Largest has 128G RAM and not clear if the GPU can access all of it.
So, looks like none of them can run an .5T LLM locally.
Pass.
Most expensive laptops
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#33It seems like a scam that gaming laptops are marketed with the headline, i.e: GeForce RTX 5090, then in the fine print, read: GeForce RTX 5090 laptop GPU.
Are there any laptops that actually have a desktop GPU built in?
I've come across a few in the past, these 18 inch giant-ass "desktop replacement" / gamer things that had insanely large power bricks. Been a few years but I think they all had desktop GPU chips from NV.
But I think it's not possible to do any more, not with any high-power card that is... the RTX 5090 has a TDP of 600-ish watts, you can neither get in that kind of power into a laptop, even at 24 volt that's still 25 amps of current just for the GPU, and most importantly you can't get rid of 600 watts of heat, no matter what, without making the user uncomfortable.
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#35Willing to bet these kind of notebooks get the worst update support possible.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are there any laptops that actually have a desktop GPU built in?
I've come across a few in the past, these 18 inch giant-ass "desktop replacement" / gamer things that had insanely large power bricks. Been a few years but I think they all had desktop GPU chips from NV. But I think it's not possible to do any more, not with any high-power card that is... the RTX 5090 has a TDP of 600-ish watts, you can neither get in that kind of power into a laptop, even at 24 volt that's still 25…
That's not the case. A 5060 has a 145W TDP, which is borderline feasible. A 5090 is 575W, which is approaching furnace territory.
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#37It seems like a scam that gaming laptops are marketed with the headline, i.e: GeForce RTX 5090, then in the fine print, read: GeForce RTX 5090 laptop GPU.
Agreed, but the scam is coming from Nvidia, not the laptop manufacturers. I doubt they're even complicit - Nvidia probably forces them to agree on exact marketing phrasing before selling them GPUs.
Nvidia is incredibly strict with the laptop and board partners on the design and marketing of the final product.
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video editing, multiple projects
Sure, but are you really doing all video editing on all projects on the go?
When it's your job job dealing with huge data it quickly becomes very time consuming and error prone to deal with multiple external storage devices. (edit: by error prone I mean human error eg where did I put this stuff?)
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are there any laptops that actually have a desktop GPU built in?
I don't think they do it anymore, but for a while nvidia laptop GPUs of the same model number had more cuda cores to match the desktop model of same number, with the laptop's lower clock.
The 3080 Ti laptop card has fewer CUDA cores but more VRAM than the desktop version.