RTX 3080 coming to laptops January 26th
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Mobile versions coming soon apparently https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nvidia-is-bringing-its-rtx-3080-to-laptops-on-january-26th/ar-BB1cGPz1
RTX 3080 laptops begin at $1,999 and can include up to 16GB of GDDR6 memory — more than what’s available on the RTX 3080 desktop GPU side
I imagine getting that 16GB figure will be much more expensive than $1999, but its still intriguing. I've been eyeing getting a windows laptop as a secondary render machine. If Lenovo announce a Thinkpad with a 3080 then I think I'd be sold. I'm a little wary of quality for gaming laptops, and I imagine that a professional/workstation laptop with a 3080 would be very $$$. I suppose we'll see on January 26th.
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Whatever they call a 3080 that they put in a mobile platform, just like previous mobile rtx's will be a severely hamstrung version of the genuine article.
More like a photo of a sample engineered laptop no one can actually buy is coming soon.
still wouldn't want a laptop; if you need space and/or portability - that is a reason to get a laptop.
Agreed
I'm all about this! I spend most of my week traveling for work and I'm ready to upgrade my GTX 1070 laptop. With 16GB of VRAM and 6100 cuda cores, this will be a nice upgrade for me.
Because of both thermal and power supply limitations, this might not run as great as one might hope for. Wouldn't amaze me if performance ended up very similar to a 3060 or 2070 in a for the rest similar laptop, with the only real advantage being the huge VRAM.
Ditto for me, I'd be upgrading from a 960m laptop lol. I have a desktop thats much much more capable, but I'm not always near it, and Daz is my favorite hobby these days.
What problem?
Newegg has a preorder page for MSI 3080 gaming laptops, price for device w/16Gb card is ~$2800-$3k. Processors are all i7-10870H, looks like 32Gb ram.
You don't need to be near your desktop to use it!
Remote Access!
Since you have a laptop and desktop, you can try this right now and see how well it works for you. What do you have to lose?
You can pimp out a desktop and buy a very modest laptop that just has a decent size screen. Or just use your current laptop to stream your desktop. Most remote apps can stream to any screen, even tablets and smartphones. I have a Samsung tablet with a beautiful AMOLED screen that beats 99% of the laptop screens out there. That is another massive downside to laptops, you are not just giving up performance...the screens are often junk. High end gaming laptops might have sort of ok screens, but because they are built for gaming, they do not have any local dimming (that is a post process that creates input lag for gaming.) This results in a washed out blacks. Some laptops might be built for creators, but they are even more expensive than gaming laptops. Some laptops will be getting OLEDs, which fixes that, but they are also expensive as this is still very new tech for laptops. OLEDs in general are still very expensive.
Plus doing this keeps your Daz library in one place for easy access. You can have your library on a nice big hard drive that is larger than any laptop drive will have, at least at a reasonable price. And doing this will also mean a nice cool laptop, because the desktop is doing all the work. You could even use the laptop...uh...in your lap without burning your legs. Whoa.
You only need a laptop if you truly must be mobile outside of the home all the time. But even then, it is still possible to remote access. I've done it. I've created scenes and photoshopped on my desktop while being several hundred miles away. Obviously the internet connection will impact the stream, but this is something that is still possible.
BTW, it helps if the laptop is running the same resolution as the desktop.
I wouldn't unless its really necessary. Laptops in general really aren't ideal alternatives to desktops when it comes to rendering and they can be a real pain in the ass. If anything, I would use it to build/edit scenes and do rough test-renders when I'm not at home, and then transfer the scene to my desktop when I get home and do the complete render there. Also, as someone else pointed out, remote access to your desktop(if you have a reliable low-latency connection to it from your laptop wherever you might be) could mean the difference between having to buy a beast of a laptop vs. a cheaper one.
I've been rendering on MSI laptops for nearly ten years and have never had overheating problems. I can't speak for other laptop brands, but I'm confident the new MSI laptop will be great. As far as remote access, that just isn't possible. Small town internet connections are frequently spotty at best.
I agree MSI makes excellent hardware. But the point is, up to now the GPUs in laptops have had nowhere near the power and thermal characteristics of the 3000 series, especially when you consider the GPU running at 100% for hours long renders. I can't see throttling not happening which would kind of defeat the purpose. The 3080 can run up to 80ºC under load, and that's inside a PC case not a laptop. Nvidia says the Max-Q will work with "tweak drivers and thermal and electrical components", which probably means the performance will be well below the 3080 PC version.
I have an MSI laptop and while i like it and its performance, i'm not happy at all in terms of heat and noice. Can it render? sure Can it sustain it for a while? Probably, but even disabling cpu render (to have only one main heat source) fans go crazy and the heat can be felt instantly in the keyboard. Sustaining for hours non stop feels risky.