![]() ![]() It's less of a pain while hitting buttons in gaming, but it took significant time to get used to typing on it, and even then it tired my fingers out a bit. The keyboard is as close to "linear" as a gaming laptop keyboard gets without mechanical keys, but without significant travel, I found myself bottoming out while typing. But if this is your only PC, you're going to have a bad time. As a purely gaming device, they may be serviceable. ![]() I have very mixed feelings about the Dell G16's keyboard and mouse. It's fairly average among its competitors when it comes to colors, but it does get brighter. The display on the Dell G16 is a 16-inch, 2560 x 1600 (with a 16:10 aspect ratio) screen with a 165 Hz refresh rate. That's more than a minute faster than the MSI Sword, but both the Alienware and the TUF did it more quickly. It took the Dell G16 6 minutes and 23 seconds to transcode a 4K video to 1080p using Handbrake. ![]() The G16 copied 25GB of files at a rate of 745.36 MBps, which is faster than both the Alienware m15 and the Asus TUF, but the MSI Sword 15 blazed past the group at 1,080.53 MBps. The Alienware m15 R7, with an AMD Ryzen 7 6800H, came in last place. Both the TUF Gaming F15 (the same Core i7-12700H) and MSI Sword (i7-12650H) edged it out slightly on single-core, but the MSI fell short on multi-core, leaving the G16 in a slight second palace. On Geekbench 5, a performance test leaning heavily on CPUs, the Dell achieved a single-core score of 1,719 and a multi-core score of 12,043. Productivity Performance on the Dell G16Ī gaming laptop wielding a Intel Core i7-12700H, 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD should be able to pull double-duty as a workhorse. The GPU ran at 1.6 GHz and measured 77.16 degrees Celsius. The CPU package measured an average of 76.42 degrees Celsius and showed some signs of throttling. During that gauntlet, the CPU's six performance cores ran at 2.71 GHz, while the eight efficiency cores ran at 2.16 GHz. The laptop ran the game at an average of 59.76 fps and was surprisingly stable throughout the test. We stressed test the G16 by looping Metro Exodus 15 times on the RTX preset. The R7 came the next closest at 72 fps, while the TUF lagged slightly at 65 fps. The G16 did the best of the group on Borderlands 3 ("badass" settings), playing at 74 fps at 1080p and 49 fps at 1600p. Both the G16 and the Alienawre hit 60 fps at 1080p (the G16 reached 38 fps at its native resolution), while the TUF Gaming reached 59 fps and the Sword played at 57 fps. Red Dead Redemption 2 on medium is still a challenge. On Far Cry 6, the G16 reached 90 frames per second on the benchmark at ultra settings (51 fps at 2560 x 1600). The Sword and TUF Gaming both hit 90 fps. The G16 hit 94 fps, while the Alienware beat it by a frame. Grand Theft Auto V (very high settings) drew strong performances from all four laptops at 1080p. The other laptops, all with 1080p screens, were at least a few frames behind, with the m15 R7 falling the furthest at 69 fps. On the Shadow of the Tomb Raider benchmark (very high settings), the Dell G16 played at 76 fps at 1080p and 44 fps at its native 1600p. ![]() You might be able to play this game at higher settings, but doing so here allowed me to take at least some advantage of the 165 Hz screen and play above 60 fps while actually seeing the benefits. Platforming sections of the game typically ran between 90 and 102 fps, though sections with lots of effects could drop it down as low as the 70's. In a section in which you land Star-Lord's ship, the Milano, the game ran between 92-117 frames per second on medium settings at 1920 x 1200 (I used this instead of 1080p to take advantage of the screen real estate). I played some Guardians of the Galaxy on the Dell G16 to put it through its paces. ![]()
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