As a hardcore game book for a wide range of players, OMEN Shadow Genie has always been favored by players because of its powerful performance and stylish appearance. This generation of OMEN Genie 8 has been upgraded in all dimensions, the most concerned of which is the 12th generation core processor, thanks to the significant improvement of Alder Lake-H performance, as well as many new technologies, OMEN Genie 8 can bring players a superior gaming experience.
So how much the processor has an impact on the performance of the game book, today I will use the newly released OMEN Shadow Elf 8 to interpret. The test model is the main model of OMEN Shadow Genie 8, equipped with Core i7-12700H processor, RTX 3060 laptop GPU, 16GB DDR5-4800 dual-channel memory.
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The following are the specific configuration parameters and test environment:
12th Generation Core SD Processors: Unleash more power
First of all, let's review the characteristics of the 12th generation Core processor high-performance mobile version of Alder Lake-H: Alder Lake-H is also commonly known as the "12th generation H standard pressure series", mainly for audiophile-level game books, high-performance workstations and other mobile platform products. It adopts Intel 7 process, hybrid architecture design (including 6 P-Cores and 8 E-Cores, two P-Cores less than the desktop version), supports DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200, LPDDR5-5200, LPDDR4x-4266 and other types of memory, PCIe 4.0×8 discrete graphics channels, 2 PCIe 4.0×4 SSD channels, 4 direct-attached Thunderbolt 4 and so on The chipset provides 12 PCIe 3.0 channels, CNVIo modules that support Wi-Fi 6E networks, etc.
Specific to the OMEN Shadow Genie 8 product, it is equipped with Core i7-12700H, providing 6P-Core+8E-Core core quantity, and the three-level cache retains 24MB capacity, and the single core maximum turbo frequency is 4.7GHz, which has high performance potential.
In terms of theoretical performance, through the CPU-Z and Cinebench R23 tests, it can be found that compared with the Core i7-11800H carried by the previous generation of OMEN Shadow Genie 7, the core i7-12700H carried by the new OMEN Shadow Genie 8 has greatly improved performance, specifically the single-thread increase is about 20%, and the multi-threaded improvement is more than 30%.
Grill test: heat dissipation efficiency is more powerful
Of course, in addition to the hardware configuration itself, which affects the performance factors of the game, the thermal design is also very important. HP official said that OMEN Shadow Genie 8 is equipped with HP's most high-end cool storm heat dissipation technology, using two in, three out and five duct design, and the highest built-in four heat pipes, double eight mm main heat pipe, with 12V three-phase motor, liquid bearings. Inside, it features a high-density, low-noise fan blade design with a fan blade count of up to 97. In order to test the heat dissipation ability of OMEN Shadow Elf 8, we conducted a practical test, and the ambient room temperature was 26 °C.
Single baked AIDA64 FPU, monitored by HWiNFO64, it can be found that OMEN Shadow Elf 8 can stabilize the output of the Core i7-12700H processor at about 90W power consumption, the package temperature is 91 °C, and the short-term power consumption can reach 115W, and the release strategy is more aggressive, which ensures that the Core i7-12700H can run for a long time with high power consumption and high frequency.
Game performance measured: The gaming experience is more silky
For playing games, especially online competitive games with extremely high frame rate requirements, the performance of the processor is very important, for which we have tested it through three popular games of "DOTA2", "CS:GO" and "Rainbow Six: Siege".
The first is "DOTA2", this popular MOBA terminal game has a better screen, of course, it is more hardware than similar games. In the in-game video options, set to 1920× 1080 resolution, adjust all effects to the highest, turn off VS, and set the maximum frame rate limit to 240FPS. Since DOTA2 doesn't have built-in performance detection tools, our test method was to monitor OMEN Shadow Elf 8's frame rate performance by watching a homepage high-office ladder game and adding software to the game.
Entering the battle, it can be found that if the scene is more empty, the frame rate of OMEN Shadow Elf 8 can be stabilized at about 200FPS.
Even in the more intense late team battle, OMEN Shadow Elf 8 can also stabilize the frame rate above 140FPS, and the overall situation is very stable, and there is no significant frame drop.
Through the performance report of the game plus, OMEN Shadow Elf 8 runs the average frame rate of dota 2 game at 173FPS, and the overall effect is satisfactory.
After testing the MOBA game DOTA2, followed by a representative first-person shooter competitive game "CS:GO", using 1080P resolution, all special effects are set to the highest. Run the FPS Benchmark test map in the Workshop.
CS:GO places high demands on the single-threaded performance of the processor, but it is also affected by the cache and memory performance, which are the strengths of the 12th Generation Core Alder Lake-H. Through the monitoring of the built-in console, the average frame rate of OMEN Shadow Elf 8 is as high as 394.31FPS, which fully reflects the powerful performance of the Core i7-12700H.
Rainbow Six Siege is also a representative first-person competitive first-person shooter game that adjusts the picture quality to super high during testing and runs built-in performance evaluation scenarios.
Although the game "Rainbow Six: Siege" has slightly higher hardware requirements than CS:GO, but with the powerful performance of the Core i7-12700H, the average frame rate of OMEN Shadow Elf 8 can reach 315FPS, and the lowest frame rate is also 257FPS.
This kind of game performance not only reflects the advantages of the new architecture of core i7-12700H, but also the strong cooling efficiency of OMEN Shadow Genie 8, which brings protection for performance release.
summary
Continuing the excellent design of the previous generation, OMEN Shadow Elf 8 has also fully upgraded the inherent hardware configuration, the most prominent of which is the 12th generation Core processor high-performance mobile version of Alder Lake-H, specifically selected Core i7-12700H and Core i5-12500H. After actual performance testing, OMEN Shadow Genie 8 can be described as living up to expectations, thanks to the overall improvement of processor performance, even if the supporting graphics card is equipped with RTX 3060 laptop GPU mainstream configuration version, running like "DOTA2", "CS: GO", "Rainbow Six: Siege" and other representative online esports games can get ultra-high frame rate, bringing the ultimate gaming experience.