So let’s dig into the details.

Product Specification

MSI GP76 LEOPARD Tech Specs from Official Website
https://au.msi.com/Laptop/GP76-Leopard-10UX

Product Unboxing

Package Appearance
The outer packaging is the MSI classic black background with their logo

On the top of the box is the slogan of MSI “True Gaming”

Opening the package we can see the laptop, AC adapter, and a plastic bag with the user manual and warranty card, etc

The AC adapter has an output of 20V 11.5A, a total of 230W, and manufactured by Delta

The power header has a special flat design, the same as GE76’s

The weight of the AC adapter is 0.77KG plus the power cable

Product Analysis

The main look of GP76 Leopard

The chamfered corners are slightly rounded and without sharp edges

The thin-bezel design

It has the same keyboard as the GE76 from Steelseries. The touch is easier to trigger than before and the rebound is crisp, making it difficult to press by mistake

The Keyboard per-key backlight

The benefits badge

The 10th Gen Intel and Nvidia RTX Logo badges

The 240Hz display benefits badge

The 720p camera on the top of the B cover is next to the built-in directional noise reduction microphone

The laptop front side – Smooth design without any indicator

Since the GP76 uses a similar housing design to the GE76, the IO at the rear of the machine has been retained. The IOs allocation on the back is thicker display and power cable connectors, which is much more convenient for the user and effectively avoids the thick cables that difficult to bend being allocated to the left and right sides and blocking the hands.

The laptop rear side – Symmetrical design with a large-sized opening area
1 x USB 3.2 Gen2 with DP1.4, 1 x 2.5Gb Ethernet port, 1 x HDMI (supports 4K @ 60Hz), Power jack

The laptop left side – Kensington lock port, Battery/charge indicator, 1 x Type-A 3.2 Gen2, 1 x Audio Combo port, 2W side speaker

The laptop right side – 2 x Type-A 3.2 Gen 1, 2W side speaker

The laptop weight: 2.8KG, around 3.57KG total with AC adapter and power cable

Screen Calibration
MSI GP76 LEOPARD is using a high refresh rate FHD 240Hz IPS-Level panel, manufactured by Sharp, model no. LQ173M1JW05(SHP14EC)

This is a wide-angle screen with a 100% sRGB colour gamut and a 3ms high-speed G to G response time. Many manufacturers that focus on the top of the gaming laptop choose this panel.

Calibration result: Average △E≈0.09, Maximum △E≈1.45, RMS 0.24
After calibration, we have a 106.7% of sRGB, 73.5% of Adobe RGB, and 75.6% of DCI P3 coverage

Calibration Curves

Gamut

Tone Response Curves

Software & Hardware Introduction

The Steelseries control panel
Main Menu

Per-key RGB and function setup

HWiNFO64 System detail – Intel 10th gen i7-10750H with Nvidia RTX3070 Laptop version

HwINFO Network detail
WIFI Card – Intel Wifi6 AX201 with Bluetooth v5.1

LAN Card – Intel I225V 2.5Gb LAN

CPU-Z snapshots

CPU-Z RAM snapshots

HwINFO Memory detail

GPU-Z Snapshots

HwINFO SSD Detail
1TB Samsung PM981a PCIe Gen3 SSD

HwINFO Battery Detail

Run-time Benchmark Test

Before the benchmark, we have changed the power plan to the ‘Ultimate Power Performance’ in Win10. All tests are based on the ‘Extreme performance’ mode in the settings of MSI Dragon Centre

Cinebench R15 Single & Multicore

Cinebench R20 Single & Multicore

Cinebench R23 Single & Multicore

PCMark10 | 6,072

3DMARK – Port Royal | 6,500

3DMARK – Time Spy | 10,189

3DMARK – Time Spy Extreme | 4,912

3DMARK – Fire Strike | 21,500

3DMARK – Fire Strike Extreme | 12,559

3DMARK – Fire Strike Ultra | 6,843

3DMARK – DirectX Raytracing feature test | 16.07 Average FPS

3DMARK – Mesh Shader feature test | OFF: 64.05 FPS, ON: 364.48 FPS

3DMARK – VRS: Tier 1 | OFF: 638.28 FPS, ON: 945.69 FPS

3DMARK – DLSS v1.3 | OFF: 30.13 FPS, ON: 43.51 FPS

AIDA64 CACHE

AIDA64 GPGPU

FURMARK FHD ｜ 165 Average FPS

CPU-Z Benchmark

BLENDER Benchmark

7ZIP 128MB Dictionary Size

VRAY Benchmark

X264 Benchmark

TxBENCH SSD Benchmark

Gaming Benchmarks
Final Fantasy XV | High-Quality @ FHD | 10,527

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided | Ultra @ FHD | 103.4 FPS Average

GTAV | Very High @ FHD | 4xMSAA + TXAA | 113 FPS Average

The Witcher 3 | Ultra @ FHD | 128 FPS Average

CS:GO | Ultra @ FHD | 310 FPS Average

Cyberpunk 2077 FHD Settings

Cyberpunk 2077 FHD + DLSS Ultra Performance | 59-77 FPS Average

Thermal Tests

We are pressure testing this laptop by using AIDA64 and FURMARK.

