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Slowly improving

This is why I always bought the Titan series GPUs. Maxwell Titan X had 12GB VRAM Pascal Titan 12GB Titan V 12GB (I have this one right now) RTX Titan 24GB I bet if RTX Titan Ada comes out it'll be 48GB I knew 3080 was a bad choice for 4K when I saw 10GB VRAM. It's why I went with 3090 instead. It's normally better to buy a GPU with more VRAM (especially 4K). AMD did it right last gen with 16GB cards for top three.

Actually if you had the Alienware Area-51m R1/R2 you had a 200w 2080 that matches/beats desktop 2080: https://www.3dmark.com/fs/19316903 Clevo X170SM-G/TM-G also had 2080/2080S with 150w vBIOS that were neck to neck with desktop 2080. You could also flash it with 200w AW vBIOS to get the full performance too 3000 series was when no laptop was even close

Wow I wish I had even a new one available let alone open box at my local best buy. I heard it will be a few weeks until 4090 config comes out but we'll see

While this is nice, it is useless without current limit support. hopefully we can increase current limit

330w which is correct. No idea on cpu power draw he hasn't mentioned it. If a m16 with 13900hx/4080 shows up at my best buy locally, I may snag one to play with until my m18 with 4090/13980hx is ready lol one issue with reviewers, they probably just ran tests without checking to see if there's any issues. these cpus should perform very close to 13900k (without all core turbo boost enhancement turned on) as long as temps are in check. could also be some bug affecting them, who knows, too early they should be able to beat a 7700x at least easily: https://www.3dmark.com/spy/35559314

What’s interesting is, the guy said his cpu peaked 88c but ran in high 70s for most of the run. I really am wondering if something like AWCC is messing things up or some other software he has on the computer. I’ve seen on passmark these cpus get close to desktop chips so they have the potential. hopefully someone here gets one. I’m waiting for 4090 so I won’t have one anytime soon. btw @win32asmguy on the m18 bios you can turn on dgpu only mode apparently so theoretically those tb4 should output from dgpu in that mode but i’ll give it a test whenever I end up with mine. Also as far as I can tell, 4080/4090 will get the full vapor chamber cooler, not sure on lower tier gpus

No idea, it’s not my computer. All they did was update drivers. They didn’t provide me with any other info. until someone from the forums gets one of the new laptops we’re at the mercy of whatever we find online

Better but still not performing full power yet. Surprisingly the gpu score is exactly the same as before (thought I'd fluctuate at least a little but consistency is good I guess lol) Unfortunately AW didn't release 4090 model so for now I have to wait to order.

It's official. 2x 2280 2x 2230 https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-us/alienware-m18-r1-laptop/alienware-m18-r1-setup-and-specifications/storage?guid=guid-a00459e0-2a64-449c-9f02-581bf2e3c2cf&lang=en-us Perhaps if I get rid of that fan on the side, I can install 2280s in the 2230 slots lol Don't cry @1610ftw looks like there's two ways to install 2280 inside the 2230 slot. Either remove that size fan or get a m.2 extension cable and stick the ssds somewhere else lol

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/5201vs5022/Intel-i9-13980HX-vs-Intel-i9-13900K Not bad! We will see sustained load though since this is just a benchmark.

Wow you really have no idea about benchmarking. Your CPU isn't doing much work at all during the gpu test. That's the point of the gpu test and cpu test being separate, to isolate a bottleneck. Unless you are comparing CPUs 10 generations from each other, the gpu score will hardly be different with CPUs within a few gens of each other. Especially with time spy (a 2560x1440 bench) vs fire strike. 13th gen isn't a magical leap in performance. That 13th gen is performing less than your 12th gen, by your logic if he fixes his cpu score his gpu score will increase, making the gap even further, but it won't change his gpu score because he isn't being bottlenecked by a 10 year old cpu in the gpu test. My Titan V is 9.8% faster on my 10th gen i9 10980XE system in timespy over my 1st gen Xeon X5675s. 18-cores vs 12-cores and an insane amount of IPC increase and clock speed difference between these CPUs. Yet the GPU score is only 9.8% faster and some of this may be due to me doing 110% power vs 100% power in the run. https://www.3dmark.com/compare/spy/30263826/spy/25577703 Anyways enjoy your 3080Ti but don't spread false info. If we are comparing gpus to gpus, you check gpu score vs gpu score.

Let's see.... 18,427 / 13,256 = 1.390087507543754 therefore based on your 3080Ti result vs this persons stock 4080 Mobile result, the 4080 is 39% faster than your 3080Ti from the number above. Oh and that result is out of the box using stock dell paste as well. and yes their cpu score is way too low, they're working on seeing what the problem is.

\\Random TS result I found of the m16 with 4080. 39% faster than the 3080Ti laptop score someone posted of their laptop on page 3. 4090 is an additional 25-30% faster.

Sorry, it's already installed in my system. There's a post on page 1 of this thread with the pic

It's BGA. ALL laptops in 2023 (even Clevo) is full bga now. That should be possible. I did that with Area-51m R1 and that was my plan with m18

Tomorrow is the release of many models, along with the 9th. Then you should start seeing more configs show up

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/msi-stealth-17-3-240hz-qhd-gaming-laptop-intel-core-i9-13900h-nvidia-geforce-rtx-4090-2tb-ssd-64gb-memory-black/6532165.p?skuId=6532165 This one still has 2TB SSD & 64GB RAM yet it is $3,999.99. Do not base price just on one specific laptop sku. Once they're all out by Friday or next week we will have a better idea. There was some even cheaper than this. Looks like best buy took it down. I seen 3499 a few days ago as well.

That machine is clearly overpriced. 2x2TB SSDs & 64GB RAM from OEMs are normally a rip off. Better to buy best cpu/gpu only and leave rest low end and upgrade yourself. I did that with Area-51m R1, bought my own SSD/RAM, plan to do same with m18. If you seen apple, they charge insane prices for RAM & SSD upgrade (although theirs cannot be upgraded). OEMs tend to be on the higher price as well

A lot of people don't understand how strict nvidia is, especially with mobile products. OEMs can't just do what they want. After my A4500 MXM debacle I really got to work with a company to try and customize vBIOS and learned nVidia controls EVERYTHING. Simple change in vBIOS? Need to submit to Nvidia for approval and then validation.

Told y'all 4090 mobile will be faster than 3090 (some even 3090Ti) The full 150w +25w boost models will be the best of course. Can't wait to play with one myself. Last laptop GPU I had was RTX 2080 (200w). Haven't had the pleasure to own 4000 series desktop GPUs but I had basically every 3000 series even 3090Ti so it'll be fun to get as much performance out of these new ones. These GPUs do better at higher resolutions, so QHD 165hz will be a good sweet spot

The picture is from m16 not m18, but I assume they share a similar motherboard. We will finally find out next week though. Also, I find it crazy that most name brands such as Samsung, SK Hynix, etc. are only selling 2TB NVMe SSDs. Like...what?? Where are the 4TB drives and 8TB drives. Saberant has 4TB/8TB drives for awhile now, but Samsung still doesn't have a 4TB, crazy.

I bought "1866Mhz" RAM (which has the 1866mhz sticker) but clearly it was a 1600Mhz RAM faked as 1866Mhz. Also bought on eBay.

Taking a look at this pic, I see two 2280 NVMe slots, three 2230 size M.2 slots. Most likely 2x 2280 M.2 NVMe 2x 2230 M.2 NVMe 1x 2230 M.2 for Wi-Fi/BT so that's probably why it is "up to 9tb"

AMD 7845 CPU performance. (Can't wait to see 7945 * 13980HX):