It's been three years since Colorful returned to the notebook track,During the period, it is mainly based on ultra-cost-effective laptops,Flagship-level products are rarely released,Flagship-level notebooks have been silent for three years,Finallyat the beginning of 24 years, it brought the latest upgrade of Colorful Jiangxing X17 Pro Max flagship-level gaming laptop,While positioning the flagship,Colorful has also maintained a consistent cost-effective route。
Jiangxing X17 Pro Max is equipped with the latest Intel 14th generation mobile platform and RTX40 series graphics card, the highest configuration can choose the 14th generation smart Intel ® Core ™ i9-14900HX processor, GPU can choose NVIDIA ® GeForce RTX™ 4090 Laptop graphics card, in terms of price, I9+4TX4090 configuration initial price 19999 yuan, I9+RTX4080 configuration initial price 14999 yuan.
The overall shell of the Star X17 Pro Max is made of matte aluminum alloy, and the overall color is pure black matte texture, which is very simple and atmospheric, "even the brand logo has been omitted", although it is positioned as a gaming laptop, but the minimalist design will not look abrupt when brought into the daily work environment.
The B-side screen adopts a 17.3-inch 2560X1440 resolution 240Hz refresh rate, the overall screen-to-body ratio reaches 86%, and there is a colorful brand lOGO in the lower part of the B-side, which is a brushed texture.
What's more interesting is that above the B-side, it corresponds to the front camera and the light-sensitive position, and it adopts a slightly convex design similar to the big back, which belongs to the design of the reverse notch.
The first time I saw this big back, I thought of the useless phone 12 that doesn't use technology, which was originally the main video of the UP of station B, and it turned out that a manufacturer really made it~~~
The material of the C side is the same as that of the A side, and the keyboard is equipped with a numeric keypad + full-size arrow keys, and the keyboard layout is a non-standard layout;
The keyboard part supports single-key RGB, and you can also select a partition for RGB control, which can be controlled by the system's built-in Control Center software.
In addition to controlling the RGB backlight of the keyboard, Control Center can also control system performance modes, independent display switches, etc., and the related controls commonly used in notebooks are basically integrated into this driver.
The touchpad part is slightly larger than the 15ProMax, and the touch is more delicate than the shell, with obvious distinctions, and the pressure rebound force is also more comfortable, so that it is powerful and more soothing at the same time.
In terms of interfaces, they are distributed on three sides of the fuselage, with two USB3.2 USB A ports on the left, two-in-one headphone interface and two-in-one digital audio interface, and miniDP interface, HDMI interface, 2.5G wired network port, power interface and anti-theft lock hole on the right, and two Thunderbolt 4 USB-C ports on the right;
There are basically interfaces that should be commonly used,Among them, there is a rare 2.5G wired network port in the notebook,USB-A interface is distributed on the left side of the fuselage,Easy to use external mouse。
The D side is also made of aluminum alloy "good for hard disk heat dissipation", there are grille openings in the corresponding motherboard and fan area, showing a V-shape, and there are foot pads at the fan to cushion the fuselage, which is between the 17.3-inch huge fuselage, so there are more screws fixed on the D side, reaching one, and it is the same specification.
The adapter that comes with the X17 Pro Max is rated at 330W 19.5V 16.92A, and the corresponding cable is thickened on the left, and the total length of the cable is about 3.2M.
In addition, there is a manual, a mirror wiping cloth, and a number of phase change silicone grease in the included accessories, and the number of phase change silicone grease provided in the package is enough to cover three M.2 hard disks and wireless network cards, and the aluminum alloy shell is conducive to the heat dissipation of hard disks and wireless network cards.
The phase change silicone grease corresponding to the three M.2 hard disk areas can be attached to the D-side shell, and combined with the copper sheet for soaking heat, compared to this special design, it is also for M.2 to support PCI-e 5.0 design heat dissipation, corresponding to such a detailed operation, it is also the first time to see it in the notebook, very DIY.
In terms of weight, the bare weight of the fuselage is 3417g, the weight of the adapter is 624g, the travel weight is 4041g, the overall weight is not light, 8 catties, I9+4090The configuration materials are still very sufficient, and it is necessary for those who practice martial arts~~
The disassembly is very simple, unscrew the sixteen screws on the back, and push the tail cover up to separate the D side, and the screw specifications are the same.