Test room temperature: 23℃±2℃
CPU Idle temperature: 37℃±2℃
GPU idle temperature: 34℃±2℃

With Auto FAN profile and non-OC settings:
Under AIDA64 Single FPU pressure test, this Intel i7-10750H is partial throttling down @ 3.85GHz
The CPU package temperature is around 92℃±2℃

Under the AIDA64 Single CPU pressure test, the Intel i7-10750H is running normally @ 4.17GHz
The CPU package temperature is around 80℃±2℃

Under AIDA64 CPU + Memory & Furmark GPU pressure test, the Intel i7-10750H is partial throttling down @ 4.17GHz
The CPU package temperature is around 85℃±6℃
The GPU temperature is around 74℃

The cooling efficiency of this 6 heat pipe heatsink is really high, it can steadily keep the CPU and GPU temperature down without turning on Cooler Boost mode, allowing the game to run smoothly.

Overclock test
Test room temperature: 24℃±2℃
CPU Idle temperature: 47℃±2℃
GPU idle temperature: 43℃±2℃

With Cooler Boost FAN profile and Full OC settings:

3DMARK Time Spy OC | 10,933 +7%

3DMARK Time Spy Extreme OC | 5,357 +8%

3DMARK Fire Strike Extreme OC | 13,375 +6%

3DMARK Fire Strike Ultra OC | 7,340 +7%

3DMARK Fire Strike Ultra OC | 7,340 +7%

3DMARK Port Royal OC | 7,044 +8%

3DMARK Mesh Shader OC | 375.48 +3%

Under AIDA64 Single FPU pressure test, this Intel i7-10750H is partial throttling down @ 3.99GHz
The CPU package temperature is around 74℃±22℃

Under AIDA64 Single CPU pressure test, the Intel i7-10750H is running normally @ 4.17GHz
The CPU package temperature is around 73℃±2℃

Under AIDA64 CPU + Memory & Furmark GPU pressure test, the Intel i7-10750H is running normally @ 4.17GHz
The CPU package temperature is around 74℃±10℃
The GPU temperature is around 66℃

The thermal snapshots under the MAX pressure test(AIDA64 + Furmark)
Front – Top of the C panel | It’s around 39-42.8℃ on both side of the vents and 36.3℃ on the average of the keyboard

Bottom – D panel | It’s around 37.8℃ crossing the CPU and GPU between the two exhausting fans and around 48-50℃ on both two vents

Rear – Left and Right vent temperature | It’s around 48-58℃ on both sides of the vents

Sides – Left and Right vent temperature | It’s around 47-60℃ on both sides of the vents

AC adapter – It’s around 48.3℃ average on the surface and the hottest spot is 55℃

Under Cooler Boost mode, the noise level is around 56.4dBA

Disassembling analysis

The back panel with its large number of cooling holes is easy to take out, just remove all the screws on the back

The D-Panel

The main inside look
The intuitive design makes it extremely easy to upgrade, just disconnect the battery and handle a few screws to easily add a hard drive and replace the memory

The C-Panel inside looking

The 2 x 2W Speakers left and right

The Touchpad inside looking, the controller is using S910ZB from Synaptics

Battery, 4160mAh manufactured by Simplo, 4-cell 61.2Wh

The powerful 6 heat-Pipes Cooler Boost 5 heatsink, the same model used as GE76.
The exhausting fans are PABD1A010SHL(DC 12V 0.6A) and PABD1A010SHR(DC 12V 0.6A) manufactured by Aavid Thermalloy

The Motherboard front and back main looking

The M.2 SSD Slots, both only support NVMe SSDs

The Intel i7-10750H CPU

The GPU chip from Nvidia, GN20-E5-A1 which is the Nvidia RTX 3070 Laptop with 18GB GDDR6, based on GA104 die

The PCH chip

The STM32F072 Mainstream Arm Cortex-M0 USB line MCU from STMicroelectronics

The ENE KB9028G Keyboard controller IC

The ALC298 Audio chip and ALC1306 Amp chips from Realtek

The Intel I225-V LAN controller chip

The 2 x USB Type-A expansion board, like the GE76, the GP76 also comes with an expansion board but cut out the SD card slot and control chip

The ribbon cable for connecting the expansion board and motherboard

SSD: 1TB Samsung PM981a NVMe SSD (PCIe Gen3 x 4)

Samsung DDR4 3200 2 x 8GB: M471A1K43DB1 – CWE

WIFI & Bluetooth card: Intel AX201NGW, Wifi6 2.4G/5G, 160MHz channels, Bluetooth v5.1

SUMMARY

Overall, in terms of appearance, the GP76 uses a similar casing to the GE76, and also inherits many advantages from it: Supercar body with a modern feel, more space for cooling, and reasonable distribution of IO interfaces. All of these are effective in improving the user experience, and the full-size keyboard from Steelseries is also a big advantage of this laptop.

