RTX 2080 Laptops Are Here 🔥#Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin we've had those

sweet sweet

RTX graphics and desktops for a little

while now however today is the day that

it is finally time for all this power to

come down to the laptop side of things

to test we have the brand new rog

Zephyrus s 17-inch they actually took a

brief look at this laptop at CES however

at that time Nvidia had the performance

testing side of things locked down but

with this in our hands it's time to see

exactly what we can get out of our

checks for laptops here we've got the

top in our TX 2080 pair with a core i7

8750 H now the main cut back going from

the full desktop GPU to the laptop max2

Edition is in TDP instead of having over

200 watts to work with this has to fit

and they 100 watt budget which basically

just means that the clock speed comes

down desktop is about 1700 megahertz

this is a little bit over 1200 as far as

boost clocks go take a look at the

benchmarks though and it is not a

massive improvement but you will see a

pretty good performance bump over the

previous generation gtx 1080 and

especially that max-q implementation now

benchmarks are one thing what I want to

know is what will it take to get this

RTX 2080 running at a full 1080p at 144

frames per second which is what this

screen can do now starting off with

let's see what we can do with overwatch

well three seconds into overwatch it

looks like this is no problem

we're completely maxed out on ultra

settings at 1080p and right now we're

about a hundred and sixty frames per

second I gotta say overwatch looks like

a solid thumbs up on this front next up

we have everyone's favorite game

fortnight so this I think should be

pretty easy for the 2080 to handle even

on full epic settings I don't think

it'll be an issue for tonight is another

game that is no problem to run although

we're a little bit closer here at what a

hundred and I are oh no we're 2120 so

especially a pair with that g-sync panel

144 frames per second is no problem in

fortnight so now let's move on to black

ops so it comes to black ops I'm not

super sure that we're actually going to

be able to max it out fully and still

had 144 frames but uh it's gonna try I

guess I will mention that I am running

this on the balanced power mode so you

can crank the fan up to turbo but in my

testing it only gives you another couple

percentage or so of performance but it's

like twice as loud so I'm not gonna do

that okay yeah I immediately I can tell

that we're at a hundred frames per

second

which is good and to be fair we do have

a g-sync panel which means that's nice

and smooth but a ninety hundred frames

per second that's not what we're looking

for it's all I needed to do is crank

things down to high and we're pretty

much locked at 140 fps next let's see

how battlefield 5 fares we are in the

game this is not 144 frames this is

about 50 frames so the thing with

battlefield that's going to be difficult

is it does support rate racing there's

one of the very few games that does

support rate racing right now but it is

incredibly demanding especially on the

ultra setting ok so turning rate racing

down to low gave us a big boost in

frames we're now up to about 90 which on

this g-sync panel honestly really is not

a problem I would be totally happy to

play the game like this damn look look

at that look at the reflection every

time I see a car I have to go and like

oh I should probably do that so this is

a playable game absolutely but I want

144 frames per second which means it's

time to start cranking that thing down

now that's more like it

we're about a hundred and thirty one

hundred and forty frames per second

right now I did have to turn off ray

tracing and set everything down to

medium but I mean we do have a very very

playable 140 frames per second I mean to

be fair medium looks totally fine and

that 144 frames per second is a big deal

but if it's me I'm going to turn the ray

tracing on and give up a few frames per

second to get that extra a little bit of

visual know gaming is great but this

also is great for content creation so

Wes how does it handle resolve and

specifically red stuff so what we have

playing here is seven and a K red

footage playing down at quarter res but

as you can see with a color grade on

there and a few nodes doing kind of a

punch here grade it is playing back at

real time which is something that

resolve would struggle with on lower

inspect this makes a lot of sense as a

laptop to use for content creation then

right because you've got something

that's fairly thin you do have the

Pantone color calibrated display which

realistically well so-so look coming out

of the factory it'll be pretty good it's

going to shift over the first few hours

honestly abuse but by having a good

display that means that if you are

someone that wants to calibrate in the

future you can be fairly comfortable

