News Gaming laptop leaks with RTX 50 GPU, 192GB RAM, and Arrow Lake-HX CPU — Clevo laptop has monster 18-inch 4K display and Thunderbolt 5 ports

[Admin]

Laptop manufacturer Clevo is reportedly preparing to debut an all-new high-performance 18-inch laptop at CES 2025 sporting extremely high-end internals and next-gen CPUs.

Gaming laptop leaks with RTX 50 GPU, 192GB RAM, and Arrow Lake-HX CPU — Clevo laptop has monster 18-inch 4K display and Thunderbolt 5 ports : Read more

 

[Li Ken-un]

The show's star is the laptop's dual Thunderbolt 5 type-C ports. Interestingly, these two ports purportedly come straight from the Nvidia discrete GPUs only, not from the Arrow Lake CPU or the motherboard itself. This suggests that Nvidia is integrating Thunderbolt support directly into the RTX 50 series GPUs, which would represent one of the most significant I/O upgrades for GPUs in years.

A slight paradigm shift too. Current Thunderbolt add-in cards have DisplayPort input ports. Integrated ports had always been because the CPUs came with both Thunderbolt and iGPU or the motherboard made it seamless.

Having the Thunderbolt ports coming from the GPU add-in card/board could be a double-edged sword though. The plus is that there is greater PCIe bandwidth available to feed the pipe compared with Intel's PCIE 4.0 x 4 implementation, which shares 64 gbps between two 80 gbps ports. The minus is if there was some bandwidth prioritization involved that'd starve the data pipe to maintain graphics QOS.

 

[toffty]

Sounds like a good portable furnace!

 

[SomeoneElse23]

Aside from redundancy, I don't see the point of two Ethernet ports on a laptop?

 

[HyperMatrix]

Aside from redundancy, I don't see the point of two Ethernet ports on a laptop?

Outside of link aggregation, for WAN + LAN setups. I have my NAS and etc connected through a UDM pro. Then have my second port connected directly to the fiber terminal for unfiltered direct access for gaming latency purposes.

 

[Makaveli]

lol 192GB of ram in a "gaming build"

 

[YSCCC]

That pops the one question in my mind...

LAPTOP?????

that's a huge lap.... reminds me of the "field phones" in the WWII era where you need a soldier with a battery pack....

 

[SomeoneElse23]

Outside of link aggregation, for WAN + LAN setups. I have my NAS and etc connected through a UDM pro. Then have my second port connected directly to the fiber terminal for unfiltered direct access for gaming latency purposes.

That's very cool.

 

[Mahinator]

It seems that some users do not know what else can be done with a PC except video games) it's ridiculous how misinformed the consumer society is.

 

[Penzi]

I’m more intrigued by the Thunderbolt 5 via GPU. Definitely a direction I’ve hoped that GPUs and displays (e.g. DP over TB) would go for some time now. Let us see what 2025 brings!

Aside: Whistleblower? Seems an odd priority for them. Perhaps you mean a leaker?

 

[SomeoneElse23]

It seems that some users do not know what else can be done with a PC except video games) it's ridiculous how misinformed the consumer society is.

This is not a PC. This is a laptop.

Laptops have their place, and immense power is not it!

 

[Li Ken-un]

This is not a PC. This is a laptop.

Laptops have their place, and immense power is not it!

HP has been making laptops with even more power. I’m talking about NVIDIA workstation graphics, ECC RAM, and four M.2 slots.

I have my doubts that they could ever shine without a power outlet nearby. But as with all things, it’s not black and white.

 

[HyperMatrix]

lol 192GB of ram in a "gaming build"

“Technically” speaking….if I had 192GB of ram I’d set up a ram drive and have the game load directly from memory to reduce load times and stutters and increase 1% lows. Much faster than any SSD, NVMe, and even Optane drives. But yes I agree as a general matter that’s an absurd amount of memory for a gaming laptop. Haha.

 

[spongiemaster]

That pops the one question in my mind...

LAPTOP?????

that's a huge lap.... reminds me of the "field phones" in the WWII era where you need a soldier with a battery pack....

Yea, this isn't really a laptop. It's a desktop replacement (DTR). Though it can run on battery power, it is designed to be used while plugged into power.

 

[YSCCC]

Yea, this isn't really a laptop. It's a desktop replacement (DTR). Though it can run on battery power, it is designed to be used while plugged into power.

Yea, but then that thing is pretty lame IMO... building an ITX SFX PC is easier to trouble shoot, can use faster and cheaper GPU and CPU, and runs quieter under load, for higher end gaming laptops which is still portable and run games reasonably at 1080p make much more sense

 

[spongiemaster]

Yea, but then that thing is pretty lame IMO... building an ITX SFX PC is easier to trouble shoot, can use faster and cheaper GPU and CPU, and runs quieter under load, for higher end gaming laptops which is still portable and run games reasonably at 1080p make much more sense

You're not putting an ITX PC and monitor in a backpack. Even an 18" laptop still folds up and will fit in larger backpacks for easy portability.

 

[YSCCC]

You're not putting an ITX PC and monitor in a backpack. Even an 18" laptop still folds up and will fit in larger backpacks for easy portability.

To be frank I do really know ppl getting a SFF PC in backpack with keyboard and mouse, plus a DP+HDMI cable... monitor isn't necessary for his "porttable" use as he just use the hotel monitor... back in the days ppl use straps to carry full tower PCs for lanparty also.

back to the portability side, as gimmicky it is, I have yet to see one person who bought these DTR laptop weighting 3kg+ around at any time, they just sit on the desk forever, IMO these stepped into the territory of just "carry-able" gimmick vs anyone would really do that