Gaming laptop leaks with RTX 50 GPU, 192GB RAM, and Arrow Lake-HX CPU
The laptop will also sport a 4k screen, dual Ethernet ports, four M.2 slots, and support for up to 192GB of DDR5 memory.
The target demographic here isn't gamers; it's idiots with too much money... Or maybe game development studios.
[It has] dual Ethernet ports
Most people don't have multiple cat6 runs going to the same wall, nor do they have multiple internet providers being used as active-backup failover for a single machine.
Unless the user's router is right next to their laptop and they understand how to set up bonding, one of these will go entirely unused.
Clevo also went all out on the memory config, offering four DDR5 SODIMM memory slots supporting memory speeds of up to DDR5-5600.
192 GB is overkill for gaming, and sacrificing memory speed and throughput to achieve 2-DIMMs per channel will hurt gaming performance far more than it will help.
Storage consists of a whopping four PCIe M.2 slots, one operating at PCIe 5.0 speeds and the rest operating at PCIe 4.0 speeds.
Current generation games don't take advantage of PCIe 5 speeds. Not that having more space for drives is a bad thing, but I also have a hard time imagining someone would need more than 2 TB to store installed games, unless they're hoarding installs of AAA titles that haven't been played for 8 months.
The GPU notwithstanding, there's actually a pile of scientific usecases that this kind of power and portability would be very useful for. The dual network ports also provide a nice means of connecting to lab equipment that primarily communicates over ethernet, while still maintaining an easy way to have a reliable connection to a network.
It's almost definitely not targeted at this use-case, but I could certainly see it being looked at for it.
What's the use case for 192GB ram? Just Flight Sim 2020/2024?
Hey, they're buying a gaming laptop. Lower the bar a little.
Yeah, you're right. Fortnite, maybe?
Work and gaming. I currently pretty regularly use 32 gigs of ram with a couple android emulators. Throw on a few VMs and I’m easily pushing >48 gigs of ram. Start doing some serious data heavy work and you’ll easily use over 100 gigs of ram.
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Weight: 70 pounds
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Thats so much RAM, I barely have more than that across two enterprise servers I tinker with.
192 seems pretty low to me, but I guess it's a sodimm and you can't stick quite as many ram chips on those.
I guess that's "officially supported" and what currently exists since DDR5 is supposed to go up to like 1TB per stick so we'll see if it will do more later on.
Looks like a good CAD Workstation. Large screen, huge amount of RAM and dedicated gpu. You could argue that a Quattro GPU would be better suited, but a lot of smaller engineering contractors are no longer willing to pay the insane markup for quattro GPUs and are going with "gaming" hardware instead.