I know the laptop cards aren’t as powerful, but I never got why they never did official cards like that for people that have small form factor PCs or PCs with small power supplies in general. Would be great for anybody interested in building a small form factor gaming computer, or Any regular Joe that wants to get into PC gaming with a quick upgrade to their standard Walmart computer.

Actually you could manually install the official driver w/o relying on third party ones. I myself own a rtx3060m and all you need to do is to extract the official driver, look for the location in which the .inf files is resided and manually install it. The catch is when prompted with a long list of nvidia graphic card models, do not select the rtx gpus, but instead select the specific model "gtx 1660 mobile" and install it. After successfully install, repeat the above mentioned steps but this time select your correct graphic model, the "rtx 3060m", after which you should be able to play any games normally with rtx specific functionalities and even install gfe. To upgrade it, just wipe the driver with ddu in safe mode and repeat the manual installation.

Cards like that - as in, Aliexpress Mobile to Desktop chips - are very interesting choice tho for people scared about modded / unofficial drivers... go with mobile RX 6600M or RX 6700M - since AMD mobile modded cards will work with official AMD drivers without any issue :)

The 3060m makes more sense since it actually has more cuda cores than the desktop version

I'm glad you enjoyed testing it out mate, and that's great to hear it didn't black screen on you! It would crash maybe after 2 hours, or I would get lucky and it would run for a few days without crashing. But any crashes are unstable enough for me to not want to use it. Really interesting card though and great video, cheers :).

The second R in RRR is "reuse", and it's great to see that this hardware gets a second lease on life instead of winding up in a landfill or dissolved in acid to make up part of a new GPU.

Love your content, always an eyebrow raiser! This was a definite wtf and so very interesting you looked into it. Legend! Hope we start seeing more random stuff like this in the market.

This content is absolutely captivating! I'm completely enamored by it!

Legend! Thanks so much for reviewing this it was going for £210 on AliExpress last time I checked

i saw that exact listing a week ago on aliexpress. i am confident a niche like this can grow: low power laptop gpus on a desktop card? it sound perfect for a low wattage setup!

I personally love seeing these desktop converted mobile gpus and their performance with additional pci-e power connector on it.

never clicked so fast in a video. You should do more content about obscure hardware like this, its my favorite type of content, unique and useful

Love how the box says "High temperature" 😂At least they're honest!

Notification gang. We love some RGinHD on a weekend.

You also need to start comparing cards like these to other cards, so we get an idea about relative performance !!

I liked how you stuck on "High Temperature" on the box xD

When swapping different laptop gpus into laptops, you have to inf mod the drivers. I did it with my dell precision 7530 when I upgraded the gpu. I wonder if that could be used with these if you don't trust the frankendriver.

one thing i noticed with these laptop turned desktop cards is that if you use GPU-Z to examine it, the Bus ID Box will have a proper PCI Vendor designation, but the Device ID section will more than likely be 0000-0000 which is why official drivers won't work, these cards have had their firmware(?) or VBIOS(?) modified by whatever company is putting them out

Would be nice to compare side by side with a desktop 3070 to see the performance difference.

thats really impressive tbh wasnt expecting much

Back in the day I bought an ATI 9600 mobile on an AGP card. I put a bigger heatsink on it and the GPU could be overclocked over 50% from stock. Unfortunately I could only get around 20MHZ or so extra on the memory speed, so the performance gains were limited. I still have it. I put it in a dual Xeon Socket 604 Asus board that could also hit an absurd 50%+ overclock using ClockGen and disabling Hyperthreading. It's been a few years since I last used it considering it eats electricity and can't do that much compared to even a quad core Intel Atom, but it was a fun machine 18 years ago.

Certainly interesting, I would love to see an in-depth video or just a read on how they manage the vBios and such. Personally, I wouldn't buy as a primary Gpu because of the lack of official drivers and how that may affect the overall Nvidia feature set. But still interesting.

This could have some premise for people who have power limitations. Some pre built systems might have whacky cases or psu form factors, so a card between a 3060ti and 3070 that sits at about 100-110W is not a bad idea.

It would be interesting to see these frankenstein Versions tested against both the Laptop and the Desktop versions.

I'd get one depending on the price. If it's significantly cheaper I'd give it a shot. I'd like to see you compare one of these to regular card.

Love the efficiency.

Good thing Radeon mobile gpu is that they work just fine with official drivers such as rx6600m would love to see a 6700m one day

This just made me think how MXM could have been. Lots of mini PCs lately, imagine if they have a standardized mobile GPU slot

I saw one of these mobile chips on a 40 series card in another video…not sure if it was yours or another KZfaqr but these cards are a sweet deal ngl🔥 also efficient on energy

it will be interesting to see how the reliability of these cards are going forward

Will the modified cards be compatible with the kraken g12 cooling bracket? If so, maybe it might result in a bit better performance.

