CONFIGURATIONS: FAST GPUS AND SCREENS
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Looking at the specs, let’s start with the display. There
are two panel options for this Blade 15: a full HD
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resolution, it should be able to make use of its blistering
fast frame rate. We’ll see how it fares in the
performance section below.
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version of the Blade 15 Advanced Model is priced at
$2,299.99 with an Intel Core i7-11800H processor,
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attraction here, as the early 2021 models used 10th
Generation chips.
As for the
GeForce RTX
3070 versus 3080,
we’ve found
diminishing
returns with the
mobile RTX
30-Series.