Yea pretty much. I guess it would be the perfect SSD for Chia mining if that's still a thing.

Glares at Take Two/Rockstar/2k

^Don't forget Ubisoft and probably EA too (I haven't bought a game from them in years, so I'm not sure).

Anyway, some passionate fella has made some charts comparing the GPUs released in the last 10 years and some results are very interesting.

Here's the link to the Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/o87h5z/i_made_charts_showing_how_much_efficiency_amd/
Or here's the link to imgur for the different charts: https://imgur.com/a/ZUZaTYu

Here are some:

And how did the introduction of RT hardware affect the performance/transistor ratio?

So my sister wants a gaming laptop as a graduation present as she graduated from highschool.

I am thinking to give her the Asus Strix G15 with AMD 5800H and 3060 as that blends in good performance + good screen + 9 hour battery life + great speakers. Anyone else got any suggestions?

https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/asus-rog-strix-g15-15-6-gaming-laptop-grey-amd-ryzen-7-5800h-512gb-ssd-16gb-ram-rtx-3060-eng/15264490

Yeah: give her your Dell XPS 17 with a 2060 Max Q / i7 (after a proper cleaning ) and treat yourself with a new laptop.

Lol I thought about it but I like my Dell XPS 17 because I can play games on it without it sounding like a Jet engine at work.

That laptop seems pretty good for the price. Main drawbacks for me seem to be a) no webcam, which she might need at some point, especially for job interviews, and b), the screen. True, it's relatively fast, but low luminosity and low color gamut make it's speed the only advantage it has. Also, is that 16GB memory 2x8 or actually 1x16?

I made a similar version on XMG, though with a 4800H as the 5800H is unavailable and got to 1600€, so pretty similar in price, but with an HD webcam and a faster, brighter and better screen (and the option to choose a 165Hz 1440p screen instead at no extra price): 

https://www.xmg.gg/en/xmg-core-15-amd-e21

https://bestware.com/en/xmg-core-15-amd-e21.html 

(since the config is not saved in the link, you'd need to make it yourself if you wanted, but that's only a couple clicks)

Thanks for the input but Euro to CAD would make it cost $2300 which would end up being a bit too much as we can get a pretty high end 3070 laptop for that price. And yea, the webcam is the only urghh thing about Asus laptops but she said she is fine with using an external.

I'm playing through Quake 2 RTX today. Still an awesome game!

And so well balanced: GPU 100%, CPU 2% - 5%: