When you think of a 2-in-1 device, what's your first impression?
Because of its "tablet" and "laptop" characteristics, the 2-in-1 device has been a mixed product since its inception. On the one hand, the hardware features that can be taken and plugged in make it the most portable form of mobile office tools on the market; on the other hand, in order to improve the portability of products, manufacturers often make compromises on the performance of two-in-one computers.
On the surface, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with this product strategy, after all, each product has its own positioning. The problem is that all the two-in-one devices on the market are currently adopting this product strategy, which also leads to a problem, when you go out with a two-in-one device, in addition to browsing the web, codeword writing, including PS, PR, light games and other needs may not be met.
As a lover of two-in-one equipment, Xiao Lei sometimes sighs that perhaps there is no high-performance two-in-one device in the world.
ROG disagrees.
At CES earlier this year, ROG brought us the ROG Fantasy X 2-in-1 game book – of course, this product should probably be called "game tablet" more than the name "game book". The machine can be equipped with up to the i9-12900H standard voltage processor, NVIDIA RTX 3050Ti discrete graphics card, in the two-in-one device can be regarded as a well-deserved performance beast. As for the actual experience, please continue to see Lei Technology's complete evaluation of it.
Appearance: Hardcore sci-fi, glittering
As the new face of the ROG Phantom series, the ROG Phantom X is definitely an unusual two-in-one device.
From the appearance point of view, and most of the two-in-one equipment on the market using a cool color design is different, ROG Phantom X uses a very flamboyant gamebook design, frosted and CNC treated aluminum alloy fuselage is quite textured, the grid-like fence on the back of the host, not only constitutes a mechanical sense of ROG logo, but also acts as the role of the machine air inlet, while maintaining heat dissipation performance while also reducing unnecessary mold openings, full of technology.
Pull open the bracket and place the ROG Phantom X on the table, and the whole set of actions is completed in one go. ROG Phantom X adopts the same stepless adjustment bracket design as the old Surface series, the difference is that ROG Phantom X has done a lot of mechanical texture details of internal components in the bracket part, with a red and black ROG logo, so that users clearly know where the opening of the bracket is.
Not only that, ROG Magic X inherits the fine tradition of the ROG player country - full of RGB lights. ROG specially on the back of the ROG Phantom X, to create a back hollow design of the transparent window, and marked on the asus headquarters building latitude and longitude, not only can display RGB lights, but also for the user to show some of the components inside the computer, very industrial style.
In addition to the RGB elements on the fuselage, the magnetic pluggable keyboard that comes with ROG Phantom X also supports ASUS AURA RGB backlight control, and users can adjust the backlight effect through the built-in ARMOURY CRATE control software, and perform light effect linkage with other ROG peripherals that support divine light synchronization, which also makes ROG Magic X a rare two-in-one device on the market that supports RGB backlight.
Compared to the cool look, what impressed me even more was the keyboard's typing feel.
Although this is only an external magnetic keyboard, it adopts a full-size large keycap design, coupled with a 1.7mm long key range and a rigid keyboard panel, the actual use of light and powerful feel, quite a feeling of typing with the Surface keyboard. In addition, limited by the size of the fuselage, the trackpad area of the machine is not large, although the sliding feel is acceptable, but it is still not as intuitive as the direct use of the touch screen / mouse.
In terms of screen, the 13.4-inch, 1920*1200 (16:10) and 120Hz refresh rate touch screen equipped with ROG Magic X is the absolute leader in the two-in-one device. Not only that, this screen also has a lot of highlights, such as 500nits brightness, 100% sRGB color gamut display, through Pantone certification, support for 4096 levels of pressure sensitivity, in theory, whether it is daily use, content creation or gamers can find what they need.
In terms of interface, ROG Magic X is equipped with a power key that supports fingerprint recognition, a USB Type-A interface, a USB Type-C Raiden 4 interface, a 3.5mm headphone interface and a ROG custom interface (including Type-C), which can even be connected to the ROG XG graphics card docking station to obtain the surging performance brought by the mobile RTX 3080.
In terms of expansion, ROG Magic X has a Micro SD card slot under the left bracket, and there is also an SSD hard disk slot under the right bracket, and users can add Micro SD cards / replace large-capacity SSD hard disks to increase storage space, which is also relatively rare in two-in-one devices.
It is not difficult to find that the body size of the ROG Phantom X is thicker than that of the average two-in-one device. The thickness of the fuselage of 12.9mm, the weight of the fuselage of 1.2kg, and the weight of the whole machine after the keyboard reached about 1.5kg, which is obviously thicker than other two-in-one equipment.
