can Corsair make a laptop they clearly can the real question is can they make a
good laptop
let's find out we have a nice little cloth to get your
fingerprints off of it it comes with a nice little laptop case of course they
are branding on it
for power we get 230 watts from this
brick right here delivered through a barrel plug
this is a very tall laptop oh look at this the way that they have their whole
streaming chummy up here like just for comparison here that's the xps 15. it's
so much longer this is going to be a
legitimate problem for a lot of people i think backpacks designed for 15-inch
laptops i don't think we'll be able to put this in it overall though i think it
looks pretty good it looks mean i think that's accurate it also looks like it's
attracting fingerprints geez i see why they included this
what do we have for io two usb type-cs
not Thunderbolt because this is AMD we also have headphone microphone combo our
barrel input anything on the back nope then around this side we have full size
usb type a another usbc and a full-size
sd card reader really like to see that i just told these are usb type-c gen4
and it has Thunderbolt 3 compatibility
damn this feels like maybe just under 5 pounds
5.28 not bad
oh my god it's so tall look at this this is ridiculous we have so much space down
here for their streaming doodads like i think that this
actual display is yeah the display is the same size it's so tall that it's
like screwing up our lighting i'm not getting light to like this half of the
laptop this is shockingly stiff if i'm
honest i was expecting it to be a bit of a flop monster because Corsair has never
done this before and i kind of figured that they have what 2500 employees a
company like dell has like 160 000 like
how would they possibly be able to match that massive track pad too oh we've got
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on our track pad here and i don't quite understand what it's saying if i double
tap here does it just disable the right side it does
why would you want to do that like i could make an argument for why
you might want to disable the left side because like if you're gaming you have your mouse here you have your hand here
it's going to be resting on the left side of your trackpad but here they
disable the right side where i don't get it
arrow no one uses the arrow keys andy
but whatever we'll never use it again by default we have elgato stuff here and it
looks like that we have streaming buttons bound
oh satisfying deal though this elgato software which i think should be working
but is not s macro keyboard what is this
then nothing's assigned but they have this elgato overlay here that matches
the layout of my macro keys here but it just does nothing if i'm honest
uh i don't stream but i do use macros
all the time i will normally have like a bunch of ones set up for word excel
and solidworks and that just makes my life a lot easier info s buttons can be
programmed for streaming actions in the elgato stream deck software but it just
told me to come here this is a bit of a pain in the airs to
do i really like macro software where
you're able to program it without going in and doing all this software bullcrap
this is the sort of stuff that i will use once and then probably never touch
again and if it isn't quite what i want i'm never gonna bother with it new
assignment keystroke key
s2 text
text three Jake is a butt
not the jig that is here the other one
and s4 let's have it open up notepad because that's where i want to go next
select application s4 yep okay she works all right we
opened up notepad b-roll l-roll Jake is
a butt not the Jake that is here the other one it's working all right great
i could legitimately see this being very useful it works decently well it's not
making your keyboard in a stupid spot like some of the ones where they'll have macro keys over here and your whole
keyboards like right all right let's open our notepad back up and figure out
what the keyboard is like
it's not the best that i've ever experienced it's kind of weird there's
like a lot of travel kind of before it actually
types the way that the keys yield is just kind of strange there's like not
really like a tactile bump it's kind of like a
that's that sound is the only way that i can describe how this key press feels what
would i rate it as though a minus i think this is a very good track pad like
i am honestly shocked that Corsair has been able to come out of the gate and
make something that's as good well they probably didn't they probably just sourced a good track pad from someone in
which case good job a lot of people have a lot of trouble doing that
for the processor we get a ryzen 9 69 nice 100 hs
that is eight cores 16 threads and just
generally quite nice little processor i believe this one goes up to 40 watts we
also have 32 gigabytes of RAM that's 4 800 mega transfers per second ddr5 2
terabyte SSD this is going to be a freaking expensive config also wi-fi 6e
thanks to qualcomm and to round it out we have an AMD Radeon rx 6800 m that's
slots somewhere between 30 70 3080
performance here we have
what i would consider the best gaming laptop that you can buy that's
reasonably thin and generally just a good one for specs
this has same processor 6900hs same
amount of RAM same speed it does have one terabyte less storage but most
importantly we have an rtx 3070 ti for the GPU now we already know that the
zephyrus g15 is an excellently cooled machine and that 100 watt TDP
it does it great how did Corsair do apparently they have a vapor chamber i
don't know how well they have actually done it this is a streaming orientated
device and although it seems to have some
pretty cool streamer things one thing i was a bit concerned about was the GPU
AMD's Radeon gpus are pretty great at gaming
actually i would say they are exceptional at gaming what might matter
to you though is the encoders NVIDIA's nvinc encoders
are freaking incredible so if you want to stream you can do so on NVIDIA GPU
and it is going to be just a great time just simply recording some stuff right
now on this and it is taking up 43
of the GPU and the GPU is currently at 76 degrees celsius now for this test we
are going to be using a fairly aggressive bit rate so 1500 kilobytes
per second but i also know that that is absolutely fine with an end vent encoder
okay so in fairness to what i said before task manager is currently showing
the NVIDIA GPU at 70 usage well it is
doing this the difference though is that the AMD Radeon one has all of its stuff
