Gadgetory

so I'm gonna go ahead and talk about something today that I have not talked about since CES since my first time getting hands-on with it a little bit late to the party but that's how I kind of like to do things sometimes I'm of course talking about RTX based laptops and obviously we were fortunate enough to have Origin PC send me one and it even has my name on it so we're we talking about a lot of things with this laptop today because like I said this is my first time getting hands-on with it I saw it at CES and by it I mean like 16 different models of r-tx based laptops from a lot of different companies origin PC was obviously one that was there we also took a look at their booth and they had this on showcase as well but we're gonna we're gonna kind of talk about some of the physical aspects we're doing some performance testing temperatures acoustics all that sort of stuff so obviously this is not the way they ship because I don't think they'd sell many if they sold them with my name on it but this is part of like one of four or five different ways you can customize it so what we're looking at right here is the evo 16 dash S and the reason why they call it the evo 16 is because it's a 16 point one inch screen on a fourteen point nine inch body kind of like me a big head well I got a big body too but whatever that's besides the point I digress so the this is there UV printing right here so you can do UV printing with custom designs and logos as they did right here they put my name on it and then sort of spice it up a little bit cuz I don't really have a very attractive logo so they added this triangle and stuff you can also get laser etching you can get hydro dipping you can get O metallic paint that's it they're really known for their really nice glittery metallic paint on a lot of their cases so you can get a custom of course there's an extra fee for that but this is the UV printing which is kind of nice so this is not a rap it's not gonna peel off this is a very well bonded UV printing that is done on here so this is a 16 point one inch IPS 1080p 144 Hertz monitors or panel I should say it's not really a monitor so that obviously makes this very geared towards professional workflows as well as a gaming because the IPS is going to give you that color accuracy but obviously the fluid motion of 144 Hertz it's going to give you super silky smooth game frame rates but the cool thing is the fact that it's a fourteen point nine inch laptop with a 16 1 inch screen it measures point 7 8 inches thick at its thickest point so it's not even an inch tall and it's only 4.5 pounds so it's extremely portable it feels very solid in the hands it's not like creaky I mean flex why's a little bit of twist in there but not a lot I mean I don't think it's anything that's abnormal so for connections it's got a full size USB 3.0 we've got 2 USB 3.1 C's a mini DisplayPort HDMI power cable on the other side here we've got obviously a headphone and microphone jack another USB 3.0 SuperSpeed a card reader and a LAN jack right there and of course a Kensington lock they've actually got this little plug in here so that dirt and debris doesn't get in there when you're not using the SD cards that's kind of nice one of the things I like to check with laptops and call me an apple and I'm not really but one of the things I loved about Mac boats when I used Mac books was the hinge was always perfect in terms of being able to lift the lid but not tilt the whole computer back but then having it be able to rest in a position you put it without sagging or drooping and that's exactly what they've done right here so the evo 16s you can see you it'll stay in any position you put it in without sagging but I can open and close it with it on the table without it folding back if you think about how perfect the tension has to be to achieve that that's actually pretty impressive I'm sure we've all tried to open a laptop lid that folds the whole computer back or you have to put your hand there and open it up or you kind of set it where you want it and then it just sort of like sags a little bit hasn't been a problem with laptops in a while but that's something I have experienced in the past with dealing with like cheap working you know lap books or lap tops well the size of lap book is I think it was HP probook it's the one I'm specifically thinking of and that's the one I had for working it stuck that it was heavy had a huge bezel speakers were in the top piece so it just was heavy and it would kind of droop back on me or if I picked up the laptop to move it like this as soon as I picked it up the screen would just against the hinge and eventually the hinge ended up breaking so I don't see that being something that would happen with this because I did I did kind of screw out this a little bit and I'm kind of flailing it around and as you can see it it will move a little bit but you've really got to sort of force it to do that but if you're just moving it around like on your desk and stuff as you can see it's just scaring me you can trust me guys it's not going to fall so there is that but I mean in terms of the the compact format of it being a 16 point 1 inch IPS 144 Hertz display and only coming in at 4.5 pounds and 0.7 eight inches high just over three quarters of an inch it definitely gets the the award in my opinion in terms of like kind of cramming a lot of stuff into a small package obviously because there's a lot of hardware in here it's an Intel i7 87 58 which is a six core 12 thread processor