54 PCWorld NOVEMBER 2019REVIEWS MSI GE65 RAIDER
bass response but also
tended to be thin
midrange. Frankly, a
decent Bluetooth
portable speaker
probably sounds
better than all three
laptops to our ears.
Don’t be
disappointed too
much—there’s only so
much space you have
to work with and these
are performance
laptops, not boom
boxes to sling over
your shoulder. Let’s just
say the GE65 Raider
sounds better than
thinner and smaller laptops and be happy
with it.CPU PERFORMANCE
Our first test is Maxon’s Cinebench R15. It’s a
popular benchmark to measure CPU
performance by rendering a 3D model. While
few people actually do 3D modeling, the test
scales very well with CPU core count, which
means the more cores you feed it, the higher
the score. Also, it lets us test a system’s
performance on a single thread (core) or
multi-threaded.
Starting with multi-threaded performance:
Against every single 6-core Intel CPU, theCore i9-9880H in the GE65 can’t be
touched. The GE65 Raider also comes in just
ahead of the 8-core Ryzen 7-based Predator
Helios 500.
What the GE65 Raider can’t compete with
are the large-bodied gaming laptops such as
the Acer Predator Helios 700 with the same
CPU but more cooling and power, or the
Alienware Area 51m, which uses a desktop
8-core Core i9-9900K inside. A midsize
laptop losing to large laptops isn’t much of a
surprise, but the GE65 also slightly
underperforms against the Dell XPS 15 with
the same CPU too.
Why? Well, there’s more nuance here,Cinebench R15 is a good workload to approximate multi-core performance.Alienware Area 51m R1
(Core i9-9900K)
Acer Predator Helios 700
(Core i9-9880H) KB Open
M(Core i9-9880H)SI GE65 Raider
Alienw(Core i7-9750H)are M15 R2
Dell G7 (Core i7-9750H)
HP Om(Core i7-9750H) Defaulten 2XS
MSI GS75 Stealth
(Core i7-8750H)
Alienware M 15
(Core i7-8750H)
Acer Predator Triton 500
(Core i7-8750H)Cinebench R15 nT
(Multi threads)LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE2,0301,2041,6001,1581,8011,1801,2381,139
1,108