Looking for a gaming laptop

[Ganoncrotch]

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Ganoncrotch said:

Where are you getting the 16% difference in the cards? If you compare the MaxQ mobile version to a desktop 1060 the difference is far bigger than that.

 

Check out the discrepancies with the low end of the mobile GPU as well, thermal throttling on a laptop with poor cooling or dirty clogged up vents (sorry but from the sounds of your dying laptop with broken keys it doesn't sound like you are super careful with cleaning and maintaining your hardware) it really isn't going to be performing anywhere close to a 1060 desktop card after a bit of wear and tear has those fans clogged with hair and such!

There are 2 different mobile versions, a normal mobile version and the Max-Q version with lower clock speeds to achieve lower TDP. For instance the mobile 1060 has a TDP of 80W while it's MAx-Q version has a TDP of 60W.

The normal mobile version is indeed only around 15% slower than the desktop version while the MAX-Q version is an additional 15-20% slower to reach about 30-35% slower than the desktop version.

userbench has the "normal" mobile version of it at 20% less effective speed and again, look at some of those benches on the mobile side, erratically ducking down into tragically lower side, they might be called 1060s but those are going to be closer to 1050/ti in the home levels of performance when heat becomes an issue inside the smaller cases of the laptop. I'll always stick to my view that the term Gaming Laptop is an oxymoron. If needs must then go for it, but if it's going to be so high end a card that you need to have it plugged in all the time anyways you'd be better off just going down the PC route and ignoring laptops in this bracket. unless you travel a lot and then a laptop with this sort of a price tag is not going to survive too much moving around unless a lot of care is taken.