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

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 ...