If you have to recommend a high-performance, high-reputation game notebook, then Shenzhou God of War ZX10-DA7DP must be in the first echelon. Why? In fact, consumers familiar with the Shenzhou God of War series know that its biggest selling point is: with a strong configuration to help smooth performance, coupled with a reasonable price, well received by game enthusiasts.
Not long ago, Shenzhou launched the latest game series Of War ZX10-DA7DP, and the comprehensive hardware configuration is definitely one of the best in high-end game books. Among them, the CPU uses Intel's 12th generation Core I7-12700 processor, the unique display is The GeForce RTX3070 Ti 8G GDDR6, and adds a 1TB large-capacity solid-state drive and a high-definition display that supports high refresh rates of 165Hz. For a more detailed point, the Shenzhou God of War ZX10-DA7DP is equipped with a full-size single-area colorful cool backlit keyboard with a built-in dual fan and five copper tubes. Combining these configurations, the Shenzhou God of War ZX10-DA7DP can be said to have gathered the configuration level that the flagship game should have.
Then, specific to the actual performance performance, you may wish to leave a few minutes of time, along with the acceleration to do a detailed understanding.
Let's start with a rough list of configurations and specs:
■ Screen: 15.6 inch 2.5K resolution 165Hz 100% DCI-P3 color gamut screen
■ Processor: 12th Generation Intel Core i7 12700
Graphics: GeForce RTX3070 Ti 8G GDDR6
■ Memory: Standard 2 *8G maximum support 64G expansion
■ Hard disk: 1TB SSD
■ Interface: 1 headphone microphone 2-in-1 port, 1 microphone port, 2× USB3.2 Gen 2 Type-A, 1 USB2.0 (TypeA), 1 Micro SD card reader interface, 1 Type-C interface, 1 HDMI 2.1 TMDS port, 1 power input port, 1 RJ-45 network connection port, 1 Mini DP 1.4 interface and 1 anti-theft lock jack
■Weight: 2.7kg (without power supply)
▎ Tough and full of wind, strong performance is completely exposed
Since it is positioned as a game notebook, Shenzhou God of War ZX10-DA7DP is still very different from other series, in a sentence to summarize its appearance characteristics "tough and windy, which inevitably to a certain extent to expose its strong performance."
From the A side of the Shenzhou God of War ZX10-DA7DP, it continues the design style of the previous generation of God of War ZX9, through the symmetrical design techniques on the surface of the fuselage to do in-line and convex treatment, in which the embedded area adds a blue hue, at a glance, it looks like "cheetah" ready to run the eyes, which is why said above, from the appearance of the design alone, it exposes its extraordinary performance advantages.
B-side design, Shenzhou God of War ZX10-DA7DP is equipped with a high color gamut screen with 15.6-inch 2.5K resolution, and this screen supports a refresh rate of 165Hz, which can provide a smoother and more realistic visual experience when dealing with some fierce e-sports games. It is particularly worth emphasizing that this screen supports 100% DCI-P3 wide color gamut, color reproduction is very high, in addition to strengthening the game experience, for practitioners in the design industry, it is also a very good work experience.
As for the structural layout of the B side, a narrow bezel design is added, and the top includes 2 array microphones, camera indicators and 1 HD camera.
From the perspective of structural layout alone, the C-side of the Shenzhou God of War ZX10-DA7DP is basically similar to the previous generation Z9, and is designed with a full-size single-area colorful and cool backlit keyboard, touchpad and buttons. In the actual experience, the full-size single-area colorful cool backlit keyboard has a very good rebound texture, and the colorful backlight effect strengthens the sense of atmosphere during the game.
In order to ensure the stable performance output during the game, the Shenzhou God of War ZX10-DA7DP has made a lot of optimizations for heat dissipation. The first is the change of the internal structure, which adopts the split design of the CPU and the graphics card, and can control the temperature of the fuselage stably through the heat dissipation system of the dual fans and five copper tubes. In addition, in the external structure of the D surface, Shenzhou God of War ZX10-DA7DP has made a large-area grid design, which further improves the heat dissipation ability. Just so-called: hardware to do the vanguard, heat dissipation as the backing! Whether a game is excellent or not, in addition to looking at the configuration, heat dissipation is actually a key factor.
Interface layout, located on the back of the fuselage contains a power connector, Mini DP interface, HDMI interface and Type-c interface.
The interfaces on the left side include the anti-theft lock jack, the RJ-45 network cable interface, the TWO USB 3.2 ports and an all-in-one reader interface.
The interface on the right side is the headset 2-in-1 port, the microphone port and the USB2.0 interface.
From the perspective of the layout of the interface, the Shenzhou God of War ZX10-DA7DP is still very rich, and it is not a problem to meet the daily use of normalization.
From the details to the whole, the appearance design of Shenzhou God of War ZX10-DA7DP does have a lot of tough wind, which is still a lot different from the general thin and light notebook. In particular, its own size is 361×258× 32.5mm, and the weight reaches 2.7Kg, which also leaves an impression on me when I first experience it" The legendary God of War is really "stable"!
▎ Actual performance testing
Since it is positioned as a flagship game notebook, the core configuration of The Shenzhou God of War ZX10-DA7DP is also expected, it is equipped with a new generation of Intel 12th generation Core I7-12700 processor, which uses 8 large cores + 4 small core architecture design, 20 threads, 25MB of tertiary cache, up to 4.9GHz, support DDR5-4800 memory and DDR4-3200 memory, 65W basic power, 180W maximum turbo power. Compared with its own 11-generation CPU, the multi-core performance is increased by about 35%. Based on the above configuration, through several sets of data tests, let's take a look at the actual performance output of the Shenzhou God of War ZX10-DA7DP CPU.
