LG announces its first gaming laptop: a 17-inch monster under RTX 3080

Ahead of CES 2022, LG announces its first gaming laptop
. Attached to the UltraGear range, the device ticks all the boxes of the laptop
overpowering devoted to the game … with the added bonus of a clean look, far from the visual eccentricities that sometimes overwhelm this market.

For its first foray into the field of gaming laptops, LG is no slouch. The Korean giant announced this December 21 the UltraGear Gaming (17G90Q), a laptop that is both powerful, sober and slender: its chassis does not exceed 400 x 271.6 x 21.4 mm for 2.64 kilos, while that there is the gratin of Intel and NVIDIA.

Tiger Lake-H and RTX 3080 on the menu

Under the hood, LG chooses to combine an 11th generation Intel Core processor (Tiger Lake-H, 10nm) with an RTX 3080 MaxQ graphics card. For now, the brand does not specify which chips will be offered, but we should at least find the Core i7-11800H. We also do not know what the TGP of this RTX 3080 will be. Given the finesse of the device, counting on a TGP of 100 – 110 W (approximately) seems credible. The dissipation system will be based on a vapor chamber anyway. A device found on select gaming laptops from ASUS and Razer, among others.

On the RAM side, LG announces 16 to 32 GB of DDR4 depending on the configuration chosen, with a maximum of 1 TB of SSD storage. A vacant M2 SSD slot is also provided on the motherboard to increase storage capacity, or switch to a RAID configuration. LG announces for the rest an RGB backlit keyboard and a rather generous connection focused on a USB-C Thunderbolt 4 port, a USB-C 3.2 Gen2 port (supporting power supply and display in DisplayPort), two USB-ports. Has 3.2 Gen 2, a headphone jack, an HDMI output, an RJ45 port and a microSD card reader.

Connectivity goes through an Intel Killer Wi-Fi 6 modem, while a 93 Wh battery is announced. On its press release, LG also mentions a fingerprint reader and a Full HD webcam lined with infrared sensors. We should therefore take advantage of facial identification via Windows Hello on the UltraGear Gaming.

Towards a launch in France?

Last but not least, LG announces a 17.3-inch Full HD IPS screen capable of going up to 300 Hz. This panel should be very responsive, with a response time announced at only 1 ms. Finally, it will cover 99% of the sRGB spectrum: a specification that is now very common on laptops.

Promising, the device will be unveiled in more detail at CES 2022. At this stage, LG does not yet communicate its price, but given the specifications announced, a price between 2,000 and 2,500 euros is expected . The brand finally indicates that its UltraGear Gaming 17G90Q will first be marketed in the United States and South Korea, from the first quarter of 2022. The laptop should then reach other markets, without further details.

If LG markets many laptops in France (especially some models of its Gram range), the presence of the brand’s laptops is still sporadic in our regions. We will see at the beginning of January whether the brand chooses to launch (or not) its UltraGear Gaming 17G90Q in France.

Source: LG press release