When you're spending $1000 or more on a gaming laptop, you're going to want to know exactly what's inside. Official specs from manufacturers will often be so truncated that certain performance details regarding the GPU may be omitted.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/More-manufacturers-have-been-omitting-the-Max-Q-GeForce-name-from-official-listings-and-it-s-getting-annoying.447069.0.html
Just 10-15%? More like 20-40% if you look at benchmarks. 20 series was already not much of an upgrade, but its Max-Q version is barely on par with 1080 laptop, often worse. I mean, it is hard to follow Pascal which was dare I say revolutionary for mobile gaming, but still.
And let's be honest, it's basically the old M moniker made "cooler" and to not make it look like these are cut down mobile versions, which is exactly what manufacturers are doing according to this article.
Quote from: Anonyneko on December 11, 2019, 13:13:26
Just 10-15%? More like 20-40% if you look at benchmarks. 20 series was already not much of an upgrade, but its Max-Q version is barely on par with 1080 laptop, often worse. I mean, it is hard to follow Pascal which was dare I say revolutionary for mobile gaming, but still.
And let's be honest, it's basically the old M moniker made "cooler" and to not make it look like these are cut down mobile versions, which is exactly what manufacturers are doing according to this article.
That really depends on the cooling. Max-Q models may yet vary 15-20% between each other.
According to Notebookcheck data, the 2070 Max-Q and 2070 (laptop) differ by 25% (in favor of the 2070 laptop). Anywhere from 10-25% is a more accurate estimate imo
Quote from: S.Yu on December 11, 2019, 20:13:05
Quote from: Anonyneko on December 11, 2019, 13:13:26
Just 10-15%? More like 20-40% if you look at benchmarks. 20 series was already not much of an upgrade, but its Max-Q version is barely on par with 1080 laptop, often worse. I mean, it is hard to follow Pascal which was dare I say revolutionary for mobile gaming, but still.
And let's be honest, it's basically the old M moniker made "cooler" and to not make it look like these are cut down mobile versions, which is exactly what manufacturers are doing according to this article.
That really depends on the cooling. Max-Q models may yet vary 15-20% between each other.
I would like NVIDIA to go to the old M model scheme. There should be just RTX 2080 and RTX 2080M, a desktop equivalent (similar frequency and core count) and a low power (albeit lower performing) mobile equivalent. Then it would be a lot easier for stores and product pages to copy and paste the whole GPU code/name.