JANUARY 2022 PCWorld 55by a tablet. Although transcoding isn’t as
useful in a world where movies can be
downloaded from Netflix, it’s still an effective
way of discerning how the Victus 16 manages
heat while under load.
3Dmark offers a generic test of gaming
performance outside actual games. The
various Fire Strike benchmarks stress the
Victus 16’s RTX 3060 CPU. We’ve included
both the Fire Strike and Fire Strike Extreme
tests for a more comprehensive evaluation.
We also ran the Time Spy benchmark in a
looped mode to test whether performance
dropped over time here, too. 3DMark looks
for and expects your laptop’s 3D performance
There are a number of GPUs that are more
powerful than the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050Ti
used by the Victus, and this is reflected here.
LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCEAsus ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition Ryzen 9 5900HX
Gigabyte Aorus 17GCore i7-10870H
Acer Nitro 5 AN515-45-R7S0Ryzen 7 5800H
Acer Predator Triton 500 SECore i7-11800H
HP Victus 16-d0097nrCore i7-11800H
HP Omen 17-cb-0040nr (2019)Core i7-9750H
Acer Predator Triton 300 SECor e i7-11375H
Acer Nitro 5 AN515-54-51M5Core i5-9300H19,496
8,60510,820Not tested9,77620,9597,5481 7, 3 3 57, 4 4 91 7, 4 8 73DMark Fire Strike 1.1 3DMark Time Spy 1.13DMark
Not tested
7, 2 6 5
6,40814,789
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3,576Remember, laptop makers have to accommodate
both cooling solutions and battery cells, all within
the laptop chassis. Larger, heavier laptops can
include larger batteries.LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE519547377435337353122324Battery life
Minutes
Acer Predator Triton 300 SECore i7-11375H
Acer Predator Triton 500 SECore i7-11800H
Acer Nitro 5 AN515-54-51M5Core i5-9300H
Asus ROG Strix G15 AdvantageEdition Ryzen 9 5900HX
Gigabyte Aorus 17GCore i7-10870H
HP Victus 16-d0097nrCore i7-11800H
Acer Nitro 5 AN515-45-R7S0Ryzen 7 5800H
HP Omen 17-cb-0040nr (2019)Core i7-9750Hto remain consistent over time, even as the
benchmark pushes the GPU (and, in part, its
CPU) to its limits. Fortunately, this didn’t
occur, and the laptop delivered steady frame
rates throughout.
Finally, there’s battery life. As most
gamers understand, a long, battery-powered
gaming session isn’t something gamers
expect, but it’s certainly nice to have in a
pinch. Here, the Victus 16 delivers roughly
five and a half hours of battery life, which
isn’t bad for a gaming notebook. However,
it’s somewhat below the competition. It also
includes quick-charging capabilities. This
laptop met HP’s claim that it could charge up
to 50 percent in about 30 minutes.
To test gaming performance, we used our