Gaming Laptop Performance under Load?

[garyc]

Gaming laptops are now achieving benchmark scores that are not far off those for desktops with a similar specification. Has anyone had experience in how the performance of these laptops compares with desktops under sustained load? In other words do they hit thermal throttling on the CPU or GPU earlier.

 

[ponder]

Gaming laptops are now achieving benchmark scores that are not far off those for desktops with a similar specification. Has anyone had experience in how the performance of these laptops compares with desktops under sustained load? In other words do they hit thermal throttling on the CPU or GPU earlier.

That implies desktops thermal throttle which not really true unless you have dust clog coolers or dried up thermal paste or a case with very restrictive airflow.

 

[mr_norris]

The only time I've experienced noticeable thermal throttling is when the fan profiles went on their own mission and forgot to bump up the speed when things get warm - decent fan profile control is not something Gigabyte got right with my laptop.

I only have a laptop, so I can't really comment on the desktop side, other than saying it would most likely be a bigger problem with laptops.

 

[garyc]

That implies desktops thermal throttle which not really true unless you have dust clog coolers or dried up thermal paste or a case with very restrictive airflow.

I have not tended to have a problem with desktops, but was wondering if there may be a problem with gaming laptops under load.

Some more information on what I mean by load: I am going to be building a Linux workstation for numerical analysis. This will typically take all the CPU cores up to full load for an extended period of time, sometimes several hours. I have not compiled for GPU yet (since my current one is pathetic), but hopefully this will also provide some high loading.

 

[garyc]

The only time I've experienced noticeable thermal throttling is when the fan profiles went on their own mission and forgot to bump up the speed when things get warm - decent fan profile control is not something Gigabyte got right with my laptop.

I only have a laptop, so I can't really comment on the desktop side, other than saying it would most likely be a bigger problem with laptops.

Thanks, that does seem to indicate that I may be better off with the desktop.