- So I'm not 100% sure if this is true but as far as I can tell in this very nondescript box
right here is the most powerful laptop in the world.
So we're talking eight cores from AMD and an RTX 3080 Max-P.
So that's, you know, she's got lots of power and it's also a 16 Gigabyte version
which is more than you even get on the desktop card. So, let's open her up and see what it's like.
It should be noted that this is a pre-production unit.
I'm guessing that there would be some kind of branding on here on the final one.
The only writing is just our little asset tag here
and that's for our internal system that didn't come on.
What, oh, that's upside down.
- [Male voice] Nice. - Yeah. This is my job.
And I do it good. Power brick, 230 Watts.
Now, compared to laptops of yesteryear, this might not seem
like all that much power. The new AMD processors are just so power efficient that like
you don't need to pump 200 Watts into them.
They run real fast at like 50.
We also get a year of power plug, which is not
exactly useful for us, but I brought one of these
and that's about it in here besides the laptop.
Which again is about as black and nondescript as possible.
We got, I guess the serial number from Clevo and that's about it.
So this one right here is for XMG and it's for Germany
which I guess I can just open it up right now and show you.
Means the keyboard's not all that useful if you are me and don't know German.
So there's a couple things here that
are slightly inconvenient for using it. So for one it's Q-W-E-R-T-Z, normally Y would be there.
These are all different and all of this stuff up here is just wrong.
We're getting a bit ahead of ourselves here though. So for IO on the side, just single USB Type-A
headphone microphone on the back you get USB Type-C so
no Thunderbolt because it's AMD technically can get that
but practically you don't. And also full-size HDMI, it should be noted that both
of these go directly to the GPU. So you have like hard wire between your external monitor
and GPU in here. No Going through the IGP (indistinct)
- [Jono] Is that HDMI 2.1? - 2.1 with HDCP 2.3.
So awesome. Yeah, this guy right here. Real good one.
You also get 2.5 Gigabit LAN, which is another good job.
And then you also get full sized SD card and two more Type-As' overall.
That's really good for laptop. Nice what else do we have to say?
It's shockingly light. So this is 2.1 kilograms.
And for context, the Dell XPS 15 here is 2.05 kilograms.
Now you do get a mostly aluminum construction.
So like back here is aluminum. The top up here is also aluminum.
Although the bottom is all plastic, the actual chassis
stiffness though. And if you look here is very good
actually I'll take it off of, people always complain when I do it on the mat.
Very, very rigid. Quite well-built.
Clavos really like stepped It up lately.
I feel like a couple of years ago everything that they made was just you could tell that it was not designed.
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All right. Let's power over this guy up. I've actually been using it a fair bit lately.
I got this in to compare to the Zephyrus G15.
- [Jono] It's a big boi! - Yeah. It's pretty good.
(upbeat music) (indistinct) Brandon.
- [Brandon] That was not my fault! - This is your fault. - [Brandon] No it's not; I did not set this background!
- I gave you this laptop for B roll - [Brandon] Yup, and it was already there when I got it.
- Who added this then? - [Brandon] Probably Jake or something?IDK
- Maybe Madison. - [Brandon] It's Madison's fault. Blaming Madison.
- How do I turn on keyboard brightness?
Oh, that's not what I want. Oh, no.
How do I turn this off? - [Jono] Oh, what the heck?
- So this is one of those things where knowing what your function buttons actually do
comes in pretty handy.
I'm not totally sure how to stop this. Oh, magnifier.
Okay. We got it.
So that's not what that button is supposed to do. Let's see if I can get the keyboard lights on here, though.
There we go. And you have a lot of options of how to customize it.
Customizing is kind of the main draw of this laptop.
So various Clevo, you can kinda do different things
with different ones and XMG's whole thing is basically
once you buy it, you can do whatever you want to it.
They don't really care. So, memory overclocking, that's a thing that you can do
in the BIOS actual overclocking of the CPU and the GPU.
It's this really, really new age type of overclocking.
That's called dragging every slider over to the right as far as it goes.
Can you turn on the castle module, it's over there.
Here we go. Boop. 80 Watts on the CPU.
Boom, done a dynamic boost.
Let's turn that all the way up, 15 Watts. Unlock configurable TDP, I think we should hundred 35 Watts.
So you gotta be thinking 135 Watts for the GPU.
That's not 150, but that's where the dynamic boost comes in.
So you can steal 15 Watts from the CPU give to the GPU, boom, it's 150 Watts.
So there are situations where you might not want to just take every slider all the way over.
So kind of depending on how much GPU
or CPU you're using in a specific given task
it's nice to be able to just tune it how you want and what games do we have?
We're going to install and play Valheim cause that's what I want to do.
They there's only 500 Gigabytes, but like we have an Intel Wi-Fi, six chip in here, which is
basically the best thing that Intel makes right now.
And the C is going to be 6969696969.
Done. (laughs)
Now one of the really beautiful things about this laptop is the screen.
