This week at IFA 2019, Asus has revealed the ProArt Studio Book One, which boasts a ridiculous 24 GB graphics processing unit (GPU), making it the most graphically-powerful laptop ever.
That power come from a mobile version of Nvidia’s Quadro RTX 6000, the desktop versions of which were unveiled at SIGGRAPH last year. Built on the Turing architecture, the main gimmick of this GPU is real-time ray tracing, which is claimed to trace the path of light through virtual scenes and produce realistic reflection, refraction and scattering.
With 24 GB of this graphical grunt, that makes the ProArt StudioBook One the most powerful laptop around by quite a wide margin. The runner-up title also belongs to Nvidia, with laptops packing the 16 GB Quadro RTX 5000 which came out earlier this year.
If a 24 GB GPU seems like overkill for even the most hardcore of gamers, that’s because it is. The 8 GB RTX 2080 is plenty for consumer needs – instead, the Quadro RTX lineup, and the laptops it’s built into, are designed for business, engineering and scientific use. That includes crunching huge datasets, editing 8K video, and creating detailed 3D animations and environments.
Aside from the powerful GPU, the laptop also boasts other high-end specs. It would surely be expensive, however. But if you’re just someone who uses a laptop for writing documents, then a laptop with basic specs will do.
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