This year, Thor ZERO game ben upgraded and re-fought, launching a new Thor ZERO 2022. The 12th-generation Core i7, together with the full blood version of the RTX30 laptop GPU, supports independent direct connection, 300W high-power power adapter, 16-inch 2.5K professional esports screen, "Kaise" ID language design, etc. These are the product highlights of Thor ZERO 2022.
In particular, Thor ZERO 2022 was a minor success when it was launched, winning the German Red Dot Design Award 2022, which also greatly increased its popularity. For its performance, I believe many players want to see and see. In this article, I will take a look at Thor ZERO 2022 with you.
At present, this game has been officially listed in China, and there are two first models, including RTX3060 laptop GPU models and RTX3070Ti laptop GPU models. This time, the author will use the RTX3060 notebook GPU model as a evaluation machine.
Product appreciation
The Thor ZERO 2022 that I got my hands on this time is a version of the Blade Gray appearance. At the same time, the game also has a Phantom Orange appearance version for players to choose.
According to Thor's official introduction, Thor ZERO 2022 game book adopts a unique "Enlightenment" ID language design, hoping to show a super-renaissance aesthetic.
Its top cover is designed with diamond bite flowers and stripes, which are both textured and beautiful.
Inlaid with a striking Thor logo just above the center of the top cover, the RGB lighting effect can be customized.
The large word ZERO is located on the edge of the top cover, further increasing the recognition of this gamebook.
RGB taillights are designed at both heat dissipation vents at the tail end of the fuselage, making this game even more cool.
In order to make this game more professional, Raytheon is specially equipped with a 16-inch professional esports display with a screen ratio of 16:10, 2560× 1600 resolution, 165Hz refresh rate, 5ms high-speed response time and 100% sRGB wide color gamut coverage, which can provide players with silky game visual enjoyment.
At the same time, Thor also made a full-screen no-highlight promise to the screen of this game book, and perfectionists can buy it with confidence!
2560× 1600 resolution (16:10) of the game screen
2560× 1440 resolution (16:9) gameplay screen
Compared to the 16:9 ratio screen, Thor ZERO's 16:10 ratio screen can display more screen content.
The camera and microphone pickup holes are designed in the center of the screen bezel.
The game features an RGB backlit keyboard (with standalone numeric keypad) that supports multiple lighting modes and brightness adjustments. The RGB keyboard can be set up in detail through the SYSTEM CONTROL CENTER control software included in the system.
The computer power-on key is located in the center directly in front of the keyboard face. When the computer is running, the button lights up the nascent blue light effect.
In the front right of the keyboard surface, there is also an integrated "one-key strong cold" button, which adopts an orange paint design, which is very eye-catching. After opening the one-button strong cooling function, the radiator speed will reach the fastest speed, and it will be accompanied by a relatively large running sound. It is recommended to turn this feature on when running very high load applications.
The A, D, W, and S buttons are designed with eye-catching annotations.
One-piece trackpad painted with a personalized pattern.
The right palmrest features An Intel processor, NVIDIA graphics, a branded sticker from Nahimic, and a QR code for the Raytheon service.
The left-hand side of the machine is designed with a USB 3.1 interface and a 3.5mm headphone headset 2-in-1 interface.
The right-hand side of the machine is designed with two USB 3.1 ports.
The rear of the fuselage is also designed with a power interface, a network cable interface, an HDMI2.0 interface, a Thunderbolt 4 interface, and a mini DP1.4 interface.
The bottom surface of the machine has a large area of heat dissipation mesh.
Next, I will remove the bottom cover of the machine and continue to look at the internal materials of this game book.
The gamebook features a dual-fan cooling design with 5 flat heat pipes and up to four air outlets.
This model is equipped with a single 16GB DDR5-4800 memory. For players with higher performance needs, they can install another DDR5 memory to form a dual memory four-channel operation mode.
PCIe4.0 SSD is produced by SSSTC, that is, Jianxing, which is currently under the umbrella of Jiaoxia, and the hard disk capacity is 512GB. At the same time, this game book also reserves an M.2 SSD installation position, the standard M.2 2280 size, also supports PCIe4.0 CPU direct connection, players can expand the hard disk capacity.
The wireless card is intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 and supports Wi-Fi 6.
The battery capacity is 64.31Wh, which can provide a good endurance for this game.
CONTROL CENTER control software
CONTROL CENTER is the standard control software in the system, players can use it to set the computer's operating mode, keyboard lighting effect, RGB atmosphere lighting effect, to create their own ideal computer operation effect.
Under the "System Mode" interface, 3 system operation modes are preset, including "Rampage Mode", "Game Mode" and "Office Mode". Among them, "Rage Mode" is also the strongest performance mode of this game book. The performance testing session later in the article is mainly carried out in "rage mode".
Under the "Light Effect Control" interface, players can adjust the backlight of the RGB keyboard as well as the ambient light on the fuselage.
Performance demonstration
(Note: The performance test in this article is mainly carried out in the notebook's strongest mode, the rampage mode, and the unique mode is turned on to show the optimal performance of the gamebook.) )
The Core i7-12700H with Thor ZERO 2022 is the high-end model of the 12th generation Intel Core Mobile Standard Voltage Processor, which uses Intel's innovative high-performance hybrid architecture design, 6+8 core, 20-thread design, turbo up to 4.7GHz. A high-performance hybrid architecture balances performance and energy consumption for a whole new creative and gaming experience.
Through the CPU-Z, Geekbench 5 software tests, it can be seen that the core i7-12700H's single-core performance and multi-core performance are very powerful, and they are promising in terms of gaming and productivity.