The internal workmanship of the starX17 Pro Max is relatively neat,More than one-third of the area is occupied by the heat dissipation module,PCH also has heat dissipation coverage,There are four M.2 interfaces and two DIMM memory interfaces inside the whole machine,M.2Two interfaces are distributed on the left and right,System disk and wireless network card are installed on the left side。
Unscrew the thirteen screws on the heat dissipation module and disconnect the fan cable to remove the heat dissipation module, one of the screws has a vulnerable sticker, but after asking Rainbow, confirm that disassembly will not affect the warranty.
The entire heat dissipation module is very large, with a total of 9 heat pipes on the front and back sides, and the corresponding D side is blackened, but both sides of the heat pipes are covered with copper sheets, and the specific copper pipe distribution is difficult to distinguish.
Jiangxing X17 Pro Max uses the 14th generation Intel ® Core ™ i9-14900HX processor, with a 24-core and 32-thread design, 36MB L3 cache, a maximum single-core turbo frequency of 5.8GHz, an E-core maximum turbo frequency of 4.1GHz, and 8 P-cores and 16 E-cores.
THE GPU USES AN NVIDIA ® GEFORCE RTX™ 4090 LAPTOP GRAPHICS CARD, USES THE NVIDIA ADA LOVELACE ARCHITECTURE, HAS 9728 CUDA CORES, AND THE VIDEO MEMORY IS 16G GDDR6, WHICH IS MANUFACTURED USING TSMC'S 5NM PROCESS, WITH A MAXIMUM POWER CONSUMPTION OF 175W.
The wireless network card uses the latest Intel BE200, supports the latest WIFI7, supports 2.4G/5G/6G frequency bands, the maximum rate is 5.8Gbps, supports 2X2 spatial stream 320MHz, 4K QAM, and provides Bluetooth 5.4 "According to the national standard, some WIFI7 features cannot be used in mainland China".
In terms of wired network cards, the Intel Killer E3100 2.5Gb is based on the Intel I225-V solution, which supports the Killer priority engine, which can detect game network traffic and prioritize transmission, thereby reducing network latency, and the new network card supports GameFast technology, which can reduce CPU usage by up to 10% and network stack memory usage by up to 20%.
In terms of hard disks, it uses PC411 provided by YMTC, which adopts no external cache design "supports HBM", providing 2242 and 2280 specifications, and the star X17 Pro Max adopts 2280 specifications, both of which are single-sided designs, with a maximum sequential read of 7000MB/s, a maximum sequential read of 6000MB/s, and 1TB provides 600TBW.
The whole machine can hold up to three M.2 SSDs, and all three M.2 drive bays have good heat dissipation conditions.
In terms of memory, using two 16G DDR5 5600 C timing memory modules provided by Samsung, the whole machine can install up to two RAMs.
The temperature of the test environment is about 22 degrees, the whole test is carried out indoors, only the air outlet of the notebook is cushioned by 1.5CM, and the test process adopts entertainment mode + automatic fan setting, if there are other settings, it will be said separately.
The system used in the test is WIN11 Home Edition, the graphics card driver is 537.53, and the graphics card adopts the independent graphics direct connection mode.
First of all, the detection of the entertainment master,You can detect the configuration information of the star X17 Pro Max in more detail,However, some of the software has not been updated during the test,It is impossible to correctly identify more information about the CPU。
The total score of the Entertainment Master performance test is 2443667 points, of which the CPU score exceeds one million, and the graphics card also reaches 79.1W points, and the Entertainment Master AI test score is 12108 points, and the ray tracing test score is 120854 points.
The game plus test scored 146296 points, and the score was S.
CINEBENCH R23多核得分19486，单核得分2031、R20 CPU得分10260、R15 OpenGL得分291.84FPS，CPU得分4402。
After changing the system performance mode to performance, the R23 CPU scored 27659 points for multi-core and 2035 points for single-core.
The latest version of CPU-Z does not yet correctly identify the CPU model, so some parameters may vary, with a single-core score of 897.1 and a multi-core score of 12960.3.
After turning on the performance mode and setting the full speed of the fan, the CPU-Z test scored 874.8 points for single-core and 13485.5 points for multi-core, of which the single-core score was slightly reduced, but the multi-core score was improved to a certain extent.
In the CPU cache and memory performance test section, memory read is 85863MB/s and write is 76454MB/s, where the memory latency drops to 86.6 nanoseconds, which is 20 nanoseconds lower than the previous DDR5 memory latency.
