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_makura

1660ti or 2070maxq?

Buying help

I'm stuck between the two in the Aftershock/Mag 15, the key reasons I want a 2070maxq is so I can have ray tracing and better gaming/vr performance.

From looking online it looks like there's about a 10% improvement in performance with the 2070maxq, not sure if this justifies the $400+ price jump I'd have to pay in Australia though, $400 can go towards paying for a VR setup or another monitor.

Another consideration is the battery life, will I get more with a 2070maxq? Does it matter if I'm not gaming (which is the only time I care about battery life).

Or am I doing this wrong and should just get an ultrabook with kickass battery life and plug it into an eGPU.

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I'd like a laptop for software development (mostly web, some game development maybe), gaming, going on the road showing things to clients who might be on the more conservative side.

Posted Nov 5, 2019, 1:42 AM UTC · edited

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_makuraOP•

But if I truly don't care about my money wouldn't it be better to go for a 1660ti and splurge on an egpu?

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sreirrac•

an egpu could potentially give more fps but you'd have to really spend a lot on a GPU to get more fps the the 2070MQ. I've got a Blade 15 with the 2070MQ and there isnt a game currently that I wont get above 100fps 1080p maxed out. Not so sure about ray tracing as I dont own any of those titles.

I actually had a egpu setup with a 1070 before hand and I couldnt bear the driver issues and the performance hit through TB3. So unless your budget really allows you to get like a egpu and a 2080 or 2080ti. I'd day go for the 2070MQ, if anything for the extra VRAM.

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Xc4lib3r•

I'm stuck between the two in the Aftershock/Mag 15, the key reasons I want a 2070maxq is so I can have ray tracing and better gaming/vr performance.

From looking online it looks like there's about a 10% improvement in performance with the 2070maxq, not sure if this justifies the $400+ price jump I'd have to pay in Australia though, $400 can go towards paying for a VR setup or another monitor.

This... well if you have money.... go for the 2070 Max Q (Or MQ for short, I hate to write all). The $400 price upgrade for that thing doesn't worth it. Not all games support Ray Tracing, it's too early to think about it right now. In my opinion, by the time Ray Tracing (RT for short) is popular, there will be newer models or lineup released that will maybe (just maybe) has better FPS when RT is on. RT isn't that popular though. I mean I would trade off graphics to have more FPS. I'm not a fan of RT so the only reason why I buy the 2070MQ is the extra fps. But I think it's too expensive to upgrade from a 1660Ti to a 2070MQ

Another consideration is the battery life, will I get more with a 2070maxq? Does it matter if I'm not gaming (which is the only time I care about battery life).

As for the MQ lineup, your dedicated GPU wont be used until there is some heavy render detected from driver or asked from that software. While idling or browsing web or do some basic tasks, your intergrated GPU from your CPU will be used instead, so... no it doesn't affect battery life as long as you don't play game while on battery, what does drain your battery is your CPU. Most CPU used for gaming laptop is H lineup (short for High Performance) which has a wattage of 45W, that's actually a lot. Normal business laptop is around 15w because it's using U (Ultra Powersaving) lineup. So yeah.... also you can have a top tier laptop with a capacity of 99Wh at max (Gigabyte Aero 15X for example) will last you around 6hrs or more battery life with a i7-8750H or 9750H.

Or am I doing this wrong and should just get an ultrabook with kickass battery life and plug it into an eGPU.

This is actually a good idea for me but it will cost more than buy a gaming laptop since not only you have to find a thunderbolt based laptop, you have to buy a GPU and a eGPU dock. Also you will lost your CPU performance since there is no laptop with H lineup CPU alone as far as I know except the XPS 15 Base model.

This is your decision though. I actually love the last idea but my budget stopped me from getting this setup.

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_makuraOP•

Honestly to me I'd go for a 2070mq if it means I can use ray tracing in games on my ultrawide 100hz monitor, but if the price cost makes those games unplayable then I don't see the point.

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Xc4lib3r•

The reason why the price is so high is that Nvidia is the only company that create high-end Laptop GPU.... AMD is losing over all theese time but it's coming back soon. I hope it will to decrease the GPU price... Gaming laptops have been so fucking high for the price since the launch of RTX lineup.

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