As we’ve seen in other reviews, laptops that use Nvidia GeForce MX GPUs easily
outpace laptops with lowly integrated graphics—but they are just as easily
outpaced by gaming laptops with GeForce GTX or RTX silicon. Casual and
browser-based games won’t be a problem, but you’ll have to be careful with
anything more ambitious.
Next up is another synthetic graphics test, this time from Unigine Corp. Like
3DMark, the Superposition test renders and pans through a detailed 3D scene
and measures how the system copes. In this case, it’s rendered in the company’s
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the starting line, while the GeForce MX systems work up to a walking pace.
BATTERY RUNDOWN TEST
After fully recharging the laptop, we put the machine in power-save mode (as
opposed to balanced or high-performance mode) where available and make a
few other battery-conserving tweaks in preparation for our unplugged video
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and volume at 100 percent until the system conks out.