Nvidia’s mobile RTX 2080 let me play Overwatch at 4K on a gaming laptop
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/7/18172409/nvidia-rtx-2080-laptop-gaming-gpu-4k-overwatch-demo-ces-2019
Nvidia’s big announcement during its CES press conference yesterday — mobile RTX GPUs for gaming laptops — was an expected one. The company has always worked to find the balance of power consumption, heat production, and the delicate GPU-CPU dance required to fit a desktop graphics chip into the slim, portable package of a notebook. Yet with the RTX 2060 / 2070 / 2080 series, we’re starting to see the delta between what’s been considered “desktop” and laptop gaming performance shrink to unprecedented levels.
At Nvidia’s showroom here in Las Vegas, I was able to try out a small handful of the more than 40 confirmed RTX laptop models coming from its hardware partners starting later this month. The one I was most impressed with was the new Razer Blade 15 featuring a 4K display and a mobile RTX 2080. Not only was it easily the most performant gaming laptop I’ve ever laid my hands on, it was able to play Overwatch at 4K / 60 fps with no issues whatsoever. (Although I will say the laptop got plenty hot during this exercise.)