In the past two years, players have discussed the game book, and there will be two key words that will follow, one is "full of blood alone", and the other is "unique direct connection". Indeed, the real game machine must be a model that has no shortcomings in terms of game performance and functional experience. With the advent of new platforms, there are more and more such models on the market. Today's Uncle Niu commented on one of the high-end configurations - Thor ZERO 2022. The machine is equipped with the latest 150W power RTX 3070Ti+i7 12700H dual-core combination, supports independent direct connection, and a good quality 2.5K e-sports screen, how does it perform in actual combat?
Configuration and specifications
■ Screen: 16 inch 2560× 1600 resolution 100% sRGB color gamut 165Hz IPS screen
■ Processor: Intel Core i7 12700H (14/20, 2.3/4.7GHz)
■ Graphics: NVIDIA RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU 8GB (up to 150W)
■ Memory: 2×16GB DDR5 4800MHz
■ Hard Disk: 512GB M.2 PCIe SSD (reserved M.2 hard disk slots)
■ Network: AX201WIFi6 wireless + RJ-45 wired
■ Interface: 1 x USB3.1 Gen2 Type-A, 2 x USB3.1 Gen1 Type-A, Raiden 4, HDMI2.0, Mini DP1.4, 3.5mm audio port, RJ-45 network port
■Weight: 2.56kg (battery included) + 1.14kg adapter (300W)
Reference price: 11499 yuan
Advantages: RTX 3070Ti is full power design, supports independent direct connection, neat configuration without slots, standard 32GB memory, good fuselage workmanship, support multi-area lighting effect synchronization
Regret point: C-surface heat accumulation is more obvious when full load; PD charging is not supported
Unique orange appearance, good workmanship
A high-end game book, in addition to the need for strong core hardware, must also have a unique design, Thor ZERO obviously meets this requirement: its appearance uses the "Kai shi" ID design language, the overall look and feel is full of the typical hardcore atmosphere of the powerful game book. Under the modification of the two diamond stripes on the A side, one wide and one narrow, supplemented by a more rounded corner treatment, some line dynamics are highlighted, which is very personal.
The appearance of the evaluation model is orange, in addition to the A and D sides are covered with a large area of orange, some details of the fuselage also have orange embellishments, such as the edge of the trackpad and the power button LOGO. By the way, orange-looking game books are really rare at the moment, and they are highly recognizable in a patch of black and gray game books.
The screen surface is a narrow border design, the upper part retains the camera, and the lower border is as narrow as possible, which will not cause everyone to hate the "long chin".
The lighting effect design of Thor ZERO 2022 is quite cool, and there are more components covered: including the keyboard surface (supporting three-zone RGB backlight), A-side LOGO, tail left and right air outlet light rings and other areas, and support a variety of light effects (breathing, constant light, circulation, etc.) linkage, especially the A-side LOGO and the air outlet light ring two, eye-catching, but also further enhance the sense of grade of the fuselage.
The C-side is made of metal, which is more solid to the touch, but it is easier to stain fingerprints. In addition, for the game book, the metal C-side has one more thing to pay attention to: the thermal conductivity will be more obvious when fully loaded.
In terms of appearance, the design of Thor ZERO 2022 has its own unique language ideas, exquisite fuselage workmanship, good details and craftsmanship, and is a game book with a relatively new appearance.
Processor test: High burst power with a continuous output of 65W
The review raytheon ZERO 2022 is equipped with Intel's 12th generation Core i7 12700H processor, with a powerful specification of 14 cores and 20 threads, the maximum acceleration frequency is 4.7GHz, the basic power consumption is 45W, and the turbo power consumption can reach 115W. This is a processor with high specifications and high power requirements, and its performance is at the forefront of current mobile platforms, and it has no problem dealing with AAA games and heavy applications.
Room temperature of about 28 ° C (Note: recently Chongqing temperature soared, has entered the summer ahead of schedule, the room is particularly stuffy, so it may have some impact on the situation when the notebook is fully loaded), the single test processor (FPU) test (test when the machine is set to violent mode), continuous testing of the machine for half an hour, the processor operating state of the machine is as follows: the initial operation at 115W under the burst power consumption, and then stable operation at 65W, at this time the large core frequency of about 3GHz, The small core frequency is about 2.3GHz, and the temperature is around 80 °C.
Below we measured the performance of the data analysis processor, Uncle Niu joined the same 65W i7 11800H processor as a reference object.
Compared with the previous generation of Tiger Lake H45 processors, the number of cores/threads of the 12th generation Core H45 has increased significantly, which is directly reflected in the benchmark running score test: the i7 12700H carried by Thor ZERO 2022 has broken through 18000 in the Cinebench R23 multi-core and reached 18097, and the current 8-core 16-thread H processor around 14000 is undoubtedly much stronger, and the benchmark improvement is about 30%.