but this also has an Nvidia 28 Emacs Q so it's the biggest laptop GPU that they make which can generate some heat and although it falls under the max Q specifications which determines how loud it can be but you have this power draw and all that stuff is going to be it can still generate a pretty decent amount of heat you know with those tension cores and all that sort of stuff so ventilation is obviously a big fourth eye on this design so we have some these are actually speakers right here that down fire in the front talk about those we've got lots of ventilation intake on the bottom we've got some exhaust on the back and what I like about the exhaust facing away from you is when there are some on the sides but I believe these are intakes is when exhaust kind of comes up the side and out the back it tends to sort of still heat up the chassis and kind of get warm around your hands the other thing we're going to be checking is whether or not heat is gonna be escaping through the keyboard because that can be uncomfortable too especially in gaming sessions if you're not using a map of mouse and a keyboard is heat will start to build up on the hot spots where the components are and if that heat starts coming through the keyboard then it can get very uncomfortable especially where your palm rest is so we'll be looking at that sort of stuff too but we're testing two different titles here for the RT X features on the laptop to see how it performs in a mobile format battlefield 5 because it uses ray tracing for reflections and then Metro Exodus which uses raytrace super global illumination so two different types of technologies that are being used with the RT or the RT course so obviously D LSS is on on this as well which is a feature we want to take advantage of that way those tensor cores are doing something and not just sitting there but as you can see right here with the 2080 and I need to turn some of the music down here it's not quiet by any means but I think you're asking a lot for silence and a 20 80 max Q and six core 12 thread 8750 cpu so if you're worried about acoustics we can just start off by saying wear headphones honestly but I can tell you that they've done a really good job at heat reflection it's a little warm right here and by a little warm I mean it's lukewarm it's not uncomfortable by any means it's cool over here cool to the touch again a little bit of warmth right here on the WASD keys but not uncomfortable by any means I've had some gaming laptops that actually utilized the keyboard for ventilation which is bad obviously so they've done a really good job here at redirecting the heat obviously there's gonna have heat pipes and stuff in here but heat rejection is really good on the areas that you touch so here we are whoa ok that's I've a band-aid on my finger so I didn't feel that I was pushing the shoot button that's called a negligent discharge I accidentally fired the gun - all right so in terms of the options here for video we've got it set to the LSS goes off what the heck man we want that on ray tracing is on high our TX is on obviously so everything's looking pretty good here quality we were on high let's go to extreme just cuz I'm curious okay so with everything maxed out at least on the extreme on the cool quality 55 FPS 54 it's not terrible but obviously we don't want to play like that so let's go back to a realistic setting I think I'm gonna go back to high like I had it the LSS is on ray tracing is AA on high so yeah we're gonna go back to that now one of the things to keep in mind with the max q 2080 is the fact that it's not going to be running the full speed like the desktop plus it's also not equivalent spectra spec as the desktop variant so you can see we're running at fourteen hundred and ten to fourteen hundred and fifty-five at a keep swapping filters because remember this is a radioactive area so I want to see if we can overclock this slightly because we do have MSI Afterburner and we do have these sliders available No all right so we're running about 1530 now you can see the CPU runs fairly warm though high to mid to high 80s but only the GPU temperatures oh that's pretty impressive given the fact that like I said this is just over a quarter of an inch thick of a laptop if you think about the actual space inside of it these temperatures are pretty pretty good all right yeah no kidding I mean look at it yeah I mean the core clock came down slightly the temps are almost 70 on the GPU but I will fight them with RTX yeah it seems like 69 is probably over 70 that's probably where the the temperature control really starts to kick in the CPU on the other hand it's like just who cares 90 see 92 see in a game that's crazy I'm gonna try something here though I'm gonna prop up the back of the laptop like with the charger brick i'ma see if it improves at all because we only have a few mil at couple millimeters underneath for it to grab air you know I mean like this makes me wonder what a laptop stand improve temps at all I mean look the GPU temps came down a couple right and because the GPU temps came down out of 70 that came up slightly this seems to be proved a little bit because look okay so allowing for more air flow of makes better temperatures who would have thought the jackal is a jackal jackal the jackal jackal alright dx12 is enabled VXR is enabled BL SS is enabled dynamic range is on auto I this is on HDR monitor upscaling is on auto memory restriction is on and then we are on max fidelity all right so now battlefield 5 like I said uses