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the array of laptops we lined up to take a look at NVIDIA's new super rtx mobile

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gpus didn't make it in time because of a little global pandemic so

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new plan Gigabyte sponsored this video to show

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off the rs15g and an all-new design from them that they claim is the gaming

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notebook redefined but for us it also

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happens to house a brand new 10th gen CPU from Intel and a shiny new rtx super

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GPU from NVIDIA so we're going to use it to take a closer look at Intel's claims

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about how much faster 10th gen designs will be compared to gaming laptops from

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three years ago have CPU's really gotten that much

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faster or is something else at play here

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spoiler alert it's something else

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when questioned Intel acknowledged that the comparison to three-year-old laptops

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was not really apples to apples and while we have gone from 7th gen all the

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way to 10th gen mobile cpus a big chunk

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of that performance is coming from the graphics card improvements in that time

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but that doesn't mean that both sides aren't contributing here the brains of

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our unit is an Intel core i7 10875h

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now as far as we can tell it's pretty much just a refined 9th gen chip with

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slightly higher clocks but guys a laptop

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with 8 CPU cores that can boost up to 2 of them to 5.1 gigahertz is nothing to

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sneeze at it's now faster than anything you could have bought for your

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mainstream desktop three years ago let alone something you could have got in a

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laptop the improvement over last gen is

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pretty incremental though so i can see why Intel compared to a laptop from

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three years ago in their slides our new i7 seems to have marginally better

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single threaded performance than our 9th gen i9 and actually ends up losing

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slightly in multi-threaded applications if we're going to see big improvements

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in CPU performance over last gen it looks like it's up to the laptop

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manufacturers to throw some seriously thick thermal and power delivery

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solutions at the 10th gen designs there are two main areas that the new temp gen

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cpus might help with gaming performance though the first is thermal velocity

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boost or tvb originally introduced in

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coffee lake h tvb has existed recently in desktop

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chips but it was actually disabled by default and it's probably best known for

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the multi-core enhancement fiasco a year ago when ASUS motherboards that enabled

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it by default performed much better than their

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real default counterparts well now this feature is available on almost every

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10th gen mobile chip and is probably what helped our i7 beat the old i9 in

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single threaded tasks the second area of the 10th gen processor will help improve

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gaming performance in is by including 16 pci express lanes for the graphics card

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this is actually the first time ever that laptop gpus are going to be getting

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a full 16x interface to play with instead of the eight lanes that they're

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accustomed to how much of a difference will that make in the real world

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probably not a whole lot outside of some specific professional workloads but it

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is nice to see nonetheless now let's talk super the 2070 super in the ers 15g

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gets 256 more cuda cores than its non-super cousin and as for the clock

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speed well as usual that's going to depend largely

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on the laptop manufacturer since on mobile the amount of power and cooling

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available actually makes a much bigger difference to how fast the GPU will go

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than NVIDIA's spec sheet does maybe the most interesting feature of the super

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mobile gpus is the inclusion of dynamic boost which balances the load between

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the CPU and GPU based on the task so here's how the concept works let's say

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some laptop x has a 140 watts of cooling

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available with a CPU that can drop to 70 watts and a GPU that could draw up to

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100 clearly 170 watts is greater than 140

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but for most situations that doesn't really matter because there are very few

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workloads where a CPU and a GPU would both be fully utilized at exactly the

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same time so say in a visually demanding game like shadow of the tomb raider the

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GPU is going to get its full 100 watts of power while the CPU jogs along at 40

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watts or so and everyone stays nice and cool while you get the most FPS out of

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your game then you go and boot up cs go

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you're a pro and you need at least 400 FPS to hit your leap flick shots well

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your CPU is going to pin it at 5 gigahertz while your GPU takes a nap in

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the shade it's up to manufacturers though to make sure that there's enough

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power available to take advantage of this so Gigabyte has enabled this by

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including a 230 watt power adapter to drive the CPU and GPU at over 170 watts

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combined these power management improvements by the way will work with both Intel and

