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What laptops have the P variant ?
Some guidance Gaming laptop - no limit budget
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Have to do a lot of digging. The HP Omen 17's do (but the Omen 15s are Max Q), some of Alienware's top models etc.
It's a minefield though and you need to do a LOT of digging to find out what wattage GPU is in use.
Once you get to Max P the difference between the say 150W and 180W 2080 isn't actually a huge amount (diminishing returns and thermal/other limitations, slightly lower boost headroom), but the difference between a say 80W MaxQ 2080 and 150W Max P 2080 is pretty massive, especially as its the highest shader chip and really needs the power to operate at decent average clock speeds.
Nvidia's naming scheme is a complete joke, and in future they should really either differentiate the different wattage parts with different names ie 2080-60W, OR at the very least make clear which wattage part is in a unit; it does no one favours in the long run this current mess.
They've done this before with different variants of a card where the name was the same, but the shaders different, and they put it in the damn name. Given the pretty big differences, the wattage should be in the name now.
It's a minefield though and you need to do a LOT of digging to find out what wattage GPU is in use.
Once you get to Max P the difference between the say 150W and 180W 2080 isn't actually a huge amount (diminishing returns and thermal/other limitations, slightly lower boost headroom), but the difference between a say 80W MaxQ 2080 and 150W Max P 2080 is pretty massive, especially as its the highest shader chip and really needs the power to operate at decent average clock speeds.
Nvidia's naming scheme is a complete joke, and in future they should really either differentiate the different wattage parts with different names ie 2080-60W, OR at the very least make clear which wattage part is in a unit; it does no one favours in the long run this current mess.
They've done this before with different variants of a card where the name was the same, but the shaders different, and they put it in the damn name. Given the pretty big differences, the wattage should be in the name now.
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