Desktop CPU + desktop-level graphics card. How powerful is the world's most powerful gaming laptop?

Gaming experience has always been an important use of PC products. With the continuous improvement of game production level, the pictures are becoming more and more realistic, and the demand for PC hardware among game enthusiasts is also getting higher and higher.

As the gaming laptop craze continues unabated, the rapid development of technology has accelerated the pace of innovation for gaming laptops. Intel and NVIDIA, the two top chip manufacturers for PC hardware, have been continuously improving the performance of CPUs and GPUs, providing a strong technical foundation for the gaming laptop market.

On October 15, Shenzhou released the new Ares GX9 series gaming notebooks in Beijing. Because it can be equipped with a CPU of the desktop Skylake platform and a GPU equivalent to the desktop-level graphics card GTX980 or dual notebook graphics card GTX980M SLI, the performance of gaming notebooks has once again been pushed to a new height, and it is known as "the world's most powerful gaming notebook."

So, how powerful is the world's most powerful gaming laptop?

Gaming performance is on par with desktops

As we all know, Intel's CPU has always been in the leading position in the industry. The sixth-generation Core desktop Skylake CPU process has been upgraded to 14nm, and the performance has been improved by more than 20% compared with the previous platform.

The Shenzhou Ares GX9 series is equipped with an Intel Core I7-6700K quad-core eight-thread CPU with a frequency of 4.0GHz and an 8M L3 cache. It can be turbo-clocked to 4.2GHz, and its overall performance is about 12% higher than the previous platform's same series model I7-4790K.

Similarly, in terms of display performance, after adding G-sync technology to the mobile GPU, this time, NVIDIA has ported the desktop-level graphics card performance to the mobile terminal. The latest GTX980 is currently the most advanced notebook GPU. Compared with the previous GTX980M, it can provide 75% of the performance of the desktop GTX980. This time, the performance is directly increased to 100% of the GTX980.

In the 3Dmark test, the GTX980 scored 5870 in the Fire Strike Extreme scene, which is much higher than the 5600 points of the normal operation of the desktop 980, meeting the players' more stringent requirements for game screen rendering.

In addition, the Shenzhou Ares GX9 series gaming laptops also use a combination of 32G DDR4 memory + 512GB*2/1TB*2 M.2 solid-state drive, 4K screen and powerful Killer network card to fully optimize the overall gaming experience. The newly added Control Center management software allows users to understand and control their computers more conveniently.

Are gaming laptops ready for desktop chips?

Putting a desktop CPU and a desktop-level GPU into the tiny body of a laptop is incredible in itself, and major gaming laptop manufacturers have a special liking for such an extreme approach. There is no doubt that this obviously puts higher demands on the hardware layout and heat dissipation structure inside the laptop.

For such a high-power product, the Shenzhou Ares GX9 series gaming laptops have a clever modular layout of internal accessories to make the heat dissipation channel more rational. Different graphics cards are equipped with different cooling modules. Two fans are specifically used to dissipate heat for the graphics cards, and another fan is used to dissipate heat for the CPU alone, allowing the internal heat to be quickly discharged.

On the other hand, considering the usage scenario of laptop computers, the CPU and GPU exhaust fans both adopt a silent solution. By judging the internal temperature, the speed is automatically adjusted, making the overall noise smaller.

Finally, it is also worth noting that the Ares GX9 series notebooks still continue the highly expandable design of the Ares notebooks, and the more convenient whole-machine disassembly and assembly design provides more room for players to DIY, allowing the hardware combination methods that were once on desktops to be realized on notebooks, further narrowing the distance between gaming notebooks and traditional desktops.

Of course, the starting price is 29,999 yuan, and the top-end version of Shenzhou Ares GX9 Plus is priced at 49,999 yuan. Although it still has outstanding cost performance compared with its competitors, it also shows its high-end status from one side.

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