Question Basic video card question

[RickVS]

Rather basic question. Nvidia RTX 40 series video cards are humongous, power hogs with big fans taking up 3 (?) slots in a desktop case. However you can fit the same processor in a laptop. If you can fit that graphics power in a small chip in a laptop why are desktop cards so freaking big? Thanks.

 

[XxDarkMario20xX]

Desktop GPU have more better cooling and also easy to replace when broken and such. Laptops are portable so they need to find away to fit an gpu inside laptop but dont think they have better cooling then desktop one have!¬

 

[drivinfast247]

Rather basic question. Nvidia RTX 40 series video cards are humongous, power hogs with big fans taking up 3 (?) slots in a desktop case. However you can fit the same processor in a laptop. If you can fit that graphics power in a small chip in a laptop why are desktop cards so freaking big? Thanks.

The laptop versions are not the same. They are low powered versions with different performance.

 

[RickVS]

You are so right. I read this here:

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop vs. Desktop GPU

Having reviewed the Nvidia RTX 4090 Laptop GPU and taken a comprehensive look at how it fares in the laptop market, let's see how it compares against...

www.techspot.com

I don't understand how Nvidia gets away with calling the two cards by the same number just to sell underachieving gaming laptops since the laptop card is such a lesser entity in terms of specs.

 

[CountMike]

You are so right. I read this here:

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop vs. Desktop GPU

Having reviewed the Nvidia RTX 4090 Laptop GPU and taken a comprehensive look at how it fares in the laptop market, let's see how it compares against...

www.techspot.com

I don't understand how Nvidia gets away with calling the two cards by the same number just to sell underachieving gaming laptops since the laptop card is such a lesser entity in terms of specs.

They get away with much more than that but users should be aware of physic laws and possibilities, Just difference in size should give a clue. Dedicated graphic cards have own power and memory sections and other resources while those are shared in laptops. Just like nobody should expect a big block V8 in a FIAT 500.