RTX 5070 mobile spotted with 12GB of GDDR7 in upcoming Lenovo and Asus laptops

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In context: GPU prices have been climbing steadily over the past year, and a big part of that comes down to a global shortage of memory chips. That's made shopping for a new graphics card feel like a losing battle. So when Nvidia last year shipped the RTX 5070 mobile with just 8GB of VRAM – down from the desktop version's 12GB – laptop gamers were understandably annoyed. But that might actually be changing pretty soon.

Multiple laptop listings from both Lenovo and Asus now show an RTX 5070 mobile GPU packing 12GB of GDDR7. The whole thing started when a leaker known as Huang514613 spotted Lenovo's upcoming Yoga Pro 7i Aura Edition listing the card with 12GB.

But it wasn't alone as Asus did the same with its ROG Zephyrus G14 2026, ranked by us as one of the best gaming laptops of the year so far. On top of those, Newegg listings for the ROG Strix G16 reference 12GB, too.

Nvidia hasn't officially confirmed the new GPU yet. We also don't know much else about what's under the hood. But it would be reasonable to expect the rest of the hardware to stay roughly the same, though power consumption might bump up a little – squeezing in more memory chips can result in that. Either way, it's impressive considering the massive memory crisis induced by the AI boom.

One theory floating around, as pointed out by Notebookcheck, is that Nvidia might just kill off the RTX 5070 Ti on laptops altogether and fold the 5070 mobile into a single 12GB option. That would free up GB205 silicon for professional-grade RTX Pro 3000 workstation cards instead.

There's also a competitive angle worth noting: AMD still doesn't have any RDNA 4 laptops on the market, but the Radeon RX 9000M family is supposedly coming soon. Bumping the 5070 mobile to 12GB right now feels like Nvidia trying to get ahead of that.

Today, nearly a third of Steam gamers are still running 8GB cards, according to the platform's own data – and that's increasingly turning tight for the latest AAA games. We already found in our own review of the desktop RTX 5070 that even 12GB can buckle under heavy ray tracing workloads. Games like Indiana Jones and the Great Circle turned practically unplayable at full RT settings in our testing. So a bump to 12GB on laptops makes the GPU a much easier recommendation in the big 2026.

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RTX 5070 mobile spotted with 12GB of GDDR7 in upcoming Lenovo and Asus laptops

 

[noel24]

Oh, and how much will be that "cheapest" 12GB option?
Time to move out of this market, find Yourself alternative way of life. Somehow, milk, meat, potatoes and butter is maybe 20% more than It was in 2020, but real estate, cars, and tech - things traditionally occupying most of home budgets, went up upwards of 100%. Go up when supply shrinks, never goes down when It goes up.. Someone is playing games on consumers. How far can It last before the collapse of the nuclear family? Or maybe just before marxist style revolution? Chinese "lay flat" philosophy already reached Europe.

 

[yRaz]

Oh, and how much will be that "cheapest" 12GB option?
Time to move out of this market, find Yourself alternative way of life. Somehow, milk, meat, potatoes and butter is maybe 20% more than It was in 2020, but real estate, cars, and tech - things traditionally occupying most of home budgets, went up upwards of 100%. Go up when supply shrinks, never goes down when It goes up.. Someone is playing games on consumers. How far can It last before the collapse of the nuclear family? Or maybe just before marxist style revolution? Chinese "lay flat" philosophy already reached Europe.

my food bill is up 150% over 2020 and we actually eat MORE of the cheap stuff than we did before. 20% over 2020? Even the fed says inflation over the last 5 years is higher than that and they are trying to make the CPI look as low as possible on paper. Something that makes me laugh the most is that pop/soda is actually more expensive than beer now

 

[opckieran]

Pretty sure this was a typo. nVidia has literally no reason to undercut themselves here, as they have no competition above 5060 performance in the laptop space anyways. And even if they were trying to capture the AI crowd, they have 5070 Ti, 5080, and 5090 to do that in the mobile space already.

 

[yRaz]

Pretty sure this was a typo. nVidia has literally no reason to undercut themselves here, as they have no competition above 5060 performance in the laptop space anyways. And even if they were trying to capture the AI crowd, they have 5070 Ti, 5080, and 5090 to do that in the mobile space already.

People are still going to want high end laptops and they basically own the market. Thing is, you probably can't get the 5080m and 5090m. So this is probably a good as it's gonna get. I'm planning on replacing my 11thgen laptop with iGPU with a ryzen and 780m here soon. It's been good enough for years but I'm about to be on the road for work the next 9 months and I have no idea what the prices are gonna be next month and the laptop market is holding it's prices pretty reasonably FOR NOW. So, I think it's time to pull the trigger because I don't think it's gonna get any cheaper in the next 2 years.

For all we know, a 12GB 5070m is going to be the best readily available laptop gaming GPU for years. We have no idea when the 60 series is coming and it's gonna be awhile after that before we start seeing 60 series laptops.

 

[opckieran]

People are still going to want high end laptops and they basically own the market. Thing is, you probably can get the 5080m and 5090m. So this is probably a good as it's gonna get. I'm planning on replacing my 11thgen laptop with iGPU with a ryzen and 780m here soon. It's been good enough for years but I'm about to be on the road for work the next 9 months and I have no idea what the prices are gonna be next month and the laptop market is holding it's prices pretty reasonably FOR NOW. So, I think it's time to pull the trigger because I don't think it's gonna get any cheaper in the next 2 years.

For all we know, a 12GB 5070m is going to be the best readily available laptop gaming GPU for years. We have no idea when the 60 series is coming and it's gonna be awhile after that before we start seeing 60 series laptops.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news then, because these errors appear to have been corrected on both products' store pages.

The fact that nVidia cancelled their SUPER refresh is all the indication one needs that they have no competitive pressure to change or update their lineup. As for the 60 series, I can't imagine it coming out before 27H2, especially if nVidia are serious about bolting a 5070 onto their own APU.

 

[yRaz]

Hate to be the bearer of bad news then, because these errors appear to have been corrected on both products' store pages.

The fact that nVidia cancelled their SUPER refresh is all the indication one needs that they have no competitive pressure to change or update their lineup. As for the 60 series, I can't imagine it coming out before 27H2, especially if nVidia are serious about bolting a 5070 onto their own APU.

I'm sorry, what bad news are you bearing?

 

[NumberNine]

The great thing about gaming laptops is that they can dry your laundry and they sound like you are cruising in your very own private jet as you game. If you bring your gaming laptop to a public space, no one will need to guess about what it's doing, it will let them know.

 

[opckieran]

I'm sorry, what bad news are you bearing?

The lack of a 12GB 5070 Mobile

 

[yRaz]

The lack of a 12GB 5070 Mobile

I said it will likely be the best dGPU available for the foreseeable future. And I'm going with a 780m, anyway. There are plenty of those.

 

[yRaz]

The great thing about gaming laptops is that they can dry your laundry and they sound like you are cruising in your very own private jet as you game. If you bring your gaming laptop to a public space, no one will need to guess about what it's doing, it will let them know.

The only use case that makes sense for a gaming "laptop" is for people who travel a lot and need desktop power moving from hotel to hotel. Even in college I had a desktop and a laptop. But, at the time, it was cheaper(and more powerful) to have a basic laptop to take to class and a desktop at home. I know space can be a concern, but gaming laptops are not portable at all. Their battery life, even in low power mode, is measure more in minutes than in hours.

The laptop ok looking at has a ryzen 7 with 780m and a power budget of 50watts