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Not Even Close: Nvidia RTX 3080 Laptop vs Desktop Benchmarked

Mobile GPU's have been a misnaming marketing scam for years...especially since they introduced all the Max-Q & Max-P derivatives.

When it comes to 'Gaming' Laptops, buyer beware.
 
Yea Its sad this old trick is still in-use.

Esp. on the 3080 mobile variant, its not even the same die underneath. With the lower cards at least there is that to cling to for justification of the name.

With all the different power levels too... just such a minefield. You can see regular consumer failing for it.
 
From the reviews I’ve read, a 130+W mobile 3080 is, give or take, a little better than a desktop 2080 but not as good as a 2080ti. So no slouch, but not even close to the desktop 3080.
 
IIRC the standard 3070 mobile is about half the speed of the desktop and even the max TDP variants are still around 30% slower - though that is a little more acceptable.
 
Cooper said:
Mobile GPU's have been a misnaming marketing scam for years...especially since they introduced all the Max-Q & Max-P derivatives.

When it comes to 'Gaming' Laptops, buyer beware.
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my dad’s 1070 gaming laptop keeps up well with a desktop 1070

shame they’re not so good this time round
 
McGraw said:
my dad’s 1070 gaming laptop keeps up well with a desktop 1070

shame they’re not so good this time round
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I agree - I have a Zotac 1070 in my PC and a 1070 in my "gaming" laptop with similar speed 4C/8T Intel CPUs and there's only a 5-8% difference at most in 3Dmark scores. The 20XX series screwed laptop owners and it's getting worse on the 30XX series sadly.
 
Yeah, they got it "right" from a users perspective with the 10xx series, before there was always a gap, which returned with the 20xx and is only getting wider. As to reasons, something about the 10xx architecture, or maybe cynical business reasons if they felt laptop gpu sales were cannibalising Desktop gpu sales.
 
The naming convention on these is ridiculous, I see these deals being posted for laptops with seemingly elite gpus but when you actually look into it they are way off the mark.
Still good performance levels, mind, but not quite as crazy as you'd hope given the moniker.
 
Considering a 3070 is a, watt, 200watt part by itself these days, I can't see how a laptop can ever be as fast unless I'm way behind on the sort of power laptops pull these days. And also have to cool!
 
almoststew1990 said:
Considering a 3070 is a, watt, 200watt part by itself these days, I can't see how a laptop can ever be as fast unless I'm way behind on the sort of power laptops pull these days. And also have to cool!
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Laptops are more efficient anyway, try undervoltibg a 3070 and you'll see. The cards with more cores can save a lot of power for little performance loss.
 
Yes it is wrong to call it a 3080, but look at the thickness of the laptop, then go look at the thickness of the coolers on the plethora of 3080's all made of pure unobtainium. No wonder they cannot match up.
 
Fairly good performance for a laptop what's the problem?.

With the power difference and gddr6 there was always going to be a bigger gap between a 3080 laptop and 3080 GPU this time.

If they had called them 3050,3060 and 3070 would people have slept better at night?
 
weldon855 said:
Fairly good performance for a laptop what's the problem?.

With the power difference and gddr6 there was always going to be a bigger gap between a 3080 laptop and 3080 GPU this time.

If they had called them 3050,3060 and 3070 would people have slept better at night?
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The naming is designed to fool buyers into thinking they’re getting a desktop equivalent product, when they aren’t. Into the mix you add the fact that a high watt 3070 can outperform a low watt 3080 and that many laptop manufacturers don’t widely advertise the wattage, then all of a sudden a buyer ends up with a low-performing product.

A condition of sale shouldn’t be that customers do hours of research to avoid obviously rubbish tricks like this.
 
weldon855 said:
if they had called them 3050,3060 and 3070 would people have slept better at night?
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Yes! I've got no issue with laptops being less powerful than desktops for obvious reasons, I just don't like the reuse of monikers already used for more powerful hardware.

In other words, I don't expect 3080 performance from a laptop, but nor do I expect to see a 3080 sticker slapped on it.
 
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