Thursday, March 7th 2019
Dell Ends up Leaking Mobile GTX 1660 Ti Trying to Refute RTX 2050 "Typo"
Dell inadvertently confirmed that a mobile version of the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti graphics processor is in the works and coming to one of its G5 15 laptop models. The best part? The company was refuting the leak of another unannounced product, the "RTX 2050. " Calling it a typo, the company in a pop-up message for its G5 15 variant configurator. Apparently there are two main variants of this notebook, one with USB-C that has Thunderbolt, USB 3.1, and DisplayPort wiring; and another variant with just USB-C with USB 3.1 and DisplayPort minus Thunderbolt.
The company originally mentioned that variants with RTX 2060 and above get Thunderbolt, while those with "RTX 2050" only get USB 3.1 and DisplayPort out of their USB-C ports. In its correction, the company replaced "RTX 2050" with "GTX 1660 Ti." What the webmasters don't know is that mobile GTX 1660 Ti is unannounced, and it's unlikely that Dell is using a desktop GTX 1660 Ti on a notebook of this form-factor (this isn't one of those Eurocom-made desktop-replacement monstrosities).
Source:
Notebook Check
The company originally mentioned that variants with RTX 2060 and above get Thunderbolt, while those with "RTX 2050" only get USB 3.1 and DisplayPort out of their USB-C ports. In its correction, the company replaced "RTX 2050" with "GTX 1660 Ti." What the webmasters don't know is that mobile GTX 1660 Ti is unannounced, and it's unlikely that Dell is using a desktop GTX 1660 Ti on a notebook of this form-factor (this isn't one of those Eurocom-made desktop-replacement monstrosities).
10 Comments on Dell Ends up Leaking Mobile GTX 1660 Ti Trying to Refute RTX 2050 "Typo"
Releasing an entry level RTX card would have eaten in to the market space of similarly priced Nvidia GTX cards, so it's a no brainer to bin that idea and market only the one card.
Eurocom at best puts on stickers and/or better cooling paste. Their laptops are still just clevo barebones.
Also dissapointed they drop thunderbolt for lower-end cards.
Still, at least now we might have seen what a "rtx2050" would be: a gtx 1660 ti with raytracing added back in.
What's with all this glueing nowadays?
"It just works! Slowly!"
Soon: RTX 2030, for all your ray traced Powerpoint slides :peace:
Nvidia is now selling xx50-class GPU's for xx60 Ti prices. Hahaha it's just so sad...