In terms of performance, the GP series had to be left open as it had to make way for the flagship GE series, after all, the positioning is different and the price will be much better. But the GP76 only uses an FHD 240Hz panel, which is obviously a waste of the vast majority of the RTX 3070 performance, and MSI also uses a full version of the 140W model, if you can match the 144Hz refresh rate of 2K panel, the overall experience will be perfect. In terms of heat dissipation, not to be outdone by the use of the same GE76 case and heat dissipation, GP76 for i7-10750H and RTX 3070 heat generation is completely stress-free. It should be noted that when the machine has a large power consumption, the charger’s heat dissipation should also be considered, after all, the 230W power rating is indeed a little less than adequate for this graphics card with 140W power consumption.

In terms of price, this laptop is currently JB-HIFI exclusive, AU$3389 for a 140W RTX3070 is very good value, because the current mainstream laptops equipped with RTX3070 are only Lenovo’s Savior R9000 series and Mechrevo’s Deepsea Titan X10 Pro, the former is not yet available, the latter only for the Chinese and North American markets.

EPIC PC RATE SCORE: 92/100

EPIC REWARD: EPIC RECOMMENDED, DESIGN AWARD

MSI GP76 LEOPARD OFFICIAL WEBSITE: HERE

The new generation of the GF65 Thin series is not much different from the previous ones. This time, the version we got comes with the Intel Core i7-10750H and the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop, 6GB GDDR6 VRAM and a 15.6-inch IPS-Level 144 Hz refresh rate gaming screen.

So let’s dig into the details.

Product Specification

MSI GF65 THIN Tech Specs from Official Website
https://www.msi.com/Laptop/GF65-Thin-10UX/Specification

Product Unboxing

Package Appearance
The outer packaging is the MSI classic black background with their logo

On the top of the box is the slogan of MSI “True Gaming”

Opening the package we can see the laptop main body directly

Underneath the laptop is a plastic bag with the user manual and warranty card etc.

The AC adapter has an output of 20V 9A, a total of 180W and manufactured by Delta

The weight of the AC adapter is 0.55KG plus the power cable

Product Analysis

The main look of GF65 Thin

The D-panel has large cooling openings, allowing a direct view of the internal cooler structure

The chamfered corners are slightly rounded and without sharp edges

The thin-bezel design

The single-coloured keyboard and touchpad

The keyboard backlight

The 10th Gen Intel and Nvidia RTX Logo badges

The 720p camera on the top of the B cover is next to the built-in directional noise reduction microphone

The laptop front side – Smooth design without any indicator

The laptop rear side – Semi-Symmetrical design with a large-sized opening area

The laptop left side – Power jack and an HDMI (supports 4K @ 60Hz)port

The laptop right side – 1 x Headphone/Microphone combo port, 2 x Type-A 3.2 Gen 1, 2 x Type-C 3.2 Gen 1, 1 x 1Gb LAN port and a Kensington lock port

The laptop weight: 1.94KG, around 2.5KG total with AC adapter and power cable

Screen Calibration
MSI GF65 Thin is using an FHD 144Hz IPS-Level, 45% NTSC panel, manufactured by AUO, model no. B156HAN08.4(AUOAF90)

Calibration result: Average △E≈0.17, Maximum △E≈1.86, RMS 0.39
After calibration, we have a 58.7% of sRGB, 40.4% of Adobe RGB and 41.6% of DCI P3 coverage

Calibration Curves

Gamut

Tone Response Curves

Hardware Introduction

HWiNFO64 System detail – Intel 10th gen i7-10750H with Nvidia RTX3060 Laptop version

HwINFO Network detail
WIFI Card – Intel Wifi6 AX201 with Bluetooth v5.1

LAN Card – Realtek RTL8111HS-CG 1Gb LAN

CPU-Z snapshots

16G(2x8G) DDR4 3200 So-DIMM memory

GPU-Z Snapshots
GPU-Z was not up to date at the time of our testing and was still at version 2.36 as of November 2020 and could not read all the information from the RTX 3060 laptop without problems, please refer to the details from HwInfo

HwINFO SSD Detail
2TB Samsung PM981 PCIe Gen3 SSD

HwINFO Battery Detail

Run-time Benchmark Test

Before the benchmark, we have changed the power plan to the ‘Ultimate Power Performance’ in Win10. All tests are based on the ‘Extreme performance’ mode in the settings of MSI Dragon Centre

Nvidia driver version has been updated to v461.40

Cinebench R15 Single & Multicore

Cinebench R20 Single & Multicore

Cinebench R23 Single & Multicore

PCMark10 | 4,794

3DMARK – Port Royal | 4,198

3DMARK – Time Spy | 6,974

3DMARK – Time Spy Extreme | 3,261

3DMARK – Fire Strike | 16,118

3DMARK – Fire Strike Extreme | 8,266

3DMARK – Fire Strike Ultra | 4,387

3DMARK – DirectX Raytracing feature test | 17.72 Average FPS

3DMARK – VRS: Tier 1 | OFF: 375.07 FPS, ON: 543.04 FPS

3DMARK – DLSS v1.3 | OFF: 31.42 FPS, ON: 69.83 FPS

3DMARK – Mesh Shader | OFF: 55.43 FPS, ON: 226.41 FPS

FURMARK FHD ｜ 100 Average FPS

CPU-Z Benchmark

BLENDER BMW27 & Classroom

7ZIP 128MB Dictionary Size

TxBENCH SSD Benchmark

Gaming Benchmarks
Final Fantasy XV | High-Quality @ FHD | 7,777

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided | Ultra @ FHD | 72.7 FPS Average

