But in the vast majority of cases the two GPU share nothing except for their names.

Crazy specifications packed into a tiny laptop body.

There’s a reason Razor rules the 14-inch gaming laptop roost.

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Look Up the Architecture

The “architecture” of a GPU is essentially its technological generation.

All GPUs running on the same architecture share features, efficiencies, and relative performance.

you’ve got the option to also use utilities likeGPU-Zif you already have the laptop in your possession.

A woman looking frustrated surround by smart home tech.

Speaker of total power, that brings us to the next most important issue.

All things being equal, the more power a GPU can use, the better it will perform.

Laptops are thermally constrained, so the same GPU in different laptops will have different power limits.

NVIDIA Geforce RTX and AMD Ryzen stickers on the Lenovo Legion Slim 5.

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An RTX 4060 with a 45W TDP will perform much worse than the same GPU with a 100W TDP.

This is another area where laptop makers can confuse customers.

This will let you know how that specific laptop performs with that particular combination of components and cooling performance.

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Crazy specifications packed into a tiny laptop body. There’s a reason Razor rules the 14-inch gaming laptop roost.