However, because the benchmark test time is too short, for Thor ZERO 2022, the test process is basically completed at a power of more than 110W, so the above short-term test results are more representative of the instantaneous explosion performance of the machine, that is, the results of i7 12700H of about 110W.
▲ In the long-term full load test, Uncle Niu chose blender rendering to examine the full load performance of the machine, for a single sample rendering test, the software version is 3.01, the test project is a longer Classroom scene, and finally the machine runs the rendering time of 6 minutes and 33 seconds. This is a good result, compared to the i7 11800H test of about 9 minutes, the efficiency is quite improved, of course, there are some software version update factors.
▲ Video transcoding, you can see that i7 12700H has a short explosive state (about 110W), and then it runs stably in the state of 65W, the real-time temperature is only about 75 ° C, the large core frequency is about 3.1GHz, the small core frequency is about 2.6GHz, and it takes 6 minutes and 13 seconds.
Processor test summary: From the perspective of the test machine and test, the processor tuning strategy of Thor ZERO 2022 is: the initial burst power is high to cope with the instantaneous performance requirements of the start of large software, and the continuous full load stage is a small over-standard release. At the same time, you can also see that the temperature of its i7 12700H is low when fully loaded. Such a performance, can be applied to easily get daily applications, AAA games, when fully loaded compared to the previous generation of processor efficiency improvement is significant, the core temperature is not high, but correspondingly, it is not too fierce.
Game Test: Full Blood RTX 3070Ti debuts, supporting unique direct connection
The reviewed Thor ZERO 2022 is equipped with a full-blood RTX 3070Ti 8GB display with a maximum power of 150W, which is NVIDIA's new high-end notebook unique display, using ampere architecture, with 5888 stream processors, 8GB GDDR6 video memory. Compared with the dessert-grade RTX 3060, not only does it have more stream processors, but also has a larger memory capacity, and there is no need to worry about bursting video memory for some games that eat video memory. By the way, the RTX 3070Ti has a very close number of streams to the RTX 3080.
In addition, Thor ZERO 2022 upgrade supports a single direct connection, but pay attention to the need to open in the BIOS, although the setting options are very simple, but it is still recommended that Raytheon to do the unique direct connection switching option to the desktop application, so that it will be more convenient for small white users.
Graphics benchmark performance test
Judging from 3DMark's unique benchmark results, the 150W RTX 3070Ti is very strong. For example, in the Time Spy scene of the DX12, its graphics card score is 11335, which is about 30% stronger than the full-blood RTX 3060 - we know that the full-blood RTX 3060 has no problem with the highest image quality of FHD and the 2.5K high-quality 3A masterpiece, so can the 3070Ti further get the highest quality of 2.5K?
Game measurement, considering that Thor ZERO 2022 is equipped with a 2560×1600 resolution screen, so the game is measured into 2560×1600 and 1920×1200 resolutions, both of which are preset highest picture quality, and the whole process adopts the independent direct connection mode test.
1200P gaming performance test
▲ "Cyberpunk 2077", using the newly added benchmark running score, Thor ZERO 2022 at 1200P the highest quality average frame rate reached 70fps, ahead of the full blood RTX 3060's 65fps, and slightly higher than the 130W RTX 3080, the latter is 68fps.
▲ "Forza Motorsport: Horizon 5", Thor ZERO 2022 has an average frame rate of 84fps at 1200P maximum image quality, which is significantly ahead of the full-blood RTX 3060, which is 56 fps, because at the highest quality, the memory occupation exceeds 6GB, which has a significant impact on the RTX 3060 frame rate, highlighting the value of the RTX 3070Ti 8GB video memory.
In the actual measurement of the 1920×1200 resolution game, the data performance of Thor ZERO 2022 is very good, and all games have reached an average frame rate of more than 70fps, and the fluency is very high. Even the poorly optimized Cyberpunk 2077 performs well, and it can be said that the bloody RTX 3070Ti can easily handle the AAA masterpiece at 1200P.
1600P gaming performance test
▲ "God of War 4", fixed scene manual test, 1600P maximum picture quality average frame rate of 66fps, smooth.
▲ "Far Cry 6" benchmark test, 1600P maximum quality average frame rate frame rate frame rate of 75fps, very smooth
Judging from the test results, Thor ZERO 2022 can basically get the highest picture quality at 1600P resolution to get the highest AAA masterpiece, in addition to the consistently low frame rate of "Cyberpunk 2077", the overall frame rate of the game is between 56fps and 89fps. That said, with a slight reduction in the effect, the full-blood RTX 3070Ti reaches above 1600P/60fps is not a problem.
