Current Events > After almost two months, my freaking laptop is about to ship

(+) Yeah! (+)

Managed to get an additional $200 due to the delay(s) so the final price is $2,455 which is a really, really good deal for the hardware.

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Are you gonna upgrade the SSD? That's not a lot.

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SocialistGamer posted...

Are you gonna upgrade the SSD? That's not a lot.

Yeah I already have a 2TB SSD and 32 GB of faster RAM

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Dang nice son

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That a real 3080 or a mobile card that's adjusted? I mean it's awesome either way just curious.


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I don't know shit about laptops. Why do you need it to be so souped up?

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Doe posted...

That a real 3080 or a mobile card that's adjusted? I mean it's awesome either way just curious.

Sort of half-way.

Normal mobile 3080s are 90-115 Watt. This is a 165 Watt card, so the performance is roughly around desktop 3070, which TBH is pretty great for a laptop.

Even if it does mean it has to be in a giant-ass 17 inch laptop T_T


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Doe posted...

That a real 3080 or a mobile card that's adjusted? I mean it's awesome either way just curious.

All mobile RTX 30 series GPU's are actually completely different dies(the chip itself) than the corresponding named desktop graphoics card. So a XX80 is GA102 typically. the Real RTX 3080 is GA102-225, the Laptop RTX 3080 is GA104-something.

In layman's terms no it's not a real 3080. Keep in mind even if it used the same actual chip, it would not perform like a 3080 due to power restraints.

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Keep in mind even if it used the same actual chip, it would not perform like a 3080 due to power restraints.

Honestly, unlike the 2000-series RTX cards (which were actually pretty power efficient), the 3000 series is grossly power-hungry. There's no way a 350W RTX 3080 could even be trimmed down to laptop power draws.

The RTX 2080 desktop card used around 200-220W. That allowed nVidia to use the exact same card even in thin laptops, with a TDP of ~100-120W. That yielded a 30% performance loss, which was acceptable. Considering it was mostly marketed as 1080p at 120+ fps and 1440p at 60+ fps.

The RTX 3080 being trimmed down that far would be too dramatic, but the 165 W card generally gets 120+ fps at 1440p and 60fps at 4K, and that's really good for a laptop.


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How many laptops and gaming PC's have you bought now?

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Darmik posted...

How many laptops and gaming PC's have you bought now?

This would be my second ever, actually.
The current laptop I'm using is one I'm giving to my nephew for college. I got it with my physician's IT bonus. Now that I've saved up, I'd rather build the one that I really want.

My previous "gaming" computer, if you can even call it that, was a Radeon 4850 back in like 2008-ish.


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DarkRoast posted...

This would be my second ever, actually.

But I remember you having a 2000 series laptop and a 3080 PC already. You also had at least one you returned lol

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Darmik posted...

But I remember you having a 2000 series laptop and a 3080 PC already. You also had at least one you returned lol

The 3080 pc was the one I returned. It had a lot of issues and I simply wasn't home enough to have a desktop.


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