The PCWorld team was at CES this year, and gosh, we stumbled upon something interesting. When executive editor Gordon Mah Ung toured the Nvidia booth, he was amazed by the new GeForce RTX 40-series laptops on display at the show. To show the difference in performance, the GPU manufacturer placed two Razer laptops with similar hardware next to each other. In terms of performance, the new Razer Blade x16, equipped with an RTX 4080 and running Cyberpunk 2077, completely destroys the 3080 Ti laptop sitting next to it, despite being a third of the power of the old GPU. Blimey.
The RTX 4080 handles around 77 fps at 50W max power with DLSS and ray tracing enabled. This is a very impressive result. This really shows what Nvidia’s new Ada Lovelace architecture is capable of. Another laptop, the Razer Blade 17, equipped with a 3080 Ti GPU, hits 64 frames per second with unlimited 143 watts. Regarding fan noise, a common problem with many gaming laptops, Ung points out that the Razer Blade 17 is much louder than the Razer Blade 16.
Some of these new RTX 40 series laptops are also shockingly thin. Many gaming laptops are bulky and often weigh around five or six pounds. However, this does not apply to Alienware x16. Ung couldn’t believe there was an RTX 4090 inside it, and that Gigabyte had managed to cram an RTX 4060 into a tiny 14-inch laptop. If this is the future of gaming, then the hell count me.
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