In fact, the volume of the bag occupied by the ROG Magic X is almost the same as that of the regular 13-inch office light and thin book, and it can be easily loaded into Xiao Lei's bag. With a weight close to 1.5kg, it is indeed a bit heavy to carry with a cross-body bag, and it is more suitable to use the weight to spread evenly on both shoulders. Considering that the machine is stuffed with flagship CPU and RTX GPU in this weight, this is also the best choice for both performance and portability.
Performance testing: 12th generation Core by leaps and bounds
ROG Magic X has a number of different configuration models to choose from, and this time we got the top version, the specific configuration is as follows:
Among them, i9-12900H is the flagship product in the current standard voltage mobile-level processor, with 6 P-Core + 8 E-Cores a total of 14 cores and 20 threads, up to 24MB of L3 cache, Turbo acceleration capabilities up to 5GHz, hardware parameters are very eye-catching.
ROG Magic X's system has built-in ULTron Center software and provides multiple performance mode options, even allowing players to manually intervene in fan speed, CPU maximum power consumption and GPU frequency. However, this product can only turn on enhanced mode if it is connected to the official adapter. Here, we turn on to Enhanced Mode and begin performance testing of the processor and graphics card.
In the CPU-Z test, the i9-12900H processor scored 797 points for single threading and 7924 points for multi-threading.
In the CineBench R20 test, the i9-12900H had a single-threaded score of 728cb and a multithreading score of 5705cb.
In the CineBench R23 test, the i9-12900H had a single-threaded score of 1884cb and a multithreading score of 14391cb.
In the CrossMark test, the overall score is 1855 points, the productivity score is 1789 points, the creativity score is 1913 points, and the responsiveness score is 1887 points, all three of which are at the top level of the current thin and light laptops, indicating that ROG Magic X has no pressure to complete various productivity-related applications.
To sum up, the actual running score of the i9-12900H equipped with the ROG Phantom X and the i7-12700H released by full power consumption are almost the same, and the overall performance has exceeded the vast majority of mobile CPUs, and even exceeded the 11th generation desktop flagship processor. Compared with the Core M/Celeron low-voltage processors that are commonly equipped with 2-in-1 devices in the past, it is not difficult to see that the performance of the ROG Phantom X has indeed improved by leaps and bounds.
In the actual use process, the office experience of ROG Magic X is very comfortable, it not only perfectly meets my daily work needs, but also has excellent performance in some highly loaded office scenes, such as using Photoshop to post-process the product photos needed in the article, and using Adobe Premiere for video rendering, preview, export, etc., the experience is quite comfortable.
Game Testing: Meet the needs of everyday gaming
The RTX 3050Ti has 2560 stream processors with gDDR6 memory type, 4GB of memory capacity, 128 bits of memory bus width, 785MHz core frequency, 1400MHz of memory frequency, and 1085MHz of Boost frequency. Limited by the product design of the two-in-one device, this RTX 3050Ti only has a maximum performance of 40W, which also makes people quite curious about its performance.
In Time Spy in 3DMark, the ROG Magic X's CPU running score reached 10140 points and the GPU running score reached 4459 points.
In 3DMark's Fire Strike Extreme test, the ROG Magic X achieved a graphics score of 5535 points and a CPU running score of 23981 points.
Here we've checked out the actual game, where we've selected six games for frame-rate testing, including Control, Tomb Raider: Shadow, F1 2020, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Forza Motorsport: Horizon 5, and League of Legends.
1. Control
In the case of medium quality and turning off light chasing, the average frame number of "Control" can reach about 67 frames.
2. Tomb Raider: Shadow
With ultra-high image quality and light chasing off, the average frame of Tomb Raider: Shadow can reach about 56 frames.
3、F1：2020
In the case of ultra-high image quality and TAA anti-aliasing, the average frame number of F1:2020 can reach about 69 frames.
4. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
In ultra-high quality, counter-Strike: Global Offensive Workshop Benchmark can reach an average frame count of 129 frames.
5. Forza Motorsport: Horizon 5
In ultra-high quality, the Average Frames of The Horizon 5 Benchmark can reach 59 frames.
6. League of Legends
In the case of ultra-high quality, the average frame number of "League of Legends" can reach 123 frames.
To sum up, with a slight adjustment of the graphics options, the ROG Magic X will get a stable frame rate of more than 60 FPS in most AAA games. To know that before that, the two-in-one device on the market generally uses Intel UHD core display, playing AAA games on such a portable device is almost an unimaginable scene, ROG Magic X subverts people's inherent impression of weak gaming performance on two-in-one devices.
