Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU Review

[Tams80]

'4090'

I wish they'd stop this nonsense. It doesn't matter that quite a few people have been aware of it for a while; it's still scummy behaviour.

And yes, AMD are not much better. At least they officially add some suffixes on.

 

[Tams80]

Basically, $5,000 for RTX 4080 in laptop. Got it. Great value.
On an totally unrelated note, when is the steamdeck 2 coming?

Probably not anytime soon due to:

1. Hints from Valve that they aren't planning on it.
2. The console-like business model that Valve have chosen for the Steam Deck. Unlike other handheld PC makers whose only form on income is new models, so they need to produce new models, Valve don't. If anything, it's the opposite as they very clearly subsidise the Steam Deck (especially the lowest tier one), so the longer someone buys games on Steam with one; the more money they make back.

 

[redgarl]

The 4070TI gaming laptop experience...

-30 minutes battery life while gaming
-10 pounds of lightness
-Dropping half the performances when not plugged in
-Costing more than having a 1080p gaming laptop and a 4080 desktop with RPL
-1440p
-5300$

I am sold...

>XD

 

[redgarl]

Come on, let's stop the BS, this is a 4080 in every possible way, no matter what Huang calls it.

It is a 4070TI, you are 30% off.

 

[redgarl]

To the geniuses that are spreading this is a 4080 in a laptop... it is not even close...

It is barely matching a 3080...

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[Gastec]

From the same category with "It just works!", "Just buy it!", "dId yOu GuYs NoT hAvE pHoNeS?" [sic]

 

[human7]

Back when I had a laptop with a 980M, I was constantly fighting thermals and power limits and regretted not getting a 970M instead. Wasn't a bad laptop, had good cooling in it, just wasn't reasonable to expect that level of power in that form factor at that time.

Why anyone would get this is beyond me, unless they either need a mobile workstation or are ignorant to the thermal and power challenges (and I'm not saying that to be rude, I thought I knew that my system could handle that heat/power at that time, and it just couldn't without underclocking). (and there are use cases that I'm not thinking of, like the one in the comment below)

In other words: the laptop experience is often better with less power hungry components. Even though the raw performance is lower, steady performance is so much nicer than peaks of excellent performance followed by even small amounts of throttling. I'm sure the same is true here.

 

[human7]

First, no one is buying these laptops because they are feather light. Second, Compared to humping your desktop 4090 machine around, these laptops are feather light.

The point is mobility. I have an ASUS gaming laptop, 17 inch. It's big and bulky and I wouldn't (and don't) use it as my primary mobile computer. But, it's awesome that when I travel I can bring it along and play the games I like to play on it. I travel between 2 homes on a regular basis and I don't have to sacrifice not playing or having to spend 2x on 2 gaming desktops. I also solved the power brick problem by getting 2 of them, one for each location.

This is an interesting use case. Could you also solve your problem by getting two monitors, 1 for each location, and then using an small form factor desktop, like the Fragbox from Falcon Northwest, that's designed to be more portable? Not as portable as a laptop, but then you get the cooling/power headroom of a desktop without sacrificing too much portability. Obviously wouldn't be convenient for work, vacation, or other types of travel like that.

 

[Farkinell]

One thing I'd like to hear about that's not often mentioned is how noisy these things are. I can deal with it being a bit bulky, or heavier, or having stupid gAmErZ lighting but if it sounds like a jet engine then it's a hard pass.

I have a desktop 4090 FE which most reviews indicated is whisper quiet, it is not in the slightest. I cannot work out if half the population is partially deaf, or I'm just especially sensitive to noise, but quietness is pretty high on my list of important criteria.

PS. anyone in London wants a watercooled (AIO) 3080 Ti at a knockdown price then drop me a DM

 

[waclark]

This is an interesting use case. Could you also solve your problem by getting two monitors, 1 for each location, and then using an small form factor desktop, like the Fragbox from Falcon Northwest, that's designed to be more portable? Not as portable as a laptop, but then you get the cooling/power headroom of a desktop without sacrificing too much portability. Obviously wouldn't be convenient for work, vacation, or other types of travel like that.

I do have dual monitors, one for each location. I also have a different laptop I use for work purposes. The gaming machine is primarily for gaming, though I do some other stuff on it as well. I don't really care about the size and weight, per se. I mainly got it for portability.

 

[waclark]

One thing I'd like to hear about that's not often mentioned is how noisy these things are. I can deal with it being a bit bulky, or heavier, or having stupid gAmErZ lighting but if it sounds like a jet engine then it's a hard pass.

I have a desktop 4090 FE which most reviews indicated is whisper quiet, it is not in the slightest. I cannot work out if half the population is partially deaf, or I'm just especially sensitive to noise, but quietness is pretty high on my list of important criteria.

PS. anyone in London wants a watercooled (AIO) 3080 Ti at a knockdown price then drop me a DM

My gaming laptop with a 2070 in it is noisy as hell. And I have a cooling tray underneath that isn't particularly loud, but it's a constant low volume static. I built my grandson a gaming desktop with a 3070 in it and it's pretty quiet but I used an AIO for the CPU and have several case fans running at low rpm to keep the noise down.

 

[GoldenGoat]

Any chance you'll do a 4080 laptop gpu review?

 

[cldmstrsn]

I know its been a year but I just grabbed a hell of a deal on a 4090 laptop. 2300 for a 17.3 inch hp omen with not only the 4090 but the i9 13900 HX, 32 GB of 5600 ram and 2 TB nvme SSD and a 1440p 165 Htz screen. Its still that price for anyone that is interested. here is the link

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1792500-REG/hp_8r7u2ua_aba_17_3_omen_17_ck2059nr_laptop.html