WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:07.680 can Corsair make a laptop they clearly can the real question is can they make a 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:07.680 good laptop 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:14.639 let's find out we have a nice little cloth to get your 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:19.359 fingerprints off of it it comes with a nice little laptop case of course they 00:00:16.560 --> 00:00:19.359 are branding on it 00:00:20.720 --> 00:00:25.599 for power we get 230 watts from this 00:00:24.080 --> 00:00:28.160 brick right here delivered through a barrel plug 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:35.440 this is a very tall laptop oh look at this the way that they have their whole 00:00:33.120 --> 00:00:40.239 streaming chummy up here like just for comparison here that's the xps 15. it's 00:00:38.879 --> 00:00:45.039 so much longer this is going to be a 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:48.960 legitimate problem for a lot of people i think backpacks designed for 15-inch 00:00:47.039 --> 00:00:54.160 laptops i don't think we'll be able to put this in it overall though i think it 00:00:51.440 --> 00:00:57.760 looks pretty good it looks mean i think that's accurate it also looks like it's 00:00:55.840 --> 00:01:04.400 attracting fingerprints geez i see why they included this 00:01:00.480 --> 00:01:06.960 what do we have for io two usb type-cs 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:11.840 not Thunderbolt because this is AMD we also have headphone microphone combo our 00:01:09.360 --> 00:01:17.439 barrel input anything on the back nope then around this side we have full size 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:20.159 usb type a another usbc and a full-size 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:26.479 sd card reader really like to see that i just told these are usb type-c gen4 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:29.280 and it has Thunderbolt 3 compatibility 00:01:26.479 --> 00:01:34.560 damn this feels like maybe just under 5 pounds 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:37.040 5.28 not bad 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:41.200 oh my god it's so tall look at this this is ridiculous we have so much space down 00:01:39.759 --> 00:01:45.600 here for their streaming doodads like i think that this 00:01:43.520 --> 00:01:49.520 actual display is yeah the display is the same size it's so tall that it's 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:56.079 like screwing up our lighting i'm not getting light to like this half of the 00:01:52.240 --> 00:01:58.240 laptop this is shockingly stiff if i'm 00:01:56.079 --> 00:02:02.240 honest i was expecting it to be a bit of a flop monster because Corsair has never 00:02:00.320 --> 00:02:08.800 done this before and i kind of figured that they have what 2500 employees a 00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:10.640 company like dell has like 160 000 like 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:16.160 how would they possibly be able to match that massive track pad too oh we've got 00:02:14.239 --> 00:02:20.400 our streaming buttons i need to tell you about our sponsor thanks to jackery for 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:23.920 sponsoring today's video jackery's new solar generator 1000 pro is their 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going to be resting on the left side of your trackpad but here they 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:09.760 disable the right side where i don't get it 00:03:06.480 --> 00:03:11.840 arrow no one uses the arrow keys andy 00:03:09.760 --> 00:03:15.680 but whatever we'll never use it again by default we have elgato stuff here and it 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:20.640 looks like that we have streaming buttons bound 00:03:18.239 --> 00:03:25.599 oh satisfying deal though this elgato software which i think should be working 00:03:22.480 --> 00:03:27.920 but is not s macro keyboard what is this 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:33.280 then nothing's assigned but they have this elgato overlay here that matches 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:38.879 the layout of my macro keys here but it just does nothing if i'm honest 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:41.280 uh i don't stream but i do use macros 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:44.959 all the time i will normally have like a bunch of ones set up for word excel 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:48.480 and solidworks and that just makes my life a lot easier info s buttons can be 00:03:47.200 --> 00:03:52.159 programmed for streaming actions in the elgato stream deck software but it just 00:03:50.640 --> 00:03:56.799 told me to come here this is a bit of a pain in the airs to 00:03:53.760 --> 00:03:58.720 do i really like macro software where 00:03:56.799 --> 00:04:02.560 you're able to program it without going in and doing all this software bullcrap 00:04:00.720 --> 00:04:06.480 this is the sort of stuff that i will use once and then probably never touch 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:10.319 