By Kyle Barr
Publication Date: 2026-04-27 17:19:00
Why shouldn’t a company known for the most powerful GPUs make the CPUs that power our next-gen gaming laptops? Nvidia might be gearing up to answer that question with the N1X chip, the beefier version of its upcoming N1, which could be the most graphically powerful single chip we’ve seen yet for laptops.
In his latest video, the mostly reliable leaker/YouTuber “Moore’s Law is Dead” offered additional insights into the N1X APU (accelerated processing unit), a chip that contains both CPU and GPU capabilities on a single die. It’s supposedly packing a massive 20-core CPU with 10 P (performance) cores and another 10 E (efficiency) cores. On the GPU side, the leak suggests the new chip will be based on the same Blackwell graphics processing architecture as the company’s latest RTX 50-series graphics cards. It contains 6,144 CUDA GPU cores, equivalent to the GeForce RTX 5070.
Running Blackwell architecture means these PCs will be compatible with Nvidia’s DLSS 4.5 upscaling without the need for a separate GPU. This would boost the gaming potential of these laptops with what is currently the best-looking upscaling available.
Reasons to be equally excited and nervous
Before you get ahead of yourself, let’s set your expectations. The N1X is supposedly limited to between a 65W and 120W TDP (thermal design power) for…
