Upcoming 18-inch gaming laptop supporting 192GB RAM and RTX 5000 GPU

Brief: Not everyone has heard of Clevo, a Taiwanese laptop manufacturer. But an absolute beast of a gaming laptop coming out next year could just put the company on the map. In addition to featuring cutting-edge components from Intel and Nvidia, this machine promises insane specs, including an 18-inch screen and support for up to 192GB of RAM.

Most gamers would be happy with a dual channel setup. However, this gaming laptop offers four DDR5 memory slots supporting up to 192GB DDR5-5600 RAM.

Storage is also excessive with four M.2 SSD 2280 slots. One of them supports the latest PCIe 5.0 x4 while the other three are PCIe 4.0 x4. You will be able to load games at blazing speeds, no matter which slot machine you are using.

The 18-inch display will be available in two versions: a 4K panel and a 1440p option. Both support G-Sync variable refresh rates, but it’s unclear whether the 1440p model could offer higher refresh rates and response times suitable for gaming. Luckily, the bezels are slim to maximize that huge 18-inch viewing area.

The laptop is powered by Intel’s recently announced Arrow Lake mobile processors, specifically the high-power 55W Arrow Lake-HX chips. It is supported by one of Nvidia’s next-generation RTX 5000 series mobile GPUs, based on the “GN22” card platform.

Very little is still known about these GPUs, but a ransomware leak targeting Clevo previously revealed several specifications, including that the RTX 5090 would feature 16GB of VRAM. We assume the laptop will feature this model, as the excessive specs require an excessive GPU to go along with them.

Coming to power, the laptop has a 98Wh battery with a battery life of over 500 minutes. This will receive its juice from a wide range power adapter rated at 330 W.

Connectivity also seems solid, with two Thunderbolt 5 ports coming directly from the Nvidia GPU itself. If true, this would be one of the first laptops to integrate Thunderbolt into the graphics card instead of the CPU/chipset. You also get DisplayPort, HDMI, USB, dual Ethernet, and even a 2-in-1 audio jack.

All these details come from a “whistleblower” who revealed the truth to the Chinese technology site ITHome. There’s no word yet on pricing or availability, but Clevo is expected to officially unveil this crazy gaming laptop at CES 2025 in January, likely alongside Nvidia’s full RTX 5000 GPU lineup.