Insiders Predict Delay of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50-series Laptops

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Retailers are set to open up pre-order floodgates for upcoming GeForce RTX 50-series laptops on February 25, as we learned earlier this week. According to a new DigiTimes report, the launch of mobile devices—sporting Team Green "Blackwell" GPUs—is expected to be "significantly delayed." A loose March launch window was teased during Jensen Huang's keynote presentation at CES 2025, but supply chain insiders have claimed that high-end RTX 50 laptops were "originally planned to be launched in January 2025." Additionally, they surmise that mid-range and low-end offerings are postponed to April. DigiTimes believes that the rumored postponements have surprised supply chain moles; Team Green is not known to delay product launches. Extenuating circumstances are cited as the reason behind alleged deferred release windows, but insiders have not yet determined the extent of lengthened launch parameters.

An anonymous source stated: "NVIDIA, which has never been late in the past, also encountered this situation. It is probably related to NVIDIA's full sprint to AI servers. Even though there are differences in server and PC chip design and manufacturing processes, the company's resource allocation may still affect the debugging efficiency of new products." Other insiders have murmured about GeForce RTX 50-series mobile GPU performance not meeting expectations. Rumors have swirled about problems with early sample units; most notably the encountering of major screen issues when the "hardware is turned on." Laptop/notebook supply chain insiders reckon that manufacturers have anticipated a healthy level of growth in 2025—thanks to the emergence of new NVIDIA graphics cards—but targets have been reduced, due to anticipated delays. Optimistic industry chatter predicts higher education students and esport enthusiasts driving unit sales upward, following a stagnant 2024 market.



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[Chrispy_]

Who cares?

50-series is stagnation for performance, efficiency, and VRAM at the 5060, 5060Ti, and 5070 level where the majority of laptops with Nvidia GPUs are bought.

8GB of VRAM sucks balls in a new laptop in 2025 and there's zero benefit to the one exclusive feature of the 50-series on desktop (MFG) because laptops lack the raw GPU power to hit the minimum needed base framerate in games going back as far as 4 years now.

Laptops are a clue to how an Nvidia-only market would look without Radeons and Arcs, because just like Intel during the uncontested quad-core era, Nvidia are happy to charge more money for the same old shit, year after year after year...