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Bofferbrauer2 said:

Captain_Yuri said:

1) Cooling headroom doesn't matter in this case because neither GPUs were thermal throttling and had headroom to boost higher if they could

2) Considering the laptop for the 6800M has a power budget of 145 Watt and had the same thermals as the 3080M, there was nothing stopping it from boosting any higher other than it's design. If AMD is limiting it to 116 Watts peak where as Nvidia is allowing their GPUs to boost higher, then it's an inherent flaw with the 6800M design because it's supposed to be rated to go up to 145 Watts unless there's thermal issues which the video says it doesn't.

3) It got slightly smaller where as their presentations made it sound like there would be a big difference when in reality, there really wasn't. Especially when you considering how efficient TSMCs 7nm is supposed to be against Samsung's 8nm.

Why do you think AMD limited the GPU? After all, it's ASUS who produced the laptop, and I'm certain it's them who put the limit in place, not AMD. Otherwise, both would have had comparable power consumption and would have been much more comparable. But the way this is set up, it is like if you would compare a Max-Q with a Max-P version, and of course the Max-P version would win that one.

Firstly it's an AMD Advantage laptop that means AMD was involved with Asus in getting this laptop made. Secondly, Asus has been a champion of AMD laptops and have been working closely together as they were the first to adopt AMD Ryzen cpus. And not to mention Asus shipped it with a 280 Watt power adapter where as the 3080 17 inch has 240 Watt power adapter. And we know their Strix line of laptops mainly focus on performance than anything else. AMD also doesn't have a lower power version of the 6800M according to their own slides.

Also not to mention, AMD rates their clock speed for the 6800M at 2.3 GHz where as the clock speed on this laptop in the video has been 2.5+ GHz. I see no reason to think this was gimped in any way other than 6800M not being able to make use of that 145 Watts power budget unless Linus goofed somehow. Especially since Asus has a pretty good track record with AMD.

Last edited by Jizz_Beard_thePirate - on 02 June 2021