In terms of raw performance, perhaps. But I suspect given the quality of some ports some games will struggle running console-equivalent settings in a few years. That's why I was hoping for a bit of extra performance, to have some leeway.
Console games will always get special optimizations, but I don't expect console PC ports to get worse than they are now.
With DLSS 2.0 and significantly better ray tracing in a laptop, I'm sure even this Max-Q card will handily beat console performance most of the time, especially if Ray Tracing support keeps growing (Series X actually has slightly below RTX 2060 Super Ray tracing performance according to Digital Foundry's Watch Dogs Legion comparison). Of course, if MS' DirectML powered Super Resolution feature they are working with AMD on is successful, they may close the gap with DLSS somewhat.
Also, I should mention that the percentages in that article seem a bit off from my experience. I compared some of these numbers to Passmark, and according to that, the gap between 2080ti and 2080 performance is much smaller (i.e. better), than the gap between a 2070 and a 2070 max-Q.
Passmark Performance comparisons
2080 to 2080 max-Q - 28% dif
2080 ti to 2080 - 14% dif
2070 to 2070 max-q - 26% dif
Of course, unless you need a slim laptop, I'm sure the standard 3070 mobile card will perform even better, depending on the cooling system in the laptop itself, so perhaps wait for that. I'd still call a 14-24% performance difference between a desktop card which can afford much better cooling and a laptop Max-Q variant quite impressive. Given how much power the 3000 cards draw, I actually probably would have expected worse. This seems like it might be a better performance difference than the 2000 series had, and closer to the great performance of the GTX 10-series mobile cards. Assuming this article is correct, and this card actually does 2080-tier performance.
Also remember that while the consoles seem to be getting 2080-tier performance, thier actual real-world performance is probably a bit lower. The Radeon VII would probably be a better comparison.
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