Nvidia Titan RTX is just 15 percent slower than a laptop with GeForce GTX 1080 SLI graphics

The Titan RTX is barely two months old and it has already proven itself to be one of the fastest consumer desktop graphics cards available. Final 3DMark Fire Strike benchmarks reveal it to be 25 percent and 35 percent higher than the Titan X Pascal and GeForce RTX 2080, respectively. However, how does it compare to the fastest laptops currently in the market?

The current graphics champion in our database is the 17.3-inch Eurocom Sky X9C with GeForce GTX 1080 SLI graphics. Its Fire Strike Graphics score of 40582 points is just 17 percent higher than the Titan RTX as shown by our comparison chart below. In fact, it sits very comfortably between the GTX 1070 SLI and GTX 1080 SLI as far as raw horsepower is concerned. Actual gaming performance will likely be smoother on the Titan RTX simply because it suffers from no multi-GPU overhead and disadvantages.

Of course, the Titan RTX will indubitably have the upper hand once ray-tracing (RT) features are enabled. While we've yet to test it, the RT-focused 3DMark Port Royal benchmark scene will more than likely run significantly slower on a GTX-based machine.

An apples-to-apples performance-per-Watt comparison between desktop Titan RTX and laptop GTX is almost impossible due to the different hardware and CPUs involved. Even so, it's still interesting to compare the power demand between these enthusiast gaming systems. When running Witcher 3, our Titan RTX desktop would consume about 438 W compared to 455 W and 295 W on the Eurocom Sky X9C (GTX 1080 SLI) and Aorus X9 (GTX 1070 SLI), respectively. These are still some of the most demanding gaming systems all around regardless of form factor.

See our full review on the Titan RTX here for more performance numbers and details.

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