Today, we are going to review the Thor Hunting Blade 16 gaming laptop, this product is a new masterpiece in the Thor Hunting Blade series. Compared with the Hunting Blade 15, the Thor Hunting Blade 16 has a new upgrade in the mold this time, equipped with a powerful set of heat dissipation modules, and even this set of heat dissipation modules exceeds the configuration of this RTX 4060 gaming laptop. Of course, in addition to the heat dissipation module, Thor Hunting Blade 16 has done a very good job in high brush screen, control center and expansion, etc., so let's test whether this product can become a popular bucket machine.
1 Introduction to Thor Hunter 16
Thor Hunting Blade 16 game laptop adopts a new module design this time,The overall appearance style is relatively simple,The color scheme is gray high-end style,It comes with adjustable RGB light effects,At the same time, the surface of the A-side matte surface is full of texture,The touch is crisp and delicate at the same time。
The Raytheon Hunter 16 adopts the heat dissipation system of Biao Technology, which provides a large number of heat dissipation holes on the D side, with a large heat dissipation area, which effectively increases the air intake volume of the fan and helps the heat dissipation fins conduct heat to ensure efficient heat dissipation.
This gaming laptop has a very strong B screen configuration, 16-inch size, 16:10 golden screen ratio, has a high resolution of 2560x1600, and provides an ultra-high refresh rate of 240Hz, which can be said to fully meet the needs of gamers who pursue picture quality performance and smooth picture.
Thor Hunter 16 has prepared a high-definition camera at the top of the screen, which is suitable for live game broadcasting, online classes, office meetings and other scenarios.
Thor Hunter Blade 16 gaming laptop C side with RGB backlit keyboard design, smooth keycaps, accurate feedback, keycap area and spacing are large enough, but also can effectively reduce the chance of false touches, this game laptop not only uses a full key design, but also is additionally equipped with a small keyboard, at the same time, the surface of the trackpad under the C side is smooth and delicate, and the touch is very good.
In terms of expansion, the Thor Hunter 16 provides a 3.5mm headphone jack and a USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-A port on the left side of the body.
There are also two USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-A ports on the right side of the body of this game, plus the ports on the left side, and the three A ports can be connected to the mouse at the same time, but also the USB flash drive, and the mobile hard disk provides two expansion bits.
The rest of the interfaces are located on the back of the fuselage,Provide an anti-theft hole、A USB3.1 Gen2 Type-C interface,This C port supports140W PD fast charging,At present, there are only two game laptops on the market that provide140W PD fast charging C port,And Thor Hunting Blade 16 game book is a universal protocol,Support the vast majority of 140W chargers on the market,CPU 35W+GPU 80W performance release under fast charging,Meet the use of most online games。 In addition, it is equipped with an HDMI port for screen expansion, and a 2.5G wired network port to provide a high-quality network environment.
2 13th Gen Flagship Core i9-13900HX+ Full Blood RTX 4060 Graphics Card
Let's take a look at the configuration of the Thor Hunting Blade 16 gaming laptop, first of all, the graphics card, this gaming laptop uses the RTX 4060 mobile version of the graphics card, RTX 4060 mobile version is a graphics card that everyone is very familiar with, with 3072 CUDA cores, core frequency 2000MHz, Boost frequency 2370MHz, video memory 8GBGDDR6, video memory frequency 2000MHz, and Thor Hunter 16 game laptop full blood output RTX 140W power consumption of the 4060 Mobile graphics card.
In terms of processor, the Thor Hunter 16 gaming laptop is equipped with Intel's 13th generation Core flagship i9-13900HX processor, the number of cores of this processor is up to 24, the performance core turbo frequency can reach 5.4GHz, the energy efficiency core turbo frequency is 3.9GHz, using Intel 7 process process, L3 cache 36MB, and the basic TDP is 55W, which is almost the same as a desktop computer in terms of specifications, and the performance is very powerful.
In addition, the laptop is equipped with a single 16GB DDR5 RAM and a 1TB PCIe 4.0 hard drive, while the Thor Hunter 16 gaming laptop also has room for upgrades, leaving an additional memory slot and hard drive bay. 16GB of RAM is enough for gamers, and if you need professional creation, you can upgrade to 32GB, and the same goes for hard drives.
And when you open the back cover of the Thor Hunter 16 game laptop, you can also find that the heat dissipation system of this game laptop is very large, which is significantly larger than other game laptops, equipped with 5 heat dissipation copper pipes, and is equipped with three fans at the same time, covering all important heat sources. This set of cooling provides strong support for the aforementioned 13th Gen Core i-13900HX and the full-blooded RTX 4060 mobile graphics card to unleash the performance, even if it feels like it is holding down the higher-end graphics cards.
