and full size keyboard, not the stupid small keyboard with the useless (to me) number pad on the right side.AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Mobile Processors 35W - 45W+ H-Series Row 0 - Cell 0 minimalistic appearance so can still be used as a professional laptop in an office setting easily.

This laptop fulfilled 3 things I needed in a new 'gaming laptop'. I haven't used this for serious amounts of time for gaming so not sure what the thermal throttling looks like but the benefit of it being an AMD advantage machine (AMD gpu and cpu) is the CPU and GPU are constantly adjusting their tdp relative to each other, so the CPU can throttle down if a game isn't CPU heavy and the tdp headroom can go to the gpu. So the entire laptop body helps dissipate the heat. One of the ways they managed the weight and more efficient cooling is that the entire body of the laptop is aluminum, not plastic. How are the thermals/cooling? I'm impressed they crammed all of this into an affordable, thin 4.19 lb laptop but a little concerned about how thermals would be while gaming.Įven my work laptops for engineering have been over 5 lbs and don't even have a discrete GPU lol. In case it helps, here's a 45 game benchmark for the desktop counterparts since we don't have many good mobile benchmarks available (and mobile benchmarks are notoriously difficult to do properly).

8GB of VRAM for 1080p and 10-12GB of VRAM for 1440p seems to be the sweet spot for new releases. If considering similarly priced RTX 3060 laptops vs this, I'd choose this since the RTX 3060 mobile has weaker performance and is limited to 6GB of VRAM which doesn't cut it in many demanding new games, even at 1080p.

I'd also note that he includes several NVIDIA favored/sponsored titles in his test suite (Control, Metro Exodus, Fortnite). Since this specific laptop is fairly thin and light and doesn't use the full 135W power limit, it appears that a fully powered 6700m vs 3070 mobile would be closer. Interesting, good resource! He compared this exact laptop w/ 6700m vs a fully powered (125w) RTX 3070 laptop.

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