GTAV | Very High @ FHD | 4 x MSAA + TXAA | 89 FPS Average

The Witcher 3 | Ultra @ FHD | 83 FPS Average

CS:GO | Ultra @ FHD | 319 FPS Average

Cyberpunk 2077 FHD Settings

Cyberpunk 2077 FHD + DLSS Ultra Performance | 75 FPS Average

Thermal Tests

We are pressure testing this laptop by using AIDA64 and FURMARK.

With Auto FAN profile and non-OC settings:
Test room temperature: 23℃±2℃
CPU Idle temperature: 50℃±2℃
GPU idle temperature: 45℃±2℃

Under AIDA64 Single FPU pressure test, this Intel i7-10750H is partial throttling down @ 3.13GHz
The CPU package temperature is around 66℃±20℃

Under AIDA64 Single CPU pressure test, the Intel i7-10750H is partial throttling down @ 3.86GHz
The CPU package temperature is around 88℃±8℃

Under AIDA64 CPU + Memory & Furmark GPU pressure test, the Intel i7-10750H is partial throttling down @ 3.59GHz
The CPU package temperature is around 86℃±11℃
The GPU temperature is around 74℃

The temperature control of this laptop is ‘Everything under control’, MSI’s Cooler Boost 5 cooling system has a 6 wide heatpipe design with a pair of large-sized fans. The FHD resolution also takes a lot of pressure off this machine and is largely stress-free when running AAA gaming such as Cyberpunk 2077 with reasonable effects + Ray Tracing, the CPU usage is about 77% and the video memory usage is 8.9G. The cooling pressure is completely suppressed, but the Cooler-Boost enabled fan noise is on the loud side.

Overclock test
With Cooler Boost FAN profile and OC settings:
Test room temperature: 23℃±2℃
CPU Idle temperature: 44℃±2℃
GPU idle temperature: 38℃±2℃

Under AIDA64 Single FPU pressure test, this Intel i7-10750H is partial throttling down @ 3.17GHz
The CPU package temperature is around 79℃±17℃

Under AIDA64 Single CPU pressure test, the Intel i7-10750H is running normally @ 3.89GHz
The CPU package temperature is around 80℃±8℃

Under AIDA64 CPU + Memory & Furmark GPU pressure test, the Intel i7-10750H is partial throttling down @ 3.71GHz
The CPU package temperature is around 83℃±10℃
The GPU temperature is around 66℃

The overclocking options in MSI Dragon Center really add to the gaming performance of this Laptop, and with Nvidia’s 3rd generation Max-Q technology, Dynamic Boost 2.0 dynamically adjusts the power between the CPU and GPU to give the GPU the power it deserves, this resulted in a significant increase in the score we got in 3DMark.

3DMARK Port Royal OC | 4,539 +7.5%

3DMARK Time Spy OC | 7,457 +6.4%

3DMARK Time Spy Extreme OC | 3,471 +6.0%

3DMARK Fire Strike Extreme OC | 8,959 +7.7%

3DMARK – DirectX Raytracing OC | 20.03 Average FPS +11.5%

The thermal snapshots under the MAX pressure test(AIDA64 + Furmark)
Front – Top of the C panel | It’s around 54.6℃ on the side of the left vent and 40.1℃ on the middle of the keyboard

Bottom – D panel | It’s around 39℃ crossing the CPU and GPU between the two exhausting fans and around 60-62℃ around the fans

Rear – Left and Right vent temperature | It’s around 66-76℃ on both sides of the vents

Sides – Left vent temperature | It’s around 70℃ on the left sides of the vents

AC adapter | It’s around 50℃

Under Cooler Boost mode, the noise level is around 59.5dBA

Overall, we have to say that the cooling efficiency of the Cooler Boost is not particularly strong, mainly because the two 5V fans are a bit weak and cannot be compared to the two violent 12V fans of the GE76, and most of the heat is not discharged in time, resulting in the upper part of the keyboard on the C side being extremely hot. According to the benchmark, the main source of heat comes from the CPU, while the graphics card does not generate much heat.