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AMD cpus which is excellent in theory now let's take a look at the

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real world in practice our rtx 2070

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super was able to net us about a 10 to 15 performance improvement in games

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compared to a similar class non-super laptop

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nice of course in most situations a desktop rtx 2070 super will beat it in

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battle but surprisingly in rainbow six siege the aorus 15g actually pulled off

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a w against our i9 9900k equipped

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desktop now i'm certain that if we took the time to overclock the 9900k or even

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just enable multi-core enhancement it should win but it does go to show you

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just how much performance is being strangled out of these mobile chips

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these days impressively the rs15g was able to put up these numbers without us

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having to apply a turbo profile or anything like that Gigabyte has employed

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microsoft's azure ai to automatically switch between power profiles that

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optimize for power and cooling in a heavy task quiet during lighter loads

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and then extended battery while on the go another feature of this super GPU

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update is advanced optimus og optimus was designed to switch

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between a powerful NVIDIA GPU for gaming and an efficient on-board GPU for

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lighter tasks but it had some drawbacks neither g-sync nor high refresh rate

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displays could use it well advanced optimus apparently fixes

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those issues and while the ars15g here isn't equipped with g-sync so we

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couldn't test that it was able to get 7 hours on battery while its display was

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refreshing itself 240 times per second

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quite impressive although some of this is probably due to Gigabyte including a

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massive 94 watt hour battery Gigabyte claims it's possible to get over 8 hours

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of battery life and if you were to turn down the refresh rate that actually seems very attainable now let's take a

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closer look at the star of today's show the styling of the rs15g strongly

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reminds me of the civic type bar with its spoiler-like accents and heaps of

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venting dedicated to airflow for a gaming laptop it's still a little well

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gamery but if it's too much for you the aero lineup will greet you with open

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arms it sports very solid i o with three type a's Thunderbolt gigabit Ethernet

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and a full-sized uhs-2 sd reader and

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Gigabyte seems especially proud of the fact that you can connect three 4k

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displays via the full-size HDMI mini displayport and Thunderbolt port i mean

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given there's a 240hz panel with pantone calibration already attached to it most

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people probably won't bother buying something separate unless they're trying to get some work done in between gaming

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sessions but hey it's there the most interesting part of the rs15g has got to

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be its fully mechanical keyboard though with slim clicky omron switches

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now if i'm being honest this keyboard broke my brain a little bit when i first

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started using it because you do have to use it kind of more like

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a real desktop keyboard this does mean that you'll be giving up some of the fun

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tricks of more traditionally cramped laptop keyboards where the keycaps are

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right next to each other like quickly swiping across adjacent keys

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but the extra travel and the clickiness did lead to a definite increase in

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typing accuracy once i got used to it in many ways you could see it as the

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complete opposite of apple's butterfly switches apples are bursty and quick

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perfect for sending ims whereas these are a much more deliberate feel like i'm

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sitting down to start a thesis now given they're made by omron and

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rated for 15 million presses they should hopefully also be the opposite of apples

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for reliability too zing as for the pricing NVIDIA

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surprisingly didn't adjust their super lineup upward so the rtx 2070 model of

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the rs15g comes in at 2 000 while the 2070 super version is 2200 so it gets a

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better GPU and an upgrade to Windows 10 pro what this basically means is that

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the rtx 2070 super is occupying roughly the same price as the old rtx 2070 the

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2070 is actually about the price of an old 2060 and the new 2060 which is

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faster than the old 2060 but lack super branding for some reason

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is looking quite compelling at a price similar to the old 1660 ti basically if

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you're looking for a new gaming laptop you're going to be getting a bit more bang for your buck than you would have a

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couple months ago which is awesome and what else is awesome Gigabyte thank you

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for sponsoring this video and especially managing to get a laptop in our hands at

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least close to the NVIDIA super mobile launch so thank you guys for that and

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you can check them out at the link in the video description if you're looking for another video to

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watch maybe check out our original

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super coverage there you go how much better are super gpus now

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you'll know for sure