My new 17.3" Ryzen laptop

michty_me · 22 Aug 2020 at 10:27

After my Asus laptop packed in after 6 months ownership, I've ended up purchasing a XMG Core 17 laptop.

The spec is:

Ryzen 4800H
RTX 2060 (Refresh + Boosted)
16GB Crucial 3200 memory
95% sRGB 144Hz IPS panel

Any benchmarks I should run to see how it performs?

michty_me · 22 Aug 2020 at 13:04

Some benchmark scores

Firestrike

Timepsy

Cinebench 15 and 20

Geekbench 4

Geekbench 5

Deleted member 2277 · 23 Aug 2020 at 13:38

Hi mate, how good is the cooling on this? Is it noisy?

michty_me · 23 Aug 2020 at 14:14

Deleted member 2277 said:
Hi mate, how good is the cooling on this? Is it noisy?

It can get loud at 100% fans like any laptop but having a quick game of warzone earlier seen temps of around 59deg for the GPU. Can't remember what the CPU was but I'll test further.

benparker · 23 Aug 2020 at 15:21

How much did you pay?

michty_me · 23 Aug 2020 at 15:47

benparker said:
How much did you pay?

I didn't need any SSD as had at home so cost me £1080 which came with a 2 year warranty too.

Lokken86 · 24 Aug 2020 at 12:16

What games do you have to test it?

MOOGLEYS · 24 Aug 2020 at 13:55

Play the new flight sim see how that runs. Other than that just play some games and enjoy don't spend all your time running benchmarks.

michty_me · 24 Aug 2020 at 14:29

I mainly play FPS games like battlefield or modern warfare/warzone. Always on the hunt for new games to play.

chipps101 · 24 Aug 2020 at 16:42

How did you get it so cheap?

Even without a ssd your listed config is over £1300 on their website :eek:

michty_me · 24 Aug 2020 at 17:46

chipps101 said:
How did you get it so cheap?

Even without a ssd your listed config is over £1300 on their website

When I signed up to their newsletter, there was a €50 off code. Also when I purchased, due to Germany's vat changing, they reimbursed the customer the difference. I also sold my game code bundle I received when ordering with the RTX card.

labbby · 24 Aug 2020 at 17:49

nice lookling laptop, im really interested in the new ryzen laptops.. get benching

michty_me · 24 Aug 2020 at 18:19

labbby said:
nice lookling laptop, im really interested in the new ryzen laptops.. get benching

It's pretty impressive to be fair!
Really liking the performance of it.
One thing I've noticed is that I seem to get higher fps when running in office/quiet mode than I do in boosted mode.

chipps101 · 24 Aug 2020 at 21:46

michty_me said:
It's pretty impressive to be fair!
Really liking the performance of it.
One thing I've noticed is that I seem to get higher fps when running in office/quiet mode than I do in boosted mode.

Maybe it has a set limit for combined wattage between the cpu and gpu and while in that mode the cpu will be running less wattage so it pumps it into the gpu.

You could see what afterburner is saying the wattages are in each mode to see if it is.

michty_me · 24 Aug 2020 at 22:01

I'm led to believe you can't monitor the wattage correctly through software, it has to be done through a watt meter as a hardware mod has been done.

chipps101 · 24 Aug 2020 at 23:35

Oh yeah it's one of those electro boost models.

Afterburner will still tell you the cpu wattage and if it's a lot lower in office mode it probably will be shifting wattage to the gpu I'd say.

Shante · 26 Aug 2020 at 19:23

Nice Laptop

michty_me · 26 Aug 2020 at 23:06

Been hitting some games with it and it appears my GPU temps don't go much above 65deg. Pretty happy with that.

I'll need to try a CPU&GPU stress test to see what happens.