Disassembling analysis

After removing all the screws that lock the D-cover plate, use a pick to slide into the backplate along the gap at the IO part, please note that the backplate needs to be flipped from the HDMI IO side, otherwise the USB IO side of the backplate will be damaged

The D-Panel front and back

The main inside look

The intuitive design makes it extremely easy to upgrade, just disconnect the battery and handle a few screws to easily add a hard drive and replace the ram

The C-Panel inside looking

2 x 2W Speakers

The Touchpad inside looking, the controller is using S910ZB from Synaptics

Battery, 4500mAh manufactured by Getac, 4-cell 51Wh

The powerful 6 heat-Pipes Cooler Boost 5 heatsink
The exhausting fans are PABD08008SH(DC 5V 1A) and PAAD06015SL(DC 5V 0.55A) manufactured by Aavid Thermalloy

The Motherboard front and back main looking

The M.2 NVMe only SSD Slots

The Intel i7-10750H CPU

The GPU chip from Nvidia, GN20-E3-A1 which is the Nvidia RTX 3060 Laptop with 6GB GDDR6, based on GA106M die

The PCH chip

The ENE KB9028Q Keyboard controller IC

The ALC233 Audio chip from Realtek

The 75DP159 HDMI IC Control Chips by Fortune Cats

SSD: 512GB Micron MTFDHBA512QFD NVMe SSD (PCIe Gen3 x 4)

Samsung DDR4 3200 2 x 8GB: M471A1K43DB1 – CWE

WIFI & Bluetooth card: Intel AX201NGW, Wifi6 2.4G/5G, 160MHz channels, Bluetooth v5.1

SUMMARY

Overall, the GF65 Thin is an entry-level gaming laptop with a 10th gen i7, 16GB DDR4 and Nvidia’s latest 30-series graphics card, which can handle basically all competitive FPS and MOBA games without any problem, and most AAA games can be played smoothly under FHD resolution. Although this screen with only 58% sRGB colour gamut limits the productivity of many image and graphics processes, it can be solved by connecting an external professional monitor. In terms of cooling, although this GF65 overheated several times under stress testing, it didn’t actually affect gaming performance as the graphics card wasn’t hot. For the price, the $2,199 price tag is a bit high, and we wonder if it is influenced by cryptocurrency, but laptops with the new generation of graphics cards are generally more expensive. According to the latest news from Nvidia, they’ll be doing some restrictions on drivers and vBios to stifle hashing power to combat malicious snapping, so hopefully, that will end up improving the pricing of the laptop market.

EPIC PC RATE SCORE: 85.5/100

MSI GF65 THIN OFFICIAL WEBSITE: HERE

The processors are available in Core i7-1165G7 and Core i5-1135G7 versions, the former with 16GB of RAM and the latter with 8GB, both dual-channel LPDDR4x-4267 with Intel Iris Xe high-performance core graphics and up to 512GB NVMe SSD. According to Razer, the touch screen versions are using CORNING® GORILLA® GLASS 6, 100% sRGB colour gamut on all versions of the screen, Windows Hello function support, and Razer Chroma RGB per-key backlighting keyboard.

The version we got this time is the i7 with FHD 60Hz touch screen version. So let’s dig in.

Product Specification

RAZER BOOK 13 Tech Specs from Official Website
https://www2.razer.com/au-en/store/razer-book-13

Product Unboxing

Package Appearance

The outer packaging is packed with a black recycled cardboard

Inside the outer packaging, is the real package of the laptop, it has the same design with the outer packaging

The AC adapter has an ultra-slim design

The AC adapter is a total of 65W and manufactured by Shenzhen Hornor Electronics includes PD settings are:
5V 3A 15W total
9V 3A 27W total
15V 3A 45W total
20V 3.25A 65W total

The total weight of the AC adapter includes the power cable is only 0.29KG

Opening the box, we can see an eco-tag leading by Razer: #GoGreenwithRazer
In recent years, Razer has made a concerted effort to support the environment, and not to be as extravagant as other brands with their packaging. The first step is to reduce the size of the packaging, keeping the accessories simple, with no extra unnecessary accessories or cables available, and the last is to use as much recycled paper as possible for internal support to reduce the use of plastic. It has to be said that Razer didn’t do this out of sheer cheapness, but rather than buying accessories that may not be used by end users, Razer was able to cut costs and give back to its customers.

The second layer is the accessories box with the familiar sticker, greeting card, support card, manual and a microfibre cloth

Product Analysis

The main look of RAZER BOOK 13

The overall weight of the laptop body is only 1.38KG, plus the AC adapter and power cord together is 1.67KG in total

The 11th gen Intel i7 and THX Spatial audio sticker
The Intel EVO badge represents that this laptop has passed the Intel EVO platform certification

1080P with Touch screen badge

The thin-bezel design

The per-key RGB Keyboard keycaps are designed with no wobbling from side to side

The 720p IR HD camera on the top of the B cover is supporting Windows Hello
This time, Razer uses a 4 mics array with more directional radio and enhanced noise cancellation

The maximum opening angle is about 120 degrees

The laptop front side – Smooth design with power led indicator on the right corner

The laptop rear side – We don’t see any air vents

The laptop right side – 1 x Type-C(Thunderbolt™4,20V PD3.0), 1 x HDMI 1.2, 1 x Micro SD slot

The laptop left side – 1 x Type-C(Thunderbolt™4,20V PD3.0), 1 x Type-A(3.2 Gen2)，1 x Mic/Headphone combo jack

Screen Calibration
RAZER BOOK 13 is using a 13.4″ FHD Sharp LQ134N1JW48 touch panel

Calibration result: Average △E≈0.08, Maximum △E≈1.31
After calibration, we have a 103.4% of sRGB, 71.2% of Adobe RGB and 73.2% of DCI P3 coverage

