Opinion: Why NVIDIA removed Max-Q distinction and why I think it’s better
Kok Kee February 15, 2021
Since CES 2021, there are a lot of new laptops in the market that is packed with the new RTX 30-series or RTX 3000 series of laptop GPUs. At the time of recording, we have the RTX 3080, the RTX 3070, and also the RTX 3060. But, these 3 laptop GPUs can operate at a wide range of wattages – and I have to emphasize that this is not new. The RTX 20-series of laptop GPUs are already doing this – but they have the distinction of Max-P (a.k.a. “standard”) and Max-Q.
