This year, Acer's Marauder Tomahawk 300 game book and Intel's new 12th generation Core processor upgrade and re-battle, the performance of the whole machine to climb to a new high, worthy of the attention of friends who love games.
Core i7-12700H processor, 16GB DDR5-4800MHz memory, RTX3060 laptop GPU, support for direct display, 280W high-power adapter, 15.6-inch 2.5K professional gaming screen, 512GB PCIe4.0 SSD, dual Killer network card, this is the general configuration of this Predator Tomahawk 300 game book in my hand.
It is worth mentioning that this 2.5K esports screen of the Marauder Tomahawk 300 also supports G-SYNC technology, which can provide better game graphics. The 12th generation Core i7 strength is combined with the G-SYNC game book, and the Marauder Tomahawk 300 is such a powerful new equipment.
Exterior appreciation
Compared to the 2021 Marauder Tomahawk 300, this year's new Marauder Tomahawk 300 has made some adjustments to the appearance. The author feels that the new generation of Marauder Tomahawk 300 is going to be more handsome. Next, the author will first take you to appreciate the appearance of this new machine.
Metal top cover, only a larger size predator logo is designed on it, and the design of the top cover is relatively simple.
The Predator logo on the top cover will light up blue when the computer is turned on. Note that the color of the light effect cannot be adjusted, it can only be blue.
Equipped with a 15.6-inch professional esports display with a 16:9 screen ratio, 2560×1440 resolution, 165Hz refresh rate, 3ms high-speed response time, and wide color gamut coverage, the game book features G-SYNC technology to provide players with silky gaming visual enjoyment.
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 backlit lighting modes and brightness adjustments. Players can set up the RGB keyboard through the System's built-in PredatorSense control software.
The keyboard's RGB backlight is beautiful.
Separate numeric keypad, very practical.
The power-on button is located in the upper-right corner of the keyboard face.
The standalone numeric keypad area is designed with a Marauder-specific button that launches the PredatorSense control software.
The A, D, W, and S buttons adopt a more eye-catching keycap design.
A TURBO button is designed on the left front of the keyboard. Click on it to turn on turbo mode, and the blue light effect built into the button will also be lit. Turbo mode is the strongest performance mode for this gamebook, where the heatsink runs at full speed. Note that in order to turn on the TURBO operation mode, it is necessary to connect the power supply.
One-piece trackpad.
Sticker on top of the left palm rest.
Sticker on the right palm rest.
To make the game even cooler, a dazzling RGB LED strip is specially designed in the lower part of the front of its keyboard. The light effect of this strip can be synchronized with the RGB keyboard, and it is set in the PredatorSense control software.
The left-hand side of the machine is designed with a notebook keyhole, a network cable interface, a USB 3.2 Gen1 interface, and a 3.5mm headphone headset 2-in-1 interface.
Two USB 3.2 Gen1 ports are designed on the right-hand side of the machine, as well as two indicator lights.
The rear of the fuselage is designed with a power connector, a USB 3.2 Type-C interface, an HDMI 2.1 interface, and a mini DP 1.4 interface.
The new generation of Marauder Tomahawk 300 gamebooks has adjusted the appearance of the heat dissipation vents in the rear of the fuselage to look more handsome.
Bottom of the machine.
Introduction to PredatorSense control software
PredatorSense is the main control software for this gamebook, where you can set up the gamebook in detail.
The main interface of PredatorSense can intuitively understand the operation of this game book.
Under the Pulsar backlit interface, the RGB backlit keyboard and glare RGB LED strip can be set for lighting effects.
Under the mode interface, you can set the running mode of this game book. The game is preset for four computer modes, including quiet mode, default mode, beast mode, and turbo mode (TURBO mode). As already mentioned in the previous article, Turbo mode (TURBO mode) is the strongest performance mode for this game book.
Under the fan control interface, the heatsink of this game book can be set at a speed.
Under the monitoring interface, you can view the operating status of the CPU and graphics card.
Under the game synchronization interface, you can match your favorite computer running mode for different games.
Under the Application Center interface, you can open and manage some specific applications directly.
Performance demonstration
Note: The performance test of this article is mainly carried out in the strongest mode of this game book, Turbo mode (TURBO mode), and the unique mode is turned on to show the optimal performance of this game book.
