Alienware Caught Selling Notebooks with RTX 3070 (Laptop) with Fewer CUDA Cores

[boidsonly]

Jarrod's Tech explains the performance hit in detail. This is shady on Dell's part. Just as shady as their hidden "warranty fees" that folks have been subjected to. Not to mention the OEM RTX 30xx cards they provide are not Resizable Bar capable. From what I can tell, there is no VBIOS update in the works. I'm a bit pissed since I suffer from the 2nd and 3rd points made.
Update: Dell has issued new BIOS and VBIOS for the RTX 30xx GPUS here:
https://www.dell.com/support/home/e...g/0-blBXam9mZlJsWE9jM1RvYzZGTTVKdz090/drivers

 

[Vya Domus]

The official name is RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. It has a different name and hence different specs than a RTX 3070. And those specs are set at 5120 shaders.

That doesn't matter and it's obviously designed to be misleading, the format of the name is "RTX 3070" + blank + something else, in other words they are all clearly advertised as being RTX 3070s at heart which they are not. They don't call it "RTX 3070M" or make them part of an entirely different series like they once used to do.

AMD for example has an "RX 6800M", there's no ambiguity, the string indicates a different product in a very obvious manner.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Ok, so someone obviously did not read the article and just looked at the headline.

Yes, context is important, ISN'T it...

 

[Caring1]

I think there is a Class Action Lawsuit already filed against Dell for advertising originally that the Alienware Area 51M R1 as "unprecedented upgradeability".

Well they didn't lie as being able to upgrade your gimped 3070 to the correct specs is unprecedented.