It's Not Looking Good for RTX 50 Gaming Laptops 💀

It’s not looking good for gaming laptops with NVIDIA’s new RTX 50 series graphics 😓

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Timestamps:
0:00 It’s Not Looking Good for RTX 50 Gaming Laptops
0:20 What RTX 5090 Desktop Performance Means for Laptops
0:50 Laptop 5090 Comparison with Laptop 4090
2:00 My Expected FPS Gains for 5090 Laptops
2:11 5090 Laptop Price Difference
3:13 RTX 5080 - It Gets Worse
4:14 Laptop 5080 Comparison with Laptop 4080
5:11 5080 Laptop Price Difference
6:08 RIP RTX 5070 Laptops 💀💀💀
6:39 5070 Laptop Price Difference
7:17 DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation to Save the Day?
7:43 Battery Life Improvements with 50 Series
8:04 Should You Buy RTX 40 or RTX 50 Gaming Laptop?
9:14 So RTX 50 Gaming Laptops Suck?
9:23 All the New 2025 Gaming Laptops

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[lightstar]

They're relying on DLSS 4 for every claim

[unknowdetected]

8GB Vram on a 3000$ laptop. This is what happens when there is literally no competition.

[train]

Not going to lie, this generation really makes me glad that I didn't wait and got myself a legion 5 with rtx 4070 for around $1200 bucks like 5 months ago.

[fireoil]

10% more performance for 100% more price

[MusaM]

1070m - 8GB
2070m - 8GB
3070m - 8GB
4070m - 8GB
5070m - 8GB...

[SUPABROS]

2000 bucks for an 8gb vram laptop is DIABOLICAL

[lordpiperlib]

The 5090 is basically a 4090ti, with Nvidia ripoff included.

[RobloxianX]

An 8GB GPU not only being sold brand new but featured in the initial launch of the generation is actually insane. We already know from the specs that the RTX 5070 is really an RTX 5050 Ti and the RTX 5080 is an RTX 5060 Ti. These mobile versions will underperform even those. Expect an RTX 5080 Laptop to be what the 5060 should have been and the 5070 to be what the 5050 should have been. It's like the scalper pandemic all over again, paying $1300+ for a laptop with X050 class hardware.

[Legitti]

Good, RTX 4080 seems to be agening fine 😅

[undifinder]

If your local Microcenter still selling Legion Pro 7 4090, that's probably the best deal out of every single 4090 laptops out there since its released.

[pim_noid]

You know it's cooked when Jarrod puts a 💀in his title

[moonderland]

Seeing stuff like these from Nvidia just makes you think that they deserved that recent $589 billion market value loss.

[_shreyash_anand]

I was going to buy a laptop with a 50 Series GPU this year. My current Omen 15 has lasted me through Uni easily. The GTX 1060 proved very useful for both gaming and 3D stuff as I studied architecture.
But getting a MacBook Pro now. These things won't get any better battery life than the current laptops, still run hot as all hell and give absolutely crap performance on battery power. If I need Windows to run something, I'll just build a PC with a Ryzen 5 7600 and a 2nd hand 3090.

[ctsperformance]

Nvidia low balling it's customers again😂 mark my words, there won't be any significant uplift between 40 and 50 laptop series. 10% at best in best case scenarios.

[trgik]

And this is what happens when there is no competition on the high end.

[evans]

I got an Alienware X16 Rtx 4080 12GB, 32GB, 1Tb, 240Hz QHD for $2600. It was $600 off on Amazon I was worried about waiting for 5070ti but glad with the choice made. I used the savings to install a 4TB NVME. I do a lot of CAD and gaming and my main priority was portability and the X16 checks all my boxes

[davidtunstall]

Unfortunately NVIDIA are no longer focused on providing GPUs for gaming applications like in the past. They are now making far more money providing AI solutions to data centres. I saw a statistic the other day, that less than 10% of their revenue comes from selling gaming GPUs, which makes sense as mega corporations like Google, Meta and Tesla are paying 100s of billions of dollars for their H100 chips.

So I expect a lot of their new consumer end GPUs for the public will be more focused on providing AI support as we have seen with the 5000 series, for smaller companies to work with AI models as this provides more revenue than catering to gamers.

Still not all bad news, Deepseek R1 developed in China just exposed the cost of AI scam that companies like NVIDIA and the tech bros at OpenAI have been operating, by doing the exact same thing as they can do, for less than 1% of the cost.

The result? Super cheap cost of training and inferencing AI coming soon which will result in lower prices for future GPUs as AI costs get cheaper and more efficient for the businesses using these chips.

[ARandomNerdyGuy]

lol as someone who just got a 4070 laptop, This was very reassuring to me hearing that I was good to not wait.

[LaptopDealsEU]

Some people are still hoping for better laptop prices when the 50XX series hits the market🥶

[ankitchauhancr]

I don't understand why NVIDIA insists on not increasing the VRAM and being as slow as possible in not providing actual hardware upgrades except for the highest end card