显卡性能方面使用3DMARK进行测试，其中Time Spy Extreme显卡得分9760分、Time Spy显卡得分20158分、Fire Strike Ultra显卡得分12442分、Fire Strike显卡得分45823分、Solar Bay显卡得分94480分。
In the DLSS 3.0 test, the frame rate was 27.52 frames with DLSS turned on, and 111.77 frames with DLSS 3.0 turned on.
Run the Time Spy stress load test, in which the WASD area and the palm rest part are cooler, the hotter area is the middle of the keyboard, the hottest position is located near the air outlet, reaching about 57 degrees, after further unlocking the power consumption, the maximum temperature of the surface of the C side reaches and exceeds 60 degrees, and the higher surface temperature is also related to the all-aluminum alloy shell.
In terms of hard disk testing, CDM was used to test the 1G and 64G data volumes, and the 1G test volume reached and exceeded the sequential read and write performance officially advertised by YMTC, and with the help of HBM technology, the 4K read and write performance of the hard disk was also good.
However, in the 64G data volume test, the data has decreased, the most obvious of which is 4K read, the overall performance is in line with the performance of the hard disk without external cache, in addition, the test as a system disk will have a certain impact, affecting the 4K performance Another factor is CPU performance, generally better CPU performance can also get better hard disk 4K performance.
In terms of SLC Cache, the capacity is about 150Gbit/s, the slow internal write is 4.3G/s, and the slow external write is stable at about 1.6G/s
THE 3D MARK STORAGE BENCHMARK SCORED 2665 POINTS, WITH A STORAGE BANDWIDTH OF 454MB/S AND AN ACCESS TIME OF 67 MICROSECONDS.
THE 3DMARK COMPLETE SYSTEM DISK BENCHMARK SCORED 3531 POINTS, WITH A STORAGE BANDWIDTH OF 570.77MB/S AND AN ACCESS TIME OF 48 MICROSECONDS.
Superposition benchmark测试得分35081分，VR READY得分10000分。
Blender tested the CPU and graphics card separately, and the RTX 4090 laptop finished abusing the CPU in this test, and some items basically had a CPU score of a fraction of that of the graphics card, and the advantages of specific applications for discrete graphics cards were very obvious.
In terms of industrial software, using the SPEC test, the test results are as above, and basically can run relatively smoothly.
The Heaven benchmark results are 309.7 FPS with a score of 7802 points.
The Pov-ray test uses all cores/threads, rendering 262144 pixels on average 9702.21PPS, this test tests the CPU performance, I9 14900HX's multi-core performance, especially the size of the P+E core, the core architecture for multi-core performance is improved more.
In terms of heat dissipation test, the first is the standby situation, the CPU standby temperature is around 40 degrees, the fan is quiet, and the noise is 36 decibels.
Single-baked FPU, integrated display mode + entertainment mode + automatic fan, the power consumption was 130W at the beginning of the test, and then stabilized at 55W power consumption, the temperature was about 60 degrees, the wind noise was about 55 decibels, the CPU P core was running at 2.5GHz, and the E core was running at about 2.1GHz.
After turning on the independent graphics card, the CPU + graphics card double baking test will appear, and the power consumption will start to appear at 120W+180W, and then stabilize at 55W+150W, the CPU P core runs at about 3GHz, the E core runs at about 2.6GHz, the graphics card frequency is 1395MHz, the graphics card temperature is stable at 75 degrees, the hotspot temperature is 82 degrees, and the CPU temperature is about 80.
Next, the test will be based on performance mode + automatic fan, and after turning on the performance mode, the CPU power consumption will be unlocked from 55W to 125W to adapt to higher performance requirements, and the corresponding fan strategy will be more aggressive.
In performance mode + auto fan, the single-baked FPU, the CPU power consumption is 150W at the beginning, and then it stabilizes at about 125W, and the temperature also rises to a maximum of 96 degrees, with the CPU P-core running at 3.7GHz and the E-core running at around 3GHz.
Similarly, the power consumption of the GPU has also been improved, the upper limit of power consumption has been increased from 150W to 175W, and the CPU + graphics card is double-baked in performance mode, and the power consumption can reach 130W + 180W at the beginning "The power consumption may be limited by the 330W power supply in the initial state", and then stabilized at 80W + 175W, at this time the CPU The P-core runs at around 3.6GHz, the E-core runs at around 3GHz, the CPU temperature is close to Baidu, the graphics card temperature has also risen to 83 degrees, and the hotspot temperature has also reached 91 degrees.