In addition, before the official testing began, the author had updated the BIOS of this game to the latest version, that is, version 1.05.
The Core i7-12700H 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 a 10-minute FPU grill test, the Core i7-12700H processor on this game has a performance output of up to 109W, which is very good.
Through the two software tests of CPU-Z and Geekbench 5, it can be seen that the Core i7-12700H is very powerful in both single-core performance and multi-core performance. The 12th Generation Core is the best choice for the 2022 high-performance game book.
The performance of two DDR5 memory "four channels" running mode, read, write, copy performance are good, but the memory latency is high.
This 512GB SSD is modeled as the Micron 3400.
In the CrystalDiskMark software, the writing performance of this SSD is abnormal. The author tested many times, the writing speed is about 1200MB/s, the score is obviously abnormal. The author speculates that it may be a problem with the computer BIOS, or it may be a problem with the Win11 system.
Here, an ATTO Disk Benchmark test is supplemented as a reference.
Next up is the graphics card introduction and gameplay display session. This game book is equipped with the mid-range graphics card on the current notebook platform - RTX 3060 laptop GPU, which is based on the GA106 display core, with 3840 sets of CUDA core, 48 groups of raster units and 120 groups of texture units, with 192 bits wide, 6GB capacity of GDDR6 video memory.
The Predator Tomahawk 300 RTX 3060 notebook GPU defaults to 900MHz, Boost 1425MHz, and memory 1750MHz (14000MHz equivalent).
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.
As mentioned at the beginning of the article, this game originally supports unique direct connection. In the "NVIDIA Control Panel - 3D Settings - Manage Display Modes" option, the display mode is set to "NVIDIA GPU only", and after saving the settings, the system is in direct mode.
Acer's official RTX 3060 laptop GPU, officially known as this game book, adds up to 140W of performance output. However, according to the actual measurement results of the FurMark grill, the RTX 3060 laptop GPU of this game book can only reach 132W at the maximum output power consumption of the GPU in the FurMark heavy load state, which is not yet up to the official nominal performance level. Note, the author has tested it in turbo mode and independent direct mode, and has tried to play the strongest performance of this game.
For the performance output strength of the graphics card, the manufacturer needs to continuously improve it by optimizing the BIOS.
Next, the author will look at the actual game performance of this game through the 3DMark benchmark and the actual test of 7 games.
The first is the 3DMark benchmark.
Through comparison, it can be seen that the RTX 3060 laptop GPU equipped with the Predator Tomahawk 300 already has a gaming performance comparable to the RTX3060 desktop graphics card, and the high-performance output is indispensable to the unique direct connection.
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 RTX3060 laptop GPU are hardcore combinations that can play a large number of games at 2K resolution, and the performance is satisfactory.
Thermal performance testing
Using the AIDA64's own pressure test and FurMark grill software, 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 about 182W. At this time, the CPU temperature of this game book is stable at about 84 ° C, and the power consumption is stable at about 65W. The GPU temperature is stable at about 74°C, and the power consumption is stable at about 117W.
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 this game book has 100% sRGB and 87% 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 color of △E is 1.23, and the color of △E ≥2 is completely absent. The color accuracy of this screen is quite good, and the author praises it!
Product summary
Judging from the evaluation of the new generation of Predator Tomahawk 300 gamebooks, Acer has a good machine, but Acer has been relatively low-key in the domestic market in recent years and lacks large product publicity.
To say that the product is insufficient, the Marauder Tomahawk 300 currently has room for improvement in BIOS tuning. For mainstream gamers who pursue high quality, this G-SYNC game is worth having.
At present, in the Acer Predator Jingdong self-operated flagship store, the Marauder Tomahawk 300 of this review has been on sale for some time, with a daily price of 10499 yuan and a special price of 9899 yuan during the May Day period, and the players who like it can see the opportunity to start.
【Product Advantages】
The 12th generation Core i7 has a performance output of up to 109W and a cpu performance
This 2.5K screen is great and supports G-SYNC technology
Supports a single direct connection
【Insufficient product】
The graphics card output strength does not match the official nominal 140W, and it is necessary for the manufacturer to re-tune the BIOS in the future