For those who want the best in a gaming laptop, ones with RTX 3080 GPUs are a no-brainer. While many are fairly large machines that generate plenty of heat, they’re still perfectly valid mobile gaming machines. Some can even be gaming desktop replacements.
Mobile GPUs come with a catch
Before we dive in, you should know that Nvidia has made laptop GPUs way harder than they used to be. Instead of correlating the make of the GPU (RTX 3080, 3070, 3060, etc.) to performance, they’ve allowed laptop manufacturers to set power limits ranging from 60W to 130W while still marketing it to punch in the same performance class. This means a laptop with a 60W GPU will perform fairly differently than the same GPU at 130W. More wattage will equate to more performance, and naturally more heat, especially in these beastly machines.
