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System Name | Nebulon-B Mk. 4 |
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Processor | AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D |
Motherboard | MSi PRO B650M-A WiFi |
Cooling | be quiet! Dark Rock 4 |
Memory | 2x 24 GB Corsair Vengeance EXPO DDR5-6000 |
Video Card(s) | Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 7800 XT |
Storage | 2 TB Corsair MP600 GS, 2 TB Corsair MP600 R2, 4 + 8 TB Seagate Barracuda 3.5" |
Display(s) | Dell S3422DWG, 7" Waveshare touchscreen |
Case | Kolink Citadel Mesh black |
Power Supply | Seasonic Prime GX-750 |
Mouse | Logitech MX Master 2S |
Keyboard | Logitech G413 SE |
Software | Windows 10 Pro |
Benchmark Scores | Cinebench R23 single-core: 1,800, multi-core: 18,000. Superposition 1080p Extreme: 9,900. |
Thank you!I don't think gaming laptops are going to get any huge changes as they're mostly limited by cooling and power delivery which depends entirely on performance/Watt which hasn't really moved much in the last 3 years, we're still mostly seeing the same 7nm TSMC and Intel 10nm (rebranded Intel7). Samsung 8 for Ampere doesn't seem to bring much to the table over TSMC12 of Turing's dGPUS, it's arguably worse at the low end when comparing performance/Watt of the 3050 against the 1650Ti etc - possibly because the 3050 is bogged down by additional raytracing die area that the 1650/1660 series don't have to bother with. I've yet to see the 3050 convincingly raytrace anything at playable framerates, so IMO that's a step backwards anyway!
Some people consider it sacrilege to say anything bad about Ampere as it is nvidia's most advanced architecture, and 8 nm Samsung is just sooo goood... but hey, people, let's look at the facts! The desktop 3060 eats about the same power as a 2070 and performs at the same level as the 2070 - not to mention that the 2070 isn't more than a 1080 with raytracing and DLSS support. Ergo, performance/watt hasn't changed since Pascal. All the higher tier chips throw efficiency out of the window. Ergo, Ampere isn't as advanced as it's advertised to be. It's a slightly reworked Turing built by Samsung instead of TSMC, nothing more.
Chips with such high power and cooling requirements should have no presence in a laptop in my opinion.