Laptop vs Desktop (RTX 4060) - MUCH Closer Than You Think!

The difference between Nvidia’s RTX 4060 graphics card and RTX 4060 laptop GPUs is much closer than you think! I’ve compared 25 games at 1440p & 1080p as well as thermals, fan noise, power draw, price & more to show you the differences!

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RTX 4060 Laptop vs Desktop Timestamps:
0:00 4060 Laptop & Desktop GPUs Are The Same?
0:40 Video Sponsor - Gigabyte
1:17 GPU Spec Differences
1:38 GPU Power Limit Differences
2:08 GPU Power Scaling
2:37 Laptop Test System
2:52 Desktop Test System
3:13 Size Difference
3:27 Fan Noise Difference
3:41 Temperature Difference
3:47 Power Draw Difference
3:57 TGP Difference
4:06 Clock Speed Difference
4:15 Performance Per Watt (Efficiency)
4:21 Cyberpunk 2077 - Strange Results
4:49 Low Differences - Red Dead Redemption 2
4:56 Shadow of the Tomb Raider
5:07 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022)
5:28 Apex Legends
5:52 Terrible 1% Lows.. DOOM Eternal
6:19 More 1% Low Problems - Dead Space
6:39 Hogwarts Legacy
6:58 17 More Games Tested (1440p & 1080p)
7:32 25 Game Average Difference at 1080p
8:02 25 Game Average Difference at 1440p
8:30 25 Game Average FPS
8:59 Price Difference & Sales
10:15 Cost Per Frame (Best Value)
10:41 More Important Differences Than FPS…
10:48 Upgrade Options
11:03 Do You Need Portability?
11:52 Even Bigger Gap Between RTX 4070 Laptop & Desktop!

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[JarrodsTech]

Update: 2:39 should say 2x 16gb for 32gb total, not 2x 8gb.

[Zack-Strife]

The moment you see the 115W TGP, you know you will get identical performance to the laptop version lol

[lil_brumski]

Thanks for including monitor and kbm in the desktop system's cost per frame, not many reviewers do that!

[samserious]

Most of the differences are because of the CPU and RAM config, not actually cuz of the RTX 4060.

[abhishekshah]

Great video. I just ordered a 4060 laptop and while I agree the prices for a 4060 laptop are a bit high right now, it makes sense if work demands it. You can't carry your desktop everywhere and if you're gaming on the move, a bit of compromise isn't bad.

[cameronbosch]

These results weren't too surprising, given the TGP of the desktop GPU...

And I can't wait to see how Ngreedia screwed over the RTX 4070 in the upcoming 4070 vs 4080 laptop GPU comparison!

[ironicloud]

So, at min 0:17 I can say about performance comparison: 4090 Mobile = 4070 TI desktop, 4080 Mobile = 4070 desktop, 4070 Mobile = 4060 TI desktop, 4060 Mobile = 4060 desktop, 4050 desktop versione isn't announced yet but 4050 Mobile is available (of course VRAM in some cases are different, cooling system is different and also electric Watt usage is quite relevant)

[MrEstarion]

Which bashes the desktop more than praises the laptop

[saibot_y]

I would really like to see the gap between CPU performance lowered when doing these comparisons, while it's probably not possible to make the performance 1:1, the desktop chips can always be downtuned to approach the performance in the laptops. A couple of Single and Multicore benchmarks can verify these differences. That would make the comparisons so much more reasonable. I'm sure cyberpunk in this test performed better on the desktop just because the CPU was better(as it's a hugely CPU dependent game) we saw the performance gap narrow at 1440p because it was no longer CPU Bound there.

[jetercre]

4060 Laptop has a bigger 32MB L2 cache, while desktop one has only 24MB.
This is actually means a lot for RTX 40 Series GPU, these lacks VRAM bandwidth.

[vedantvasu]

3:14 Could've never noticed that 😨

[ChillyFries]

I think i remember seeing your very old videos when you had 30K subs and said that your videos look like the big name youtubers and the quality is so good. Said that Youll be that one day nd you also replied. So nice to see it actually happen

[erenyeeeeeega]

4060 laptop with fg is the best thing you can buy rn i‘m havinn so fun playing all games at 2k with ultra settings

[jk_]

Had my rtx4060 laptop delivered this week thanks to your reviews, really appreciate your work and really happy with my decision!

[Tyons]

I think the laptop 4060 has more L2 cache which can explain the Cp77 numbers, that game likes memory bandwidth.

[velmanski]

Bought a zephyrus g16 with 4060, its so fast compared to my old 1060 omen. The portability of a laptop is the main reason why I got it. Even if for moving around the house and playing in the same room as my wife while she’s on her desktop. I dont know if at this stage I would ever go back to owning a tower.

[johnlpz]

Always love your gpu comparison for desktop and mobile.

[unionofslavstanrepublics]

RTX 3060 6 GB VRAM laptop and 12 GB VRAM desktop card had similar differences too.

The RTX 4060 laptop and desktop at 115W excluding dynamic boost makes sense why there was a small performance difference here.

[Clapxiomatic]

Would have been nice to see the laptops 4060 memory overclocked to 17gbps for at least a few games, just to see if that would actually match the desktop chip's results. Just curious since my own 4060 laptop handles a 17gbps oc no problem.

[META.]

I couldn't care less about anyone's preferences or use cases, if you choose to build a PC instead of getting laptop, even when the difference is bigger, you are just wrong and non-optimal.

Every time I bought the gaming laptop I could've built a PC with better specs but I just refuse to do it, even tho I rarely have to take my laptop out. I have a complete laptop setup with many accessories connected to it including a monitor and its so much cleaner and convenient than a PC setup I had, even tho I always tried to keep it clean. Laptops are just drastically better