Compared with the 11th generation Core i7-11700H, the 12th generation Core i7-12700H has significantly improved both single-core performance and full-core performance. I have to say that the 12th generation Core is really strong!
Memory performance in single DDR5 "dual channel" operating mode.
Product information for this 512GB SSD.
Through the performance of CrystalDiskMark's test software, the performance of this SSD is very good, with a sequential read speed of more than 6800MB/s and a sequential write speed of more than 4000MB/s, which belongs to a relatively high-end PCIe 4.0 SSD.
Next is an introduction to the performance of the graphics card. Thor ZERO 2022 is equipped with the mid-range graphics card on the current notebook platform - RTX 3060 notebook GPU, which is based on the GA106 display core, with 3840 sets of CUDA cores, 48 groups of raster units and 120 sets of texture units, with 192 bits wide, 6GB capacity of GDDR6 video memory.
The Thor ZERO 2022 RTX 3060 notebook GPU defaults to a GPU frequency of 900MHz, a Boost frequency of 1425MHz, and a memory frequency of 1750MHz (equivalent to 14000MHz).
As mentioned at the beginning of the article, Thor ZERO 2022 supports a single direct connection. Boot into the BIOS, in the Graphics Switch option under the Advanced interface, set it to "Discrete", restart the computer is the unique direct mode. Alternatively, Hybrid is a mixed output mode for graphics cards.
According to NVIDIA's official statement, the NVIDIA Ampere architecture has the 2nd generation RT Core (ray tracing core), the 3rd generation Tensor Core (tensor core) and the new SM multi-cell stream processor). It runs faster, has higher performance, and doubles the throughput of FP32 in SM. The second generation of RT Cores doubles the throughput of the light and triangle intersection calculations, and the dynamic blur performance is greatly improved. The third generation of Tensor Cores optimizes the performance of sparse networks and greatly improves the performance of AI computing, which can be said to be a very obvious improvement in this generation of architecture.
The RTX30 series laptop GPUs support ray tracing technology, taking the notebook's gaming experience to a new level. NVIDIA's unique DLSS technology can improve the smoothness of the game and produce beautiful, clear dynamic graphics.
The RTX30 series notebook GPU also supports Dynamic Boost 2.0 dynamic acceleration technology, which can dynamically allocate power consumption to the CPU and GPU, and the power consumption of the two is dynamically variable, while the total power consumption tends to stabilize. With the total power consumption unchanged, Dynamic Boost 2.0 maximizes the utilization of power consumption through dynamic power provisioning, thereby improving game performance.
3DMark benchmark score for Thor ZERO 2022.
Through comparison, it can be seen that the RTX 3060 laptop GPU equipped with Thor ZERO 2022 already has a game performance comparable to that of RTX3060 desktop graphics cards, and the output strength of the full blood version is indispensable!
Here are 7 popular games, including light-chasing games such as Cyberpunk 2077 and Tomb Raider: Shadow, as well as popular 2022 blockbusters like God of War 4.
Light Chase Game Test - Cyberpunk 2077
Light Chase Game Test - "Bright Memory: Infinity"
Light Chase Game Actual Test - Tomb Raider: Shadow
Light Chase Game Actual Measurement - "Control"
Light Chase Game Actual Test - "Subway: Departure"
Game Testing - God of War 4
The PC version of God of War 4 will add ray tracing technology in the future, which is worth looking forward to.
E-sports Game Testing - CS:GO
Through the above 7 game measurements, it can be seen that the Core i7-12700H and the full blood version of the RTX3060 laptop GPU, a hardcore combination, can play many games at 2K resolution, and the performance is satisfactory.
Thermal performance testing
Using the pressure test that comes with AIDA64, the author will test this game book with a CPU + GPU dual grill.
(Note: The room temperature at which the author is located is maintained at about 26 °C)
After turning on the dual grill for 10 minutes, the combined power output of the game's CPU + GPU reached 181W. At this time, the CPU temperature of this notebook is stable at about 68 ° C, and the power consumption is about 55W at this time. The GPU temperature is stable at about 86°C, and the power consumption is about 126W.
Display testing
Using the red spider color calibrator, the author finally tested the screen of this game book.
First: Gamut test
(Introduction to the test item) Color gamut refers to the range of areas composed of the number of colors that can be expressed by a certain device, that is, the range of colors that can be represented by various screen display devices, printers or printing equipment. The larger the gamut value, the more colors the device can display.
The screen of Thor ZERO 2022 has 99% sRGB and 77% NTSC color gamut coverage. For notebook screens, such a color gamut performance is very good.
The second item: color accuracy test
The colors displayed on the screen often deviate from the colors seen by the human eye in real life. The smaller the color difference, the better the monitor is of course.
Test Criteria:
When △E ≤1, the human eye can hardly distinguish the difference between the two colors;
When 1 >
When △E ≥3, the human eye can discern the difference in color and think that it is two similar colors.
When △E ≥5, most people can see the color difference and think that it is a completely different color.
The average △E is 0.99, and there is only one color for △E≥3. It can be said that the color accuracy of this screen is also quite good, and it is also competent to deal with some more professional photographic retouching work.
Product summary
Excellent performance output, as well as excellent screen, Thor ZERO 2022 these two aspects make the author very appreciative. Really good machine, Thor ZERO 2022 is not to be underestimated in the 16-inch high-performance game market!
For mainstream players, Thor ZERO 2022's RTX3060 laptop GPU model is enough to help you play 2022, and the current price of the model is only 8799 yuan during the first launch, and the price is also very good. If you want better gaming performance, then the Thor ZERO 2022 also offers an RTX3070Ti laptop GPU model.
Well, this review is written here, I hope players can enjoy Thor ZERO 2022!
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