Laptop makers are about to put the metal pedal to the metal with next-generation CPUs and high-speed mobile GPUs, as AMD has already announced its "Ryzen 4000" series of CPUs for laptops. As for Intel, there are rumors that the 10th generation "Comet Lake-H" Core processors will be officially announced on April 2, reportedly along with a new model of Nvidia's mobile super GPUs.

Several Comet Lake CPUs already exist, albeit with lower power consumption at this time. These include a half-dozen Comet Lake-U processors ranging from the Celeron 5205U to the Core i7-10510U, and even lower-power Comet Lake-Y chips for ultra-thin and light laptops.

Intel will eventually announce Comet Lake-S CPUs for desktops and Comet Lake-H processors for high-end laptops. Neither product line has been released yet, but they have appeared in numerous leaks of varying reliability.

All variants of Comet Lake are another iteration of Intel's 14-nanometer node. While that is a bit disappointing, the best CPU for gaming is still the Core i9-9900K on 14nm parts. Of course, some of AMD's Ryzen chips offer better value. But we'll leave that for another day.

To put the latest rumors in perspective, Chinese-language website ITHOME (via Videocardz) predicts April 2 as the date when Intel and Nvidia will announce their next-generation mobile products, Comet Lake-H and Super model Turing GPUs, respectively.

Specific specifications will have to wait (whether these products launch next week or later), but past leaks indicate that the fastest processor for Comet Lake-H will be the Core i9-10980HK. It is an 8-core/16-thread CPU with a base clock of 2.4 GHz and a boost clock of 5.3 GHz, and is said to have a TDP of 45W. It would effectively replace the Core i9-9980HK (Coffee Lake), which has similar specs but a lower boost clock of 5 GHz.

Intel is also expected to announce several other models, including some more 8-core/16-thread chips, some 6-core/12-thread CPUs, and at least some 4-core/8-thread models, all at 45W (and apparently (and obviously at different price points).

Equally interesting, Nvidia is expected to port its GeForce RTX Super family to mobile. While he was at PCGamesN, our hardware chief Dave James dug up an internal slide showing that the mobile version of the GeForce RTX 2070 Super is about 50% faster than the non-Super model. How delicious.

Interestingly, the slide also highlights the GeForce RTX 2080 Super GPU for laptops, but does not mention the GeForce RTX 2060 Super. Perhaps that part will be introduced sometime later.

The last bit of interesting information is in fine print, and the slide indicates that the tests were run on a laptop with a Comet Lake-H CPU. But in general, where there is smoke, there is fire. And there is a lot of smoke.