GeForce RTX 3000 series graphics cards are available in 28 variants

Yesterday there was information about the abolition of the Max-Q brand on GeForce RTX 3000 video cards. It seems that NVIDIA’s decision to abandon the Max-Q brand has caused a lot of confusion among the already confusing names of graphics processors for notebooks.

NVIDIA claims that Max-Q no longer defines a model, but describes a technology that laptop manufacturers may or may not use. As a result, the buyer is not provided with any information that could help determine which version of the GeForce RTX 3000 series graphics card for the selected laptop

The ban on the GeForce RTX 3000 Mobile series expired today and many sites have posted their reviews. Most reviews explain in some detail which TGP variant is present in laptops. However, this information is not published by most laptop manufacturers, but there are a few exceptions.

Notebook manufacturers have ignored NVIDIA’s request to post TGP values ​​on their websites. As a result, consumers have to face a lottery when choosing a graphics card from 28 different models, among which the low-powered variants of the more flagship cards are often slower than the powerful models of the much cheaper GeForce RTX 3000 cards.

Specifications posted by NVIDIA on the official site are useless. However, thanks to the ComputerBase article, there is now a complete list of options for RTX 3000 graphics cards. Which one laptop manufacturers use is entirely up to them, however, as shown above, they simply chose not to. For this reason, you can run into a laptop with a GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q graphics card, which is slower than the RTX 3060 GPU.

Note that the list compiled by ComputerBase does not contain TGP values ​​that are affected by Dynamic Boost. This technology can add 5 to 20 watts to GPU power, which, as you might guess, makes this list even more confusing.