After Intel officially released the 12th generation Core processor high-performance mobile version of Alder Lake-H, major OEMs have updated their own game product lines. As an influential PC brand, Acer has also launched a new generation of Predator Tomahawk 300 game book, which is equipped with a new Core i7-12700H processor + RTX 3060 notebook GPU + 16GB dual-channel DDR5-4800 memory hardcore configuration, supplemented by liquid metal as a thermal conductive material to enhance heat dissipation efficiency, but also added support for unique direct output. Committed to providing the ultimate performance to meet the needs of players for game performance.
How powerful is the new generation of Acer Marauder Tomahawk 300 gamebook? Next, we will analyze it in detail through the evaluation.
Introduction to appearance
The Marauder Tomahawk 300 continues the previous design language, the A side of the fuselage is the "Abyss Black" color scheme, made of aluminum alloy material and combined with the anodizing process, and the center has a luminous Predator LOGO, which greatly enhances the recognition.
However, open the reel, you can clearly find the changes in the 2022 edition of the Marauder Tomahawk 300, the new model will be the top of the screen and the sides of the border greatly narrowed, retaining the top camera at the same time, so that the whole machine becomes more compact, the screen ratio is greatly improved.
Of course, when it comes to the screen part, the new Tomahawk 300 has also been upgraded, it is equipped with a 15.6-inch 2560×1440 resolution HD screen, meets 100% sRGB color gamut coverage, supports 165Hz high refresh rate and 3ms rapid response, and also supports NVIDIA G-Sync technology. Of course, the specific model of this test is PH315-55, equipped with a 15.6-inch screen, in addition to the PH317-56 version, equipped with a 17.3-inch screen, the field of view is more open.
In the keyboard part, Tomahawk 300 retains full-size directional keys and a separate keypad area, while the high-configuration version supports one-click independent RGB backlight adjustment, and players can enter the PredatorSense software to customize the lighting effect.
Interface part, Tomahawk 300 provides 1 Thunderbolt 4 interface, 1 USB 3.2 Gen1, 2 USB 3.2 Gen2, 1 Mini DP 1.4, 1 HDMI 2.1, 1 RJ45 network port, 1 3.5mm headphone microphone interface, fully meet the external scalability needs. At the same time, it is also equipped with an AX1675 wireless network card, which supports Wi-Fi 6E wireless network and Bluetooth 5.2 transmission.
Powerful heat dissipation efficiency to meet the hardware performance release
In the upper left of the C-side area of the fuselage, the Tomahawk 300 has a TURBO button that can turn on the turbo mode with one button, pulling the fan speed full, bringing better heat dissipation efficiency and releasing maximum performance of the hardware. Players can also enter the PredatorSense software to manually adjust the operating mode of the hardware, with four options: quiet, default, beast mode and turbo mode.
To provide a good level of performance release, tomahawk 300 has made significant improvements to heat dissipation, with dual fans (one of which is a fifth-generation 3D blade speed cold metal fan) + 5 heat pipes + exhaust plates for luxurious heat dissipation equipment, while also introducing liquid metal as a thermal conductive material, providing higher thermal conductivity efficiency than traditional silicone greases.
In order to reflect the heat dissipation ability of the Tomahawk 300, a heat dissipation pressure test was carried out before the performance test. Using AIDA64 single-baked FPU, the Core i7-12700H processor can be stabilized at 109W power output, the P-Core frequency is stable at 4.0GHz, the E-Core frequency is stable at 3.0GHz, the package temperature is 82 °C, the performance release is very aggressive at the same time the temperature is well controlled.
Using AIDA64 FPU+Furmark for dual-baking pressure testing, the Tomahawk 300 can meet the power output of the Core i7-12700H processor 65W+RTX 3060 laptop GPU 120W, which has reached a relatively good level in the mainstream price point game book.
Processor performance measured
Intel's 12th Generation Core Alder Lake-H series is arguably the biggest innovation in mobile processors in recent years, introducing a hybrid architecture design that provides 6 P-Core performance cores + 8 E-Core energy efficiency cores, and supports The Intel hardware thread scheduler for scheduling, as well as advanced technologies such as DDR5, LPDDR5 memory support, and Thunderbolt 4.
The Tomahawk 300 model tested this time is equipped with a Core i7-12700H, with a specification of 14 cores and 20 threads, 6 P-Core performance cores + 8 E-Core energy efficiency cores, and 24MB L3 cache. The maximum turbo frequency of the performance core is 4.7GHz.
After the basic parameters are introduced, in order to further understand the performance of the Core i7-12700H processor in the Tomahawk 300, we will conduct performance measurements through a variety of software.