again and if it isn't quite what i want i'm never gonna bother with it new 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:13.120 assignment keystroke key 00:04:11.200 --> 00:04:16.880 s2 text 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:21.440 text three Jake is a butt 00:04:20.239 --> 00:04:27.360 not the jig that is here the other one 00:04:24.960 --> 00:04:30.560 and s4 let's have it open up notepad because that's where i want to go next 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:35.919 select application s4 yep okay she works all right we 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:37.199 opened up notepad b-roll l-roll Jake is 00:04:35.919 --> 00:04:42.320 a butt not the Jake that is here the other one it's working all right great 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:46.960 i could legitimately see this being very useful it works decently well it's not 00:04:45.440 --> 00:04:50.960 making your keyboard in a stupid spot like some of the ones where they'll have macro keys over here and your whole 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:56.600 keyboards like right all right let's open our notepad back up and figure out 00:04:52.880 --> 00:04:56.600 what the keyboard is like 00:04:57.919 --> 00:05:03.120 it's not the best that i've ever experienced it's kind of weird there's 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:08.960 like a lot of travel kind of before it actually 00:05:06.400 --> 00:05:12.400 types the way that the keys yield is just kind of strange there's like not 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:14.880 really like a tactile bump it's kind of like a 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:20.800 that's that sound is the only way that i can describe how this key press feels what 00:05:18.400 --> 00:05:26.080 would i rate it as though a minus i think this is a very good track pad like 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:29.280 i am honestly shocked that Corsair has been able to come out of the gate and 00:05:27.759 --> 00:05:35.199 make something that's as good well they probably didn't they probably just sourced a good track pad from someone in 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:39.759 which case good job a lot of people have a lot of trouble doing that 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:44.479 for the processor we get a ryzen 9 69 nice 100 hs 00:05:41.440 --> 00:05:46.400 that is eight cores 16 threads and just 00:05:44.479 --> 00:05:50.880 generally quite nice little processor i believe this one goes up to 40 watts we 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:55.440 also have 32 gigabytes of RAM that's 4 800 mega transfers per second ddr5 2 00:05:53.759 --> 00:06:01.360 terabyte SSD this is going to be a freaking expensive config also wi-fi 6e 00:05:59.039 --> 00:06:08.560 thanks to qualcomm and to round it out we have an AMD Radeon rx 6800 m that's 00:06:05.280 --> 00:06:11.600 slots somewhere between 30 70 3080 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:13.199 performance here we have 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:16.560 what i would consider the best gaming laptop that you can buy that's 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:22.560 reasonably thin and generally just a good one for specs 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:25.120 this has same processor 6900hs same 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:30.000 amount of RAM same speed it does have one terabyte less storage but most 00:06:27.039 --> 00:06:34.240 importantly we have an rtx 3070 ti for the GPU now we already know that the 00:06:31.919 --> 00:06:39.120 zephyrus g15 is an excellently cooled machine and that 100 watt TDP 00:06:37.039 --> 00:06:43.199 it does it great how did Corsair do apparently they have a vapor chamber i 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:46.960 don't know how well they have actually done it this is a streaming orientated 00:06:45.919 --> 00:06:51.199 device and although it seems to have some 00:06:48.960 --> 00:06:56.160 pretty cool streamer things one thing i was a bit concerned about was the GPU 00:06:54.720 --> 00:07:00.880 AMD's Radeon gpus are pretty great at gaming 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:04.400 actually i would say they are exceptional at gaming what might matter 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:09.919 to you though is the encoders NVIDIA's nvinc encoders 00:07:07.039 --> 00:07:15.759 are freaking incredible so if you want to stream you can do so on NVIDIA GPU 00:07:13.280 --> 00:07:18.639 and it is going to be just a great time just simply recording some stuff right 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:24.319 now on this and it is taking up 43 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:28.639 of the GPU and the GPU is currently at 76 degrees celsius now for this test we 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:33.599 are going to be using a fairly aggressive bit rate so 1500 kilobytes 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:37.840 per second but i also know that that is absolutely fine with an end vent encoder 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:43.440 