Looking for a laptop with an RTX 3000? Here are all the variants listed!

If you are planning to buy a gaming laptop in the coming months based on the new NVIDIA GPUs, based on its GeForce Ampere architecture, and under the trade name RTX 3000 Mobile, then you have to know that not all variants of the RTX 3000 for laptops are equal. That is why we have ordered the information so that you know the GPU that your future laptop carries.

In the past, CES NVIDIA presented its new RTX 3000 Mobile, based on its latest generation architecture, and a few weeks later we already have the first laptops with them, however not all RTX 3080 Mobile, RTX 3070 Mobile, and RTX 3060 Mobile do not They are equal.

NVIDIA's new generation of GPUs for laptops bring with them all the benefits of their full desktop counterparts, plus third-generation Max-Q technology.

The variants of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3000 Mobile

The two observations that can be made after a review of all the information on the variants of the RTX 3000 Mobile are two, the first is that each variant has a TGP 5 W lower than the previous variant, with the odd exception, and the second that the Max-Q models use 12 Gbps memory.

To facilitate the information we have divided the different models by commercial name, that is, a table for RTX 3080 Mobile, a second for RTX 3070 Mobile, and a third and last table for the RTX 3060 Mobile.

So we can find that two laptops in theory with the same GPU do not have the same variant and therefore are different in clock speed and therefore in power and performance.

Variants of the NVIDIA RTX 3080 Mobile

Variant	CUDA cores	Base MHz	MHz Boost	TFLOPS	VRAM bus	Gbps	TGP (W)
RTX 3080 Mobile	6144	1350	1710	16.6	256 bits	14	150
RTX 3080 Mobile	6144	1320	1695	16.2	256 bits	14	145
RTX 3080 Mobile	6144	1275	1665	15.7	256 bits	14	140
RTX 3080 Mobile	6144	1260	1665	15.5	256 bits	14	135
RTX 3080 Mobile	6144	1230	1635	15.1	256 bits	14	130
RTX 3080 Mobile	6144	1185	1605	14.6	256 bits	14	125
RTX 3080 Mobile	6144	1155	1575	14.2	256 bits	14	120
RTX 3080 Mobile	6144	1110	1545	13.6	256 bits	14	115
RTX 3080 Mobile Max-Q	6144	930	1365	11.4	256 bits	14	90
RTX 3080 Mobile Max-Q	6144	870	1320	10.7	256 bits	12	85

Variants of the NVIDIA RTX 3070 Mobile

Variant	CUDA cores	Base MHz	MHz Boost	TFLOPS	VRAM bus	Gbps	TGP (W)
RTX 3070 Mobile	5120	1215	1620	12.4	256 bits	14	125
RTX 3070 Mobile	5120	1170	1590	12	256 bits	14	120
RTX 3070 Mobile	5120	1110	1560	11.4	256 bits	14	115
RTX 3070 Mobile Max-Q	5120	930	1410	9.5	256 bits	12	90
RTX 3070 Mobile Max-Q	5120	855	1365	8.8	256 bits	12	85

Variants of the NVIDIA RTX 3060 Mobile

Variant	CUDA cores	Base MHz	MHz Boost	TFLOPS	VRAM bus	Gbps	TGP (W)
RTX 3060 Mobile	3840	1387	1702	10.7	192 bits	14	115
RTX 3060 Mobile	3840	1342	1680	10.3	192 bits	14	110
RTX 3060 Mobile	3840	1305	1642	10	192 bits	14	105
RTX 3060 Mobile	3840	1267	1605	9.7	192 bits	14	100
RTX 3060 Mobile	3840	1215	1567	9.3	192 bits	14	95
RTX 3060 Mobile	3840	1163	1530	8.9	192 bits	14	90
RTX 3060 Mobile	3840	1035	1485	7.9	192 bits	14	85
RTX 3060 Mobile	3840	900	1425	6.9	192 bits	14	80
RTX 3060 Mobile Max-Q	3840	1050	1402	8.1	192 bits	12	70
RTX 3060 Mobile Max-Q	3840	975	1357	7.5	192 bits	12	65
RTX 3060 Mobile Max-Q	3840	817	1282	6.3	192 bits	12	60

Why are there different variants?

We have explained the reason for this many times, not all the chips on a wafer come out the same, some are one hundred percent functional while others are only partially, this causes different variations of a chip that correspond to different models from the same range.

But then there are what are known as parametric yields, these are discovered in the testing phase and they are fully functional chips within specifications but at the speed and consumption ratio, they are not all symmetrical. Which is not a problem for desktop graphics cards.

In the case of GPUs for laptops in which the thermal and consumption specifications influence much more, it is where these variations make much more sense, in order to ensure optimal performance of the laptop, in which a simple variation of 5 W in the TGP of the graphic subsystem can lead to problems from a heat and consumption perspective.