OCTOBER 2019 • TECH ADVISOR 23REVIEWrespectively. There’s no discernible difference in this
rigorous test. If I had to guess, the Core i7-8750H and
Core i7-9750H are implemented into these laptops
in almost the exact same way, due to power and heat
restrictions.Thusyou’repayingforthenewerpart
withminimalreal-worldperformancebenefit.You’ll
seethesamein ourCinebenchresults,wherethe
G7 15 is beatenoutbyLenovo’sLegionY740with
aCorei7-8750H.
The GPU side is a bit better. The RTX 2060 is a
pretty well-known entity at this point. If you look at
the 3DMark FireStrike Extreme results, the RTX 2060
handily beats out both the GTX 1060 and the new half-
step upgrade, the GTX 1660 Ti. That said, it falls well
behind the performance of the GTX 1070, meaning
Nvidia didn’t quite manage one of those full-step jumps
between generations. And while the RTX 2070 Max-Q
makes for a mediocre ‘upgrade’ to the full-size GTX
1070, it also manages to beat out the RTX 2060.
The same pattern plays out in real-world gaming
scenarios, as you’d expect. In Middle-earth: Shadow
of Mordor, benchmarked at 1080p with the 4K texture
pack, the RTX 2060’s 116.6 frames per second is a small
jump over the GTX 1660 Ti’s score, and a more sizable
jump over the GTX 1060’s, but still falls short of GTX
1070-level (or RTX 2070 Max-Q) performance. In Rise of
the Tomb Raider there’s actually an upset, with the GTX
1660 Ti pulling slightly ahead.
Ofcourse,theRTX 2060 cantakeadvantageof
ray-tracing in the few games that currently support it.
That’s little consolation if you have a huge library of
existing games you still want to play.