two gtx 1080 graphics cards and a single
laptop who would be crazy enough to do that
ASUS sagar acer and MSI
that's right my friends the laptops in our gaming roundup today are not for the
faint of heart or the faint of wallet
between them they have a total of eight gtx 1080s in them and they cost over 20
000
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below let's meet the contestant starting with
the np9873 from sagar the og of mobile sli
it's rocking a core i7 6700k CPU making
it the only machine with a sixth generation core processor but
it's also the only one using a desktop
CPU so that might end up being an advantage
next is the MSI gt83 titan sli whose
cherry mx mechanical keyboard and 18.4
inch display make it suitable for use as a weapon
moving on we've got the ASUS gx800 whose
highlights include a 4k g-sync display
and yes an outboard water cooling unit which
might give it an edge when we overclock these suckers later and finally coming
in at a whopping nine thousand dollars
the most bonkerdoodles laptop that we have ever laid our hands on with a
curved ultra wide 120hz g-sync display
a full mechanical keyboard and an included pelican case for transport the
acer predator 21x the test environment for this showdown
was our conference room held at 21 degrees and for all of the tests we set
all factory overclocking modes and fan speeds to max
loud yes unpleasantly loud
also yes but the goal of this video to use a car
analogy is to watch them drag race not
to discuss the resolution of their backup cameras
so for our first test we wanted to see which of these beasts could sustain the
highest CPU clock speed under a full load so we ran an id 64 stress test for
15 minutes then took the average temperature clock speed and power draw
in watts for the next five
after an ear shattering quarter of an hour a winter emerged and if you guessed
that the laptop with water cooling had the best cooling results you would be
totally incorrect actually believe it or not the laptop that best tamed its
quad-core CPU was the sagar
np9873 coming in at just under four gigahertz average
now you might remember from our review that the gx800 was able to operate at
4.1 gigahertz but remember we were using
their overclocking software to overclock and that required some undervolting ASUS
factory overclock is a little bit too generous with the voltage
perhaps even more surprising than the clock speed winner is the fact that in
spite of their size none of these devices ran at a
comfortable temperature at these clock speeds with the predator 21x being the
most frequent throttler with occasional trips down to 800 megahertz
time for a cinebench speed run where thanks to the quick duration of the test
the gx800 pulled out a convincing victory with a score of 946
just ahead of the predator 21x single threaded results were a similar
story but of course if you've got this much
money to spend on a gaming laptop you've probably got a separate workstation for
all of that kind of stuff so let's get to the gaming results all tests were
done at 1080p ultra details and with fxaa enabled for an apples to apples
comparison in rise of the tomb raider directx 12
the gx800 pulled off a clear win and the
predator 21x showed the value of tweaking factory settings
by disabling acer's predator software and slowing our overclock down to turbo
we actually managed to solve some fairly unpleasant stuttering issues so we'll
use these settings for the rest of our tests in directx 11 we see a different story
the segger np9873 stomped all over the other
laptops putting up similar numbers to directx 12 while the rest took a big hit
the story remained the same in deus ex as well with the water cooled gx800
proving that once again it's the king of directx 12 and with the segger taking
the crown in directx 11. there must be something about directx 11 that favors
its desktop CPU while the mobile chips
are being more effectively used in the newer API a hypothesis that was
strengthened when the cs go scores favored the sagger once again
our last gaming test is for honor where the overall trend of the video continues
to not be a thing weird
so the predator 21x takes home its first victory here leading us to conclude then
that if you're shopping for the fastest bestest laptop out there
there isn't going to be a clear winner in every possible category on to battery
life then it was well what did you guys really expect it
was a poop show they're gaming laptops not thin and lights
leading us then to conclusion time the only laptop that didn't bring home a
single metal was the MSI gt83 titan but
it was also the most consistent performer across the board thanks to its
lower clock speeds and less frequent thermal throttling maybe MSI's engineers
figured the extra performance wouldn't matter anyway because of its 1080p 60hz
display so as usual
it's not as simple as which one is the fastest the gx800 might look like an
obvious choice but if you want to use the external dock
to get an estimated 10 performance boost
it literally requires you to carry around a luggage to keep it in
and the sagger might look compelling on paper but it is probably the most
obnoxious sounding of all of them while gaming
for all of these laptops the factors i just listed and so many more ultimately
impact the gaming experience so the beauty of any one of them is
really in the eye of the beholder meaning that the only way for us to
declare a clear winner here is to ignore
subjective factors and focus entirely on
objective ones bringing us to our final recommendation
a gaming desktop and a more portable laptop
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