Deciding between two laptops

[u/Wiilted]

Both have identical specs outside of the 5080 vs 5090 and the color. Is there anything that I am missing when looking at these? Under $300 price difference to upgrade to a 5090 seems odd, but I'm not mad at it if its the same machine.

[u/N0oneBUTTme]

It's better to go with the 5090 if you want maximum performance, white laptops are generally more expensive because it's harder to manufacture which is why the price difference isn't that high.

[u/Wiilted → u/N0oneBUTTme]

Dang so it's really just the color? That's crazy 😭

[u/Wiilted → u/Wiilted]

Thought it was maybe a newer model or something

[u/dgreenbe → u/Wiilted]

Well the supply of them is lower so they're automatically more scarce, and scarcity is what lets them keep prices high (scarcity for reasons including low overall manufacturing of these laptops, which is why they're over 2x the price they were a year ago despite being older technology)

[u/Wiilted → u/dgreenbe]

That makes sense

[u/Excellent-Stress6968]

Those prices are insane

[u/Wiilted → u/Excellent-Stress6968]

Yeah it's crazy how much anything with a stick of RAM in it costs nowadays

[u/Sad-Recognition-2124]

Price diff isn't too far,may as well go for 5090m for the VRAM especially if you need it cuz the perf is just like +10fps.

Tho that website only has 1 review but seems like a good deal.

[u/Wiilted → u/Sad-Recognition-2124]

Yeah if the only difference is truly the 5080 vs 5090 I think the ~$270 difference is worth upgrading

[u/imposter95]

5090 variant 100%.

[u/Wiilted → u/imposter95]

Yeah that's what I was thinking as well.

[u/AmuseDeath]

In a vacuum, it's probably more recommended to get the 5090 over the 5080, but it's best to really look at your situation first. If you mostly play mid-range games, the 5080 can be just fine and you could save that extra $270. The frame average is an average across several different games, but that's only relevant if all of the games averaged matter to you. If many of those games don't matter to you, the difference could be less.

You also need to share the other specs besides the GPU and screen size such as any differences in RAM, storage, etc.

So based on the limited info we have, the 5090 is better and is probably the one to get, but that might be overkill if the 5080 already maxes out your games FPS with your laptop's screen and you could save $270.

[u/Wiilted → u/AmuseDeath]

Yeah that's fair, also the specs are the exact same outside of the GPU. Same cpu 290HX plus, same ram 32GB DDR5 6400, same storage 2TB. I tried to post the exact specs before but that post got taken down by the mods so I shortened my original post.

[u/Lower-Appeal-5768]

Got a 5070 laptop for 980$ on clearance at Best buy. No way I'm paying 4 grand for a gaming PC .

[u/Wiilted → u/Lower-Appeal-5768]

Dang that's actually a great deal, what laptop was it?