They are slated to roll out in "70+" laptop models starting January 26.

Nvidia's sales pitch positions the RTX 3060 laptop variant as "faster than laptops featuring the RTX 2080 Super," though this model may land more specifically in 1080p systems.

While Nvidia's latest promotional materials mention a bang-for-the-buck upgrade compared to the last generation of laptop GPUs, we're still waiting to see OEMs roll out specific prices and specs for their late-January models.

The laptop side's jump to the RTX 3000 series is met with the inclusion of second-gen ray-tracing cores and third-gen tensor cores—which have proven on the RTX 3000 desktop models to offer performance upgrades outside pure rasterization, all while reducing required space on the physical hardware.

But if you put the desktop and laptop specs side by side, the downgrades for each vary a little more wildly than you might expect by the names alone.

(Weirdly, the RTX 3060 laptop variant will have 6.6 percent more CUDA cores than its desktop variant, but 21.1 percent fewer than the desktop 3060 Ti.).

Honestly, the laptop version of the RTX 3080 probably deserves a different name, since it also downgrades to a 256-bit memory bus and GDDR6 VRAM (instead of the piping-hot GDDR6X variant found in the desktop model, attached to a 320-bit bus).

Speaking of which, clock speeds for the RTX 3000 laptop series also vary across the board, and Nvidia's announced ranges will certainly vary further once they're in the wild and packed into a variety of OEMs' chassis.