okay so in fairness to what i said before task manager is currently showing 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:46.080 the NVIDIA GPU at 70 usage well it is 00:07:43.440 --> 00:07:52.879 doing this the difference though is that the AMD Radeon one has all of its stuff 00:07:49.599 --> 00:07:54.639 in the 3d category so that's possibly 00:07:52.879 --> 00:07:59.440 the stuff that you use to do games i don't really know another thing about 00:07:56.800 --> 00:08:02.639 having an AMD GPU here that is just worth noting because we're 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:07.759 running the tomb raider benchmark is that it does support NVIDIA's dlss i'm 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:12.080 disabling it but you could potentially get way better performance by just 00:08:09.840 --> 00:08:16.400 enabling that on this we do have Radeon super sampling in this which you can 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:20.879 apply to anything through their drivers but it's kind of a pain in the air so 00:08:18.400 --> 00:08:24.479 you probably won't most of the time i'm almost certain that the zephyrus is 00:08:22.960 --> 00:08:29.120 gonna win i think this one right here is really struggling because of the 00:08:26.479 --> 00:08:33.120 streaming stuff they are very similar in loudness 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:37.519 oh and their FPS's look identical all right maybe i was just an AMD hater for 00:08:34.719 --> 00:08:44.880 no reason but they're both 240 hertz and they both look fantastic to my eyes well 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:48.000 here we go 81 FPS 87 FPS so the zephyrus 00:08:44.880 --> 00:08:50.320 won but just a tiny bit and i imagine 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:55.120 that depending on the game it's going to flip-flop around depending on which one 00:08:52.640 --> 00:08:59.839 of these wins my bigger concern was the video encoding but at the same time same 00:08:57.839 --> 00:09:04.240 settings on each one running on AMD's encoder and bank they both worked great 00:09:02.160 --> 00:09:07.040 yep that's very nice smooth playback right here 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:11.600 same with the zephyrus all right my concerns about AMD's encoders were 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:16.000 completely unfounded so good job 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:17.200 Windows update freaking incredible all 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:23.440 right you've gotta love it when Windows updates just decides to insert itself in 00:09:20.640 --> 00:09:27.040 your gameplay i don't know how much battery life this Corsair laptop gets 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:30.080 but i can guarantee you if you leave it in your backpack it's gonna be dead 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:35.360 afterwards because of Windows modern standby it's terrible Corsair go and 00:09:32.640 --> 00:09:40.160 talk to microsoft tell them it's trash even though this is only one benchmark 00:09:37.839 --> 00:09:44.640 i am very impressed that Corsair has been able to keep up with the ASUS 00:09:42.800 --> 00:09:51.279 because like they have been at this for a very long time and the g15 absolutely 00:09:49.720 --> 00:09:56.480 destroys a bunch of other like 15 16 inch laptops 00:09:54.800 --> 00:10:00.399 that don't have proper vapor chamber cooling in them 00:09:59.279 --> 00:10:05.200 i think that we went 2fps slower without streaming on 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:09.760 NVIDIA so uh enable ops makes your games run faster 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:14.480 that's a tech tip right there no actually don't do that i do think the 00:10:12.160 --> 00:10:20.240 Corsair is running quite a bit faster though now that it is not encoding 00:10:17.519 --> 00:10:26.560 all right 98 FPS all right so we got 10 more 00:10:23.680 --> 00:10:31.040 by not streaming coding at the same time that's a fair bit faster than this guy 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:35.360 here so you do have a performance hit by encoding on the AMD GPU which you did 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:40.320 not have on the NVIDIA one but at the same time in this game at least at these 00:10:37.680 --> 00:10:44.240 settings the AMD one's a bit faster i don't think this is going to be great 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:47.850 i can guarantee you that the xps 15 blows us out of the water 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:53.820 that's better 00:10:55.440 --> 00:11:04.640 yeah that's uh that's 00:11:04.640 --> 00:11:12.399 not even like same ballpark like this right here is like kids playing t-ball 00:11:10.240 --> 00:11:17.600 in the sound department go and contact harman or someone Corsair 00:11:15.680 --> 00:11:22.800 we also get to look at the displays here unsurprisingly the xps 15's display is 00:11:20.560 --> 00:11:26.399 better but at the same time this one's 240hz 00:11:24.160 --> 00:11:30.079 i think for a gaming laptop this is an exceptional display 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:33.760 especially 16x10 you