The mobile GeForce RTX 3080 is 40 percent slower than the desktop GeForce RTX 3080. What the hell happened?

Back in the Nvidia Pascal days, the chipmaker boasted that its mobile GPUs have caught up to their desktop counterparts in terms of performance. Fast-forward to 2021 and that claim has all been thrown out the window.

Late last year, we projected that the performance gaps between mobile GeForce RTX 30 and desktop GeForce RTX 30 would widen significantly when compared to the previous RTX 20 generation. Now that the first RTX 30 laptops have come to market, our in-house tests between a handful of GeForce RTX laptops have unfortunately upheld our prediction.

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