However, according to most benchmarks, the RTX 4090 outperforms the 7900 XTX by a massive margin, making it the best gaming graphics card in the market currently. NVIDIA is also expected to launch the even more powerful RTX 4090 Ti at some stage this year.

According to NVIDIA, the entire range of RTX 4000 GPUs will come to laptops, including the top-of-the-line 4090. People looking for more affordable alternatives will also get to choose from laptops running the RTX 4080, RTX 4070, RTX 4060 and even the RTX 4050, which will be aimed at casual gamers for the most part.

The new GPUs are based on the Ada Lovelace architecture, and according to NVIDIA, deliver the biggest generational leap over their predecessors in terms of raw performance. The company claims that the RTX 40-Series laptops deliver up to four times the performance of the last-gen hardware in AAA games like full ray-traced Cyberpunk 2077.

In terms of non-gaming performance, NVIDIA claims that creators will also vastly benefit from the new cards, thanks to impressive performance in apps like Blender. NVIDIA also claims that the new GPUs, which bring DLSS 3 and fifth-generation Max-Q technologies to laptops for the first time, are up to three times more power efficient than the previous generation cards.

According to Jeff Fisher, senior vice president of the GeForce business at NVIDIA, the Ada architecture transforms the performance to power-efficiency ratio in gaming and creator laptops by offering “enthusiast-class performance” in slim, 14-inch form factors.

NVIDIA also says that the RTX 40-series laptops GPUs include tri-speed memory control that enables the GPU to switch to newer, lower-power memory states dynamically. The new cards also come with optimized DLSS 3 and Max-Q with Whispermode and BatteryBoost that NVIDIA claims double the performance, acoustics, and battery life in the laptops. In addition, the cards come with the lowest-voltage GDDR6 memory ever, which allows for additional power efficiency.

Laptops with GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs will be available starting Feb. 8 from a slew of vendors, including Acer, Alienware, ASUS, Dell, GIGABYTE, HP, Lenovo, MSI, Razer and Samsung. Niche system builders like CyberPower PC, Eluktronics, Hasee, PC Specialist 3XS by Scan and Schenker will also offer PCs featuring the new hardware. Pricing for the flagship NVIDIA RTX 40-series laptops will start at $1,999, while the most affordable RTX 4050 laptops will be available from Feb. 22 at $999 onwards.