RTX 4070 vs RTX 4080 - DON’T Buy a 4070 Gaming Laptop!

Is Nvidia’s RTX 4080 laptop GPU worth spending extra money on compared to the cheaper RTX 4070? I’ve compared both in 25 games at 4K, 1440p & 1080p to find out!

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RTX 4070 vs 4080 Gaming Laptop Comparison Timestamps:
0:00 RTX 4070 or RTX 4080 Gaming Laptop?
0:33 Video Sponsor - Gigabyte
1:10 GPU Spec Differences
1:36 GPU Power Limits
2:03 Power Scaling - Performance at Different Power Limits
2:50 Laptops Tested
3:03 Battery Life Difference
3:13 Power Draw Difference
3:13 Performance Per Watt (Best Efficiency)
3:41 Temperature Difference
3:56 Clock Speed Difference
4:11 25 Games Compared at 4K, 1440p & 1080p
4:16 Cyberpunk 2077
4:43 Apex Legends
5:05 Microsoft Flight Simulator
5:31 Far Cry 6 - VRAM Difference at Work
5:56 Forza Horizon 5 - Another Big VRAM Difference
6:20 Watch Dogs Legion - VRAM is Important Here Too
6:44 Dying Light 2
6:52 Ray Tracing - The Witcher 3
7:15 More RT - Metro Exodus
7:31 Hogwarts Legacy
7:49 15 More Games Compared!
8:19 1080p Average Difference
8:49 1440p Average Difference
9:08 4K Average Difference
9:30 25 Game Average
9:47 Price Difference & Laptop Sales
10:55 Cost Per Frame (Best Value)
11:31 Where the 4080 Makes Less Sense
11:53 Room for 4070 Ti Laptop?
12:06 RTX 4070 Laptop for 4K Gaming?
12:46 Where the 4070 Makes More Sense
13:04 Worth Spending More for RTX 4090?

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[JarrodsTech]

3:31 Meant to say the 4080 is more power efficient. It uses more power, but the FPS improvement is higher. The graph is correct, what I said is wrong.

[pedro]

At this moment, in BestBuy, the cheapest 4080 is costs 800US$ more than the cheapest 4070.

[antalpoti]

Jarrod and everyone else: "just buy a 4080 instead of a 4070".

Me: "sure blud, lemme pull another 1500€ out of my arsehole"

[ZeroEight]

I absolutely love the Power Scaling graph you did, I wish all the reviewers provided this information. I would love to see this graph for the Asus G14 - 4070, 4080 and 4090 variants

[DarkPanda]

Me who was thinking to buy 4050
Him: 4060 Is worth spending extra
Me: okay then let's go for 4060
Him: 4070 is more superior
Me: okay we have come to far let's get 4070
Him: 4080 is much better
Me: 😢
Him: I think you should go for 4090 for extra fps
Me: bruh ☠️

[B-max.]

this conclusion of "just buy the more expensive model bro" is exactly why 'Ngreedia' created such a difference in performance between these cards. As consumers, you are being played.

[xalex]

The difference in Spain is 4070 for 1500€ and 4080 for 2100€. I think ill stay with the 4070 laptop

[Jonathan-bihr]

The voltage limit is an incredibly disingenuous move on nVidia’s part. If they advertised these cards as up to 100w, that would be fine as a marketing tool for efficiency. Instead, they get to advertise more power, more better, without actually delivering on performance

[rkiwtir]

Sure the performance difference is large but the price is also large (Atleast in regions where i can buy it from) Usually it is around 400-600$ difference and then again you're not just looking at the GPU on paper when buying it. The TGP varies by models, plus the screen, cooling, battery life, upgradability all matter of the laptop all matter.

[Pividol]

You've played right into their hands. The entire purpose of the lower skus is to upsale for the 4080 and 4090

[Cowboy.J]

In Canada, the Legion 7i with a 4080 is going to be about $1, 300 more than a Legion 5i with a 4070.
Insane price difference, no reason to go for the 4080.

[ctsperformance]

4070 is made purposefully bad by NVIDIA, the gap is made artificially HUGE, so the gamers will choose the pricier option. Also there is literally no performance gain between 3070 and 4070 which is laughable :D

[EscapeTheMatrixRightNow]

in Denmark, a year later, the difference between the 4070 and the 4080 is 10, 000 DKK (Danish Krona) which is equal to 1, 395.23 USD in the legion laptop lines.

[Sumire]

I do agree with that statement, but I also think the 4070 has its place in thin and lights. The efficiency of this card is amazing laptops like the x13 and z13 are great examples of that

[KevinLeahy-tn]

As always it just depends on price. If the price difference between a 4070 and 4080 is like 300 even 400 hundred dollars than by all means get a 4080. But right now you can get deals on 4070 laptops that make the price difference more like &700-$900. A Legion with 4070 can be had for like 1600-1700 right now, a 4080 version comes in 2500+. That's a gap in price that is actually bigger than the gap in relative GPU performance, as long as you are fine gaming at 1440p/1600p which these GPU's seem perfectly capable of handling.

[istbu]

don't buy 4050 okay ı will buy 4060, don't buy 4060 okay ı will 4070, don't buy 4070 okay ı will 4080, dont buy 4080...

[sierra]

When pointing out how bad of a value the 4070m is you should also include the 4060m. Its ~10% slower but more than 10% cheaper and has the same 8gb vram.

[victorxdavid]

In my country it was a 40 dollar increase in price switching from 4060 to 4070 in the configuration so i think it depends on the deal aswell. But the jump to a 4080 would be a few hundred dollars

[shinobishaw]

Unfortunately the "just spend more for 4080" didnt reach the box retailers ears. I'm seeing on average a $500-$700 price difference from 4070 to 4080. Also the laptops that come with 4k screens pushes the price to the $3200-$3500 range. You can get a 4070 i9 (H) for under $2400 from most places. Also for me I prefer thin and light laptops.

[henrikg]

I could've written this comment on so many channels, but here it is. About two years ago I bought my current laptop with an RTX 3080 16GB, and argued that the amount of VRAM was the best single future proofing feature. Everybody laughed, but I have been proven to be right. I can still run heavy RT titles with low effort, at least on 1440p.

The laptop 4070 still will not beat me. Believe me. Frame Gen is just a cheating feature that causes unnecessary lag. I will sit this gen out and maybe even the next. I run almost every title at QHD with RT, problem free, and even some on 4K after some initial stutter. Why the f*ck would I want anything below 4080, and even that is too bloody expensive with less VRAM. That is the reality of (laptop) GPUs today. No progression, but with a huge price hike.