The Twitter bot @Benchleaks recently discovered Samsung 's Galaxy Book Pro laptop with an Intel Core i7-13700H processor and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 graphics card for laptops inside . The laptop is expected to be several months away from release, but it appears that Nvidia already intends to deploy its RTX 4000 series in the mobile market soon.
The upcoming Samsung Galaxy Book Pro machine has been spotted in the PugetBench database, which pulls system specs from Windows. Although it is possible to trick the operating system into thinking that it is dealing with a particular hardware configuration, it is not something that is easy.
The RTX 4050 for laptops would be relatively close to its launch
The Samsung Galaxy Book Pro model NP960XFH with the i7-13700H, RTX 4050, about 32 GB of LPDDR5-6400 memory scored 1.124 total points and 57,4 GPU points in the PugetBench using Premiere Pro 22.6.2. Compared to other laptops, it has a 17% faster GPU. This adds to speculation that it could be a completely new graphics processor.
This isn't the first time the Samsung Galaxy Book Pro NP960XFH, based on Intel's Raptor Lake processor, has appeared in a reference database. It's very likely the laptop will be unveiled in the near future, potentially appearing at the next consumer electronics trade show as soon as NVIDIA confirms the lower-end models in the RTX 4000 series. It could be formally presented at CES in early 2023, but plans are subject to change, especially given the current electronics shortage, which doesn't appear to be ending anytime soon.
With all this, the fact that a benchmark lists an RTX 4050 for laptops is an indicator that NVIDIA may soon bring their respective desktop versions. Worse, it wouldn't be uncommon for low-end models of a new series of graphics cards to initially ship in OEM products like laptops and pre-built desktop towers. The RTX 3050 started out like this, with a desktop version coming out several months after laptops hit the market with their mobile equivalent.