don't get that all the time on gaming laptops but it gives 00:11:31.920 --> 00:11:38.560 you just a little bit extra vertical room so it's awesome for doing productivity 00:11:36.800 --> 00:11:44.880 stuff as well Corsair says that they have a very good 1080p webcam in this 00:11:42.399 --> 00:11:50.240 the problem is the quality of your actual hardware doesn't really matter 00:11:47.680 --> 00:11:57.519 it's pretty much 100 software at this point now the xps 15 00:11:54.399 --> 00:12:00.160 even though this generation was not very 00:11:57.519 --> 00:12:06.240 good it was a huge leap over the old one and this is like pretty all right 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:08.720 this is bad oh my god this is terrible 00:12:06.240 --> 00:12:15.920 um okay so we're gonna have to just manual do this so that okay so 00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:17.600 maybe more brightness and more contrast 00:12:15.920 --> 00:12:21.519 that's starting to look a bit better but it's also kind of looking like a early 00:12:19.360 --> 00:12:25.760 2000s music video yeah the con just too much contrast and 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:30.480 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 00:12:28.800 --> 00:12:34.160 if you don't have a hat on it's a little bit better the shadows are 00:12:32.160 --> 00:12:38.560 pretty crushed um the highs are kind of weird it's perfectly okay like i think 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:43.200 it is doing now that i've tweaked the settings a little bit better than dells 00:12:40.560 --> 00:12:46.399 which makes sense 720p 1080p you'd hope you'd be able to get it a little bit 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:50.639 better i would say that the webcam and microphone on this 00:12:47.839 --> 00:12:55.680 are perfectly fine okay heck yeah we have got Windows facial recognition on 00:12:52.959 --> 00:13:00.000 this thing which is awesome so we have our fingerprint reader right here and 00:12:57.600 --> 00:13:04.880 also facial recognition up there having both is excellent all right up until now 00:13:02.320 --> 00:13:09.839 Corsair has done a shockingly good job if it's upgradeable i'm damn impressed 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:13.760 the screws are not the same size so if you are taking it apart just make sure 00:13:11.680 --> 00:13:17.760 that you do something like this keep track of where they go don't put a long 00:13:15.839 --> 00:13:22.399 screw in a short screw spot or you're gonna have a screw poke through the 00:13:19.519 --> 00:13:22.399 front of your chassis 00:13:23.120 --> 00:13:29.920 dang alright so here we have a massive vapor 00:13:27.360 --> 00:13:35.040 chamber covering both our CPU and GPU we've got our fans fin density not super 00:13:32.800 --> 00:13:39.360 high but at the same time like we saw that it works pretty decent two SSD 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:43.440 slots so one of them's unpopulated right over here super easy to upgrade your 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:48.320 storage we've got our RAM right there Corsair vengeance RAM damn who would 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:51.839 have thought oh good old ddr5 battery is right here super easy to replace if you 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:57.040 want to and if you can get replacements for it and we have our wi-fi controller 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:59.680 right there and looking under there if you take out the battery it looks 00:13:58.160 --> 00:14:05.360 like you can even pop the track pad right now it's just held in with a couple screws good job Corsair oh the 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:08.639 chassis cnc milled as well you can see it right here we have our mill marks 00:14:07.279 --> 00:14:13.680 whole things probably done out of aluminum looks like it's all anodized as 00:14:11.680 --> 00:14:17.360 well so it should last quite a while before it looks like poo 00:14:15.760 --> 00:14:21.920 pricing oh it's really freaking expensive uh this one's what like three 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:26.399 grand more than that as tested this one right here is 3050. 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:30.240 that's a lot of change but at the same time this one's specked very high what 00:14:28.800 --> 00:14:34.959 does it start at like a bit over two grand 27 oops okay so you're basically 00:14:33.839 --> 00:14:42.399 in it for three grand so you can get the g15 with an rtx 3080 00:14:39.920 --> 00:14:47.040 which will help make up that performance gap same processor 00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:51.040 800 more oh you have to really want some macro keys 00:14:49.199 --> 00:14:55.600 to do that geez so good job Corsair you've made an 00:14:52.959 --> 00:14:59.360 excellent laptop i really hope that you can make a lot more of them to get some 00:14:57.680 --> 00:15:03.120 economies of scale to bring that price down a bit so that uh i can properly 00:15:01.199 --> 00:15:07.360 recommend it just like good job for watching this video hit like get 00:15:04.560 --> 00:15:10.000 subscribed and just have a fantastic day see you later