And again, I realized no difference in performance. However, as a quick mention, the RAM situation on this laptop is a little weird. If you want to learn more about this laptop, check out the review here. Enter your email address to subscribe to Tech-Critter and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address. If you were not aware, the Lenovo Ideapad 5 series of laptops which also come with Ryzen 5 u and u versions have ALL RAM soldered to the motherboard, no slots at all.
The Ideapad 3 series with Ryzen have the same CPU options, but come with one RAM channel soldered to the motherboard and the other in slot, which sounds like what you are seeing with these Vivobook machines. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam.
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Share on linkedin LinkedIn. Share on pinterest Pinterest. One of the best things about the Blade 15 is the number of configurations Razer offers. It's one of the most beautiful gaming laptops around and still one of the most powerful. Whatever config you pick, we think the Razer Blade 15 is the overall best gaming laptop on the market right now, though you will be paying a premium for the now-classic design.
Read our full Razer Blade 15 Advanced Edition review. Not everyone needs the thinnest or the most powerful gaming laptop. Sometimes, just lightweight and speedy are fine. The G14 is still a great laptop; especially now, we're getting the RTX update in that smart chassis. The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 is a reliable inch system with high-end graphics that rivals even some gaming desktops despite being loud.
I am mighty tempted to push the Razer Blade 14 further up the list, simply because the inch form factor has absolutely won me over. Feeling noticeably smaller than the inch Blade and closer to the ultrabook Stealth 13, the Blade 14 mixes a matte black MacBook Pro-style with genuine PC gaming pedigree. The Razer style is classic, and it feels great to hold, too. And with the outstanding AMD Ryzen 9 HX finally finding its way into a Blade notebook, you're getting genuine processing power you can sling into a messenger bag.
And soon you will be able to get your hands on the Blade 14 with the brand new Ryzen 9 HX chip at its heart which will actually be able to save on battery on the go by using its RDNA 2 based onboard graphics. Add in some extra Nvidia RTX series graphics power—now all the way up to an RTX Ti, but wear ear plugs—and you've got a great mix of form and function that makes it the most desirable laptop I've maybe ever tested.
My only issue is that the RTX Ti would be too limited by the diminutive inch chassis and run a little loud. But you're not buying the Blade 14 specifically for outright performance and anything else; this is about having all the power you need in a form factor that works for practical mobility.
Read the full Razer Blade 14 review. It's not the most powerful GPU, but it's affordable, available, and will still deliver decent p frame rates for the cost. You have to make compromises in areas like performance, design, and even battery life. The most significant improvement from its previous model is its slimmer, sleeker design. With thinner bezels around a Hz display, the sleeker design gives it a more high-end vibe. The display itself seems the only downside, not having as rich a color range as the other gaming laptops on this list.
The Max-Q 3. But it's not Nvidia Ampere's power without compromise, however. MSI has had to be a little parsimonious about its power demands to pack something as performant as an RTX into an 18mm thin chassis. But it is still an astonishingly powerful slice of mobile graphics silicon. It can get a little loud, but thankfully, you have the benefits of all the Nvidia Max-Q 3.
This includes Whisper Mode 2. The GS66 also comes with an outstanding Hz p panel, which perfectly matches the powerful GPU when it comes to games. Sure, you'll have to make some compromises compared to an RTX you might find in a hulking workstation, but the MSI GS66 Stealth is a genuinely slimline gaming laptop. Yes, it's expensive, but this is the pinnacle of high-end gaming. There's absolutely no question you can buy a much more sensible gaming laptop than this, but there is something about the excesses of the ROG Strix Scar 17 that make it incredibly appealing.
It feels like everything about it has been turned up to 11, from the overclocked CPU—which is as beastly as it gets—to the gorgeously speedy Hz screen. Asus has pushed that little bit harder than most to top our gaming laptop benchmarks.
And top the benchmarks of the best gaming laptops it does, thanks in the main to the GeForce RTX that can be found beating away at its heart. This is the W version of Nvidia's top Ampere GPU, which means it's capable of hitting the kind of figures thinner machines can only dream of. The inch chassis means the components have a bit more room to breathe compared to the competition too, and coupled with the excellent cooling system, you're looking at a cool and quiet slice of gaming perfection.
This extra space has allowed Asus to squeeze an optomechanical keyboard onto the Scar 17, which is a delight for gaming and more serious pursuits. Best gaming PC : the top pre-built machines from the pros Best gaming laptop : perfect notebooks for mobile gaming. It may not be the best gaming laptop, but it's one of the best value machines around.
The new and improved Helios has a Hz IPS screen and smaller bezels, putting it more in line with sleek thin-and-lights than its more bulky brethren of the previous generation.
The only real drawback is the diminutive SSD, although the laptop has slots for two SSDs and an HDD, which makes upgrading your storage as easy as getting a screwdriver.
Read our full Acer Predator Helios review. When it comes to gaming, the obvious answer is the graphics card, but that's where things have gotten a little more complicated recently. With GPU performance now so dependent on cooling, you have to pay attention to what wattage a graphics card is limited to and what chassis it's squeezed into. As we said at the top, an RTX confined in an 18mm chassis will perform markedly slower than one in a far chunkier case with room for higher performance cooling.
That really depends on what you want to do with your laptop. An 8-core, thread AMD Ryzen chip will allow you to do a whole load of productivity on the road, but honestly, it will have little benefit in gaming. That's one of the reasons Intel has launched its Tiger Lake H35 chips; they're quad-core, 8-thread CPUs, but they're clocked high to deliver high-end gaming performance when paired with something like the RTX This will arguably have the most immediate impact on your choice of the build.
Picking the size of your screen basically dictates the size of your laptop. A inch machine will be a thin-and-light ultrabook, while a inch panel almost guarantees workstation stuff. At inches, you're looking at the most common size of the gaming laptop screen. We love high refresh rate screens here, and while you cannot guarantee your RTX will deliver fps in the latest games, you'll still see a benefit in general look and feel running a Hz display.
The standard p resolution means that the generally slower mobile GPUs are all but guaranteed high frame rates, while companies are slowly drip-feeding p panels into their laptop ranges. A p screen offers the perfect compromise between high resolution and decent gaming performance.
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