Finally, in terms of configuration, the Thor Hunter 16 game laptop in addition to the aforementioned 2.5G wired network port, also prepared Wi-Fi 6 AX201 wireless network card, Wi-Fi 6 in terms of transmission rate, signal coverage and data delay compared with the previous generation Wi-Fi 5 has been greatly improved, which can significantly reduce the latency and jamming of terminal equipment, bringing high-quality wireless experience to players who often use wireless networks to play games.
3 CONTROL CENTER介绍
BEFORE THE OFFICIAL EVALUATION,LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THOR CONTROL CENTER,THOR HUNTING BLADE 16 GAME LAPTOP WILL INSTALL THIS SOFTWARE BY DEFAULT,ITS FUNCTION IS SIMILAR TO COMPUTER MANAGER,YOU CAN CHECK THE OPERATION OF THE GAME LAPTOP,AND THE FUNCTION WILL BE ADJUSTED。
IN THE SYSTEM MODE INTERFACE OF CONTROL CENTER, YOU CAN CHECK THE RUNNING STATUS AND ADJUST THE RUNNING MODE OF THE COMPUTER, THERE ARE THREE RUNNING MODES IN TOTAL: OFFICE, GAME AND RAGE, YOU CAN ADJUST ACCORDING TO YOUR NEEDS.
The display mode is used to adjust the output mode of the graphics card, for example, the direct connection of the independent graphics card is to let the graphics card and the CPU be directly connected, so as to improve the game performance, the general gamer can adjust this, and the rest is the hybrid mode and the integrated display mode, the performance may not be as good as the direct connection of the independent graphics card, but the power saving and power saving actually have their own advantages.
The light mode is used to adjust the lighting of Thor Hunter 16, which can synchronize the lights of the entire game book, and all the elements of the keyboard A/B/C+LOGO can be adjusted, supporting 4 color options, and the adjustable color range is also quite rich.
In addition to the above functions, Raytheon also prepares fan custom adjustment options for its own users, allowing users to adjust the running speed of the fan according to the actual situation and needs.
4 Performance Testing
NEXT, LET'S START THE ACTUAL COMBAT TEST, BEFORE THE TEST THE CONTROL CENTER WAS ADJUSTED TO THE FURIOUS MODE, AND THE DIRECT CONNECTION OF THE DGPU WAS ENABLED. This time, let's first test the performance of the RTX 4060 Laptop graphics card of the Thor Hunter 16 gaming laptop, using 3D MARK to test and record the performance of 3D MARK in Time Spy mode and Fire Strike mode.
According to the 3DMARK measurement, the Thor Hunter 16 has a total score of 11354 in Time Spy mode, and the graphics card is 10841, and a total score of 22425 in Fire Strike mode, and a graphics card score of 2744. According to the test results, the Thor Hunting Blade 16 performed well above average in these two tests, indicating that the performance of its RTX 4060 Laptop graphics card has been fully released, allowing the Thor Hunting Blade 16 to surpass some models of the same level.
Now that the performance is excellent, we also ran a copy test on the RTX 4060 Laptop graphics card, using the latest Furkmark, and recording the power release with GPU-z.
After more than 20 minutes of copying, it can be seen that the Thor Hunter 16 can keep the RTX 4060 Laptop graphics card at 140W power consumption, at this time, the monitoring knows that the core frequency is 2310MHz, the memory frequency is 2000MHz, and the graphics card temperature is only 77°C. When copying the machine, we also recorded the surface temperature of the Thor Hunter 16 through a thermal imager.
According to the thermal imager, when the graphics card is fully loaded, the maximum is only 51.4°C, the minimum is 27.7°C, the average is 45.6 degrees Celsius, and the maximum temperature is located in the center of the C surface, which is an important source of heat for the game book.
After testing the graphics card, let's test the processor again, using the Cinebench R23 test, to see the performance of the i9-13900HX processor.
According to the test results, the multi-core score of the i9-13900HX in the Cinebench R23 test reached 28409pts, and the single-core score also came to 2094pts. Compared with the i7-13650HX, which is basically used many times, the i9-13900HX multi-core performance is more than 30% stronger, and the advantages will be very obvious when processing multi-tasking applications such as game live streaming.
