Quote from: Boxis on May 10, 2017, 17:38:02
Well written review, however, I am a bit sceptical about the "Stress test" used when testing this laptop, since the GPU is not utilized at all, when running FurMark + Prime95 which results into (in my opinion) way lower temperatures than competitors reach.
As you can see from your screenshot the GPU freq is between 135 - 215 Mhz therefore both GPU/CPU have exceptional temperature due to this. (I guess there was some issue which prevented the GPU to run at, or, near it's base clock speed.
It is very informative review, nonethless.
Boxis, i actually have this laptop and while this stress test is kinda off because the gpu clock is pretty, though i can confirm that during heavy gaming session i don't think i have ever seen gpu temperature go above 72 C degrees. And the gpu clock hovers around 1600-1820Mhz while playing games.
Also the review mentioned that Witcher 3 performance is lower than similar laptops. I believe that is because for some reason (at least on my Y720) a lot of games don't work in exclusive fullscreen mode, and so the games can't reach their maximum performance. I have no idea why that happens on this laptop, but this problem affects most of the games I play. The issue is fixed, though, by renaming 'witcher3.exe' to any other name and then adding the new renamed exe to nvidia inspector witcher 3 profile. Only then it seems to work in exclusive full screen and get better framerates like the other similar laptops.
And while some games don't slow down while only being played in borderless fullscreen, there are some that work really bad if you don't do the steps above to get exclusive full screen. Watch Dogs 2 for example runs about 10-20fps better when in exclusive fullscreen compared to windowed borderless.