This week, a gaming laptop with an unannounced CPU and GPU hardware temporarily appeared on a German retail site, effectively a fun teaser for what is to come.

The laptop in question, an upcoming Acer Nitro 5 configuration (model AN517-41-R9S5), was briefly listed on Electronic Partner. After the listing gained some notoriety, it went offline, but you can still view a cached copy of the product page. [This product is a 17.3" laptop with an IPS panel with a resolution of 1920x1080 and a refresh rate of 144Hz, 32GB of DDR4 memory, and a 1TB SSD. All of these are things we have seen before in the notebook segment. What makes this configuration stand out, however, is the combination of an AMD Ryzen 7 5800H CPU and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 mobile GPU.

Neither part officially exists yet, but both have been the subject of many leaks and rumors; to start with the CPU, the Ryzen 7 5800H is a next-generation mobile CPU based on AMD's latest Zen 3 architecture, the same as the desktop Ryzen 5000 series.

Interestingly, there are rumors that AMD will mix both Zen 2 and Zen 3 CPU models in the Ryzen 5000H/U mobile series. If so, buyers will want to be very careful with the products they purchase to ensure availability of Zen 3 parts. Zen 2 for mobile already exists (Ryzen 4000H/U series), and while these are desirable CPUs, Zen 3 is a more exciting and better performing architecture.

Past leaks suggest that the Ryzen 7 5800H will have 8 cores and 16 threads, a base clock of 3.2 GHz, and a maximum boost clock of around 4.5 GHz. It also has 16MB of L3 cache, eight GPU cores, and a TDP of 45W. For comparison, the Ryzen 7 4800H is also an 8-core/16-thread CPU, but has a base clock of 2.9 GHz, a maximum boost clock of 4.2 GHz, 8 MB of L3 cache, and seven GPU cores.

Not much has been leaked about a mobile version of the GeForce RTX 3080, but so far it appears that it could be an upscaled RTX 3070 GPU, as opposed to the desktop RTX 3080. On the desktop, however, Ampere has proven to be a powerful GPU architecture. The entire GeForce RTX 30 series on desktops is hard to find in stock and at MSRP, partly because it is a significant upgrade over the previous generation GeForce RTX 20 series.

Combining Zen 3 and Ampere in a gaming laptop will undoubtedly be a popular combination, depending on what the pricing will be. On a related note, the Nitro 5 is priced at €1,948.61, which is about $2,375 in US currency.

Meanwhile, the folks at Videocardz claim that Gigabyte is preparing to launch its own new gaming laptops based on the latest generation of hardware: the G5 (15.6") and G7 (17.3") will feature the Intel Core i7- on the CPU 10870H and a GeForce RTX 3060 mobile GPU, while the A7 has a Ryzen 7 5800H CPU and Ryzen 7 GPU.