Nvidia CES RTX 40 series laptop performance & features revealed
The latest improvements and performance info on CES 2023 laptops at the Nvidia CES Special Address
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Nvidia CES RTX 40 series laptop performance and features have been revealed in their keynote speech at the CES 2023 conference in Las Vegas.
Nvidia’s Special Address at CES 2023 took place on Tuesday the 3rd of January, and gave us some juicy details which we’ll go into below. Needless to say, 2023 is looking like an exciting time for gaming laptop enthusiasts.
Nvidia CES RTX 40 series laptop updates
The latest 5th gen Max-Q laptop GPUs from Nvidia come with the following updates over the previous generation of 30-series graphics cards. These exciting developments are what have lead to the performance benefits detailed further down this page.
- Ada architecture
- DLSS 3
- Ultra Low Voltage GDDR6
- Tri-Speed Memory Control
- Ada High Efficiency On Chip Memory – doubling the bandwidth and increasing the memory to 16x
Nvidia RTX 40 series laptop performance: RTX 40 series vs 30 series
In the above chart, Nvidia claimed ‘up to 4x the performance’ of the 40-series laptop GPUs previous generation of GPUs but this seems to be limited solely to one game: Cyberpunk 2077 and only when using the new RT Overdrive setting. Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and Red Dead Redemption 2 only seemed to achieve a 40-50% increase in performance, with A Plague Tale: Requiem seeming to achieve around a 170% increase. Portal with RTX got a rather impressive c.225% boost, but this is still an older game, even with the RTX features.
Creative / workstation software like Blender, Topaz AI, and Arnold seemed to get between a 75% – 130% boost.
Still, even the more moderate gains in this list have the potential to be very impressive improvements over the 30-series, depending on how the different SKUs are priced. Particularly when the improved power efficiency is taken into a account.
Nvidia RTX 40 series laptop power efficiency
Power consumption of laptop graphics cards is one of the major obstacles faced by the advancement of the technology in devices where reducing battery drain is an important issue, but the claimed improvements in Nvidia RTX 40 series laptop power efficiency were impressive to say the least.
Although it wasn’t totally clear if this will be replicated exactly across every SKU, the info displayed in the presentation seemed to suggest that an RTX 4070 laptop GPU would be able to perform as well as an RTX 3080 laptop GPU, but at 1/3 of the energy consumption.
Given the claimed FPS performance increases above, also means that Nvidia have found ways in the development of their new architecture to unlock more performance whilst retaining the same TGP (which is still capped at 175W like the most powerful RTX 3080 Ti laptops of the previous generation).