So we get 1440P at 165 Hertz
which currently is basically the best that you can do for gaming on a laptop.
Don't go for 4K, it's dumb. Well, it is a slight let down
with this one right here is it has a 95% coverage
of the sRGB spectrum, which is not great right now.
It's not the most exciting game at the start. We're just gonna punch some trees and then probably leave.
This is very, very good.
I am not surprised at all, but we have absolute all
of the graphics up as high as they'll go. I will turn off motion blur though.
This thing is really loud. Let's find someone to punch.
Hey Mr. Grayling, bam! Oh my God this guy is not powerful at all.
Looks like 80 to 90 FPS.
Sometimes dropping into the mid seventies. This on much lower settings on my computer
which has a GTX 1080 is sitting around like 40, 50 FPS.
I don't know how much else we need to do. Although I do really want to try and sneak attack a deer.
It's actually almost more difficult because I have so much less vegetation on my computer.
I'm going to turn down some of those dials custom profiles.
We don't need 80 Watts in the processor right now.
So let's just try turning that down a bit to 50 Watts.
Okay, deer, where are you? Wow. It really did not quiet down.
So the GPU is currently wow. It's 85 degrees, I guess that we do have it
like going as fast as I can. Like we're sitting around 1600 Megahertz right now.
And my testing though, this thing was able to do between 10 to up to 30% faster
than the Zephyrus G15, so like that extra sound
is netting you a bunch of power. It should be pretty easy.
If you wanted to do the tuning that way to turn everything
down just a little bit, it can be what you want it to be.
Oh, there's a deer. Okay. Sneak attack time.
They rUn. All right, I'm calling it, no deer sneak attack.
I'm sorry everyone involved. But this is basically a total weapon.
As far as it comes to gaming the combination of this GPU and this screen, it's frigging wicked.
Now I do have some light complaints
about the keyboard here. It has two millimeters of actuation
and it does have quite a nice little stamp to it but I have a lot of trouble with it.
Yeah, I think that the problem is just that the actual stabilization of the various keys is not amazing.
So like you can see here, like A, it kind of just moves all around.
Well, they all kind of just move around. So it's kinda hard to tell when you have this much slop
in a key, what they did get really good though is this track pad for a gaming laptop.
It's large, it tracks well, and there's no Palm rejection issues.
So we have an AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX.
Right now it's reporting an H, but it is an HX.
I am told it's just wrong in the BIOS.
We also have 32 Gigabytes of memory on this one. You can't upgrade it to 64.
Let's see here. 500 Gigabyte SSD. I would like to have a bit more than that.
Given how OP everything else is and the good old 3080 Max-P.
Even though it's not called Max-P anymore but it's powerful one that has 16 gigabytes of RAM.
Oh, speakers. When you do the speakers, YouTube.
I'm going to say underwhelming. (upbeat music)
That's actually not bad though. Okay. I'm gonna open up the XPS 15 here and see how it compares.
This is the XMG. (upbeat music)
Oh, wow. Not even a competition.
That's a... So yeah, speakers are mediocre.
Given the size of this thing, you'd think they could have fit like a suburb or two in there.
This is what I'm excited to do though. I actually have not taken this thing apart yet
even though I have done a fair bit of testing on it.
So I know that it's fast but I don't know why it's fast yet.
And there's was kind of one of two options. The first is that, Clevo has done an excellent job
of designing it. And a second is that AMD has done an excellent job
with their new processors. And this assembly seems very easy so far.
And I'm guessing if you're the kind of person that buys this
you're also the kind of person that upgrades your laptop. Wow. That's a lot less cooling than I was expecting.
If you had this much cooling on an Intel processor that had eight cores
and was a high spec one, it would die.
Now we have four heat pipes in total. So four of them are going to the GPU and going
across to right over here, we do have massive heat things.
They're really thick. So that's probably where the majority of the heat is going out.
But I'm pretty surprised that like I was expecting you to have like nine
heat pipes that are snaking all across the whole thing but I guess you just don't need it.
It looks like upgradability overall is excellent.
So we have our single SSD here and then another one fits in right there.
You have two 2 SODIMM slots, so you want more RAM slotted in.
Wi-Fi cards right there And we've got this massive battery, 93 Watt hours.
And I honestly don't know what that will get you.
Hey Jono? Can I just battery test this thing? And then we can put the thing right here.
So if it's like seven hours, that's pretty good, I guess.
But chances are, if you turn on anything 3d, it dies.
Whereas if it's like 10 hours the number that's right here, then we're very impressed.
Good job.
Wow, I am genuinely shocked
that this thing is able to keep it cool. Down here we've got those underwhelming subwoofers
and I think that's about it. I don't know if I'd recommend buying it.
If you're the kind of person that really loves tweaking dials,
it's pretty fricking awesome. And for the kind of person that likes just really, really powerful laptops
I might recommend getting it, you know with a keyboard that matches your region.
But, aside from that, this thing frigging awesome.
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