When is NVIDIA planning to expand its lineup of GeForce RTX 40 Series laptop GPUs beyond five? For laptop maker XMG, the answer to that appears to be “not anytime soon.”
In a post that the company shared earlier this month teasing its laptop roadmap, XMG and Schenker revealed that it isn’t working on any new laptops that feature GPUs newer than the ones that NVIDIA already has on hand, such as the GeForce RTX 4070 and GeForce RTX 4060 laptop GPUs, which originally launched in February this year.
Here’s XMG’s statement, in which it suggests NVIDIA has nothing up its sleeves—at least, for early 2024 and the more immediate future:
Neither XMG nor SCHENKER plan to introduce laptops with NVIDIA GPUs other than those currently known and available during the first quarter; even minor updates, such as increased VRAM, are not slated. Graphics chips based on the Ada Lovelace architecture may remain the most recent NVIDIA offerings even in the medium term.
In the desktop PC sector, there is already speculation about possible “SUPER” or “Ti” models, while the laptop GPU rumour mill remains comparatively quiet.
NVIDIA welcomed its GeForce RTX 40 Series laptop GPUs in January 2023, teasing five new Ada-based options for mobile users with performance that is on par with some of the previous generation’s desktop parts:
GeForce RTX 4070, 4060 and 4050 Laptop GPUs deliver up to RTX 3080 flagship class performance at one-third of the power, improving thinness, acoustics, and thermals.
Play at up to 80 FPS at 1440p in Cyberpunk 2077 at Ultra settings, render complex Blender scenes in mere minutes, and take advantage of Ada’s AV1 encoder for better quality video editing and live streaming.
The GeForce RTX 40 Series mobile family is headlined by the GeForce RTX 4090 laptop GPU, which counts 9,728 CUDA cores, 16 GB of GDDR6 memory, and a boost clock of up to 2,040 MHz among its specifications.
We're starting to see first public confirmations of no new laptop GPUs in early 2024 / CES: https://t.co/RLkLjLke5V
— Jarrod'sTech (@JarrodsTech) November 14, 2023