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So a while back I did a video on the i7 4790 and it performed much better than I expected. It was able to play some of the most demanding titles at over 60 fps, and I realized it might almost be as good as my Zephyrus g15. Now I bought this laptop for about $2000 3 years ago, and it currently goes for about 12 hundred on sites like eBay and offerup. The reason I'm making this video is because is desktop $800 cheaper and if you don't need the mobility of a laptop, a desktop may offer better performance at a lower pricepoint. So today we're gonna pit the two against each other and see just how large, or small, the performance gap really is.
At the heart of the g15 is the Ryzen 9 5900hs. It is an eight-core CPU with 16 threads, a base clock of 3 GHz an all-core boost of 4 GHz, and a single-core boost of 4.6ghz. It also came with the Rtx 3070 mobile graphics processor, 16 GB of RAM, and 1 TB of SSD storage. Which, was good enough, but I ended up upgrading to 40 GB of RAM and added another 2 TB SSD.
On paper, the desktop should perform worse. Originally I bought this system for $30 coming with an i3 4130 8 gigs of RAM and a hard drive. It wasn't quite as powerful as I had hoped, so I threw in the i7 4790 for $40 and 16 GB of RAM 20. Next, I got rid of the crappy hard drive and installed a 500gb Samsung 870 SSD for 30, alongside an ASUS rtx 3060 and a 600-watt power supply. Currently, a similar PSU on eBay goes for about $40, and you can easily find 3060s around the $220 price point. This means that, in total, this computer costs about $380.
But when you buy a laptop you also pay for the built-in peripherals which aren't priced into the desktop system. So if you want to be picky you can throw on $100 for a nice monitor and 40 more for a mouse and keyboard.
Regardless, the main selling point of gaming laptops is the idea of mobile performance, being able to complete demanding tasks like rendering or gaming wherever you are. And if that's a priority for you a desktop computer just isn't a viable solution. Personally, I bought the g15 because I was going off to college and figured I would need a powerful laptop for class. Turns out, I didn't need to. I've been using my older laptop with a 7th-generation i5 for all my development coursework and it rarely slows down.
Honestly, I just wanted to drag-race the systems against each other. I paid a lot of money for both of them and wanted to see how well a cheap PC can hold up against an expensive laptop.
The first order of business was to run some synthetic tests starting with Cinebench. Now these tests aren't exactly under ideal conditions. The g15 still is my daily driver and has a lot of programs and applications installed. I didn't really feel like factory resetting the PC with all my data on it, so I killed any background programs and got the idle CPU usage down to 2% before running Cinebench R20. Ultimately, it got a score of 4758. When I first got this laptop I made a video on it and it scored about 300 points higher. So it's less than it used to be and isn't under ideal conditions, but realistic conditions.
On the other hand, the 4790 got a score of 1701, which performed as expected. Obviously, the Ryzen system won by a landslide so it was on to 3dmark.
Both of these tests performed slightly above the 50th percentile, with the laptop 3070 achieving a score of 9415 and the desktop 3060 getting 7553. Going into this I expected those numbers to be a lot closer to each other than they actually were. Of course, the 3070 is using a more powerful processor, but it's limited to 80 watts as opposed to the 3060’s tdp of 170.
So this makes the laptop the victor and now you'll find out why you can't always rely on synthetic tests for benchmarking.
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[@KingSteven77]

That's impressive for a $380 Gaming PC. I built a similar PC for $400 with a Ryzen 5 3600 and RX 5700 XT using mostly used parts and deal hunting.

[@Jaindike]

Oooh nice. That's a much better deal than the one I ended up making.

[@laskaofalaska]

My first "powerful" PC was a 2016 laptop that cost me 600$. A month later my friend showed me his build, 300$ desktop and it proceed to beat mine to the ground. I mainly on desktop now, but I still need the laptop for office stuff. If the laptop broke, I'll just grab some cheap thinkpad for 100 or 200 dollar and call it a day

[@LaFonteCheVi]

At the high-end laptops are actually reasonably competitive if you shop around. GPU prices are insane and laptops often are cheaper. Also, people forget to factor in peripherals when comparing PC costs.

