Godfavor :
What do you mean actual temperature minus ambient? What is the ambient temperature? If it is a 20 celcius then gtx 780m is 92.6 celcius??? That is very hot if it is true!
It's a hard measurement to take seriously if you don't set a fixed 100% fan speed, which is why this author didn't take it very seriously. But the ambient temperatures for the past couple months have been 16° to 18° Celsius.
Avro Arrow :
Gaming laptop, there's an oxymoron if I ever heard one. The "twist" in the value analysis changes nothing. Hell I could play with numbers to prove that an Intel i7-4960X is a "better value" than an AMD FX-6300 just by dropping it into a $10,000 system. Playing the percentages instead of the actual dollars makes it look better than it actually is because even though the percentage is smaller, it's still a smaller percentage of a larger number and ends up being the same.
You could do that. And if you were planning to buy a $10,000 system, you SHOULD do that. The point is that when GAMING is the only thing that matters, any single improvement that makes your ENTIRE system GAME 13% better makes the ENTIRE system 13% more valuable. You can't win an argument against that, which is also why the System Builder Marathon machines rarely run FX processors.
Godfavor :
Don't play with numbers!
500 to 750 is 50% more expensive, BUT 750 to 500 is 33% less expensive, damn the mathematics!
LOL we had a running conversation with the German team about this because they wanted to use the SAME number when discussing things from either perspective. Eventually the leader of the US site insisted that the German's weren't wrong, but that math is different in Germany. LOL.
Anyway, the two different perspectives were used because each was the winner's perspective: Advantage 8970M? 33% less expensive. Advantage 780M? 13% more performance.
And when you swim 2/3 of the way across the English Channel, you prefer to hear "33% left to go!" rather than "50% farther!"