Max-Q

[TooNice]

So it seems like RTX laptops are finally going to appear soon, which means that I can *finally* go ahead with my plans of getting a new laptop.

I note that that nowadays there are a bunch of Max-Q nVidia cards on thinner laptops. But, stripping away the marketing talk, how are they different from an underclocked/volted non Max-Q cards?

[the_weegie]

UK PC Mag has an article titled "what-is-nvidia-max-q" (can't link as I'm a noob).

"In our testing, Max-Q graphics card versions perform somewhere between the card below in the hierarchy and the standard cards they're based upon. For example, the Asus ROG Zephyrus (the first Max-Q notebook we tested) includes a Max-Q GTX 1080 that posted 3D and gaming numbers similar to a standard GTX 1070 card."

I think Max-Q means they can make the laptops thinner now whilst not sacrificing that much performance.