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It seems like a scam that gaming laptops are marketed with the headline, i.e: GeForce RTX 5090, then in the fine print, read: GeForce RTX 5090 laptop GPU.
by yellow_lead 1y ago
It seems like a scam that gaming laptops are marketed with the headline, i.e: GeForce RTX 5090, then in the fine print, read: GeForce RTX 5090 laptop GPU.
- esperent 1y agoAgreed, but the scam is coming from Nvidia, not the laptop manufacturers. I doubt they're even complicit - Nvidia probably forces them to agree on exact marketing phrasing before selling them GPUs.
- FirmwareBurner 1y agoNvidia is incredibly strict with the laptop and board partners on the design and marketing of the final product.
- RealStickman_ 1y agoThe laptop manufacturers like marketing an RTX 5090 instead of the more accurate 5070. It's a simple reality that you can't cool 600W in a laptop case, but Nvidia selling laptop 5090 is complicit.
- lukeschlather 1y agoWhat are the actual chips? Of course it's not going to run at 600W but I would think you can run a 5090 at 150W and the performance will be better than a 5070 at 150W. Of course, Nvidia may not be binning the chips the way I would expect...
- RealStickman_ 1y agoIt's closer to an RTX 5080, I misremembered the number. Still, that's half the shader cores of a desktop 5090. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-gb203.g1073 https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-gb203.g1073
- nullbyte808 1y agoI thought "24 TB SSD" was a typo lmao
- yccs27 1y agoAre there any laptops that actually have a desktop GPU built in?
- lmm 1y agoYes (at least there used to be), but obviously that has a certain effect on their battery life and cooling requirements.
- dahcryn 1y agoat that point, it's about portability, not battery life
- Nicook 1y agoyou can pretty easily carry around a small form factor PC at that point. even a tower, where my LAN guys at.
- Our_Benefactors 1y agoLaptop is still integrated with all the peripherals though (screen, trackpad, keyboard, speakers) Are Sager laptops still a thing? I used to lust after those many moons ago.
- cma 1y agoI don't think they do it anymore, but for a while nvidia laptop GPUs of the same model number had more cuda cores to match the desktop model of same number, with the laptop's lower clock.
- dragonwriter 1y agoThe 3080 Ti laptop card has fewer CUDA cores but more VRAM than the desktop version.
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