Nvidia has announced that it will boost the power of Copilot+ PCs, Microsoft’s new, more powerful take on its AI PCs, by equipping these laptops with Nvidia RTX GPUs.
In a blog postNvidia tells us: “In the coming months, Copilot+ PCs equipped with new low-power systems-on-a-chip and RTX GPUs will be released, giving gamers, makers, enthusiasts and developers better performance to handle demanding local AI workloads. along with Microsoft’s new Copilot+ features.”
In addition to giving this new breed of AI-powered Windows 11 laptops a lot more power in terms of AI processing power via the RTX GPUs, Nvidia has even more plans for developers and makers, as mentioned.
That includes a new Nvidia R555 Game Ready Driver that allows AI models to run locally on a Windows 11 PC much faster. Nvidia even claims that Large Language Models (LLMs) can run up to 3x faster with the new driver.
Other goodies let Windows developers train complex AI models on Microsoft’s operating system, Nvidia tells us.
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What do the Nvidia GPUs coming to Copilot+ PCs actually mean? Well, that these devices will be much more capable of performing at a heavy level in terms of AI performance, with not only the low-power CPU and NPU running the show, but also a powerful discrete mobile GPU joining in the fun.
Team Green seems to be jumping on the Copilot+ PC bandwagon sooner or later, as while the “coming months” are a bit vague in terms of the release time frame, it seems to indicate that this move is on the horizon in the near future .
Nvidia mentions combining its mobile RTX GPUs with “new low-power systems-on-a-chip” and right now the only offering in town is Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X. However, we don’t see this as a declaration in the sense that we’ll be getting a Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PC with an Nvidia RTX GPU, as there are a lot of wrinkles to be ironed out (on the Windows on Arm driver front for starters, and overall it just doesn’t feel like a likely combination).
So we’re assuming here that Nvidia is preparing to equip Intel or AMD-powered Copilot+ PCs with RTX GPUs when these devices hit the market, likely with the launch of Intel Lunar Lake and AMD Strix Point, which meet the stricter NPU requirements for Copilot+ PCs – which current generation mobile chips from Teams Blue and Red do not.
Whatever the case, there’s no doubt that RTX graphics will be a powerful addition to support Windows 11’s incoming AI features.