Thor Hunter 16 Evaluation: The heat dissipation is very strong, the performance is crazy, and the dormitory is not afraid of noise disturbing the people!
Friends who pay attention to e-sports laptops must have noticed,Not long ago, the domestic PC manufacturer Thor launched a new hunting blade series product line,It uses a new mold and a new heat dissipation scheme,So how is its performance,Is the use experience good?We also got the hunting blade 16 equipped with i9-13900HX processor and GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card version,Let's find out!
Exterior Design & Screen:
Hunting blade 16Although it is a new mold design, the appearance is still a glance at the style of Thor products, the most eye-catching thing on the A side is the Thor logo that can shine, and the symmetrical engraved line design makes the machine more sharp.
The C side of the notebook still has a carved line design around the week, which echoes the A side. The power button still emits light outside the keyboard area, and it is still centered.
The keyboard is given an independent number key area, the direction keys are designed at full height, the keys support RGB backlight display, and the surface has an anti-fingerprint coating, and the feel is OK. The trackpad area has the words "BORN FOR GAMING", which is born to play with the temperament of a notebook.
The notebook interface is more abundant,The left side is equipped with 1 USB 3.1 Gen1 and 3.5mm audio interface,The right side is two USB 3.1 Gen1 interfaces,The back is given to the RJ45 network、HDMI 2.1 TMDS、Power interface,There is also a USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-C interface that supports DP1.4、140W charging。
The screen of the Hunting Blade 16 felt a little thick the moment I opened the notebook, but this screen is really outstanding for gamers, it is an IPS screen from BOE, supports DC dimming, 2560×1600 resolution, refresh rate up to 240Hz, and enjoys silky smoothness in the game.
After testing, the brightness of this screen reached close to 600 nits, which is still good, and the screen covers 100% of the sRGB color gamut.
In terms of weight, the Hunting Blade 16 is measured to be about 2.64kg, and with the official standard 230W charger, the weight will come to 3.3kg, but we also said earlier that this notebook supports 140W PD protocol charging, so if you want to take the notebook out, you can consider using a smaller PD charging head to reduce weight.
It is understood that when the power of the hunting blade 16 is > 40%, the use of the 140W PD protocol charging head can achieve the performance release of CPU 35W + GPU 80W, and the power
Performance Experience:
The Hunter 16 is equipped with a 13th generation Intel Core i9-13900HX processor, with 24 cores (8 performance cores and 16 efficiency cores) and 32 threads, with a single P core turbo frequency of up to 5.4GHz. The laptop is equipped with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU, has 8GB of GDDR6 memory, supports 140W full power consumption, and supports direct connection to the independent GPU.
Such a combination of processor and graphics card can be described as a dessert-level gaming platform, but if the processor and graphics card want to give full play to their performance, it depends on how well the heat dissipation is done. The Hunting Blade 16 claims to adopt a new heat dissipation scheme, so what is the heat dissipation effect?
3DMark显卡部分测试，我们进行了多项跑分：Fire Strike 25340分，Fire Strike Extreme 12720分，Fire Strike Ultra 6330分，Time Spy 11325分，Time Spy Extreme 5485分，Port Royal 6027分。
3DMark CPU Profile测试如图所示。
CPU-Z跑分单核870分,多核12802分。
Cinbench R20单核792分，多核10847分；R23单核2071分，多核28347分。
We used the official control center software to set up the fury mode, the independent display card was directly connected, and then used Furmark and AIDA64 for the double baking test. It can be seen that after 20 minutes of double baking, the power consumption of the GPU remains at 130W, while the power consumption of the processor is 45W, and the two together achieve a performance release of about 175W.
If you bake the GPU alone, the RTX 4060 Laptop GPU on the Hunting Blade 16 can achieve 140W stable performance release, and the GPU frequency can be stable at about 2300MHz, and the performance is still quite eye-catching.
If the CPU is single-baked, the power consumption of the processor can reach 130W instantly, and then it can stabilize at about 110W.
