Here's a full list of the notebooks we're looking at:
I've chosen to compare the Vapor 15 Pro against the other GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q laptops we've reviewed so far to give you an idea of how it stacks up against the immediate competition.
Aftershock Vapor 15 Pro | Acer Predator Triton 500 | Lenovo Legion Y740 (9th Gen) | Razer Blade 15 (9th Gen) | |
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I ran the notebooks through the following benchmarks:
PCMark 10 Extended evaluates systems based on workloads that can be categorized into four distinct groups, comprising Essentials, Productivity, Digital Content Creation, and Gaming. This includes tests such as app start-up times, web browsing, word processing and spreadsheets, photo and video editing, and rendering and visualization tasks. Finally, gaming performance is evaluated using the Fire Strike benchmark.
Unsurprisingly, all the laptops performed really close to each other. There aren't really any meaningful differences in terms of performance here, given that they all share the same CPU and GPU configuration. That said, the Vapor 15 Pro was still just under 8 per cent faster than the Razer Blade 15 in terms of overall scores.
The Vapor 15 Pro is equipped with a Phison-branded ASE12NVME512 512GB M.2 SSD. It does really well in AS SSD, particularly in the high queue depth workloads, beating out all the other notebooks.
I mentioned earlier that the Vapor 15 Pro offers three different performance profiles. They modify the power limits of the notebook as follows:
I pulled the information above from HWiNFO, and the difference between even Balanced and Performance mode is quite stark. That's not something I've noticed on other gaming laptops, so it seems like Intel has configured each profile quite differently.
For instance, running PCMark 10 in Balanced mode brought the overall score down to just 5691, a nearly 23 per cent drop from running it in Performance mode. Similarly, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and The Division 2 ran at just 52.3FPS and 57FPS respectively, a massive decrease of over 50 per cent in both cases.
I think it's safe to say that the Balanced mode isn't as "balanced" as its name suggests. If you're gaming, you should definitely run the laptop in Performance mode, which is what I ran all the gaming benchmarks at. There is also a dedicated benchmark mode, but all that seems to do is run the fans at maximum by default.
Overall, the Vapor 15 Pro was generally slightly behind the other laptops, but the difference is so small as to be negligible. I wouldn't quibble over a few frames, especially not when the laptop offers so much else.
This is still a very fast gaming laptop, and it'll run any AAA game with no problem today at 1080p.
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