2:46 what is that Frankenstein mess of cables lol

Lovely do some more of these gpus

1:30 "Far more, simpeler"... that jars. Great video though!

Is there any overclocking potential with this card? Given that it only consumes about a 100W, some gains might be had if it can be pushed to the 120-150W TDP that other similar desktop cards run at.

I use the amernimezone drivers and they work fine on my radeon vii. I run mine at 2000mhz overclock and have no issues running games at 2k or 4k high depending on the game. I generally do turn shadows and clouds down to medium though and motion blur is always turned off. Sometimes fog is on medium as well due to how demanding it is in some games. textures and texture filtering are always on ultra due to the cards insane memory bandwidth. I get that the drivers and card your using are a differ case scenario though

The amd franken cards can use official drivers supposedly. The 6600m for around 120-140usd are a great deal

As long as it works and the price is right, don't mind using that graphics card. Have also seen listings of laptop cpus that have been shipped as desktops too, but never actually used one though.

The first things I look for in any new GPU I'm buying is thick material and high temperature. This seems perfect.

Id definitely use something like that as an egpu since i don't feel like buying another pc / laptop anymore. Especially now that minisforum doesn't seem to be bringing back the nucxi7.

Interesting card, very similar to a 4060 in terms of power usage, how would it compare in terms of performance given its almost £100 cheaper?

I have the RX 6600M from the same company since october last year, working like a charm. The Radeon "mobile-to-desktop" chinese cards make more sense than nVidia's because they use the stock AMD drivers no problem, so the issue of uncertainty of updates for the hacked drivers is completely avoided. The only real gripe is that an early year AMD driver removed the ability for tuning the card, especially the fan curve. I had been using MorPowerTool plus a custom fan curve to make the card work more silently, but that update removed my abiity to do so (it also blocks the possibility to adjust fan curve from any external application). Luckily you can resolve that by using the Pro drivers, which do allow for GPU tuning like usual. So far no news from AMD, so I think it was an intended change and it seems to have affected all mobile GPUs, not just these weird chinese cards. At the moment the deal made a hell lot of sense, I got it for 200 USD (shipping included) while the RX 6600 was like 400 USD in my country. The fun part is that the RX 6600M has the exact same core as the desktop GPU and is at most 3% slower, unlike other mobile versions

0:39 ah yes, high temperature. definitely a feature i want on my gpu

These could be AMAZING for Mini (Micro?) ATX builds! Imagine the possibilities with a low-power gpu like this

Did you try the laptop drivers from NVIDIA? I wonder why it wouldn't install normally, I guess the code had to be messed with the add the display and power ports?

Nice video ! Just I was wondering why don't you use dlss since the most of the users will play with it ?

I can't believe the box says "High temperature" 🤣🤣

This card is amazing given that the price is correct ;) with carefull undervolt i've managed 12000+ gpu score in Timespy and a bit higher than 2800 in the latest Steel Nomad benchmark. One important note though.. Measuring a bunch of these cards in mining seems that the real consumption (when says 115w..) is 155-160w ;), they way under report the watt they consume, still safe with the 1x 8pin

i got a rx580 from a "toastedbros" video and honestly can't fault it sadly the driver support is stopping real soon maybe this will help me and great to see the community doing there own drivers!

Would love to get a 3070ti m like that!

Prices were fluctuating a lot for Ali graphics cards the last few months. I was checking constantly so I could hit buy at its lowest. I was hoping to grab another card recently but after 11.11 everything shot up $20-30.

I actually have a crossfire pair of XFX HD4850m cards. Didn't even know they were a thing. However that also explains SOOO MUCH why XFX got themselves such a bad rap sheet with their HD4800 series rebrand cards. They were using mobile parts!!

i saw this listing yesterday, i'm now very tempted

“High temp” is a highlight feature lmao

I bought a Rx 6700m desktop variant a while back worked fine even has official driver support still using in my kids PC

Got an Rx 6600m on a desktop pcb from the same seller/vendor a couple of months ago for 170€ which was a steal at the time. The card arrived and looked completely new to my eyes and the build quality was great, all metal and stuff with with heatpipes. It worked great, never going above 65°C, great performance. After a month or two my PSU exploded for unknown reasons and the card died as well a couple of weeks after I got a new PSU. The seller wouldn't send me a new one, they insisted that I sent them this one for repairs which would literally last months and cost me a lot of money. Had it repaired two times in my country for almost as much money as I had paid for it and after that it died again and I threw it in the trash. Since most reviews were extremely positive, I guess mine was an isolated case and maybe had to do with the first psu.

Is it just me or is this card doing incredibly well for only around 100W of power consumption? I remember reading that the desktop 3070 is rated for up to 240W. Doesn't seem like this 3070m is held back much despite the low power figure, does it beat the 4060 in raw performance?

