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Captain_Yuri said:

Yea I am not sure what Intel was thinking shipping Tiger Lake i9 in a "thin and light" laptop. I have seen some reviews where the laptop was unable to keep the CPU from throttling and thanks to the 3060 being a 65 Watt TDP which no other laptop on the market has, they can't do any gaming comparisons.

Now either Tiger Lake is behind against AMD in gaming comparisons and that's why they purposefully shipped it or they are very stupid cause one would think if they shipped it on a more powerful laptop like the Asus Strix editions, those should have been able to cool the CPU even at 65 Watts. I think most likely, I might go with AMD unless Tiger Lake dominates in gaming because battery life is very important on a laptop.

I think the reason is simply that Tiger Lake needs those Watts to use all it's muscle and get past Ryzen in CPU tests, which are what Intel needs most right now, and pairing it with an unreasonably small GPU like the 3060Max-Q is just to get ever last drop of power and every whiff of fresh air that the laptop has to offer without the GPU hogging too much for itself.

Also, NVidia GPUs scheduler does take up quite some CPU cycles, so there's another reason not to pair with a bigger chip and get more ressources for their CPU.