Calibration Curves

Gamut

Tone Response Curves

Hardware & Software Introduction

HWiNFO64 System detail – Intel 11th gen i7-1165G7 with Intel Iris Xe graphics

GPUZ – Intel Iris Xe graphics

HWiNFO64 WIFI detail
WIFI Card – Intel Wifi6 AX 201 with Bluetooth v5.1

HWiNFO64 SSD detail

HWiNFO64 Smart Battery detail

CPU-Z snapshots

RAM Detail – 16 GB LPDDR4X

Razer Desktop Wallpaper

Run-time Benchmark Test

Cinebench R15 Single core & Multi core

Cinebench R20 Single core & Multi core

Cinebench R23 Single core & Multi core

PCMark10 | 4,649

3DMARK – Time Spy | 1,680

3DMARK – Fire Strike | 5,020

3DMARK – Fire Strike Extreme | 2,356

3DMARK – Night Raid | 16,267

TxBENCH

BLENDER

7-ZIP

CPU-Z

X.264 Benchmark

X.265 Benchmark

The Witcher 3 @ FHD Medium | Average 36 FPS

GTA V @ FHD Normal | Average 59 FPS

Deus EX Mankind divided @ FHD Low | Average 31.3 FPS

CS:GO @ FHD High | Average 54 FPS

Genshin Impact @ FHD High | Average 58 FPS

Thermal Tests

We are pressure testing this laptop by using AIDA64, PRIME95 and furmark.

Test room temperature: 25℃±2℃
CPU/GPU Idle temperature: 40℃±2℃

We are adjusting the power mode to ‘Performance’ under Razer Synapse
Fan setting is kept in ‘auto’ mode

Under AIDA64 Single FPU pressure test, this Intel i7-1165G7 is partially throttling down to 3.32GHz
The CPU package temperature is around 99℃±1℃, Overheated

Under AIDA64 Single CPU pressure test, the Intel i7-1165G7 is running normally @ 4.07GHz
The CPU package temperature is around 89℃±11℃

Under AIDA64 CPU，Memory & GPU pressure test, this Intel i7-1165G7 is throttling down to 2.07GHz
The CPU/GPU package temperature is around 74℃±18℃

We adjusted the Fan setting to ‘Manual’ mode and left it in a maximum speed of 5500rpm

Under AIDA64 Single CPU pressure test, the Intel i7-1165G7 is running normally @ 4.09GHz
The CPU package temperature is around 88℃±11℃

Under AIDA64 CPU，Memory & GPU pressure test, this Intel i7-1165G7 is throttling down to 2.27GHz
The CPU/GPU package temperature is around 73℃±6℃

The thermal snapshots under PRIME95 pressure test
Front – A panel | It’s around 33℃ in the top middle of the panel, around 45℃ next to the 2 exhausting vents

Front – C panel | It’s around 45℃-51℃ in the middle and top middle of the keyboard, 37℃ around the touchpad

Bottom – D panel | It’s around 50℃-52℃ in the middle and the bottom of the panel, around 39℃ at the exhausting vents,

AC Adapter | It’s around 51℃ in the middle, around 45℃ average

The Noise level of maximum 5600RPM dual-fan spinning is around 47.7dBA

Overall, the Razer book 13 doesn’t do a very good job of controlling temperatures under heavy pressure. The lightweight design results in a thin CPU heat sink, and the heat spikes after the integrated graphics card starts up, especially when the AVX command set is called, the upper area of the keyboard is exceptionally hot. Also, that pitiful slim charger, which can act as a hand warmer under high loads. However, as a thin and light Laptop officially labelled as an “office machine”, there is no way users can expect this type of machine to meet the high standards of gaming machines. Daily office loads and light entertainment won’t put this Laptop under much pressure, on the contrary, it will be handled with ease and the user will not be frustrated by it.

Power consumption & Battery life

The power consumption of the Razer Book 13 varies from 3W to 8W depending on the brightness of the screen at idle. The Razer Book 13 also has a much longer battery life under WLAN conditions, it can reach almost 15 hours of real-world battery life.

With the original adapter, it takes about 90 minutes to charge from 0% to 100%. A nice detail is that the USB-C ports on both sides of the body support quick charging, users can easily choose their convenient sides.

Disassembling analysis

Opening the back panel is very easy, just unscrew some hexagonal screws. There are no disposable and fragile snaps on edges.

The main inside look

The back plate look

Interestingly, the inner part near the battery is covered with a whole sheet of aluminium to dissipate heat from the front surface of the battery

The full disassembled parts list

The keyboard controller board adopted with NXP LPC11U37F solution, its ARM Cortex-M0 architecture is the same processor as the K70 series from Corsair and the KM870 mechanical keyboard from GSkill

The Left & Right Stereo speakers support Dolby Atmos

The slim-designed full copper heatsink

The exhausting fans are 2 x DFS150305780T(DC 5V 0.5A) and DFS150005780T(DC 5V 0.5A) manufactured by FCN

Battery, 4762mAh manufactured by Shenzhen BYD, 4 cells 55Wh

A special feature is that the back of the battery is covered with a sheet of aluminium for easy heat dissipation, which is a very smart design. Combined with the back cover, it provides adequate heat dissipation to the battery and extends the usage

