PC World - USA (2019-07)

JULY 2019 PCWorld 51

We saw about a 19-percent

performance bump going

from the previous GS65’s GTX

1060 to the newer GS65’s

GTX 1660 Ti.

In DX12 tests with more

shader and compute tasks,

the GTX 1660 Ti easily steps

away from GeForce GTX 1060

and GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q

laptops.

previous GS65 Stealth Thin

8RE and its GeForce GTX

1060, the 9SD sees a hefty

19-percent step up in

performance.

One issue with Fire

Strike is its vintage, so we

also ran 3DMark Time Spy

1.1, which tests DX12

performance and uses far

more advanced graphics

techniques. For example,

while Fire Strike might

invoke 1.5 million shaders

in one test, Time Spy will

invoke 29 million. We see

about a 35-percent jump in

performance with the

newer GS65 and its GTX

1660 Ti, over the original

GS65 and its GTX 1060.

The GeForce GTX 1660

Ti easily outperforms

Alienware Area-51m R1
(Core i9-9900K)
MSI GS75 Stealth
(Core i7-8750H)
Acer Predator Helios 500 (Ryzen 7 2700)

Origin PC EVO(Core i9-8950HK)-17S

Acer Predator Titan 500(Core i7-8750H)

M(Core i7-9750H)SI GS65 Stealth Thin

MSI GS65
(Core i7-8750H)
Dell G7
(Core i7-8750H)
Dell XPS 15 9570
(Core i7-8750H)

3DMark Fire Strike 1.1 Graphics
(GPU score)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

26,787

15,263

18,051

11,826

19,579

14,289

16,463

11,232

7, 5 8 3

Alienw(Core i9-9900K)are Area-51m R1

M(Core i7-8750H)SI GS75 Stealth

Origin PC EVO-17S
(Core i9-8950HK)
Acer Predator Helios 500
(Ryzen 7 2700)
Acer Predator Titan 500
(Core i7-8750H)
M(Core i7-9750H)SI GS65 Stealth Thin

Dell G7(Core i7-8750H)

M(Core i7-8750H)SI GS65

Dell XPS 15 9570(Core i7-8750H)

3DMark Time Spy 1.1 Graphics
(GPU score)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

10,427

5,526

5,824

3,806

7, 5 1 2

5,359

5,710

3,747

2,282