It is worth mentioning that the indoor temperature is about 23°C when double baking, but the core temperature of the processor is only 69°C after 20 minutes of copying, and the temperature of the GPU is only 73°C, so the temperature of the C side of the notebook is detected by the infrared thermometer, and the highest temperature appears near the power button, which is about 45.4°C, and the WASD area is only about 28.4°C. This shows that the heat dissipation effect of the Hunting Blade 16 is indeed excellent.
So why is the Hunter Blade 16's Biao Technology heat dissipation effect so good? Let's also take a look at the back cover of the notebook.
After disassembling the notebook, five extra-long copper pipes and three fans with two large and one small come into view, and you can see that the cooling configuration of the Hunting Blade 16 is indeed a bit too luxurious.
It is understood that the total length of these five heat dissipation copper pipes has reached 1590mm, and there are even heat pipes specially designed to dissipate heat from the power MOS and PCH, and the total surface area of the 292 fins has reached 165680mm², which has higher heat dissipation efficiency; the new Auxiliary Cooling Fan increases the internal airflow by only 35%, and the optimization of the heat dissipation air duct also allows the heat to be discharged from the inside of the notebook faster.
Such a luxurious cooling configuration, not to mention the 4060 graphics card, even if it is 4080, it is not impossible. Maybe there will be a problem with the little friend at this time, such a heat dissipation configuration can suppress the 4060 graphics card and fully release the performance of the notebook, but will the noise become louder?
In the case of ambient noise at 34 decibels, we tested the noise of double roasting at the human head, which was about 52 decibels. It can be said that the Hunting Blade 16 not only has high heat dissipation efficiency and fast heat dissipation, but also the noise performance is good enough.
Through the disassembly above, we also see that the Hunting Blade 16 is equipped with a single 16GB DDR5 5600MHz memory, and there is also a memory slot, which is convenient for players to install another one to form a 32GB dual-channel memory. The SSD is a 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD from Kioxia, with a slot for expanding hard drive space.
The AIDA 64 test memory read is 46995 MB/s, write 39182 MB/s, copy 42453 MB/s, and the latency is 81.9ns.
CrystalDiskMark测试,硬盘的连续读取速度为6122MB/s,连续写入速度为5380MB/s。
After the theoretical performance test of the software, we will then actually test the gaming and other aspects of the notebook.
Thanks to the Core i9-13900HX processor and RTX 4060 Laptop GPU, the Hunting Blade 16 also performs well in gaming.
At 2.5K resolution, Shadow of the Tomb Raider is preset to the highest image quality, with an average frame rate of 136 fps, and Assassin's Creed: Odyssey is turned on at an average frame rate of 61 fps.
For big games like DLSS 3 for a smoother experience, the RTX 4060 plays even more role.
The Hunter Blade 16 has a high preset graphics quality in A Plague Tale: Requiem, with DLSS 3 on, and an average frame rate of 91fps, while The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has a preset ray tracing super high quality and DLSS 3 on, and the average frame rate can reach 83fps, which is already very smooth and does not feel stuttering.
Finally, we also conducted a software test on the overall capabilities of the notebook, and the PCMark 10 Extended test scored a total of 10,303 points, a basic experience score of 9,988 points, a productivity score of 10,342 points, a digital creation score of 13,779 points, and a gaming score of 21,397 points.
CrossMark test, overall score of 2053 points, productivity 1951 points, creativity 2222 points, and reflexes 1892 points.
In terms of battery life, the Hunter Blade 16 is equipped with a 61.53Wh battery, which sets the laptop to quiet mode, has a screen brightness of 50%, and uses the PCMark 10 battery life test, which measured its battery life to be 4 hours and 32 minutes.
Bottom line: Sex is strong and built for gamers
Thor Hunter 16 adopts a new mold, the heat dissipation configuration is very conscientious, and the noise control is also extremely good, even if you play games in the dormitory late at night, it must not cause any noise trouble to your roommates. The excellent heat dissipation also allows the overall performance of the machine to be in a leading position in the same configuration.
For e-sports gamers, the thirteenth-generation Core i9 processor with the 4060 series graphics card is enough to cope with many triple-A game masterpieces, and the price of Thor's notebook is very fair. In the future, even if you need to upgrade your memory and hard drive, the reserved card slots are ready to go.