CPU-Z is a commonly used detection tool, the latest 2.00 version can be a good support for The Alder Lake-H series processors, 2022 Tomahawk 300 test results single-threaded 753.3, multi-threaded 8098.4, compared to last year's tiger Lake-H45 mainstream game book is greatly improved.
Cinebench is a commonly used rendering performance testing tool, based on Cinema 4D development. At present, the two versions are R20 and R23. Specifically, in the Cinebench R20, the Tomahawk 300 scores 696pts for single-threaded and 6804pts for multi-threaded.
In the Cinebench R23, the Tomahawk 300 scores 1803pts for single-threaded and 17761pts for multithreading. Compared to the Core i7-11800H processor at the same power consumption level, it can be improved by more than 20%.
The V-Ray Benchmark 5, equipped with the Core i7-12700H Tomahawk 300 score of 12400 vsamples, is also a very good performance.
Next up is the cross-platform test software Geekbench 5, which has 1766 threads and 12650 multi-threads for the Tomahawk 300 and 12650 for the Core i7-12700H.
Overall, as the mid-to-high-end workhorse of the 12th generation Core Alder Lake-H family, the theoretical performance improvement is indeed very significant. Of course, this also benefits from the strong heat dissipation ability of the Tomahawk 300 game book as a support, so that the Core i7-12700H can continue to run at high power consumption, and the performance has been released stably.
Hard disk and memory
The 12th Generation Core Alder Lake-H also has a number of new features, such as support for DDR5 memory. Tomahawk 300 is equipped with 16GB capacity dual-channel DDR5-4800CL40 memory, after AIDA64 measurement, in terms of read speed, write speed, replication speed and other aspects of the DDR4-3200CL22 memory improvement is more significant.
Alder Lake-H also continues Tiger Lake-H45's support for direct pcIe 4.0 hard drive channels, and Tomahawk 300 is also equipped with a 512GB capacity PCIe 4.0 protocol SSD (a total of 2 M.2 slots), which has been measured by CrystalDiskMark for 6568.90MB/s and write speed of 3935.80MB/s, far exceeding the previous PCIe 3.0 protocol SSD.
Graphics and gaming experience
Graphics card part, Tomahawk 300 equipped with RTX 3060 laptop GPU (high-end version is equipped with RTX 3070 laptop GPU), I believe that players who often pay attention to the game book have been very familiar with the parameters of this graphics card, specifically GA106 core, a total of 3840 CUDA units, 6GB GDDR6 (the Tomahawk 300 memory particles in this test is Hynix), support RTX ray tracing and DLSS deep learning hypersampling technology.
It's worth noting that the new Tomahawk 300 also adds support for direct display, making up for the previous shortcomings; players can enter the NVIDIA control panel to manually switch, providing higher frame rate performance in the game.
Before the test, the 511.79 version of the driver was installed, the first is the 3DMark theoretical performance, fire Strike, Time Spy and Port Royal three graphics card scores of 22480, 8661, 5093, you can see that the Tomahawk 300 better play the performance of the RTX 3060 laptop GPU.
In terms of games, first test the representative first-person shooter competitive game "CS:GO", at 1080P resolution to open the highest picture quality, Tomahawk 300 running The average frame rate of Benchmark in the Workshop can reach 348.81FPS.
Rainbow Six: Siege is also a first-person shooter competitive game, which requires slightly higher hardware configuration than CS:GO, opens the highest quality at 1080P resolution, and the tomahawk 300 runs the built-in benchmark scene average frame rate can also meet 295FPS.
F1 2020 is set at 1080P resolution and ultra-high quality, choosing an Australian track, and the tomahawk 300 average frame rate is 157FPS.
The benchmark scene of Bright Memory: Infinity adjusts the RTX quality to extremely high, DLSS to balance at 1080P resolution, and the average frame rate of the Tomahawk 300 is 64FPS.
Metro: Gone Enhanced Edition has very high requirements for hardware configuration, with Extreme quality set at 1080P resolution, Ultra ray tracing set to Ultra, DLSS set to Balanced, and the running of the built-in Benchmark Tomahawk 300 can stabilize the average frame rate at 48.46FPS.
summary
Compared with the previous two generations of products, the 2022 version of the Acer Predator Tomahawk 300 has been fully upgraded, not only equipped with the 12th generation Core Alder Lake-H series processor, but also in terms of heat dissipation to achieve further improvement, but also to make up for the pain points of players like the solo direct connection, the overall performance is very strong, with the RTX 3060 laptop GPU can easily run all kinds of game masterpieces.