It might be impossible to get your hands on a 50-series card at the moment. But if you’ve been waiting for Nvidia’s next-gen gaming laptops, they’ll be arriving within a couple of weeks — or at least that’s when you’ll be able to put your money down on one. Pre-orders for RTX 5070 gaming laptops will begin on February 25th.
The news was posted to Nvidia’s social media channels yesterday. Exactly when said laptops will arrive in the sweaty hands of gamers isn’t clear, but I’d assume it’ll be within a month following that date. “March” is the official release date for at least some 50-series laptops, but precise info for the 5070 Ti, 5080, and 5090 has not been shared.
Interestingly, February 25th also happens to be the same day Framework is announcing new products. So far there are no details on this — we don’t even know if it’s new laptops — but my mind instantly jumped to a refresh of the modular Framework 16 laptop with an RTX 5070 discrete GPU option. To be clear, there’s zero evidence of that so far, and the date could be a complete coincidence.
Laptops that combine the 5070 card with the latest CPUs will undoubtedly have some serious polygon-pushing power, but some have expressed disappointment that the new card will have only 8GB of GDDR7 memory. That compares rather poorly to the 5070 Ti laptop card (12GB) and the desktop version of the RTX 5070 (ditto).
Personally, I’d wait for initial reviews before putting down thousands of dollars on a brand-new gaming machine, especially considering how underwhelming the $1,000 RTX 5080 desktop card is.