Lenovo and Asus are amongst the first companies to announce brand new gaming laptops based on Intel's 9th Generation Core CPUs and Nvidia's GeForce GTX 16-series GPUs, both of which were announced earlier today. Intel's latest offerings cover a range of targets from the mid-range to ultra-premium, while Nvidia's new mobile GPUs are aimed at value-conscious gamers who don't want the ray tracing effects possible with GeForce RTX series models. The new laptops have all been announced globally, with their latest launches, and Nvidia has stated that gaming laptops make up the fastest-growing category of PCs in the world right now.
Intel's new 9th Gen Core i9, Core i7 and Core i5 CPUs[1] are based on the 'Coffee Lake[2]' architecture. The top-end Core i9-9980HK has 8 cores and 16 threads, and can reach a turbo boost speed of up to 5GHz. Nvidia has launched the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and GeForce GTX 1650 GPUs[3] for laptops, based on its Turing architecture[4], promising up to 4X the gaming performance of comparable four-year-old model and a minimum of 60fps at 1080p in many of today's most popular games.
Starting with Lenovo[5], the company has updated five of its Lenovo Legion[6] gaming laptops and has also added two new models to its portfolio, including a more affordable model in the Lenovo IdeaPad series. The Lenovo Legion Y740[7], first shown at CES 2019[8], will be available in 17-inch and 15-inch options with a 9th Gen Intel Core i7 CPU and GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, with options including GeForce RTX GPUs[9], 144Hz screens with Nvidia G-Sync, and up to 32GB of RAM. There's an RGB LED keyboard designed by Corsair...