Although the current wave of graphics card price increases has slowly come to an end, game notebooks have become the main choice for office, entertainment and competition for many consumers in the past two years. This is because the mainstream game now has a strong performance, a good daily use experience, and a cool design. However, for the game book, unlike the Ultrabook and the office book, there is no "real skill" that will not be favored by the user, and the most popular price range of the game book and the corresponding configuration are about 10,000 yuan and equipped with 3 series graphics cards. The author recently got one of the hottest game notebooks at the 10,000 level - the new Acer Marauder Tomahawk 300, as a highly popular 10,000-yuan dessert-level game book, how does the new 2022 edition of the Marauder Tomahawk 300 perform?
Designed, stylish and tough guy
Like the previous generation of The Maraudhawk 300, the new model also uses a 15.6-inch screen design, but the overall is more minimalistic. The A side of the product is made of almost all metal, with a striking Predator LOGO faith lamp in the middle, which will light up when the screen is turned on.
On the B side, the new Marauder Tomahawk 300 still uses a three-sided extremely narrow border design, compared to the previous era of the game book, the 2022 version of the Tomahawk 300 has a slightly compact feeling, the extremely narrow border design in addition to the immersive experience at the same time, so that the portability has also been correspondingly improved.
On the lower border of the screen is the "main battlefield" that highlights the game's unusualness, and the new Marauder Tomahawk 300 uses a 165Hz high-brush screen, which is really "no increase" compared to the previous generation of 144Hz. In addition, the new model also supports 3ms response, 100% sRGB color gamut, 300 nits brightness, and NVIDIA G-SYNC technology, which is more refreshing when playing games.
As a notebook office worker, the author has long admired the full-size keyboard and cool lighting effects of the gamebook. The new Marauder Tomahawk 300 features a full-size keyboard design with a longer key range, and the four-zone RGB lighting effect can be customized through the Predator Sense Predator control induction system, just like the external mechanical keyboard can create its own BGM light.
It is worth mentioning that the keycaps of the Marauder Tomahawk 300 continue the double-layer structure of the previous generation, the upper layer is ABS laser carving process, the lower layer is translucent white matte material, and the RGB lighting effect can be seen from the inside of the keyboard, which is very recognizable at a glance.
At the top of the keyboard, the TURBE key with the characteristics of the predator is used to switch between the "rampage mode" and "automatic mode" of heat dissipation, and the symmetrical position is the LOGO that highlights the product's DTS sound effect.
As for the touchpad design that is not commonly used in the game book, for a notebook office person, the author is still satisfied, the operation is very smooth, and the pressure level and pressure feedback can basically meet daily needs.
The new Acer Predator Tomahawk 300 can be said to be very rich in interface, the main interface is 3 USB3.2, 1 audio interface, 1 RJ45 interface, 1 Mini DP interface, 1 HDMI interface, 1 DC-in interface, not with the docking station can also meet the needs of daily games.
The main heat dissipation port of the product is concentrated on the left and right sides under the screen shaft, which is the same design language as the previous generation, and the 98 heat dissipation fins inside the air outlet are blue treated, which is perfectly integrated with the gaming elements of the fuselage. Official data shows that compared with the previous generation, the heat dissipation performance of the new model is increased by 12.5%.
Performance, game testing, stress-free
In view of the fact that many consumers have not used the gamebook, before the various tests, I will briefly talk about the Predator Sense Predator control induction system that the Tomahawk 300 has always had. By opening the Predator Sense software through the Marauder induction system button, you can intuitively observe the temperature of the CPU, GPU and system, and through the software can achieve custom backlighting, GPU overclocking, fan control and other operations, supporting a key callout, very convenient.
In terms of configuration, the new Marauder Tomahawk 300 is configured as follows: Core i7-12700H processor (14C/20T, 4.7GHz Turbo), equipped with 16GB dual channel DDR5-4800MHz memory and 512GB PCIe 4.0 SSD, graphics card is NVIDIA RTX 3060 6GB GDRR6 unique graphics, including 5120 core stream processors, up to 140W performance free. In addition, the motherboard also has an M.2 and SATA 2.5-inch HDD slot, which can be expanded by itself in the later stage.
By the way, in terms of 16GB dual-channel DDR5-4800MHz memory and 512GB PCIe 4.0 SSD, compared with the previous generation, the new energy belongs to the upgrade category, and the running speed and storage rate have been greatly improved.
In the test of CrystalDiskMark, the new Acer Marauder Tomahawk 300 has a strong write and read capability. Its write speed is about 4895MB/s and the read speed is about 2430MB/s.
In default mode, CINEBENCH R23 runs with a single-core score of 1763 and a multi-core score of 16530.
In the 3DMark test, the new Marauder Tomahawk 300 graphics card achieved a graphics score of 28556 points.
From the perspective of configuration and performance testing, the new Acer Maraus tomahawk 300 as a game notebook, its actual ability and performance are far more than the product positioning. Next, let's move on to the game testing session.
Although "Horizon 4" has long been released, and the optimization of this game on the PC side has achieved almost "no threshold", there are many details in this game, as well as light and shadow, dynamic effects, and it is still difficult for many games to play with full firepower. In the game session, we turned all the configurations to the highest.
During the test, the author found that the game experience under the full fire setting was far higher than the feeling of the Xbox+2K display in the author's home, and the details from the color to the internal graphics of the game were improved by more than one grade.
Thanks to the powerful rendering and AI support of Nvidia DLSS, the game's demo runs extremely smoothly as a whole, with a frame rate of around 140Fps (the maximum frame rate is stable at 83 frames without opening).
In the game test of Tomb Raider, we also set up a full-height game configuration, especially turning on more demanding special effects options such as ray tracing.
The 2022 edition of the Marauder Tomahawk 300 completed the test with an average of 250Fps, the overall smooth operation during the game, the peak brightness of 300nit is not top-notch, but under the optimization of Nvidia DLSS, the details of the seabed part are almost completely flawless.
In the classic AAA masterpiece of "The Witcher 3", it is still necessary to open all the special effects for testing.
The final result of the Predator Tomahawk 300 is a stable 60Fps operation, although the highest frame rate of this game is 60Fps, but in the game experience with full special effects, the author really found a completely different game experience in the past, many scenery at a glance as if re-acquainted with this game, and the previous Switch game experience one in the sky, one in the ground.
Finally, a brief summary of the new 2022 edition of the Predator Tomahawk 300 game book, the new model compared to the previous generation and even many mainstream game books on the market, in the configuration is superior, cool appearance, relatively thin and light body, rich interface, RGB keyboard lighting effect and 15.6-inch 165Hz screen, in addition to memory, solid state, including heat dissipation and performance release and other aspects in the mainstream game book absolutely have a lot of competitiveness.
In addition, among the features of the game, the Marauder Tomahawk 300 also uses Killer's wireless and wired network cards. With its built-in Wi-Fi analyzer and game management, these allow us to get better wireless connectivity and improve the smoothness of online games. Including the daily office experience, if you do not consider commuting to carry, this notebook can maintain a very quiet working state in almost all scenes outside of the game, which is very suitable for daily office use for the author. If you're also looking for something that satisfies your day-to-day office and is an extraordinary gaming experience, the new 2022 Edition Of the Marauder Tomahawk 300 will definitely blow your mind.