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Nvidia’s Lovelace laptop GPUs are coming, and we already knew that portables with these RTX 4000 graphics cards would come out in February. However, we now know exactly when the various graphics cards should come out in February.
NVIDIA announced that two dates will be used to launch their RTX 40 laptop GPU. On February 8, the high-end RTX 4090/4080 laptops will begin shipping, and on February 22, the RTX 4070/4060/4050 laptops will become available.
It has now been made public that sales of the RTX 4080 and 4090 will begin on February 1st. Since preorders typically come with a review embargo, it’s likely that we’ll learn more about the RTX 40 laptops in just two weeks.
As a result, the Ada Lovelace GPUs AD103, AD104, AD106, and AD107 will all be available in the first quarter of this year, indicating that NVIDIA intends to ship them all within a month. Since NVIDIA has not yet made such plans public, the same chips for desktop computers should be made available later.
As always, we must be skeptical of rumors, but the contention is that Nvidia will first launch RTX 4090 and 4080 models on February 7-8.
The report asserts that although these laptops will begin shipping at that time, you will actually be able to place an order for them one week in advance, on February 1.
The RTX 4070, 4060, and 4050 GPU-equipped laptops will be available later in the month, and they will go on sale on February 22.
The RTX 4080 and 4090 portables start at £1,999 while the lower-tier RTX 40 laptops will be available later this month for £999
XMG has demonstrated how much it would cost to upgrade to the RTX 4090 for a notebook carrying the Lovelace flagship. As a result, we already know that these notebooks will be extremely expensive. The Neo 16 gaming laptop from XMG now costs a jaw-dropping £1,830 but that only covers the cost of upgrading the GPU.
Analysis: A rapid launch of the Lovelace laptop line If this is true, you will be able to pre-order a laptop with an RTX 4090 or 4080 in just over two weeks. Additionally, all Lovelace mobile graphics cards will be available for use in notebooks by the end of February, so Nvidia is not waiting to deploy the entire range for laptops.
When you consider that only the RTX 4090, 4080, and 4070 Ti have been released in the desktop market thus far, and those releases were spaced out over a significant amount of time (the 4070 Ti has only recently arrived), this seems especially pertinent.
We wouldn’t bet on the RTX 4070, RTX 4060, or even 4050 being available for desktop PCs anytime soon due to the rapid deployment of laptop GPUs. In any case, we wouldn’t be betting on it. The desktop RTX 4060 may not even be considered for release by Nvidia until sufficient lower-tier RTX 3000 stock, which is still available, has been sold off, according to all recent rumors.
The price of the laptop RTX 4090 is not for the faint of heart, as previously stated. While offering performance comparable to that of the desktop RTX 4080, it actually costs about the same as the desktop RTX 4090. Keep in mind that the desktop 4090 uses the AD102 chip, whereas the mobile 4090 uses the AD103 chip, which has a CUDA Core count of 16,000).