A Chinese modder and Bilibili creator has shared (via VideoCardz) their design for a full-fat Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 laptop. By full-fat, we mean PC enthusiast ‘Newbie who loves overclocking’ (we will call them Newbie from now on) has crammed a power-thirsty desktop RTX 4090 into a portable clamshell luggable. This powerful device features one of the best graphics cards available, weighs over 15 pounds (around 8kg, including PSU), and is rather bulky, as you might imagine. Still, the finished article is about as neat as it could be.
It is easy to grasp why the Bilibili creator took on this project. The RTX 4090 laptop GPU is disappointingly anemic compared to its desktop counterpart. This difference is understandable in some ways – as the thermal design of a commercial creator or gaming laptop is already being pushed to the max by fitting an RTX 4090 Laptop GPU. However, Nvidia’s insistence that the top-end laptop and desktop GPU are both ‘RTX 4090’ graphics is misleading. GPU core counts, power consumption, and memory quotas are different and based on different silicon.
