NVIDIA Appears to Have Dropped Its Max-P and Max-Q Branding for GeForce RTX 30 Series Mobile GPUs

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Notebookcheck has published a report suggesting that NVIDIA and OEMs will no longer clarify whether GeForce RTX 30 Series mobile GPUs are of the Max-P or Max-Q variety. These designations reflect whether a laptop is equipped with a normal or power-limited graphics solution, respectively, which is sure to introduce confusion for users. What’s worse is that lower-tiered variants (e.g., GeForce RTX 3060) running at a higher wattage could potentially outperform higher SKUs that are restricted by a lower wattage in certain scenarios.



“[…] the flagship RTX 3080 ‘Laptop GPU,’ as NVIDIA would like to call it, offers a configurable TGP ranging from 80 W to 150+ W,” the author...

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I feel like we could almost hold our collective breath for as long as it will take for someone to discover a new SKU one day in an HWinfo type app.

edit: Or GPU-Z
 
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