Agreed on deceptive marketing. I dug around and found some M2 updates. Seems that generally, Nvidia laptops drop to a small fraction when on battery. Example

Agreed on deceptive marketing. I dug around and found some M2 updates. Seems that generally, Nvidia laptops drop to a small fraction when on battery. Examples: 3dmark wild life. M2 max = 150 fps, 3080 ti 120 fps, 3080 Ti unplugged = 27fps. Blender 3d rendering: m2 max = 1:04 3080ti = :29 3080ti = 3:25 Lightroom: m2 max = :39 3080 Ti =:51 unplugged = 1:29 DR18 6k braw editing: m2 max = 0:55 3080 ti = 2:40 unplugged = 15 minutes For ML comparing 3070 vs M2 max, 3 batch sizes: CIFAR-10 m2 max = 242, 280, 327 RTX 3070 = 240, 283, 328 However for AI/ML duty the apple neural engine (ANE) looks pretty promising. On Densenet 121 the ANE on the M2 max is almost 7 times faster than the M2 Max GPU. Seems like the M2 max does pretty well compared to a plugged in RTX 3070 to 3080 Ti. The big bonuses is that you can use all ram (not limited to VRAM of 10-16gb) and you get the same performance even on battery.