Real-World Gaming Tests: The synthetic tests above are helpful for
measuring general 3D aptitude, but it’s hard to beat full retail video games for
judging gaming performance. Far Cry 5 and Rise of the Tomb Raider are both
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system handles real-world gameplay at various settings. We run them at 1080p
resolution at the games’ medium and best image-quality settings (Normal and
Ultra for Far Cry 5 under DirectX 11, Medium and Very High for Rise of the
Tomb Raider under DirectX 12).
I’ll start with the basics. The Blade 15 and its Max-Q RTX 2080 Super push very
high frame rates in these games, which bodes well for AAA gaming on this
laptop. More-demanding modern titles will push that number lower, especially
if you aim to run advanced ray-tracing lighting settings (which only RTX GPUs
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Ultra quality presets (all at 100 percent render resolution), the 2020 Blade 15
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mouthwatering for hardcore players, and if you tend to play competitive games
on lower settings to amp up the frame rates, you can truly make use of the
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and varies by the person, the game, and their skill level. But the components
can live up to the presence of the 300Hz screen in practice.