Samsung has confirmed that Nvidia’s RTX 3050 Ti graphics card for laptops is the real deal.
During its “Galaxy Unpacked” event today, Samsung said the GPU is coming to an upcoming gaming notebook called the Galaxy Book Odyssey. It touted the RTX 3050 Ti as a major feature for the PC, however the announcement is a little odd since Nvidia itself has never publicly mentioned the GPU.
According to a spec sheet, the 15.6-inch notebook can also be configured with an RTX 3050, another product Nvidia has yet to officially announce. Both GPUs are Max-Q models, meaning they can fit in a narrow PC design, but at the expense of some performance. The Galaxy Book Odyssey itself weighs in at 4 pounds and is 0.7 inches thick.
During the event, Samsung didn’t offer any benchmarks for the RTX 3050 or the 3050 Ti. But on the CPU front, the laptop will be powered by Intel’s upcoming “Tiger Lake” 11th Generation Core H-series processors, which are destined for gaming rigs.
Samsung plans on selling the Galaxy Book Odyssey in August starting at $1,399.
Nvidia didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. But we suspect more PC vendors are already preparing to unveil their own laptops with the new RTX GPUs. (Last month, an Asus website mentioned that an RTX 3050 Ti was coming to a gaming laptop called the TUF Dash15.)
During Wednesday’s Unpacked event, Samsung also launched the $999 Galaxy Book Pro—its new flagship ultraportable laptop—and an entry-level laptop called the Galaxy Book.
Both of these laptops will use Intel’s existing 11th-generation Tiger Lake chips designed for thin and light laptops, rather than the upcoming H series in the Galaxy Book Odyssey. The 15-inch Galaxy Book also lacks the AMOLED screen of the Galaxy Book Pro in exchange for a much more palatable starting price of $549.
