System76 Refreshes Serval WS Linux Laptop with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU

posted by Marius Nestor on May 08, 2025,
updated May 15, 2025

Powered by the Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX CPU featuring 24 cores and threads, the new Serval WS laptop features a brand-new 16-inch display with 2560×1600 (2K) resolution, 240Hz refresh rate, and 16:10 aspect ratio, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti graphics, up to 96GB of DDR5 5600 MHz RAM, and up to 12TB PCIe 5.0 and 4.0 storage.

The new Serval WS laptop also features 2.5 GbE Ethernet, WiFi 7, and Bluetooth 5.4 connectivity, a multitouch touchpad, a multi-color backlit chiclet US QWERTY keyboard, Thunderbolt 4 and HDMI (with HDCP) video ports, a 5.0MP HD camera, a 2-in-1 audio Jack for headphone and microphone, and a microSD card reader.

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• System76's Got Game With Its New Serval WS Laptop - FOSS Force

  Today the folks at System76 announced an upgraded version of its Serval WS laptop computer, designed with engineers and gamers in mind, From the looks of it, this one’s so fast it threatens to reach escape velocity.

  If you like gaming on Linux and you’re looking for a lightening fast laptop where everything Linux works perfectly out-of-the-box with no issues, you couldn’t do much better than this. Not only is it fast, it ships with an upgraded screen that offers totally fluid animations. For engineering types who have to spend hours with eyeballs glued to a screen, the new display also boasts text so crisp that you’ll greatly reduce your use of eye drops.

  While it’s true that these days you can buy laptops running Linux from just about any computer maker, with System76 you’re highly unlikely to find some sort of hidden hardware conflict down the road that the folks at Dell, Asus, or HP might’ve missed because their focus is on their Windows bread-and-butter. System76 is different. Since the company got started 20 years ago, it’s produced nothing but high quality Linux machines. In fact, the company is so hard-core Linux that I doubt anyone there remembers what a BSOD looks like.

• System76 Unveils Serval WS With RTX 5070 Ti and 2K 240Hz Display

  System76 has broadened its workstation-class laptop lineup with a fresh revision of the Serval WS, a 16-inch portable designed to satisfy engineers, developers, and gamers alike.

  The headline change, a 2K (2560 × 1600) panel running at 240 Hz, finally brings the Serval into the 16:10 era, giving users markedly more vertical space for code, CAD models, or spreadsheets while keeping motion buttery-smooth during high-frame-rate gameplay.

  Under the aluminum skin, the Serval WS now pairs Intel’s Core Ultra 9 275HX—a 24-core “Meteor Lake” part— with NVIDIA’s freshly minted GeForce RTX 5070 Ti.

  The CPU’s hybrid architecture is tuned for heavy parallel workloads; consequently, kernel builds and multi-threaded simulations should complete noticeably faster than on the outgoing 14th-gen silicon.

• This New System76 Linux Laptop Has an RTX 5070 Ti, up to 92GB RAM

  The Serval WS is one of the most powerful laptops in the System76 PC lineup, behind only the 18-inch Bonobo WS. The new Serval WS has an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor, with 8 performance cores, 16 efficiency cores, and a maximum turbo frequency of 5.4 GHz. It’s one of the Series 2 Core Ultra processors. The base model has 32GB DDR5 RAM, but you can configure it with up to a whopping 92GB. That’s a lot of Chrome tabs.

  There’s only one option for the graphics card: an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti. That will give you plenty of power for GPU-accelerated workloads, like video editing, 3D modelling, and local AI models. That’s also more than enough CPU and GPU power for PC games. System76 said in a press release, “With faster graphics, the Serval WS laptop is now better equipped than ever to run AAA games and helpful AI tools. These use cases are also supported by up to 96GB of DDR5 RAM, which is, as some experts might say, a lot of RAM.”

The Serial Slopper:

• System76 Serval WS Linux laptop gets NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti and 240Hz display [Ed: It is probably LLM slop]

Original:

• Premium Engineering Laptop Serval WS Moves to 2K, 16:10 Display

GoL:

• System76 COSMIC entering Beta soon and their Serval WS laptop gets a big upgrade

  System76 have launched a brand new and upgraded Serval WS premium laptop that sounds delicious, and I have hardware envy now. Additionally, it seems their COSMIC desktop is due to expand soon.

Also here but much later:

• System76: Linux laptop Serval WS refreshed with Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU

  US manufacturer System76 has a broad product portfolio ranging from notebooks, desktop systems and mini PCs to servers and keyboards. The devices are designed for operation with Linux and are equipped with System76's own Linux distribution Pop!_OS as standard. The Serval WS-Notebook is now getting a hardware upgrade, with high-performance hardware aimed at scientists, gamers, engineers and developers.

  The most striking new feature of the updated Serval WS notebook is the 16-inch display, which offers a high refresh rate of 240 Hz with 2560 × 1600 (16:10 format). In order to be able to utilize the high Hertz number of the screen with a sufficient number of frames per second for gaming and the like, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU (laptop) with 12 GB of DDR7 RAM is installed, which, according to System76, delivers up to 1406 TOPS.