Benchmarks: Overall System, Gaming and Battery Life

CPU, Memory & Storage Performance

The 2022 Blade Pro provides a ton of processing power nether the hood afforded by its high-end Haswell quad-core processor. It gives the Blade Pro a small edge against the Alienware fifteen, which was the fastest gaming laptop we had tested thus far. On the storage front end, the Blade Pro performs admirably as well, using the Samsung PM851 SSD which is an OEM drive similar to the SSD 840 Evo.

GPU & Gaming Performance

On the gaming front end the Blade Pro handle itself well when running at medium settings and its native 1080p resolution, but it volition leave hardcore gamers wanting for more than. Bioshock Infinite ran smoothly for the nearly part when maxed out, but in other more demanding games you lot'll need to keep it downwardly a notch since the GeForce GTX 960M GPU is fast but not overly so. The 960M is essentially a rebadged 860M with a clock speed boost which provides somewhere between 5% and fifteen% extra functioning.

Battery Life

Nosotros have updated our standard laptop battery for 2022, instead of a single movie playback test that consisted of looping a 720p motion picture, we are now running three different tests for gaming laptops. A 1080p video loop at 75% effulgence, a web browsing simulation using Wi-Fi, and a run through of Crysis 3 until the system's battery is dead. While the Bract Pro does not stand a chance against many of the other systems in this comparison, note that it'southward the only laptop using a large 17" screen and also uses the fastest CPU of the pack.

In that sense, the Blade Pro actually gets pretty shut to run for as long every bit the Alienware xiii and 15 did, both gaming systems that sport smaller screens and slower processors.

Last yr nosotros tested two 17" gaming laptops: the Lenovo Y70 Impact and the MSI GS70 Stealth Pro. In our older 720 movie loop torture test (using the movie Inception) at max effulgence, those systems lasted ii hours and 42 minutes, and 1 hour and 18 minutes, respectively. We ran the same test on the Bract Pro and got an impresive iii hours and 36 minutes.