NVIDIA details Blackwell Max-Q innovations: RTX 5070 series laptops start from $1299

NVIDIA has unleashed its new GeForce RTX 50 Laptop GPUs, with the new Blackwell Max-Q designs detailed by NVIDIA promising some huge efficiency, performance, and innovations coming to gaming laptops in 2025.

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The company says that its new Blackwell Max-Q chips have been designed from the ground up for efficiency, delivering a "massive leap" in performance and battery life. NVIDIA says that there are a number of Max-Q innovations in the Blackwell architecture that combine to make this possible.

NVIDIA starts with Advanced Power Gating technologies that greatly reduce power by rapidly toggling unused parts of the GPU, with Blackwell having "significantly faster" low-power states. Low Latency Sleep allows Blackwell Max-Q GPUs to go to sleep more often, saving power even when the GPU is being used. This reduces power for gaming, Small Language Models (SLMs), and other creator and AI workloads on battery.

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NVIDIA continues, saying that Blackwell Max-Q has Accelerated Frequency Switching that boosts performance by adaptively optimizing clocks to each unique workload, all at micro-second level speeds. Voltage Optimized GDDR7 tunes graphics memory for optimal power efficiency with ultra-low voltage states, delivering a "massive jump" in performance compared to last-generation's GDDR6 memory.

All of these technologies and features put together has NVIDIA boasting battery life improvements of up to 40% compared to previous-generation GeForce RTX Laptop GPUs.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Laptop GPU details so far:

• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU: 10,496 CUDA cores, 1824 AI TOPs, 24GB GDDR7 memory
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop GPU: 7860 CUDA cores, 1334 AI TOPS, 16GB GDDR7 memory
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU: 5888 CUDA cores, 992 AI TOPS, 12GB GDDR7 memory
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU: 4608 CUDA cores, 798 AI TOPS, 8GB GDDR7 memory