I'm curious how it works with the linux drivers. Does the official ones work or is magic required for linux as well?

Please include Alan Wake 2 in the benchmarks if possible. Good video as always.

Really cool!!

Obviously the next step is for this to be paired with one of those Erying motherboards with laptop CPUs soldered onto the board. For the full desktop with laptop processors experience.

Hey, it would be nice to see a comparison between this 3070 and a desktop 3070/3060 :D

"High temperature" advertised on the box brings back memories of Nvidia Fermi GPUs and all the memes associated with it. Hot hot, the way it's meant to be cooked!

I personally own a 2060 mobile GPU which doesn't require a 3rd party driver (but its installation process is a bit troublesome). However, I notice that the power figures aren't that reliable. When I run it in its undervolted profile, it says it consumed 37W, and with the fan running at 30% rpm it stays at 45-ish degrees Celsius. When I run it in its overclocked profile, it says it is drawing 54W, but with a 100% fan speed it still reached 64 degrees Celsius. Maybe an alternative method of measuring power draw is more accurate than reading just from the msi afterburner overlay

Maybe this could be used for low wattage servers for rendering? But I guess the custom drivers wont let that happen.

Some sort of reference against a desktop 3070 or 3060Ti would have been very helpful!

There is a way where you can actually edit the driver's files where original Nvidia drivers can be installed

Laptop chip being cooled desktop cooler. What a mix

I want to see them making Low profile desktop gpu's out of rtx 4050 would be so cool a efficient gpu which uses not that much power in a desktop

I wonder if it uses the full x16 PCIe

wonder if you could flash the bios to a 3070 / 3070ti or 3070m

Still does the job. RTX 3070 laptop ran all the games I had perfectly fine a few years ago.

Would love to see a Falkenstine card come out in desktop Low Profile GPU, make a great combo with minisforum ITX + Flex PSU for an sff low power build.

the mobile radeon cards such as the 6600m seem to have official support so I would look at those instead

Any spec details vs the stock 3070, is it cut down cores etc?

Interesting. Idk if I would but the options are nice. 6600M also looks interesting 🤔.

could you review a front bay/panel 5.25in speaker from china? im interested on how it sounds

0:41 I almost choke on my own food the moment I heard high temperatures 😂😂

i have a radeon RX 6600M been using it for more than a year now and its working like a charn same performance as a regular rx6600 for a fraction of the price (around 150 usd) ! and also the official amd drivers works fine .

When you connect a ups backup windows kinda acts like a laptop, I wonder if there's a way to get windows and nVidia your desktop is a laptop

Also can you try using mobile 3070 drivers?

i have a 3070 mobile laptop. i moddified it to pull 230 watts instead of 120. it went from low end desktop 3060 performance to high end 3060ti performance.. curious to see how stupidly high these could overclock in these configs

I would consider the Frankenstein M cards for SFF builds if stock drivers worked. I don't want to risk losing future compatibility and driver support.

very surprising performance!

Do the proprietary Linux drivers have the same limitation?

Would've loved to see a comparison to a normal 3070. Still, seems like a surprisingly capable card at less than half the power consumption of the desktop version.

I have been using two of these GPUs in two separate PCs for the past year and a bit with zero problems and they are great value. As many have pointed out, this is personal preference and you always run a risk by downloading anything from the internet. Also, the driver mods are simple .inf edits with a small mod added to give support for easy anti cheat for those who play online games - that’s literally all. Even though it is a subscription (approximately £1) for new drivers - I lead a busy lifestyle and it’s simply convenient for me 😊 There are also clone AMD cards as well [but they use standard drivers]

don't you think using dlss/fsr at 1080p makes the game look low-res ?

I wonder if these cards work well on Linux... (I´m in the process of switching from Windows 10 to Linux right now...)

Has idle temps while gaming and most probably better performance than an actual laptop one which would throttle down in a few mins due to heat

I have the rtx 3070m and you can overclock the chip really good. I stay about 2,060 mhz with 90 watts consumed( at115 watts its only 2090-2100 mhz).

can i use for editing and live streaming using this gpu?

I like the idea putting mobile chips in a desktop graphics card.

In my Student days i definitly would have bought someting like this now i just spend the extra for the normal desktop version. Convinience over saving a little money for me now.

I personally using other obscure GPU Sapphire GPRO X080 * mining edition RX 6700 10GB no display outputs - need some registry editing + iGPU for Win 10 and Win 11 on some config working without of it, sometimes they pop on ebay.

I would like to see low-profile versions of these GPUs

Hello, can you test the 40hx?

you can modificate the original driver just using a notepad or some text editor

whats the life expectancy for these aliexpress gpus?

Those drivers are literally downloading an .exe off some guy on the Internet. No chance