Nvidia used the letter M to distinguish desktop and laptop in the GTX 900 series. Why did they abandon this simpler nomenclature?
Nvidia used the letter M to distinguish desktop and laptop in the GTX 900 series. Why did they abandon this simpler nomenclature?
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Because it’s technically the same GPU with power limit -70% (or whatever the number)
Probably so manufacturers can say “This laptop uses an RTX 4090”, giving people a more direct impression that this is equivalent to the desktop 4090, when it’s actually cut down in power. Calling it “4090M” would immediately give away the game.
Probably to give the illusion that a laptop gpu has the same/similar performance to the desktop counterpart.
Because it’s a scam. Other people here are putting it in nicer terms but that’s all it is, a scam.
They want customers to think they’ll get 4090 levels of performance despite getting something that is going to be less than half as powerful.
10 series was basically on par with desktop cards spec wise, so they sold them as such. After that they abandoned different names to make you think you are still buying desktop level of performance.
Just wanting false advertising, despite being widely different.
Because that’s as big of a lie as they can legally get away with, and the community keeps tolerating it because it’s “just a name.”
Mark my words, if people don’t start caring about naming, the 50 class and 60 class will vanish. The complete lineup will be the 90 Ti, 90, 80 Ti, 80, 70 Ti, and 70, with the 70 class card performing at the level you would type expect from a 50 class card while costing $700.
People who think they want to get a 6070 to replace their 4070 will end up disappointed to discover that the card is just 20% faster and still had 12GB of VRAM on a meager 96-bit bus. So now they need to shell out $1000 to get any kind of real improvement with the 6080, which is what would have been a 6060.
But still, even in that obviously horrible situation, people will defend the 3 trillion dollar corporation with cries of “It’s just a name!”
RTX 4090 BVM
If you can’t immediately distinguish what is a laptop and what is a desktop, the problem is probably not with Nvidia.
Or they could call it a “4090” as it isn’t really a 4090.
Because for the 10 and 20 series the laptop cards were actually the same as the desktop cards. They stated they wanted to keep it that way from then on, but then the 320W 3080 happened, and they couldn’t fit that into a laptop. So they went back to putting worse chips in laptops again for the 30 series without bothering to put the M back.
The mobile 4090 is the same chip as the desktop 4080 so they could have gone back to parity again, but the 4090 brand image is just too strong for their greedy asses to resist
The real reason was when GTX 10M launched , they were so close to their desktop equivalent card’s performance they didn’t have to differentiate. It was true for that 1 gen, but the naming stuck as it gave the illusion that a rtx 3080 mobile is equivalent to rtx 3080 desktop but in reality its atleast 20% slower