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aming laptops are complex devices with many areas where
a machine can excel or disappoint, so a robust set of test
procedures is required to discover which systems are worth
buying. They’re gaming laptops, of course, so we’ve deployed our gaming
tests to find out which machines can handle top titles at solid speeds, and
to discover whether laptops can handle ray tracing and deliver the frame
rates required to handle screens with high refresh rates.
We’ve tested those panels with an X-Rite i1 Display Pro colorimeter in
order to see which screens have the best contrast, colour accuracy and
gamut coverage levels. Many gaming laptops are also used for work,
which is no surprise given their powerful components. In order to evaluate
their suitability, we’ve run our application benchmarks so we can assess
their capabilities in both single and multi-threaded workloads. We also ran
SSD benchmarks to find out which drives offer the fastest performance.
Meanwhile, our tests cover both gaming and work scenarios (using
loops of Unigine and PCMark respectively), and we stress-test each
machine in gaming and work situations to find out if any of these machines
will prove too hot or too loud for comfort. Temperatures are measured
using CoreTemp, Prime95 and GPU-Z, and we subtract the ambient air
temperature from these figures to provide a delta T result. To obtain the
final scores, we carefully judge each machine’s performance, design,
hardware and value, and add the scores for each of those parts together.Contents
Acer Predator Triton 500 / p51
Alienware m17 / p52
Chillblast Phantom 17 / p53
HP Omen 15 / p54
MSI GS75 Stealth 8SG-046UK / p56
PC Specialist Vortex IX / p58
Razer Blade 15 / p59
Scan 3XS Vengeance GL 2070 / p60Results graphs / p61