an entirely different RTX implementation this is reflections like as you can see are here in the water and stuff where is why we using bad feel v like I said is this is using a whole different way of abusing this RT course so instead of using it on global illumination the way the light bounces and stuff battlefield 5 is using it for just the reflections so it's a lot easier to run that's why we're seeing a higher core clock that's why we're seeing lower temperatures on both the CPU and the GPU and higher frame rates as a whole you can see your hair GPU usage kind of goes between the 80s and the 90s which makes me wonder if we might be seeing a little bit of a CPU bottleneck that could also be power limit because it is max-q it could also be temperature there's a lot of different things it could be as you can see this is extremely smooth and responsive Rotterdam is a really good map to test with because of just all the shinies temperatures are also keeping the fans from having to ramp up to max speed which means it's a little bit less intrusive but gaming on a laptop is never going to be a quiet experience so that's something you need to keep in mind we are seeing very respectable frame rates here on a laptop with real-time ray tracing whether you call it a gimmick or not you have to admit that this is a this is pretty impressive that we are doing this in a thin form-factor laptop I get more FPS when I'm dead the irony oh I'm gonna spawn on sticky monkey is that Nick it's stuck to me ah get up I'm on fire now he turned in a hit his front armor as you can see it battlefield 5 without except for the fact that I suck on my own laptop is yeah obviously very very playable so if we go in and turn off though let's just turn off the extra feet like the r-tx stuff because I mean it's only a couple of games that you can truly take advantage of it on right so let's go ahead and turn dx12 off which will turn off all that extra stuff and let's compare right we were getting 80s and 70s on RF yes let's see what we get now it's so obvious now how ugly the game is with ray tracing off I have to say although the FPS improved a little bit the core clock certainly improved we are seeing it's not as pretty as you would expect and I think it's for me it's finally gotten to the point to where I'm starting to get spoiled by all the extra eye candy because once you turn it off it just looks flat it looks brighter yes yes is the same as it was with r-tx on so that brings up a good question does DL SS at 1080 P actually it does look fixed now but that wasn't even the point of today's video but it's something worth mentioning DL SS has improved enough now with all the data it's quote sort of collected in their own deep learning supercomputer to where it looks better with the LS s on than it does off although but I can't really say that though because I have to see you have to have r-tx on as well to the LSS and battlefield 5 but I can tell you this with this setup with max fidelity on ultra with RT X off in my opinion looks worse than RT X on medium settings with DL SS at the same frame rate so that that's the thing so I sort of prompted us to kind of send me a check here what it's like in Metro with RT X and stuff off so once we turn this off I'm curious as to what's gonna happen with our app yes okay look thank you the FPS now doesn't really look that different so this is what gaming would be like you know in Metro Exodus with those features turned off right if you just want to play a standard game very snappy fps and near the hundreds and the core clocks still coming down but the FPS is still great so one thing we didn't talk about though was professional workflow or on-the-go editing so basically we took a 14 minute but just about 14 and 30 was the video length in 4k and we took the project file and we rendered it on our desktop rendering rig upstairs which is a 9900 K and it has a quick sync enabled so we did the same thing on this I remember this is an 87 50 H which is a 6 core 12 thread versus an 8 core 16 thread on the desktop this rendered the project in 14 minutes and 10 seconds a 14 minute 30-second 4k video rendered in 14 minutes 10 seconds so just under real time with this laptop put into perspective the overclocked 9900 K upstairs which is running about 5 gigahertz with twice as much memory of 32 gigabytes of memory and a full scale desktop 20 ATT I did it in 10 minutes and 30 seconds so obviously that was about 30% new 35% - faster but this is a laptop versus a full-blown desk and this was able to render a 4k video in real time and that was upscaling from 1080p which is a little bit more of a difficult workflow which means if we were dealing with 4k native resolution footage then it would have been even faster so obviously professional workflow on this is also pretty damn impressive so once again a huge thank you to Origin PC for sending me the first 20 series r-tx based laptop that I've gotten a chance to get kind of hands-on with other than being at a venue like CES oh it's very lockdown and we can't talk about things like temperatures and stuff because we can't see any of it so obviously we got to get fully hands-on and immersive with this so if you guys are interested in learning more about this particular machine or any other lineup of laptops and desktops of Origin PC offers make sure to check the link down the description below as always what do you guys think about this tell us what you think down in the comments and we will see you guys in the next no I just like a stuff