shifted somewhat in recent times to float the suggestion that we’ll get theselaptop GPUs launched at CES 2025, so we could see some of them very soon – alongside RTX 5000 desktop graphics cards (possibly the RTX 5090, 5080, and theRTX 5070 on the desktop front).
Analysis: Fingers crossed for that RTX 5080 powerhouse
As noted, this is more evidence to add to the growing number of hints that we will indeed see next-gen Blackwell GPUs for laptops in just over a couple of months. It comes on top of arecent eye-opening revelation that we might see an RTX 5080that uses the GB203 chip (the same one in the flagship RTX 5090 mobile) – which is what this fresh rumor suggests – and is nicely powerful as a result. Indeed, the RTX 5080 might be a big step up from the RTX 4080 mobile, if this pans out (which is perhaps why Nvidia is doing this – as the RTX 4080 for laptops was widely criticized as being a weak offering when it emerged).
If this latest info is right, it would appear to suggest that the rumored RTX 5080 is indeed the vanilla version of the graphics card, and not some kind of RTX 5080 Ti (which might be one explanation for how powerful it supposedly is). So, this keeps hope alive that the high-end for Blackwell laptops is going to be more impressive this time around.
Get the best Black Friday deals direct to your inbox, plus news, reviews, and more.
Sign up to be the first to know about unmissable Black Friday deals on top tech, plus get all your favorite TechRadar content.
The only variant (Ti or Super) mentioned at all here is the RTX 5070 Ti, in fact – though that doesn’t rule out Nvidia producing such spins at a later date. Team Green probably doesn’t yet know itself what route it’ll take when it comes to diversifying the RTX 5000 range later on down the line.
ViaVideoCardz
You might also like
Darren is a freelancer writing news and features for TechRadar (and occasionally T3) across a broad range of computing topics including CPUs, GPUs, various other hardware, VPNs, antivirus and more. He has written about tech for the best part of three decades, and writes books in his spare time (his debut novel - ‘I Know What You Did Last Supper’ - was published by Hachette UK in 2013).
Intel Battlemage rumored for December – could new budget GPUs win over gamers neglected by Nvidia and save the Arc brand?
Nvidia RTX 5090 Ti suddenly pops up – and RTX 6000 GPUs are mentioned in trademark filings too – but don’t get excited
Stormforce Pro Creator 0601 workstation review
