Desktop vs. Laptop GPUs Explained

What's the difference between a desktop graphics card and a laptop GPU?

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[YOEL_]

I wish GPU and CPU manufacturers went back to the efficiency battle instead of releasing 450W chunks of heat, combined with the increasing electricity prices, things are getting unreasonable.
EDIT: Hey, thank you so much for all the engagement, I would have never thought of having a top coment with over 1000 likes on any LMG channel, yet here we are!!

[ZandoNoid]

After seeing so many gaming laptop reviews it really makes you think how much GPU power makes a difference and how little the chip model says about its performance.
The amount of 3080TI laptops that get outperformed by 3070TI variants and other weird stuff is pretty dissapointing

[mightylink]

Gaming laptops have gotten crazy in recent years, I see ones like the Legion 7 run the most demanding games like Cyberpunk just fine on max settings over 60fps. The only downside is thermal throttling, they seem to be purpose built to run at 90-95c but according to the manufacturer this is perfectly fine as long as it doesn't reach the tj max.

[davidmalkowski]

I remember back in the old days where the 1060 and RX 480 were slugging it out for the $200 price point, providing stellar performance per dollar and per watt. The GTX 1080 that had no competition back then was heralded as a power sipping maestro, with the reference model shipping with an absolutely quaint by today's standard of a single 8 pin power connector and could be chillin under a blower cooler.
Better times...

[tlapik]

Still waiting for a notebook with just APU but with full size pci-e slot at the bottom and with matching base station that you can just plop the notebook into and have a desktop. That would combine great portability and weight with amazing performance at home.
(Yes I am aware that e-gpus exists but i couldn't find any good and recent resources that compare the fps and latency of them)

[WouterVerbruggen]

The thing is that performance vs power usage is extremely non-linear. You need like double the power for that last 10-20 % performance increase. Just dropping that last increase and you can brand the same chip as a notebook GPU. Also, many lower end 'oversised' desktop cards are like oversised because it's hard, and thus expensive, to design everything in a tiny package.

[MvsG]

honestly i have a 1660ti laptop and it has been my introduction to pc gaming, it runs flawlessly almost every game i play at 144Hz, and more demanding ones manage a solid and stable 60 fps. i been quite happy for what i payed, 800 usd. i didn't go full on desktop bc the graphics alone in pc costed me 500 usd.

[gstarr]

I'd be interested in seeing a vid on the evolution of internet speeds. How we went from dial-up to dsl to gig and the differences between the "speed" of down/upload and the bandwidth (I know a lot of people who don't know the difference) ie: having 1gb internet doesn't mean you get 1gb download speed on a game.

[alun]

They need to change mobile gpu naming from 3070 onwards. Mobile 3060 is only 8% slower than desktop 3060, but mobile 3070 and 3080 is far off their desktop counterparts, so it’s very misleading for consumers

[Itz_Data]

But what if I want 4 rtx 4090 tis in my dell laptop 😡😡💢💢💢

[illeshurkecz]

Overall great video and idea, it's just when Riley says laptop users"take a little performance hit", then the numbers show ~50% reduction in base clock I would've rewrote that.

[atodaso]

You now have to make sure you are getting the full power version of the card in a laptop. A bunch of laptops have lowered the power of the cards for cooling or efficiency reasons.

[savagepro]

4:10 after that, Techquickie received threats from both Big Mac and Apple

[mihailcirlig]

The problem is also that manufacturers don't ever undervolt, Ryzen doesn't allow it but you can usually undervolt the GPU, in my case my rtx 3070 performs better and draws far less power, I can't even max the 130w power limit since at roughly a 100w is all it needs to give it's full power. That's one problems I don't ever see being spoken about

[PredaBoon]

-Laptops usually don't offer 4k. Normally 1080p, and sometimes 2k.
-Running at 40-60fps is more than acceptable as a comprimise for laptop gamers.
-And of course the reasons listed in this video.

[collegemathematics]

I think rtx 3060 is perfect for a laptop being its performance is close to its desktop counterpart and more power efficient.

[Itsa_me_MC]

I actually wound the video back to watch the sponsor ad after I reflexively skipped it. Never thought that would happen.

[dannypoo]

This was a helpful video. It answered a few basic questions many people have had without getting too bogged down in the details. Kudos to everyone involved with making it.

[Lwhchris]

Solidworks sponsor. Wow that's a great achievement for the channel.

[KOSMOSA]

yeah my laptop is the same way, its an RTX 3050 but in its defense, GpuZ identifies as it as the mobile version. I think its just called RTX 3050 Ti Mobile. I also don't know what the difference is between it and the desktop version in terms of performance, all i know is it has 4gb of VRAM as opposed to 8 for the desktop version.