RTX and DLSS testing
In the benchmark test, the RTX 3070Ti's Prot Royal score reached a relatively high 7045, so Uncle Niu added RTX and DLSS tests for the machine, and the test settings were: 2560×1600/1920× 1200 resolution preset maximum image quality + RTX maximum + DLSS quality.
Testing, under 1200P, Thor ZERO 2022 can fully open the RTX highest + DLSS quality running light chase masterpiece, the game fluency is good. However, under 1600P, for games with higher requirements, the frame rate is relatively average - after all, it is a notebook display. Players can reduce RTX effects or set DLSS to Balanced/Performance mode, which will increase frame rates a lot.
Stand-alone direct connection test
Thor ZERO 2022 upgraded the unique direct connection function, the effect is more obvious for the low hardware requirements of the e-sports game, the following is the e-sports game in the unique direct output and mixed output mode of the comparative test, the special effect is set to 2560× 1600 maximum picture quality. It can be seen that for e-sports games with low hardware requirements, the exclusive direct connection does have a significant frame rate increase.
Judging from the above test results, it can be concluded that under 1200P, Thor ZERO 2022 can easily get the 3A masterpiece, and it is no problem to open the highest light chasing + DLSS; under 1600P, it can run the vast majority of 3A games with the highest image quality, and when opening the light chasing, you need to reduce some special effects; in addition, the blessing of the unique direct connection further enhances the e-sports game performance of the machine.
Machine and noise testing
Room temperature is about 28 ° C, the double test of Thor ZERO 2022, half an hour later the situation is as follows: the package power consumption of the i7 12700H processor is about 55W, the large core frequency is about 2.7GHz, the small core frequency is about 2.4GHz, and the temperature is about 88 ° C; the power consumption of the RTX 3070Ti fluctuates between 110W and 125W, and the temperature is about 87 ° C - the current hot room temperature in Chongqing may affect the performance of the machine, if the temperature is suitable, The steady state should be CPU 55W + GPU 125W.
Internal dismantling diagram, Raytheon ZERO 2022 adopts a new wind tunnel Pro cooling architecture 2.0 design, dual fans and five copper tubes combined with four air outlets, a hidden heat pipe to the display independent heat dissipation, compared to the previous generation optimized the cooling duct, increased the height of the foot pad, the official data indicates that when full load, the core temperature is reduced by 4%, and the fan noise is reduced by 6%.
When the measured double test is fully loaded, the user bit noise is about 58 decibels, and the fan noise is large. In terms of temperature, the C-side heat is accumulated near the button M, and the heat perception in this area is more obvious, about 49 °C, and the left control area is not high, about 41 °C.
Screens, SSDs, and interfaces
In addition to the high-spec dual-core hardware, the detailed configuration specifications of the Thor ZERO 2022 are also quite high. The machine is equipped with a 16-inch 2560×1600 resolution 165Hz high color gamut screen, 16:10 ratio, response speed 5ms, 10bit color depth, measured color gamut of 100% sRGB, peak brightness of about 500 nits, color accuracy, △E maximum value of 3.38, minimum value of 0.11, average value of 1.06. Overall, whether it is resolution, refresh rate or color performance is good, daily use, game entertainment experience is better.
The storage combination of the machine is 2× 16GB DDR5 4800MHz + 512GB SSD, which is a small highlight of the machine, 32GB of memory to cope with 3A games is more than enough, to deal with the personal user level of heavy full load applications are no problem, SSD is PCIe4.0 specifications, and good performance, continuous read speed of more than 6900MB/s, continuous write speed is about 3992MB/s, application startup response is fast, Game reads also take without the need for lengthy waiting times.
In terms of interface, Thor ZERO 2022 comes with three USB ports, which are distributed on the left and right sides, and the ease of use is good. The tail has expansion ports such as HDMI2.0, Mini DP, and Raiden 4 (support data and DP1.3), and the expansion ability is relatively strong.
epilogue
Judging from the test data, the biggest selling point of Thor ZERO 2022 is that the game performance is very brilliant, the bloody RTX 3070Ti 8GB plus the unique direct connection, with a 2560×1600 resolution 165Hz high color gamut screen, whether it is a 3A masterpiece or an e-sports game, you can get a comfortable entertainment experience. In terms of regrets, one is that the heat sensation in some areas of the C side is more obvious when fully loaded, and the other is that PD charging is not supported.
Finally, let's talk about Uncle Niu's purchase suggestion: Thor ZERO 2022 is suitable for users with extremely high game performance requirements, and its performance in terms of gameplay is basically slotless. In addition, the current price of the machine is 11499 yuan, and high-end users can pay attention to it.