Let's take a look at how storage performs. The Thor Blade 16 gaming laptop uses a single 16GB DDR5 5600 memory and a 1TB PCIe4.0 SSD, and the internal is dual memory slots and dual M.2 hard drive bays, both of which support PCIe 4.0. Plenty of capacity, and there's a decent room for upgrades.
In terms of memory performance,AIDA 64Measured read46960MB/s、Write38969MB/s、Copy42214MB/s、Latency83.1ns,In the case of a single single pass,This transcript is still very good,The latency is very low,It means that the memory quality is good,Faster response,There is a higher demand to upgrade to dual channels,After all, Thor Hunting Blade16The game book also reserves room for upgrades。
The measured hard disk is 6087.58 MB/s continuous read and 5024.37 MB/s write, and 4K random read is 70.7 MB/s and write 259.24 MB/s. The sustained read results are very good, and the 4K write is relatively fast, and the overall level has reached the level of mid-to-high-end PCIe 4.0.
In addition to the benchmark tests of each of the above hardware, we also used Master Lu to test the operation of the whole machine.
Thor Hunting Blade 16The comprehensive performance of the game laptop has reached 1854907 points,Master Lu commented that it can run smoothly3A masterpieces、3dmax and AE and other drawing software,The overall performance is very good。
Therefore, we also tested two games, namely Cyberpunk 2077, a triple-A game that represents high performance requirements, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider, a triple-A game that requires more mainstream performance. Both games tested at 2560x1600 resolution. Cyberpunk 2077 was tested on two image quality, Super Quality and Ray Tracing: Medium, which reflect raster performance and ray tracing performance.
With an average Cyberpunk 2077 Benchmark score of 73.45 fps on Ultra, the Thor Hunter 16 has no issues with smooth gameplay, while at Ray Tracing: Medium, the average Benchmark score is 65.87 fps, which is over 60 fps, meaning that even at 2560x1600 ray tracing, the Thor 16 laptop still delivers a smooth gaming experience.
In Tomb Raider, the Thor Hunter 16 game laptop runs the benchmark and gets an average of 120 frames, which can be said to be very smooth and easy to play. Judging from the test results of the two 3A games, the gaming performance of the Thor Hunter 16 gaming laptop is very powerful, even in the face of 3A masterpieces with high hardware requirements, it can also provide smooth performance at 2.5K ray tracing image quality.
As we all know, one of the major performance characteristics of the 40 series graphics card in addition to gaming is AI, so we have also tested the current popular AI graphics map. The software used is Stable Diffusion. The measured image is 512x512, and the number of iteration steps is 20.
The final score showed that it took only 57 seconds to generate 20 images. The speed of plotting is not inferior to that of desktops, and the local AI performance is quite good. It can only be said that with the blessing of RTX 4060, there is no need to worry about the performance of the Thor Hunter 16 gaming laptop in terms of AI.
Finally, we also tested the display using the Spyder X Elite calibrator.
Judging from the measured results, the coverage rate of the Thor Hunter 16 game laptop in the sRGB color gamut is 98%, the coverage rate of the AdobeRGB color gamut is 75%, and the coverage rate of the P3 color gamut is 79%, which can basically meet the needs of most post-retouching and modeling users.
In terms of color accuracy, the average △E value of the 48 colors in the Thor Hunter 16 gaming laptop is only 1.04, while the minimum value is 0.28. When the △E value is <2, the human eye basically cannot distinguish the difference in color. It can be seen that the color reproduction ability of this monitor is very good, and it can even meet the needs of some professional-level designers for display color reproduction.
5 Write at the end
In general, Thor Hunting Blade 16 is indeed a very comprehensive bucket machine, in terms of performance, heat dissipation, expansion and screen These important parameters have been comprehensive, especially heat dissipation, it can be said that Thor has put great effort into this mold new and upgraded product, so it can show a very high level in various tests.
This time, Thor Hunter Blade 16 mainly upgrades the cooling system, this set of Biao Technology cooling system in the test allows the RTX 4060 graphics card to output 140W power consumption at a lower temperature, and the noise generated is also extremely low, even for RTX 4060 graphics cards are a bit overkill, this set of heat dissipation can fully cope with the 4080 level graphics card. After all, Thor has really increased the area of the heat dissipation fins in the cooling system and added a fan, although this physical upgrade is simple but practical, and it is very obvious for the heat dissipation performance of gaming laptops.
The control center of the Thor Hunter 16 generation has also been upgraded, making it more convenient to adjust the gaming laptop, and it has complete functions, whether it is to turn on the furious mode with one key, or lighting control, or independent display direct connection and fan control are enough to take care of the daily needs of users.