RTX 5090-powered gaming laptop arrives with up to 128 GB RAM and plenty of ports

Tuxedo is a pretty well-known brand in the FOSS community, known particularly well for their Linux-based laptops.

The German brand has now unveiled a fresh new workstation/gaming laptop, dubbed the Stellaris 16 Gen 8. This variant comes equipped with truly high-end hardware, and clearly has the high-end professional and gaming communities in its sight.

Powered by the Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus CPU, the Stellaris 16 gaming laptop should be able to come within an 8% range of the monstrous Apple M5 Max in multithreaded benchmarks. while crushing the AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX "Fire Range" CPU by around 10% or so. 

Simply put, the overwhelming majority of demanding CPU-based workloads should be far from a hassle for the system.

Stellaris 16: The RTX 5090 Laptop GPU brings impressive graphical firepowe

The Stellaris 16 Gen 8 laptop can be equipped with an RTX 5070 Ti Laptop, RTX 5080 Laptop, or an RTX 5090 Laptop GPU. With 12, 16, and 24 GB of GDDR7 VRAM respectively, all three gaming GPUs should be able to chew through most workloads well enough. According to synthetic benchmarks, the highest-end RTX 5090 laptop should be able to lead the RTX 5070 Ti variant by around 18%.

The gaming laptop will also come equipped with a 16-inch display, with Tuxedo offering three display options detailed below:

1. A 2560 x 1600 panel with 500 nits of peak brightness, 100% P3 coverage, and peak 300 Hz refresh rate.
2. A mini-LED panel with the same resolution, refresh rate, and color coverage as the IPS panel, but with 1000/750 nits of HDR/SDR brightness and local dimming.
3. An OLED panel, also with the same resolution and color coverage, but with 240 Hz refresh rate, 1000/500 nits of peak HDR/SDR brightness, and pixel-level dimming for the best possible contrast performance.

Other notable features include up to 128 GB of DDR5-6400 RAM, dual M.2 2280 slots (PCIe 5 and PCIe 4), WiFi 7, all-aluminum chassis, 99Wh battery, and support for liquid cooling with the help of the Tuxedo Aquaris system. The I/O on offer has been detailed below:

• Triple USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A
• Thunderbolt 4 Type-C, USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C
• SD reader UHS-II
• HDMI 2.1, mini DisplayPort 2.1
• 2.5G Ethernet

The Tuxedo Stellaris 16 Gen 8 laptop is understandably quite thick, measuring in at 35.7 x 26 x 2.8 cm or roughly 14 x 10.2 x 1.1 inches. The OLED, LED, and mini LED variants weigh in at 2.6, 2.65 and 2.8 kgs respectively (roughly 5.7, 5.84, and 6.17 lbs).

The base variant with an RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU, 16 GB DDR5 RAM, standard LED display, and a 500 GB SSD costs €2,795, or roughly $3,132, including taxes. Plenty of configuration options are available over at Tuxedo Computer's official online store.

Sambit Saha - Senior Tech Writer - 1094 articles published on Notebookcheck since 2023

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