that you are going to be able to get a

fairly good Cal

raishin out of it next let's talk about

this actual laptop itself these Zephyrus

s which there's actually a lot more to

talk about them purely just the graphic

side this shares a lot of DNA with the

original Zephyrus well it's closed it's

only 18 mm thick when you open it up the

entire deck lid raises to give more

cooling from the bottom there's also a

very unusual placement for the keyboard

and trackpad so it's all put on the

bottom half of the laptop which means

that this top half is entirely dedicated

to cooling that CPU and especially the

GPU now this doesn't take a little bit

of getting used to but it's really not

so bad now the same thing goes with a

touchpad well it's a little bit smaller

than usual most importantly it has a

solid surface and you do have the option

of turning it into a number pad and some

of the best sounding click buttons I've

ever tried on a trackpad all this means

that this is among these smallest

17-inch gaming laptops that you can buy

that being said though it is still a

17-inch gaming laptop sure it's a little

bit closer to something like that 15

inches efforts that came out last year

but realistically there's no getting

around that this is a very very big

footprint for a laptop I'll give them

this though it only six pounds it is way

lighter than you would expect

considering that there is that full

20/80 inside but don't exactly expect to

you know fit this in your backpack

easily the display itself is exactly

what you would expect out of a high-end

gaming laptop it's a 17.3 inch panel

with a 1080p resolution but importantly

9 does it run at a full 144 Hertz but it

also supports g-sync you also have

Nvidia Optimus onboard usually you have

to pick one or the other

g-sync is for keeping those frame rates

nice and smooth to keep any kind of

tearing out whereas optimus allows you

to turn off that graphics card when

you're not using it to save battery life

now in this you do have to manually turn

it on as well as restart the laptop when

you're switching between the two most of

the time when you have a laptop with

g-sync it means that you're gonna get

like an hour of battery life so

thankfully that's not the case here with

Optimus onboard paired with the decently

sized 76 watt hour battery I've been

able to get about three to

three-and-a-half hours of normal use

with the laptop and that's not gaming

mind you but this is actually a laptop

that you can do some other stuff with

not a lot of other stuff but some other

stuff you do have the added benefit of

supporting USB C charging now that's not

enough to fully power the laptop it tops

out at 65 watts so it's a lot more first

kind of charging to overnight or using

it for lighter tasks

but importantly this means that if you

want to take this on the go you don't

have to always carry the giant 200 watt

power brake instead you can take a

smaller one just plug into a USB C

monitor to top off all so what we're

talking about USB C it does have a pair

of USB seaports but neither support

Thunderbolt 3 something that the

previous zephyrus did not exactly like a

deal-breaker it's just kind of an odd

decision something interesting about

this notebook is the webcam it doesn't

have one that is where this comes in in

the box they do include an external

webcam there's a couple reasons for this

first of all they don't have a whole lot

of bezel to work with on the top but

more importantly this is a higher

quality webcam than usual

9 does it'll support 1080p but it also

has a full 60fps output and on top of

that they also have a little stand that

comes with it so if you want to do

something like twitch streaming you can

set the webcam off to the side you know

what this actually does look a lot

better than most webcams employee on a

laptop not sure if not going to be quite

as good as something like a dedicated

camera set up for twitch streaming

you're saying that this comes in the box

I've got to say really not a bad idea

all right not bad so the audio is pretty

impressive here now I do have a pair of

speakers that are firing directly at you

but on top of that there is this awesome

little wheel to control the volume it's

like what you would find on a lot of

mechanical keyboards and I love it look

seriously can everyone just adopt this

like I want this on every laptop ever no

way you might imagine all of this

doesn't exactly come cheap the Zephyrs s

starts at $2,700 and the model I have

here comes in at a full 30,000 $200.00

I don't know why I had to say 0 cents it

just sounds more impressive that way

with that artsy x28 Emacs Q inside you

will not find another gaming laptop

that's this thin as well as this light

while still giving you a full 17 inch

display and importantly this much

performance now whether it's worth the

price tag is kind of up to you but I've

got to say they did a lot right with the

Zephyrus s