PC World - USA (2019-11)

58 PCWorld NOVEMBER 2019

REVIEWS MSI GE65 RAIDER

outperforms all but the

most powerful (and

much larger) gaming

laptops.

3DMark Fire Strike,

however, is fairly old at

this point and

measures only DirectX

11 performance. To see

how the laptop

performs in DirectX 12,

we run 3DMark Time

Spy. Again, we focus in

on just the GPU

performance. While

the older-gen GeForce

GTX 1080 in a large

Alienware outpaces

the GE65 Raider in

DX11 performance, the

script is flipped here,

with the RTX 2070 in

front of the GTX 1080.

The only laptops faster

than the GE65 Raider

are based on RTX 2080

cards, so no real shame

at all.

Our last test using

3DMark is the Port

Royal test, which

measures GPU

performance in

Microsoft’s DirectX

In DX11 mode, the GeForce GTX 1080 laptops can outperform the GE65

Raider, but we’ll note that only the 17-inch laptops can do so.

Alienware Area 51m R1

(Core i9-9900K)

Acer Predator Helios 700

(Core i9-9880H) KB Open

M(Core i7-8750H)SI GS75 Stealth

M(Core i9-9880H)SI GE65 Raider

Alienw(Core i7-8750H)are M 15

Acer Predator Triton 500 (Core i7-8750H)

Alienware M15 R2

(Core i7-9750H)

Dell G7

(Core i7-9750H)

HP Omen 2XS

(Core i7-9750H) Default

Rise of the Tomb Raider Very High

DX11 19x10 (Fps)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

162.5

106.2

122.4

91.1

145.8

92.2

112

82.3

56.6

Alienware Area 51m R1

(Core i9-9900K)

M(Core i9-9880H)SI GE65 Raider

M(Core i7-8750H)SI GS75 Stealth

Alienw(Core i7-8750H)are M 15

Acer Predator Triton 500 (Core i7-8750H)

Dell G7

(Core i7-9750H)

Middle-earth: Shadows of Mordor

19x10 (Fps)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

197.2

120

149.7

153.7

116.6

131.4

The RTX 2070 is about the equal of a GTX 1080 on the desktop and we see

that reflected in Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor.