Finding a place to buy an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 may be next to impossible, but there is another way to get the latest RTX graphics technology - a gaming laptop with the new GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and RTX 3050 GPU It is.

We first heard about these additions to Nvidia's laptop-grade GeForce 30 series in the Samsung Galaxy Book Odyssey, the first gaming laptop with an entry-level graphics card. Now Nvidia has revealed more gaming laptops from Asus, Dell, Gigabyte, MSI, Razer, and others with GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and RTX 3050.

And that's very good for those on a tight budget but want gaming power that can easily fit in a laptop bag; according to Nvidia, laptops with the GeForce RTX 3050 will start at $799, with more powerful GeForce RTX 3060, RTX 3070, and RTX 3080, which is considerably cheaper than machines with the GeForce RTX 3060, RTX 3070, and RTX 3080. [This is because the latest games target a smooth running 60 frames per second at 1080p resolution, which is sufficient for most laptop displays. GPUs also offer the option to support ray tracing on machines costing less than $1,000.

The GeForce RTX 3050 Ti offers 80 tensor cores and 20 ray-tracing cores, while the RTX 3060 has 64 tensor cores and 16 RT cores. Not surprisingly, these cannot match the performance of a laptop with a GeForce RTX 3060 or the older RTX 2060. However, laptops with the former are not easy to find now, with prices starting at $999 and up. On the other hand, the latter machines are being phased out and do not take advantage of the latest Nvidia Ampere graphics architecture.

In addition, Nvidia has stated that the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and RTX 3050 designs fit more powerful laptop-grade GeForce RTX 30 series cards, building on the already fairly slim gaming machines to make slimmer, portable laptops stated that it will allow for a top. So it is not surprising that these new RTX 3050 cards will be included in the new Dell XPS 15 and XPS 17, which will feature the new GPUs along with the latest 11th generation Intel Tiger Lake H-series processors.

While these new graphics cards do not offer the blazing fast performance of their more powerful and expensive stablemates, they should provide content creators with a slimmer, lighter machine that can properly handle their games in time to get off work. We can also expect to see lower-priced gaming laptops with new GeForce RTX cards and affordable yet high-performance processors from AMD.

Given how difficult it is to find GeForce RTX 30 series cards in stock, laptops with these cheap GeForce GPUs, as well as higher-end gaming laptops, are the perfect band-aid until the semiconductor shortage eases Maybe. And even when gaming begins to surpass the capabilities of the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and RTX 3050, laptops with these cards will make excellent workhorse machines.