Nvidia didn’t pull any punches during its big CES 2019 keynote on Sunday night. The company doubled-down on its hybrid ray tracing push by introducing the GeForce RTX 2060 as well as laptop versions of its RTX graphics cards. And then hell froze over. In an unexpected move, Nvidia also announced that its GeForce GPUs will support some AMD FreeSync monitors.

The company said no fewer than 40 laptops are already lined up to feature laptop versions of the GeForce RTX 2080, the GeForce RTX 2070, and the GeForce RTX 2060. Energy-efficient Max-Q versions of each GPU were also announced.

The new GPUs are, for the most part, the equal of their desktop GPUs in core count and features, but have lower clockspeeds and power consumption. In fact, Nvidia officials say the RTX laptop GPUs are up to 40 percent more efficient than equal Pascal-based laptop GPUs.

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