SSD: 256GB PM981a NVMe SSD by Samsung
It has to be said here that Razer is slightly stingy, 256G will be stretched in any usage environment

The Main motherboard front and backside

The 11th Gen INTEL i7-1165G7 with PCH chip together

The 16GB LPDDR4X NAND chip ‘K4UBE3D’ by Samsung with a particularly fancy angle arrangement

WIFI & Bluetooth on-board card: Intel AX201NGW, Wifi6 2.4G/5G, 160MHz channels, Bluetooth v5.1

The Intel Thunderbolt™4 JHL8040R controller chip

The 75DP159 HDMI IC control chip from Texas Instruments

The ALC298 Audio chip and ALC1306 Amp chip from Realtek

The Realtek RTS-5260 SD 6.0/UHS-III Controller & Card reader chip

The Screen and camera/microphone BTB socket

SUMMARY

Overall, although this is the first time Razer has made a non-gaming related laptop because they have a clear idea of what they are doing, bringing top quality hardware while putting more effort into polishing the details. If you compare it to the Blade series, the main difference is not in the discrete graphics, but the ‘level of refinement’.

The Razer Book 13 is a thin and light laptop with a focus on the business workforce, the attempt also revealed Razer’s ambition to enter the professional laptop area, with the Book series being the latest to hit the high-end office market.

EPIC PC RATE SCORE: 89/100

EPIC REWARD: EPIC RECOMMENDED

RAZER BOOK 13 OFFICIAL WEBSITE: HERE

The version we got this time is the 1080P with 60Hz touchscreen, and Australia doesn’t have the 4K touchscreen version this time. So let’s dig in.

Product Specification

RAZER BLADE 15 ADVANCED 2020 Tech Specs from Official Website
https://www2.razer.com/au-en/gaming-systems/razer-blade-stealth

Product Unboxing

Package Appearance
The outer packaging is still packed with a black recycled carton

Inside the outer packaging, is the real package of the laptop, it has the same design with the outer packaging

All laptop and accessories packaging have inflatable and shock-proof protection

The AC adapter manufactured by Shenzhen Hornor Electronics includes PD settings are:
5V 3A 15W total
9V 3A 27W total
15V 3A 45W total
20V 5A 100W total

The weight of the AC adapter is 0.57KG

The black laptop box with a huge fancy golden Razer logo

Opening the box, we can see an eco-tag leading by Razer: #GoGreenwithRazer
In recent years, Razer has made a concerted effort to support the environment saving, and not to be as extravagant as other brands with their packaging. The first step is to reduce the size of the packaging, keeping the accessories simple, with no extra unnecessary accessories or cables available, and the last is to use as much recycled paper as possible for internal support to reduce the use of plastic. It has to be said that Razer didn’t do this out of sheer cheapness, but rather than buying accessories that may not be used by end users, Razer was able to cut costs and give back to its customers.

The second layer is the accessories box with the familiar sticker, greeting card, support card, manual and a microfibre cloth

Product Analysis

The main looking of RAZER BLADE STEALTH 13 2020

The 11th gen Intel i7 and THX Spatial audio sticker

The specification badge

1080P with Touch screen badge

Thunderbolt 4 label, the right-sided USB type-c is actually the Thunderbolt 4 port

The thin-bezel design

The Single Zone RGB Keyboard keycaps are designed with no wobbling from side to side

The 720p IR HD camera on the top of the B cover is supporting Windows Hello

The laptop front side – Smooth design with power led indicator on the right-side

The laptop rear side – We don’t see any air vents

The laptop right side – 1 x Type-A(3.2 Gen2), 1 x Type-C(Thunderbolt™4,20V PD3.0)

The laptop left side – 1 x Type-C(3.2 Gen2, 20V PD3.0), 1 x Type-A(3.2 Gen2)，1 x Mic/Headphone combo jack

The laptop weight: 1.48KG, around 2.05KG total with AC adapter and power cable

Screen Calibration
RAZER BLADE STEALTH 13 2020 is using a FHD Samsung ATNA33XC01-0 touch panel

It’s an awesome OLED touch screen with 60Hz refresh rate that supports HDRX, and a 97.7% DCI-P3 colour gamut. Protected with Corning Gorilla Glass

Calibration result: Average △E≈0.07, Maximum △E≈0.59
After calibration, we have a 176.5% of sRGB, 121.6% of Adobe RGB and 125.0% of DCI P3 coverage

Calibration Curves

Gamut

Tone Response Curves

Hardware & Software Introduction

HWiNFO64 System detail – Intel 11th gen i7-1165G7 with Intel Iris Xe graphics

GPUZ – Nvidia GTX1650Ti Max-Q & Intel Iris Xe graphics

HWiNFO64 WIFI detail
WIFI Card – Intel Wifi6 AX 201 with Bluetooth v5.1

HWiNFO64 Ram detail

CPUZ Ram detail – It shows Quad-channel and cannot detect any slot

HWiNFO64 SSD detail

CPU-Z snapshots

Razer Desktop Wallpaper

Razer Synapse
Razer Synapse – Dashboard, the laptop has been recognised by the software

