Just a heads up. I have basically the same laptop only with a 3070. If you don't have the power cord plugged in, the video card performance is cut in half.
Are similar laptops from other brands not like this? Unless you have a portable nuclear reactor, I'm not sure how else you'd keep it running at full-tilt unplugged.
This or the:
- L5P Gen 7 with AMD R9 6900HX, RTX 3070 Ti, 32GB RAM, and 2TB SSD for about the same price (the Ryzen 8 variant is around $100 cheaper)
- Alienware m15 R7 with AMD R9 6900HX, RTX 3080, 32GB RAM, and 1TB SSD that I can get it for lower than this deal by adding email coupon and removing support
- ASUS ROG Zephyrus M16 with Intel i9-12900H, RTX 3070 Ti, 16GB DDR5, 1TB SSD for the same price
I care about build quality and gaming performance above all, but this machine will be used for gaming, some productivity (mainly PS and Illustrator) and light office work (basic MS Office stuff), media consumption so the display and speakers must be good. Portability and good battery life when I'm out or on bed would be appreciated too.
Just FYI. 4070 performs basically the same as 3070ti. 4070 is slightly better at lower resolution @ 1080p, slightly worse at higher resolution @ 4k, due to the disgustingly limited 128bit VRAM bandwidth this generation. I would expect the price to fall at least another 20% before it stabilizes a bit.
I actually recommend people jump on this right now. It would keep on falling except for one thing. Crypto is starting to pick up again and it is back to being profitable, specially on RTX 40x0 cards. It's actually pretty likely the prices will go up in the future if crypto keeps on going up.
Just FYI. 4070 performs basically the same as 3070ti. 4070 is slightly better at lower resolution @ 1080p, slightly worse at higher resolution @ 4k, due to the disgustingly limited 128bit VRAM bandwidth this generation. I would expect the price to fall at least another 20% before it stabilizes a bit.
Good point on the memory bus "disgusting" limit. For screens higher than 1080p this is a serious issue, and such screens have been getting more and more commonplace with this tier of computer.
I recall back in the day when memory bus limits were reasonable and came with justifications. Specifically over a decade ago I ran into this issue with the (then) new budget card, the ATI 4770, a 40nm card that brought in new memory (GDDR5, vs GDDR3 on 4850/etc) and the generally feared 128 bit bus wasn't nearly as much of a chokehold.
Fast forward to the chip shortage exploitation era, and AMD decides to pull that stunt with the 6600 xt for greedy reasons, and now Nvidia follows suit with the 4000 series.
I actually recommend people jump on this right now. It would keep on falling except for one thing. Crypto is starting to pick up again and it is back to being profitable, specially on RTX 40x0 cards. It's actually pretty likely the prices will go up in the future if crypto keeps on going up.
Are similar laptops from other brands not like this? Unless you have a portable nuclear reactor, I'm not sure how else you'd keep it running at full-tilt unplugged.
I actually recommend people jump on this right now. It would keep on falling except for one thing. Crypto is starting to pick up again and it is back to being profitable, specially on RTX 40x0 cards. It's actually pretty likely the prices will go up in the future if crypto keeps on going up.
Man. If you've ever done mining before. you will know the one and only deciding factor of the mining performance is GPU memory bandwidth. And 4070 is not great to say the least.
I vote the Legion 5 Pro. The Ryzen doesn't give the same performance, but it's more power efficient. You get more RAM and SSD space that you'd likely be spending to add anyway. You also get the previous gen's chassis, which wasn't cheapened and uglified (Legion Pro).
Just to clarify, you're voting for L5P Gen 7?
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Another terrible deal from Lenovo. Just go for last gen because the new build is a step down.
How does it handle challenging temps? Our use case requires a lot of travel and outdoor use, and that separates the serious units from the gamer impersonators very quickly.
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- L5P Gen 7 with AMD R9 6900HX, RTX 3070 Ti, 32GB RAM, and 2TB SSD for about the same price (the Ryzen 8 variant is around $100 cheaper)
- Alienware m15 R7 with AMD R9 6900HX, RTX 3080, 32GB RAM, and 1TB SSD that I can get it for lower than this deal by adding email coupon and removing support
- ASUS ROG Zephyrus M16 with Intel i9-12900H, RTX 3070 Ti, 16GB DDR5, 1TB SSD for the same price
I care about build quality and gaming performance above all, but this machine will be used for gaming, some productivity (mainly PS and Illustrator) and light office work (basic MS Office stuff), media consumption so the display and speakers must be good. Portability and good battery life when I'm out or on bed would be appreciated too.
Thanks!
Link L5P please
I believe there is no R8? Did you meant to say R7?
I would recommend you go for R9.. long lasting high-end processor that can last good for years..
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I recall back in the day when memory bus limits were reasonable and came with justifications. Specifically over a decade ago I ran into this issue with the (then) new budget card, the ATI 4770, a 40nm card that brought in new memory (GDDR5, vs GDDR3 on 4850/etc) and the generally feared 128 bit bus wasn't nearly as much of a chokehold.
Fast forward to the chip shortage exploitation era, and AMD decides to pull that stunt with the 6600 xt for greedy reasons, and now Nvidia follows suit with the 4000 series.
What coin is currently profitable for gpu mining?
Loading shaders is my new hatespeech….
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