NVIDIA have announced the new GeForce RTX 3050 series, for laptops
NVIDIA have announced that the GeForce RTX 30 series is gaining a new member of the family with the 3050 and 3050 Ti chips, coming soon for laptops.
The RTX 3050 series will provide gamers who use laptops with some of the most powerful graphical options, in form factors that are not even 2cm thick. The inclusion of the 3050 series into laptops means that gamers on the go can now get DLSS and Ray Tracing support for games like Cyberpunk 2077, Watch Dogs Legion and more, no matter where they are.
But it is not just about the games here, as the inclusion of the 3050 series means that AI content creation tools are also brought over, allowing for 4K video and photo editing on the go, whilst also allowing for enhanced options for video streaming and more.
All that sounds well and good, but there is a cost, as there is with anything, current laptops that have the 30 series of chips in them start at $1600 AUD and go up to $5000 and some even higher, the big difference with these is that the USD price is $799. Converted to local dollars that is $1000 and change, meaning a saving of almost $600 off the RRP on most laptops.
The reason why this is important, not just having another option to choose from is again, all down to performance, with the 3050 series delivering significant boosts across the board. NVIDIA have said that tests running with machines displaying 1080p, with an Intel core I7 CPU and visual options set to high, can see performance off the following:
Overwatch - 155 FPS & 24ms
Rainbow Six Siege - 170 FPS & 19ms
Valorant - 190 FPS & 23ms
Those are some incredible responses, which given how important speed is, in each of those games, is a big deal. But it isn’t just those games, titles like Control or Watch Dogs Legion wouldn’t run on the more common GTX 1650 Ti chips, which most older laptops use, but the new RTX 3050 Ti does, with performance of 35 FPS for Control and 55 FPS for Watch Dogs Legion expected, but enable the supported DLSS, included with every 30 series chip and those FPS rates climb much higher.
Again though, there is performance on the content creation side as well, with NVIDIA tests showing massive improvements across the board, at least compared to CPU rendering. Tests when using Davinci Resolve, shows up to 7x faster rendering, when using a RTX 3050 Ti vs an 11th gen Intel CPU and up to 4x faster video editing in Adobe Lightroom.
Of course, if you are going the content creation route the new laptops like the Lenovo IdeaPad 5i Pro is going to be one of your options, but with 140+ new models coming, there is a lot of choice out there.
