The bad about 3060 8GB vs 3060 12gb (but also the 6gb exists) is that with the same name you sell GPUs with big performance difference, as they were the same. Not even speaking about the eight 3050 variants out there. At least the "S" moniker tells you that the 7700S is a different beast from a 7700XT.
The problem of having bigger brackets for the TDP is that the performance difference with the same name will vary more. What is the performance experience a laptop user will have with a 4080 50W? And you will be sure that these laptops will be sold as having a "4080" on board, with a price set accordingly.
Finally, if one should look at the specs of the laptop he wants to buy, what is the difference?
Why with AMD is "confusing" and with Nvidia is "good"? Both publish their specs.
Why 4 models based on the same GPU are bad when every single model is identified in specs by the name, when in Nvidia case you can get the same name and have different specs or different chips, and it is good?
To me, both are misleading but Nvidia is misleading more, especially with those power brackets set so wide.
I just found out that not every shop automatically shows the amount of Vram and TGP for Nvidia laptops. My shop luckily shows both, so I don't have to check anything more and this affected my opinion(stance). This doesn't mean I wouldn't check out reviews, but first I can choose a few laptops which I like and then buy based on tests.
3060 8GB and 3060 12GB are desktop models. If there is no mention of VRAM, but the name is the same, then customer can make a mistake and he loses 15% of performance in this case.
If you think about It, this is a much smaller problem than what could happen in laptops.
If they don't mention TGP then you can buy RTX 3050 35W but expect performance of RTX 3050 80W, this way the customer can loose up to 39% of performance.
RTX 4050-4070 have 35-115W so It's likely even worse.
You have 7700S vs 7600M XT so they should be different.
You have 7600S vs 7600M so they should be different.
Are they different? They are actually not, they are exactly the same. Chip, speed of memory, amount of memory. There is not even difference in TGP, because those "S" ones are already included in M models. AMD should have released only 7600M and 7600M XT, the S variant doesn't have a reason to exist in this case.
I think ADA laptop has better naming than Ampere laptop had, but I would probably bring back M(mobile) and that TGP is a problem.
If you don't check the actual TGP then you will loose more performance with Nvidia than AMD.
I don't have an idea how to include TGP in the name, but I am not against different TGPs, even If It's a lot.
I don't like N33's names. If there "needs" to be 4 models, then I would change It to this along with TGP, so there won't be a situation where lower numbered model would outperfom the higher numbered one.
RX 7600S -> RX 7600M 50-65W
RX 7600M -> RX 7600M XT 70-85W
RX 7700S -> RX 7650M 90-105W
RX 7600M XT -> RX 7650M XT 110-125W
M - mobile
**00 - cut die
**50 - uncut die
XT - higher TGP
I think this reply should be ok with you, right?