Gaming Experience
I don’t have a traditional run of benchmarks to run as such right now, as I’ve seen so few systems for review in the Covid years, there’s no fair comparison right now. But I’ll work on that, don’t you worry. Instead, let’s see how I just generally got on with gaming with the 17H. Well, it’s fast, like… REALLY fast. Playing F1 2022? With DLSS 3 and maxed-out graphics, you’re getting the full 360 Hz experience. With Rocket League, Apex Legends, Minecraft, and Forza 5, the same again, it flat-out pins the refresh rate and FPS to 360 with no compromise.
The Witcher 3
There are a few games that really take advantage of the RTX 4080 hardware, as well as DLSS 2 and DLSS 3 technologies. Take The Witcher 3 Remaster for example, with the settings pinned to RT Ultra, and DLSS technologies turned on, it looked absolutely stunning, and still sat comfortably around 125 FPS, which let’s be honest, is plenty for a single-player experience.
The GPU does sit at 80c, which is about normal for a gaming laptop, as was the hand-dryer-esque noise and heat hitting my right hand while it did it. It’s noisy, but that’s a compromise you have to make to game at extremely high settings and refresh rates on a laptop; just put your headphones on.
It was the same in Cyberpunk 2077, maxed everything, DLSS 3 on, and still got 129 FPS, really that’s pretty damn impressive. I turned RT off in both Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk and easily got above 200 FPS in both games, so it’s really up to you where you sit on the visual to FPS scale here.
God damn this game looks good, and frankly, it’s amazing to see such insane gaming performance on a device I can carry around with me.
