RTX4080 or RTX4090 Laptop?

[MikeyTaylorGaming]

Hey all, I know this has probably been asked to death by now, but I'm wondering if there's any significant difference in these two laptop GPUs? I'm looking to spend around £2300 on a new laptop but may be able to go slightly higher, quite tight for a 4090, and open to suggestions!

My use case is generally Emulation (including the ability to go 3 or 4x native resolution), video editing and of course gaming. I'm sure that emulation can be more CPU heavy than GPU though. Most laptop with these GPUs have i9's anyway by the look of it.

Looking to get 32GB of RAM and 3TB storage. If a laptop has less of either, I can upgrade myself no issue since most gaming laptops come with extra slots these days, but I guess I have to take that into account for cost!

If you have advice on brands to look at, or a recommendation for a specific laptop in the UK which is good value for money with good build quality, screen, etc, please let me know!

Any help appreciated, thanks so much as always!

 

[Skv0ra]

Clevo if you guys get them, or whatever re-brand might be - very well designed chassis and boards that allow(ed?) plethora of storage upgrade options and solid cooling. Absolutely avoid bloody ASsUS at all cost. Otherwise, as usual, try to build even a mini tower instead so you can actually push all of the hardware properly.

 

[MikeyTaylorGaming]

Clevo if you guys get them, or whatever re-brand might be - very well designed chassis and boards that allow(ed?) plethora of storage upgrade options and solid cooling. Absolutely avoid bloody ASsUS at all cost. Otherwise, as usual, try to build even a mini tower instead so you can actually push all of the hardware properly.

Laptop is a none negotiable as I travel quite a lot for work and such!

I've actually had an Asus ROG Strix GL703GM for about 7 or 8 years now and it's still working very well for what I'm doing, I was actually considering a new strix to replace my old one but not if you're advising against!

Never heard of that brand but I'll take a look, thank you!

 

[Skv0ra]

Laptop is a none negotiable as I travel quite a lot for work and such!

I've actually had an Asus ROG Strix GL703GM for about 7 or 8 years now and it's still working very well for what I'm doing, I was actually considering a new strix to replace my old one but not if you're advising against!

Never heard of that brand but I'll take a look, thank you!

I tried a 15" RoG with a 1060 and it was nothing but nightmares from piss-poor cooling where you couldn't close the lid to coming with under-powered power supply with it basically slowly draining at "full" load. Got a 7700hq/1070 rebadged Clevo and it's still kicking with its expansion bays, unlocked bios, and all.

 

[MikeyTaylorGaming]

I tried a 15" RoG with a 1060 and it was nothing but nightmares from piss-poor cooling where you couldn't close the lid to coming with under-powered power supply with it basically slowly draining at "full" load. Got a 7700hq/1070 rebadged Clevo and it's still kicking with its expansion bays, unlocked bios, and all.

Strange, I've never had a single issue with my 17" ROG Strix after like, 6 or 7 years of editing for YouTube on it! Well, I say that, but a windows update removed bluetooth which I tried to troubleshoot for about 6 hours one night. In the end bought a bluetooth USB adapter temporarily till I could get a new wifi chip, then 4 months later I unplugged the adapter and bluetooth just... worked again and has ever since. Don't you hate stuff like that ahahah

I took the plunge today spent £1800 on;
i9-13900hx
RTX4080 12GB
16GB RAM
1TB SSD

Purchased a 4TB Samsung 990 Pro SSD and 2x32GB of RAM for £300 just to upgrade everything right away and increase shared GPU memory. Happy for 2100 total and less than I would have spent for not much gain getting a 4090 I suspect!

 

[Skv0ra]

Strange, I've never had a single issue with my 17" ROG Strix after like, 6 or 7 years of editing for YouTube on it! Well, I say that, but a windows update removed bluetooth which I tried to troubleshoot for about 6 hours one night. In the end bought a bluetooth USB adapter temporarily till I could get a new wifi chip, then 4 months later I unplugged the adapter and bluetooth just... worked again and has ever since. Don't you hate stuff like that ahahah

I took the plunge today spent £1800 on;
i9-13900hx
RTX4080 12GB
16GB RAM
1TB SSD

Purchased a 4TB Samsung 990 Pro SSD and 2x32GB of RAM for £300 just to upgrade everything right away and increase shared GPU memory. Happy for 2100 total and less than I would have spent for not much gain getting a 4090 I suspect!

Yea. Its helluva marginal difference in 80 and 90 cards IMO, but price is ridiculous.

 

[RHatake]

I also had a hard time with the Asus Rog. In less than a year, my wifi & bluetooth was removed after a window update. But that was just the first step. After 1 and half year, i got issue in the display. The display started going black from the top and went completely black later at 240Hz refresh rate, and i had to use laptop at 60Hz refresh rate. I searched online and found that these are the common issues many users faced in Asus laptops.

Please consider before buying Asus laptop. Happy to know that your first Rog is running well till now. But don't take chances.

 

[slam2001]

its a laptop get the 4080

 

[The Real Jdbye]

I tried a 15" RoG with a 1060 and it was nothing but nightmares from piss-poor cooling where you couldn't close the lid to coming with under-powered power supply with it basically slowly draining at "full" load. Got a 7700hq/1070 rebadged Clevo and it's still kicking with its expansion bays, unlocked bios, and all.

I have a 15" Asus TUF with a 4060 and it's been working well apart from the touchpad being absolute garbage. I monitor the temps and they're well within the norm. Granted if you set it to the silent profile it will run the fans so low that it thermally throttles under load. That mode is not for gaming but fine for web browsing and general tasks. Performance and turbo profiles don't have any issues and performance is still reasonably quiet.

Was the laptop you looked at on sale? Sometimes there's a reason why things go on sale, and it doesn't necessarily reflect the brand as a whole. Every manufacturer puts out some stinkers. Some more than others (*cough*HP*cough*)

Most laptops (including this one) don't have ventilation on the top but there are some and you never want to close the lid on those while they're running. Still things like the screen can get uncomfortably warm if you close the lid on a running laptop without putting it to sleep/hibernation so I would never recommend it regardless.

Hey all, I know this has probably been asked to death by now, but I'm wondering if there's any significant difference in these two laptop GPUs? I'm looking to spend around £2300 on a new laptop but may be able to go slightly higher, quite tight for a 4090, and open to suggestions!

My use case is generally Emulation (including the ability to go 3 or 4x native resolution), video editing and of course gaming. I'm sure that emulation can be more CPU heavy than GPU though. Most laptop with these GPUs have i9's anyway by the look of it.

Looking to get 32GB of RAM and 3TB storage. If a laptop has less of either, I can upgrade myself no issue since most gaming laptops come with extra slots these days, but I guess I have to take that into account for cost!

If you have advice on brands to look at, or a recommendation for a specific laptop in the UK which is good value for money with good build quality, screen, etc, please let me know!

Any help appreciated, thanks so much as always!

I honestly wouldn't go any higher than a 4070 on a laptop. If you look at the actual TDP, the TDP of the 80 and 90 cards are only slightly higher than the 60 and 70 but the price is way higher. My 4060 runs at 115W nominal + 25W boost (and that 25W boost makes quite a bit of difference). The higher end cards are way more power and thermally constrained on a laptop, you're not getting your money's worth when it comes to performance. Same goes for the i9, it's an i7 in everything but name.