Razer Synapse – Lightning – Controlling Razer Chroma RGB devices

Razer Synapse – Lightning – Razer Chroma Studio

Razer Synapse – Customise – Per-key RGB will allow users to set lightning profiles for different software and gamess

Razer Synapse – Performance – lets users manage the system performance, change the screen refresh rate and change monitor colour profile

Run-time Benchmark Test

Cinebench R15 Single core & Multi core

Cinebench R20 Single core & Multi core

Cinebench R23 Single core & Multi core

PCMark10 | 5,186

3DMARK – Time Spy | 3,370

3DMARK – Time Spy Extreme | 1,525

3DMARK – Fire Strike | 7,880

3DMARK – Fire Strike Extreme | 3,891

3DMARK – Fire Strike Ultra | 1,848

TxBENCH

BLENDER – BMW & Classroom

7-ZIP

CPU-Z

FURMARK

The Witcher 3 @ FHD Medium | Average 35 FPS

GTA V @ FHD High | Average 60 FPS

Deus EX Mankind divided @ FHD Medium | Average 59.1 FPS

CS:GO @ FHD High | Average 105 FPS

Genshin Impact @ FHD High | Average 57 FPS

Thermal Tests

We are pressure testing this laptop by using AIDA64, PRIME95 and furmark.

Test room temperature: 23℃±2℃
CPU Idle temperature: 46℃±3℃
GPU idle temperature: 31℃

Fan setting is kept in ‘auto’ mode
Under AIDA64 Single FPU pressure test, this Intel i7-1165G7 is partially throttoling down to 3.07GHz
The CPU package temperature is around 90℃±3℃

Under AIDA64 Single CPU pressure test, the Intel i7-1165G7 is running normally @ 4.09GHz
The CPU package temperature is around 76℃±7℃

Under AIDA64 CPU，Cache & FURMARK GPU pressure test, this Intel i7-1165G7 is throttoling down to 2.6GHz
The CPU package temperature is around 80℃±10℃
The GPU temperature is around 76℃±0℃

The thermal snapshots under PRIME95 pressure test
Front – A panel | It’s around 33℃ in the top middle of the panel, around 53℃ next to the 2 exhausting vents

Front – C panel | It’s around 44℃ in the middle and top middle of the keyboard, around 51℃ next to the 2 exhausting fans

Bottom – D panel | It’s around 50℃ in the middle of the panel, around 57℃ at the exhausting vents

The Noise level of maximum 5600RPM dual-fan spinning is around 52.1dBA

Overall, as a 13-inch machine, the Razer Blade Stealth 13’s temperature control is okay, but based on the overall thermal architecture design and small heatsink area, it is not recommended to overclock to improve performance.

Disassembling analysis

Opening the back panel is very easy, just unscrew some hexagonal screws. There are no disposable and fragile snaps on edges.

The main inside look

The back plate look

The C-panel inside look

The keyboard controller board adopted with NXP LPC11U37F solution, its ARM Cortex-M0 architecture is the same processor as the K70 series from Corsair and the KM870 mechanical keyboard from Gskill

The Left & Right Stereo speakers support Dolby Atmos

The full copper heatsink

The exhausting fans are 2 x EG50040S1-C180(DC 5V 0.42A) and EG50040S1-C170(DC 5V 0.42A) manufactured by SUNON

Battery, 4602mAh manufactured by Shenzhen BYD, 4 cells 53Wh

SSD: 512GB PM981a NVMe SSD by Samsung

WIFI & Bluetooth card: Intel AX201NGW, Wifi6 2.4G/5G, 160MHz channels, Bluetooth v5.1

The Main motherboard front and backside

The 11th Gen INTEL i7-1165G7 with PCH chip together

The 16GB LPDDR4 RAM by Micron

The GPU chip from Nvidia, N18P-G62-A1 which is the Nvidia GTX1650Ti Max-Q with 4GB GDDR6

Vram from Samsung

The Intel Thunderbolt™4 JHL8040R controller chip

The USB Type-C bi-directional retimer chip PS8811 from Parade

The ALC298 Audio chip and ALC1306 Amp chip from Realtek

The uP9512Q controller chip is responsible for controlling the Vram power supply

The NCP45491 from ON Semiconductor is used to monitor the bus voltage

SUMMARY

Overall, this laptop features a lightweight, high performance design that can support light gaming, office and entertainment usage. the Razer Blade Stealth 13 takes care of it all very well. The decent battery life and the portable design of the multi-purpose charger not only allow users to open up to receive emails or work on images or photos whenever they travel, but also to open up a game after work and relax. It’s not the ultimate in performance, but it can be done with calm and ease. The matte black design is more than capable of reflecting a touch of geeky attitude, and with Chroma’s illusionary design, users can fully unleash their personality. However, the $3699 pricing is a bit high and hopefully Razer will reconsider its pricing strategy.

EPIC PC RATE SCORE: 88.5/100

EPIC REWARD: EPIC RECOMMENDED

RAZER BLADE STEALTH 13 2020 OFFICIAL WEBSITE: HERE