However, for today's increasingly demanding AAA games, the 35W RTX 3050Ti graphics card is only just "playable", and as for the high refresh rate, high resolution and ray tracing, they are all unattainable features. Of course, the ROG XG Mobile external graphics card docking station, which sells up to five figures, can solve this problem, but that's all a story.
Powerful performance support almost makes ROG Magic X the most portable gaming device on the market today. When you go out with the ROG X, just open the bracket and place it on any table, and the space will immediately become your open playroom. From the wilderness of Mexico to the junction at the other end of the Sea of Mist, the entire virtual world unfolds before your eyes. In my opinion, the most unique selling point of ROG Fantasy X is this.
However, the relative weakness of endurance affects the actual play of ROG Phantom X. According to Xiao Lei's actual test, when you turn on the solo direct connection, under the condition of screen brightness of 40% (1080P60Hz), play "Forza Motorsport: Horizon 5", ROG Magic X can only last for about an hour. Even if we turn on the standard graphics card and power saving mode, we spend about three and a half hours browsing and writing codewords, and the battery will still be exhausted.
Obviously, in the absence of a significant increase in the energy consumption ratio, high performance and high energy consumption are basically proportional, and high energy consumption means low endurance. Compared with the Surface Go, ASUS Fearless and other low-voltage processor-based two-in-one devices, the ROG Phantom X may not be an ideal portable office computer, if you want to use this product in the case of power off, then the overall experience will be greatly reduced.
Other tests: the hard disk memory parameters are eye-catching, and the double baking power consumption is 55W
ROG Magic X uses a hard disk is 1TB SN735, 2230 specifications, in the CrystalDiskMark test, the sequential read speed of this SSD reached 3547MB/s, the write speed is also 2785MB/s; 4K read and write speeds are 60MB/s and 355MB/s, the measured read and write data is eye-catching, and the performance is good.
However, although the machine has a unique quick-release design, there are too few 2230 SSD hard disks on the market, so it is not realistic to replace the hard disk.
In terms of memory, ROG Magic X uses on-board 16GB 5200MHz LPDDR5 memory, which is the highest grade in the 12th generation Core book that has been released so far. The measured running score is as follows, the reading speed is 7116MB/s, the writing speed is 62604MB/s, the delay reaches 114.1ns, the speed is indeed very fast, but the delay is also very high, which is also a common disease of DDR5 memory.
Finally, we tested the grill using the AIDA64 FPU and FurMark at a room temperature of 24 degrees and the test was performed in enhanced mode.
In the case of a single baked FPU, the peak power consumption of the i9-12900H can reach 95W, and then gradually stabilize at about 50W, with a full core frequency of 2.25GHz and a temperature of 75 degrees.
In the case of a single-baked GPU, the peak power consumption of the RTX 3050Ti can reach 40W, the GPU core temperature is 65 degrees, and the grill frequency is 1005MHz.
After 30 minutes of double roasting, the power consumption of this i9-12900H finally stabilized at about 15W, the temperature was 65 degrees, the full core frequency was 1.2GHz, and the power consumption of this RTX 3050Ti grill could reach up to 40W and the GPU core temperature was 65 degrees.
Overall, the total power consumption of the i9-12900H+RTX 3050Ti grill is maintained at about 55W, considering the heat dissipation limitations of the 2-in-1 device, the performance of the ROG Phantom X is enough to meet the heavy load productivity applications and daily gaming applications.
summary:
merit:
1. i9-12900H+RTX 3050Ti, excellent performance
2, the appearance design is very characteristic, ROG flavor is full
3, can do both performance and portability
shortcoming:
1. You cannot use a third-party adapter to enable enhanced mode
2. Travel needs to carry a tablet + keyboard + adapter, the burden is not light
Comprehensive experience, ROG Phantom X is indeed a unique two-in-one device, industrial style design, highlighting the sense of power, in the narrow body, actually stuffed with core i9-12900H standard voltage processor and RTX 3050Ti discrete graphics card. It's like a Hummer parked in a Mercedes-Benz pile, and it's particularly recognizable in a business-style two-in-one device.
Although there are also some slots in this product, such as short battery life, limited original charging, etc., it is still a flawed product. Perhaps ROG can not change the user's inherent impression of the two-in-one computer through this product, but the emergence of this product can indeed make the entire laptop market aware of a new possibility, which is undoubtedly a good thing for users.