Looking for a gaming laptop

[Bofferbrauer2]

Ganoncrotch said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

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.

Yeah, like I said above, Max-Q 15-20% slower than the mobile 1060, and mobile [phone]% slower than desktop 1060.

Gaming Laptops have their uses, for me for instance, I move around a lot and can't take my tower with me everywhere, so I needed a laptop (also for work since I mostly work from home but have to bring it sometimes to the company). SvennoJ posted another reason why to get a gaming laptop instead of a desktop.

But I agree that outside of such specific instances with mobility and space in mind, getting a desktop would be a better choice, especially on the long run since you can upgrade those and don't have to buy a new one every time.