Blade 15 Advanced: RTX 3080 (TGP: 95 W) beats RTX 2080 Super Max-Q (TGP: 95 W)

[Redaktion]

The Blade 15 Advanced scores some major points with its powerful hardware and great battery life. What is more, the Blade 15 Advanced now features a second M.2-2280 slot.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Blade-15-Advanced-RTX-3080-TGP-95-W-beats-RTX-2080-Super-Max-Q-TGP-95-W.537439.0.html

[LHPSU]

I'm sure we're all equally shocked at the 3080 beating the 2080.

[MBV]

I'm sure we're all equally shocked at the 3080 beating the 2080.

No we are not. But it is good to know that they managed to provide much better battery life though using the same CPU. This was one reason why I sent back mine.

Curious to see what this can do with new TigerLake or AlderLake CPUs.

[S.Yu]

I'm sure we're all equally shocked at the 3080 beating the 2080.

Yeah, I had to read the title twice because it's not saying something newsworthy.
And IIRC the node bump itself could explain ~25% more performance.

[Valantar]

Well, the desktop Ampere GPUs barely deliver an increase in perf/W over Turing, so this is at least somewhat newsworthy. Just goes to show how Nvidia pushed their current gen desktop GPUs far beyond their peak efficiency points to try to stay ahead of AMD.