The Turing architecture brings not only the usual increase in performance but also a promising technology. Raytracing remains in its infancy and hardly any applications or games support it, but its potential is already there to see, as demonstrated in Battlefield V. You must currently compromise on resolution though, which may be a deal breaker for some gamers. Only time will tell whether Nvidia has backed the wrong horse.

The best value for money RTX laptop GPU is currently the GeForce RTX 2060, in our opinion. The graphics card is not powerful enough to deliver raytracing at playable frame rates, but it is a considerable upgrade over the GTX 1060 and is on par with the GTX 1070. The RTX 2080 and the RTX 2070 are noticeable improvements on their predecessors too, but not to the same extent as the RTX 2060 is.

We are disappointed with the RTX Max-Q GPUs though. The RTX 2070 Max-Q in the Gigabyte Aero 15 is only as fast as an RTX 2060 and occasionally achieved worse results in our tests. Hence, the naming of the RTX 2070 Max-Q is slightly misleading, mainly as it is unlikely that Nvidia will release an RTX 2060 Max-Q. We appreciate that our results may be slightly distorted by the standard RTX GPUs being paired with more powerful 9th generation Intel Core CPUs, but we would have expected better results from the RTX Max-Q GPUs, nonetheless.

A significant shortcoming of the Turing architecture chips is Nvidia’s pricing. The laptops equipped with RTX GPUs will likely cost considerably more than their GTX 10-series counterparts (unofficial information), which may cause potential buyers to opt for the Pascal generation cards instead, at least until prices come down.