Battlefield 4

Publisher: EA

From our Battlefield 4 review:

'From the start to the end of the campaign you literally have no idea who’s who, why they do or don’t like each other and even what part you play in the whole thing – the latter point not being helped by the fact you’re mute throughout the whole game. You just meander from mission to mission and get on with the task set before you.

Still: who cares, right? Battlefield has long been about its multiplayer, and sure enough here, again the game truly shines. Largely it’s a continuation of what came before but there are enough extras that it feels, if not totally new, different enough to learn all over again.'

With its demanding Frostbite 3 engine, Battlefield 4 is a tough challenge for any GPU. We run the game at its highest 'Ultra' settings with motion blur at 50 percent and the resolution scale at 100 percent. We also manually disable MSAA at 4K, as it's unnecessary and too demanding at this resolution. We run a 60 second benchmark on the game's sixth campaign level, Tashgar, during the on rails section at the level's start, and begin the recording as soon as the subtitle for the first line of dialogue appears on screen.

Battlefield 4

1,920 x 1,080, DirectX 11, 'Ultra' Settings

  • Aorus X7 Pro Sync (GTX 970M SLI)
  • Aorus X3 PLUS V5 (GTX 970M)
  • MSI GS70 2QE Stealth Pro (GTX 970M)
  • Asus Strix GTX 960 DirectCU II OC 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 285 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 270X 2GB
  • MSI GE62 2QE Apache (GTX 965M)
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Crysis 3

Publisher: EA

Mixing the open-world combat of Crysis with the more tightly scripted urban jungle of Crysis 2, Crysis 3 is a smorgasbord of visual effects and polygons galore. With DirectX 11 support, high resolution textures and incredibly detailed characters models, it's laid down the gauntlet for the next generation of consoles and games alike when it comes to gorgeous graphics

We test using the Very High detail preset and with Very High texture resolution. lens flare and motion blur are both enabled, although due to its heavy performance impact, anti-aliasing is disabled.

As explained earlier, we use a custom macro-driven 60 seconds play-through from the single player mission Red Star Rising. The 60 seconds of gameplay takes place in a large open environment heavy on water and particle effects. Each test is repeated three times, with the average result taken.

Crysis 3

1,920 x 1,080, 0x AA, 16x AF, 'Very High' Settings

  • Aorus X7 Pro Sync (GTX 970M SLI)
  • Asus Strix GTX 960 DirectCU II OC 2GB
  • MSI GS70 2QE Stealth Pro (GTX 970M)
  • Aorus X3 PLUS V5 (GTX 970M)
  • AMD Radeon R9 285 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 270 2GB
  • MSI GE62 2QE Apache (GTX 965M)
  • AMD Radeon R7 265 2GB
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Unigine Valley 1.0 Benchmark

Publisher: Unigine

Unigine's free Valley 1.0 benchmarking tool works well as a graphics benchmark as it is GPU limited and is thus incredibly taxing on the GPU whilst placing the CPU under very little stress. Unigine's scoring system is effectively linear: a card with 2,000 points is considered twice as fast as one with 1,000 points, and half as fast as one with 4,000 points. We ran the test at 1,920 x 1,080 with 0 x AA and Ultra detail settings.

Unigine Valley 1.0

1,920 x 1,080, 0x AA, 'Ultra' Quality

  • MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G 4GB
  • Aorus X7 Pro Sync (GTX 970M SLI)
  • Asus Strix GTX 960 DirectCU II OC 2GB
  • MSI GS70 2QE Stealth Pro (GTX 970M)
  • Aorus X3 PLUS V5 (GTX 970M)
  • AMD Radeon R9 285 2GB
  • MSI GE62 2QE Apache (GTX 965M)
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Posted by Pete J - Sat Feb 06 2016 15:06

Gaming laptops have really come along in the last couple of years. I have something similar and it amazes me what it can do - beating the recent consoles in sheer performance. That 970M can run Arkham Knight on 1080p maximum settings (INCLUDING all GameWorks functions) at a very reasonable average 30+FPS.

A question for the reviewers: did the laptop have the thermal paste reapplied? In such a small chassis, the 970M can quickly start to throttle. My ultrabook has had IC Diamond applied and still gets very close to the thermal limit. It's a pity because the 970M has a shedload of overclocking headroom (we're talking something stupid, like 50%+) but these 14" chassis cannot handle the extra heat.

Posted by Combatus - Sat Feb 06 2016 19:26

HI Pete. No we test as-is unfortunately! The GPU seemed fine in this one though - no evidence of throttling but the CPU definitely did.

Posted by Gargoogolplex - Sun Feb 07 2016 00:16

I was going to purchase one of these laptops but unfortunately there have been some major quality control issues with the batch that overclockers received. Also, the general build quality seems to be lacking so I went with a Dell XPS 15 Skylake laptop. It's not quite as suited to gaming as the Aorus but a great laptop nevertheless and I don't believe the cpu throttles either, at least the i7-6700HQ version anyway.

Posted by MightyBenihana - Sun Feb 07 2016 01:04

Gargoogolplex
I was going to purchase one of these laptops but unfortunately there have been some major quality control issues with the batch that overclockers received. Also, the general build quality seems to be lacking so I went with a Dell XPS 15 Skylake laptop. It's not quite as suited to gaming as the Aorus but a great laptop nevertheless and I don't believe the cpu throttles either, at least the i7-6700HQ version anyway.
Did you get the 4k or 1080p screen, and also did you get the 56whr or 84whr battery. What do you think of it so far? I am probably going to get the 1080p with the larger battery, sorry for all the questions.

Also laptop reviews are very welcome, any chance of anymore (new asus g series and also the gl552 and other 15 inch models?)
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