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NVIDIA’s laptop GPUs are being throttled — modder blows past limits with 250W RTX 5090 and unlocks 40% more performance

Upon receiving the ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 18 (G835L) gaming laptop to review earlier this year, it didn't take me long to discover that the NVIDIA RTX 5090 Laptop GPU inside wasn't performing as expected ...
TweakTown

NVIDIA RTX 5090 laptop GPU is 'shunt modded' to make it 20-30% faster in games

TL;DR: A YouTuber achieved a 20-30% performance boost with NVIDIA's RTX 5090 laptop GPU by shunt modding, increasing the power supplied to the GPU from 175W to 250W. This risky overclocking method ...
Digital Trends

Laptop GPU names feel like a scam

Despite the top-tier graphics cards from the past few generations being absolute power hogs, drawing hundreds upon hundreds of watts to deliver what feels like increasingly-modest performance gains, ...
Engadget

Lenovo CES 2025: The 10th-gen Legion Pro 7i gaming laptop supports up to RTX 5090 graphics

Lenovo has a new series of updated Legion gaming laptops at CES 2025. The star of the show is the 10th-generation Legion Pro 7i. It supports up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU, thanks to its ...