in the 3d category so that's possibly
the stuff that you use to do games i don't really know another thing about
having an AMD GPU here that is just worth noting because we're
running the tomb raider benchmark is that it does support NVIDIA's dlss i'm
disabling it but you could potentially get way better performance by just
enabling that on this we do have Radeon super sampling in this which you can
apply to anything through their drivers but it's kind of a pain in the air so
you probably won't most of the time i'm almost certain that the zephyrus is
gonna win i think this one right here is really struggling because of the
streaming stuff they are very similar in loudness
oh and their FPS's look identical all right maybe i was just an AMD hater for
no reason but they're both 240 hertz and they both look fantastic to my eyes well
here we go 81 FPS 87 FPS so the zephyrus
won but just a tiny bit and i imagine
that depending on the game it's going to flip-flop around depending on which one
of these wins my bigger concern was the video encoding but at the same time same
settings on each one running on AMD's encoder and bank they both worked great
yep that's very nice smooth playback right here
same with the zephyrus all right my concerns about AMD's encoders were
completely unfounded so good job
Windows update freaking incredible all
right you've gotta love it when Windows updates just decides to insert itself in
your gameplay i don't know how much battery life this Corsair laptop gets
but i can guarantee you if you leave it in your backpack it's gonna be dead
afterwards because of Windows modern standby it's terrible Corsair go and
talk to microsoft tell them it's trash even though this is only one benchmark
i am very impressed that Corsair has been able to keep up with the ASUS
because like they have been at this for a very long time and the g15 absolutely
destroys a bunch of other like 15 16 inch laptops
that don't have proper vapor chamber cooling in them
i think that we went 2fps slower without streaming on
NVIDIA so uh enable ops makes your games run faster
that's a tech tip right there no actually don't do that i do think the
Corsair is running quite a bit faster though now that it is not encoding
all right 98 FPS all right so we got 10 more
by not streaming coding at the same time that's a fair bit faster than this guy
here so you do have a performance hit by encoding on the AMD GPU which you did
not have on the NVIDIA one but at the same time in this game at least at these
settings the AMD one's a bit faster i don't think this is going to be great
i can guarantee you that the xps 15 blows us out of the water
that's better
yeah that's uh that's
not even like same ballpark like this right here is like kids playing t-ball
in the sound department go and contact harman or someone Corsair
we also get to look at the displays here unsurprisingly the xps 15's display is
better but at the same time this one's 240hz
i think for a gaming laptop this is an exceptional display
especially 16x10 you don't get that all the time on gaming laptops but it gives
you just a little bit extra vertical room so it's awesome for doing productivity
stuff as well Corsair says that they have a very good 1080p webcam in this
the problem is the quality of your actual hardware doesn't really matter
it's pretty much 100 software at this point now the xps 15
even though this generation was not very
good it was a huge leap over the old one and this is like pretty all right
this is bad oh my god this is terrible
um okay so we're gonna have to just manual do this so that okay so
maybe more brightness and more contrast
that's starting to look a bit better but it's also kind of looking like a early
2000s music video yeah the con just too much contrast and
it looks kind of strange but at the same time it's not the worst that i've ever seen this is pretty challenging lighting
if you don't have a hat on it's a little bit better the shadows are
pretty crushed um the highs are kind of weird it's perfectly okay like i think
it is doing now that i've tweaked the settings a little bit better than dells
which makes sense 720p 1080p you'd hope you'd be able to get it a little bit
better i would say that the webcam and microphone on this
are perfectly fine okay heck yeah we have got Windows facial recognition on
this thing which is awesome so we have our fingerprint reader right here and
also facial recognition up there having both is excellent all right up until now
Corsair has done a shockingly good job if it's upgradeable i'm damn impressed
the screws are not the same size so if you are taking it apart just make sure
that you do something like this keep track of where they go don't put a long
screw in a short screw spot or you're gonna have a screw poke through the
front of your chassis
dang alright so here we have a massive vapor
chamber covering both our CPU and GPU we've got our fans fin density not super
high but at the same time like we saw that it works pretty decent two SSD
slots so one of them's unpopulated right over here super easy to upgrade your
storage we've got our RAM right there Corsair vengeance RAM damn who would
have thought oh good old ddr5 battery is right here super easy to replace if you
want to and if you can get replacements for it and we have our wi-fi controller
right there and looking under there if you take out the battery it looks
like you can even pop the track pad right now it's just held in with a couple screws good job Corsair oh the
chassis cnc milled as well you can see it right here we have our mill marks
whole things probably done out of aluminum looks like it's all anodized as
well so it should last quite a while before it looks like poo
pricing oh it's really freaking expensive uh this one's what like three
grand more than that as tested this one right here is 3050.
that's a lot of change but at the same time this one's specked very high what
does it start at like a bit over two grand 27 oops okay so you're basically
in it for three grand so you can get the g15 with an rtx 3080
which will help make up that performance gap same processor
800 more oh you have to really want some macro keys
to do that geez so good job Corsair you've made an
excellent laptop i really hope that you can make a lot more of them to get some
economies of scale to bring that price down a bit so that uh i can properly
recommend it just like good job for watching this video hit like get
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