CPUZ test data
As can be seen from the above test data, in terms of processors, the i7-12700 has 12 cores and 20 threads, 25MB of L3 cache, up to 4.9GHz 65W basic power, and 180W maximum turbo power.
As for the running score, in the CPUZ test, the single-threaded running score of the i7-12700 can reach 747.8, and the multi-threaded running score can reach 8223.9. Yes, the advantages of the i7-12700 are very good in terms of multi-core performance. This also shows that for large games such as CS:GO and Tomb Raider, which are very powerful, the Shenzhou God of War ZX10-DA7DP can easily do it.
Graphics card testing
In terms of graphics cards, Shenzhou God of War ZX10-DA7DP uses GeForce RTX3070 Ti 8G GDDR6, which adopts NVIDIA's second-generation RTX Ampere architecture, with ray tracing and NVIDIA DLSS and other AI functions, which has greatly improved the rendering of game quality. From the above test data, the GeForce RTX3070 Ti 8G GDDR6 uses a 24A0 core, the memory width is 256bit, the total video memory bandwidth is 448GB/s, and the 8GB GDDR6 Samsung video memory is very suitable for exercising graphics cards.
Whole machine performance test
In addition, the whole machine performance test, in the 3D MARK test software, Shenzhou God of War ZX10-DA7DP CPU running score reached 12516, graphics card running score reached 10760, which compared with the previous generation of RTX3060 (130W) graphics card, the performance is roughly improved by 20%.
In addition, Shenzhou God of War ZX10-DA7DP also has a stable pressure output performance in the 3D MARK test software, with a test score of 97.9%. Therefore, here to knock on the point, the hardware performance of the Shenzhou God of War ZX10-DA7DP is completely standing in the first echelon of the flagship configuration.
Double baked test
Of course, in the state of full load, the author also did a double-baked test on the Shenzhou God of War ZX10-DA7DP, and from the actual measurement of AIDA64 Extreme, the temperature of the GPU was stable at about 78 ° C. Through this data, we once again verified the powerful cooling system of Shenzhou God of War ZX10-DA7DP, which has great advantages for long-term performance output.
1TB hard drive test
As part of the performance embodiment, Shenzhou God of War ZX10-DA7DP equipped with a 1TB large-capacity SSD also brings extremely fast reading and writing performance, the actual measurement is that the maximum rate of reading can reach 2036.23MB/s, the maximum rate of writing can be 1822.76MB/s, compared to ordinary SSDs, the speed is 4 times faster. In other words, when decompressing large games and processing RAW images, the Shenzhou God of War ZX10-DA7DP can bring a wait-free machine experience.
Based on the above series of test data, the performance of Shenzhou God of War ZX10-DA7DP can be summarized in one sentence "strong strength, worthy of the name of God of War".
▎ Screen display effect
As the first entrance to human-computer interaction, the importance of the screen is not to lose hardware performance. Therefore, although at the beginning of the article, the author has mentioned some parameters of the ZX10-DA7DP display of the God of War, I still feel the need to take it out separately for further exploration.
The actual display effect, Shenzhou God of War ZX10-DA7DP uses a 2.5K resolution screen, which can accurately restore the colorful picture, and achieves the ideal output experience in terms of clarity and color saturation. Below, look at the display of the screen through several sets of samples.
This set of beautiful anime pictures contains many elements, in addition to characters, books, fans and other objects, what is important is the light that penetrates from the window, from the actual display effect of the Shenzhou God of War ZX10-DA7DP, it can be seen that the hair of the characters is clearly visible, especially the hair tail illuminated by the light, which is also perfectly presented. For both the dark and bright areas, every color is accurately restored.
This set of pictures is also very convincing for the detection of the display, first of all, the transition of light and dark light, the visual sense of the whole picture from far and near, very clear. In particular, the texture on the butterfly wings and the outline of the soil nearby, its rich details are restored as if they can be captured by the tentacles.
In addition to the 2.5K screen resolution, the Shenzhou God of War ZX10-DA7DP also supports a screen refresh rate of 165Hz and a 100% DCI-P3 color gamut display, which is undoubtedly a strong attack on the immersive game experience.
▎ Actual game experience
From the screen to the performance, we have a good understanding of the Shenzhou God of War ZX10-DA7DP, GeForce RTX3070 Ti 8G GDDR6 graphics card + i7 12700 processor, in 3D MARK, the overall performance is very good.
So specific to the real game, how does it perform? This time, the author chose the large online game Tomb Raider as the test object.
Thanks to the 165Hz refresh rate, the transitions are very consistent when moving, jumping, or running the characters quickly. In addition, due to the blessing of GeForce RTX3070 Ti 8G GDDR6 graphics card, the rendering effect of the overall picture is very realistic, and there is even a sense of real survival in the wild. The i7 12700 processor and the dual fan five copper tube cooling system make the entire game process remain at a high frame rate and run smoothly without stuttering.
▎ Use summary
From the definition of the game itself, the comprehensive performance of the Shenzhou God of War ZX10-DA7DP is very powerful, i7 12700 processor + GeForce RTX3070 Ti 8G GDDR6 unique display, this configuration in the current flagship game book can be regarded as one of the best. The 1TB SSD and the dual fan five copper tube heat dissipation system provide strong support for the comprehensive performance of the whole machine, which makes it easy to play the large online game of 3A.
In addition, Shenzhou God of War ZX10-DA7DP is also equipped with a 2.5K resolution of 165Hz 100% DCI-P3 color gamut screen, display color reproduction makes this game notebook full of "God of War" style.
If you're looking to get into a notebook with great performance, this Shenzhou God of War ZX10-DA7DP is worth considering.