MSI reveals TGP for its GeForce RTX 30 laptops

During the MSI Insider stream, company representatives confirmed the configurations of GeForce RTX 3000 mobile graphics cards in the company’s latest gaming laptops.

While NVIDIA has recommended that its partners quote TGP (Total Graphics Power) and GPU clock speeds for gaming laptops with GeForce RTX 30 graphics cards, no manufacturer has done so yet.

Problematic and misleading listings on official laptop spec pages are a typical marketing effort to limit consumer access to information. Customers are forced to search for this information on their own, either through product support, external reviews, or by reading technical publications.

Yesterday, a complete list of all mobile RTX 3000 series video cards became known, which includes as many as 28 options. Such a huge amount is impossible to understand by ordinary consumers, who would rather read this information from the product page rather than rely on unconfirmed reports from third parties.

Since NVIDIA dropped the Max-Q naming convention in their mobile graphics cards, it has been very difficult to validate the TGP range for a laptop. However, by design, some laptops are limited in their cooling capacity, and for this reason, for many laptops, power will be limited to 80W for all graphics card options.

MSI employees defended their company, which does not post TGPs on product pages, explaining that there are many options for each region. This is of course complete nonsense and the base configurations have always had the same GPUs. Regional considerations usually affect the keyboard layout or power supply cables, but not the GPU TGP variant.

The MSI Insider stream finally revealed the full TGP information on laptops with GeForce RTX 3000 graphics cards. It was said that these are typical configurations and may differ depending on other components. Features such as Dynamic Boost can be affected by the choice of CPU, although this will not affect the data in the table above.

The product pages still do not indicate which TGP options are offered by MSI. As you can see from the above image, it is impossible to understand the graphics power of the laptop, and meanwhile the GE76 Raider has 150W RTX 3080, while the GS66 Stealth only has 80W of power for the RTX 3080. That’s almost a 50 percent power reduction, which is definitely will provide a different gameplay.