Quote from: RTXftw on January 27, 2021, 03:05:51The question is, is that sill a thing? Given that Nvidia allows them to pick and choose what they want. I thought about it when I first read about the end of Max-Q and came to the conclusion that it's probably up to manufacturers. Otherwise, they would have to attach different requirements to different power levels/ TGPs. And there was no such information.
Technically that's not entirely correct, as nvidia does require oems to meet certain noise & thermal levels for max-q devices. (albeit probably not boardroom-level-quiet as they are gaming laptops afterall)
Quote from: Bobby on January 27, 2021, 02:45:51Quote from: Fisherman on January 27, 2021, 01:29:53
This only makes sense when they're trying to hide the fact that they use MQ, but if they use MP they should be actively trying to promote that, so for a company that uses both it truly gets confusing.
I disagree, there are people (me for example), who value thermals and low fan noise as much as I value FPS in games, and I might well deliberately buy a Max-Q GPU in order to get a balanced laptop. The specs of the GPUs should be clearly listed, in part because both low and high power parts have their markets.
Max-q is not going to help you predict anything about the fan noise and thermals. And besides, you could get the max-p models and change fan noise in nvidia settings now with whispermode - just select fan noise level and it will adjust everything for you
Quote from: Bobby on January 27, 2021, 02:45:51
Max-q is not going to help you predict anything about the fan noise and thermals. And besides, you could get the max-p models and change fan noise in nvidia settings now with whispermode - just select fan noise level and it will adjust everything for you
Quote from: Fisherman on January 27, 2021, 01:29:53
This only makes sense when they're trying to hide the fact that they use MQ, but if they use MP they should be actively trying to promote that, so for a company that uses both it truly gets confusing.
I disagree, there are people (me for example), who value thermals and low fan noise as much as I value FPS in games, and I might well deliberately buy a Max-Q GPU in order to get a balanced laptop. The specs of the GPUs should be clearly listed, in part because both low and high power parts have their markets.