[@no-barknoonan1335]

​​@@LaFonteCheViAt the high end the specs are very far from 1:1. A 4090 laptop GPU is extremely far from a desktop 4090. Moreover ironically enough, on the high end GPU value seems to go up at least in current year, go figure. You're right about peripherals, but you'd also have to in that case factor that laptops are not modular and most components cannot be changed out, only RAM and storage usually. A PC you can sell an existing component and put that towards the new component, on a laptop you are stuck with the system. Depreciation is much higher, and upgradability makes you buy a new system. If you put aside the names and only look at performance, you will in fact pay a lot more for a laptop that does the same performance of what a desktop does, especially at the high end. Then there's longevity, laptops typically run way hotter and do not last as long as desktops. It's not uncommon for desktops to last decades of consistent use. Even if a component goes out, you have the ability to replace it. Laptops do have their place, but value is not where they excel.

[@rkhvacgod8638]

Congrats on 3k

[@Jaindike]

Thanks :)

[@zuffin1864]

PUBG is a lost cause at this point

[@ProdigalSui]

Channel deserves more views fr. Keep it up brother!!

[@Jaindike]

Thanks, will do!

[@farin4560]

I feel like you either have been scammed or you are lying in the title. I recently got the ROG Strix G16 with i9 13980HX and 4070 for 1870€ but you somehow got generation old hardware for the same/more money???

[@Jaindike]

Nah that's what I paid. Older price, which is mentioned in the video, same desktop pc price at the time

[@IM1deadMONEY]

Great video! Remember, sometimes Mac users aren't always fanboys! I'm pretty sure JeffGeerling would rather use a shiny turd than a Windows computer!

[@Jaindike]

Mac I guess I can understand.. but iPhone users? Nah

[@Dtr146]

Even though laptop hardware has basically caught up to desktop hardware. When you think about it is insane. Is very thermally limited. I honestly don't know why they don't just take those chips and throw them in desktops.

[@tomasvaris8162]

Jamaican here😅 nice closing song

[@Jaindike]

Lol glad you like it. Protoje has gotta be one of the best currently

[@millersenpai]

Please stop benchmarking CS2 in Deathmatches because it consumes more performance than the 5v5 competetive

[@parad0x1cal83]

Nice video!

[@Jaindike]

Ay glad you liked it

[@zuffin1864]

I feel like high end CPUs are too power heavy and make too much heat, so I keep putting off upgrading my motherboard/cpu because of the 4790 working well enough (non-k is only $40-50 on ebay now wow)

[@lettmons]

Haswell o/

[@donaldnemesis393]

Meanwhile people only know how to shitting at i7 4790 for being 10 years old quad core cpu, it's a very underrated cpu

[@MangoNot6]

but why you didn't test warzone it was the only thing that u wanted to do when buying th ssd

[@nikeshkunwar24]

I am so confused, Even my GTX 1650 laptop kind of matches your rtx 3070 laptop :)

[@Jaindike]

I dunno man. But I don't think I'll ever be buying a gaming laptop again

[@leogodofnone2706]

👍

[@cat_227]

is it ddr3 in the pc, i mean with 20bucks it was kinda cheap

[@Jaindike]

Yep! Another benefit to using a 10 YO cpu. Everything old and cheap

[@Dtr146]

For the longest I could literally not understand why Mac people kept buying MacBooks. Their performance is absolutely garbage. That was until they came out with the M2 and M3 laptops. They got some kinks to work out with the M3 but it's on an entirely different level. Once they work out all those kinks. A buddy of mine bought a MacBook and made it his windows machine because he said it was faster than his current laptop with a 10th gen i7 in it. Well, I think he's dual booting actually. Because he does use a couple of applications that's only feasible on Mac OS

[@Dtr146]

That was a lot of number vomit. Please put those numbers on the screen when you're saying them. I got lost so easily. It's the 1% lows and the point 1% lows that tell the story of how your gaming's going to go. My main focus is to keep it from stuttering as much as possible. The less stutter is the better session I have.

[@Jaindike]

Bet

[@laskaofalaska]

Yo am I first again? 👀

[@ashestodust2313]

Beamng detected

[@nasro_b]

127th

[@collageboy9309]

I tried to contact jndaike tech reviews but i find it hard to use discord 😔.Any solution?

[@Jaindike]

[e-mail] Discord works best tho