I hope that PCS starts adding the TGP of their chassis on the configurator from now on, or at least on the detailed specs page.
So do I. As of today I couldn't recommend a Vengeance to a friend because of this. I had to direct him to a very nice ASUS with a Zen 3-based AMD CPU and fully powered RTX 3070. It was a no-brainer. I could have made a call, but when they have the ASUS on stock in a shop around the corner, why would I? But that's a bit OT.
Unlike previous generations, it seems to me that the TDP is the most linear identifier of performance in GPUs. In theory, a lousy chassy with an RTX 3080 Max-Q fed with only 80W, could have worse performance that an RTX 3060 getting the full 115W. Especially if the chassi has lousy or no support for DynamicBoost or DLSS. Whatever Nvidias intentions were, major players (I'm speaking laptops) like ASUS and MSI have already published their TDP, so the genie is already out of the bottle. Better to go with the flow.
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