Re: RTX 4090 and others

YouTuber Moores Law is Dead uncovered the pictures of the new mid-range and entry-level gaming GPUs.
We are just weeks away from a formal launch of first gaming laptops equipped with GeForce RTX 40 series, some of which are featuring yet unseen Ada Lovelace GPUs.
MLID obtained two photos of said GPUs, the AD106 and AD107 to be precise. These are to launch as RTX 4070 and RTX 4060/4050 series respectively by the end of this month.
https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-ada-ad107-ad106-gpus-pictured-much-smaller-than-ampere-predecessors

Finally something exciting in that field (at least from a gamer's point of view Grin

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I'm always impressed how much power can be packed inside thin chassis like those, every since the GTX 10xx series, it was a huge leap forward in laptop GPUs performance.

Nvidia has to sell new video chips, so laptops are a good way to increase sales. But the price of new laptops is dear to me, provided that now you can make a good gaming computer for $ 1000 from components if you buy a GPU from miners and a processor and memory in China.

With today's pricing and performance, (gaming) laptops are becoming a truly good value compared to how it was before. Especially if you take into consider you'll be getting a decent high refresh rate screen, plus in some cases really good keyboard.

Are the graphics of the new MacBook Pro really that powerful? GeForce RTX 4070 was 35% faster than the 38-core GPU platform Apple M2 Max
https://gadgettendency.com/are-the-graphics-of-the-new-macbook-pro-really-that-powerful-geforce-rtx-4070-was-35-faster-than-the-38-core-gpu-platform-apple-m2-max/
And here everything is not so rosy, at least if you focus on the data from the OpenCL test of the Geekbench benchmark. If the 38-core GPU of the Apple M2 Max platform scores 75,139 points in it, then the result of the GeForce RTX 4070 is just over 102,000 points. The difference is about 35%.

It's a bit difficult to compare these two on paper. Yes, you could do it based on raw power, especially in synthetic benchmarks, but that's not too reflective of day-to-day usage.

I think that the price of these laptops is expensive. MacBook lovers will certainly buy their new model and so on.

Yes, that they are! On the other hand, the new M2 Mac Mini is actually quite a compelling purchase.