The unlocked power consumption in performance mode does not improve the single-core performance of the CPU, and even decreases slightly, but there is a significant increase in multi-core performance, and the maximum performance of the GPU is also improved.
In terms of noise, the fan speed can reach a maximum of 60 decibels when performance mode is turned on, and around 55 decibels in entertainment mode.
In terms of battery life test, the screen brightness is 50%, entertainment mode + automatic fan, turn off the keyboard backlight, first of all, when the independent display is directly connected, use the PCMARK10 battery test, test in modern office mode, the battery life is 4 hours and 1 minute, and the remaining 7% power at the end of the test, it is estimated that the complete battery life should be about 4 hours and 18 minutes.
In the integrated display mode, the battery life was increased to 6 hours and 49 minutes, and the remaining power was 5%, which can basically be used for most of the day in terms of daily light office.
In terms of screen, the Red Spider is used for detection, and the star X17 Pro Max screen reaches 100%sRGB、89%AdobeRGB、97%P3 is in line with the official propaganda,The minimum value of color accuracy is0.63,The maximum value is3.13,The average value is1.55.
In terms of games, the first thing is LOL,The average frame rate in the big smash brawl map is 436 frames,The CPU temperature is 65 degrees,The graphics card temperature is 62 degrees,In fact, for games like LOL,Too high frame rate will cause movement jamming,Affect the operation,And it only needs to be integrated to run。
With V-Sync enabled, the CPU temperature drops to 62 degrees, the graphics card temperature drops to 59 degrees, and wind noise decreases.
For games like LOL, which eat more CPU and can run with a core graphics, turn off the independent graphics and only use I9 14900HX to get a better gaming experience.
Red Dead Redemption Chapter 1 begins with a snow horseback ride, with an average frame rate of 131 frames, a CPU temperature of 72 degrees, and a graphics card temperature of 68 degrees.
Assassin's Creed Valhalla comes with a test with an average of 126 frames.
The first chapter of Atomic Heart, the average frame rate is 215 frames, the CPU temperature is 73 degrees, and the graphics card temperature is 69 degrees, at this time, the load of the CPU is mainly concentrated in the P core, and it can be seen that both the frequency and usage rate are much higher than the E core, and there are fewer background programs, so the E core is basically almost out of the idle state, and the game-related processes run on the P core.
The average PUBG frame rate is 197 fps, the CPU temperature is 76 degrees, and the graphics card temperature is 71 degrees.
The Witcher III comes with an average of 126 frames per second.
Jiangxing X17 Pro Max is a microcosm of Rainbow's full line of products sprinting to the flagship level, Colorful expects to challenge itself to reach new heights, while not forgetting the ultra-cost-effective market positioning, so it finally brought the Xingxing X17 Pro Max such a cost-effective and high-performance coexistence of notebooks;
Jiangxing X17 Pro Max provides a variety of performance mode options, entertainment mode is suitable for more use scenarios, there is a better balance between high performance and noise, entertainment mode can provide 55W+150W power consumption and low wind noise, the pursuit of extreme performance can turn on performance mode, unlock 120W CPU power consumption and 175W GPU power consumption limitations: To cope with games or work with lower performance requirements, you can turn on silent mode or turn off the independent graphics card to run with lower noise and temperature, and a variety of preset modes with a variety of use cases can meet the needs of more consumers;
In terms of configuration, it is not only the first time that Colorful has tried the top configuration of the flagship, but also the first product of the I9 14900HX, and the I9 14900HX is provided unprecedentedly. The maximum turbo frequency of 5.8GHz is 0.1GHz and 0.4GHz higher than that of the previous generation P-core and E-core, and APO technology is added to allow AI to judge the status of the computer and maximize the potential of the CPU.
In terms of price, the configuration of I9 14900HX + RTX 4090 laptop is only 19999 yuan, and the configuration of I9 14900HX + RTX 4080 laptop is only 14999 yuan, which is very cost-effective compared to the price of 30,000 or 40,000 yuan, although the configuration has been full, but the price is still relatively close to the people;
In terms of internal scalability,ThreeM.2Hard disk+Dual memory slots can basically meet the needs of most people,Three M.2Hard disksEven a notebook can also achieve24T capacity,It's very scary for a notebook,In addition, for M.2Hard disk and wireless network card heat dissipation, the details are also taken into account,The details are still more careful。