Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3050 will power new laptops.

Nvidia launches GeForce RTX 3050 GPUs for gaming laptops as low as $800

Nvidia announced that a new wave of gaming laptops starting at $800 will use its new Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 and 3050Ti graphics processing units (GPUs).

Top manufacturers are launching more than 140 laptops based on Nvidia’s 30 Series GPUs, including the two new GPUs. The RTX series chips feature real-time ray tracing for better shadows and lighting as well as AI-based deep learning super sampling (DLSS), which makes processing more efficient and speeds up frame rates.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.