Chuwi launches the GTBook X, a budget gaming laptop featuring a modern Intel CPU but retaining an outdated Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 GPU, raising questions over its value at €999.
Chuwi has quietly added a new budget gaming laptop to its line-up, pairing a fairly recent Intel processor with an older Nvidia graphics chip. The GTBook X aims to offer entry-level gaming performance, but its use of a GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU means it lacks newer features such as frame generation and multi frame generation, which have become increasingly common in lower-cost gaming machines.
According to Notebookcheck, the GTBook X is built around Intel’s Core 7 230H, a Raptor Lake processor with six performance cores, four efficiency cores and 16 threads, with boost clocks of up to 5.2 GHz. Chuwi’s own product page, however, describes the machine as using a 13th Gen Core i7-13620H, suggesting the company’s specifications may vary by market or listing. Either way, the graphics hardware is the same issue: an RTX 3050 Laptop GPU with 4 GB of GDDR6 memory.
Chuwi says the GPU runs at 80 watts, with Dynamic Boost lifting total graphics power to 95 watts, while the company advertises combined CPU and GPU power of up to 140 watts. The laptop also carries a 15.6-inch full-HD IPS panel with a 144Hz refresh rate, 16 GB of DDR5 memory and a 512 GB PCIe SSD. Chuwi adds that the memory can be expanded to 64 GB through two SO-DIMM slots and that the twin M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 slots can support up to 2 TB of storage.
The GTBook X also includes two fans, five heat pipes, HDMI 2.1, Mini DisplayPort, USB-C 3.2, three USB-A ports, Gigabit Ethernet and an SD card reader. Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, RGB keyboard lighting and Windows 11 Pro are part of the package. Chuwi is currently selling the laptop in its EU store for €999, a price that makes the ageing GPU choice harder to justify, even if the rest of the specification is reasonably modern. Chuwi’s wider product page for the GTBook X also lists a 57Wh battery and a weight of about 1.82kg, underscoring that this is a relatively mainstream 16-inch machine rather than a true performance laptop.
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