The laptop comes with Windows pre-installed, but you still need to go through the basic configuration on the first boot, which will take you about 5 to 10 minutes overall. Upon completion, I checked Device Manager and everything was clean, with no additional drivers or software installations required, which is great to see. Of course, there was a plethora of Windows 11 updates to be completed too, and how long they take will largely be decided by your internet connection speed.
The WiFi is strong though, and I saw a peak download of 1.2Gbps when downloading our testing games. For reference, I have 8000/8000 fibre broadband (yes, seriously), but obviously that’s beyond the speeds you can expect from the WiFi6 card of this laptop.
The 1TB Solidigm P44 Pro NVMe SSD said specifications are read/write speeds of up to 7000/6500 MB/s, and well, it’s pretty much dead on that, with the read about 140 MB/s higher and only 6.65 MB/s shy on the write, which is pretty fantastic, this is a fast drive!
The CPU is no slouch either, scoring an impressive 18431 points on all cores in Cinebench R23, and when we look at our desktop CPU reviews, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D scored 18104 points, so that’s a pretty solid score. However, for perspective, a maxed out 9700X does around 22599, while an Inteo i9-14-900K is 35410 points.
The RTX 4060 GPU is pretty potent too, scoring 6562 points in 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra. While I don’t have a comparison for this benchmark vs the desktop version of the RTX 4060, we do for the next benchmark!
In TimeSpy Extreme, the RTX 4060 in this laptop scored an impressive 5318 points, while the desktop card scored 6084 when we reviewed that a year ago. That’s really not bad given this is the mobile version, slimmer, and with a laptop style cooler on it, not bad at all!
PCMark 10 Express scored a solid 6155 points, which is impressiv,e as that puts it on par with the Intel Core i9-12900K based on our previous desktop CPU reviews, or just ahead of the Ryzen 9 5900X. But this is a much newer, more efficiency mobile CPU, so yeah, really impressed with that.
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