You probably don’t think of a Chromebook as a graphics powerhouse, but that might change before long. Nvidia is teaming up with MediaTek to develop a reference platform that would bring RTX GPUs to Arm-based Chromium and Linux PCs as well as Nvidia’s own developer kits. The two didn’t say when they expected to bring Nvidia RTX graphics to the reference design, let alone a Chromebook you can buy. The implication is clear — ideally, you’d have an affordable, long-lived Chromebook with Nvidia graphics powerful enough to play games without relying on cloud streaming or Android apps. As much as MediaTek chips have advanced in recent years, a Chromebook based on one of its CPUs is unlikely to match a conventional, x86-based laptop even with Nvidia graphics.

Source: The Nation April 12, 2021 19:07 UTC