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Acer's Shadow Knight series has always been an affordable and well-equipped representative of the game, which is deeply loved by the student party. The student group not only takes a fancy to its configuration, but also has the all-round attributes of learning and games, and the price is also very real. CTOnews.com recently got the 2022 high-end version of the Shadow Knight engine, which comes with the 12th-generation Intel ®Core ™i7 processor 12700H and 140W blood-filled RTX3060 graphics card. Let's follow CTOnews.com to see how it performs.

Appearance and design

Acer Shadow Knight Rock 2022 has been fully upgraded in appearance this time. Although the overall body lines are still a bit stiff, the cyber punk-style neon lines with red and blue colors on A face are completely different from those in the past. These lines use low saturation color adjustment, which is more eye-catching and less eye-catching while playing a decorative role.

The English Logo of the acer at the top of the fuselage is relatively low-key, with a suspended shaft design, the texture of the machine is obviously improved at a glance, the sci-fi style is rich, and the sense of visual aggression weakens a lot.

A scarlet low-saturation NITRO logo is printed on the "back bone" around the A shaft, and there is a coating with glitter powder on the whole shell surface of the A side, which further enhances the refinement of the machine.

In the processing of the hinge and back connecting the An and C faces, Acer Shadow Knight 2022 uses the hollowed-out irregular openings and silver-white embellishment of strong lines to highlight the machine's sense of technology and change the previous black-and-red dominant tone style.

With the exception of the back, Acer Shadow Knight 2022 has relatively regular square lines on the other three sides, without intentional visual thinning. BWH size, the body is 15.6in, length, width and height are 360.4*271.09*26.75mm, the whole machine weight 2.5kg, with a 240W power adapter.

Opening the B side, Acer Shadow Knight 2022 supports one-handed opening and closing, and the rotation angle is relatively large, with a maximum of 175degree opening and closing angle, which makes it easier to share the content on the screen with others in some scenes.

The screen is designed with a narrow frame on three sides, a high-definition camera at the top, a wider frame at the bottom, and a highlighted acer Logo in the center.

On the screen parameters, according to the sticker at the bottom on the left, this is a 2.5K resolution, 165Hz refresh rate, 3ms response time of the electronic competition screen, the material is a 15.6inch IPS fog screen, support 100% sRGB color gamut and DC dimming, for the Shadow Knight series positioning, it is a more versatile screen.

Viewed through the AIDA64 software, the screen is made by BOE, also known as BOE, and the model is NE156QHM-NY5. To further inquire about the screen library network, this screen also has a 188 PPI Magi 16.7 million color display, a contrast of 1000 350nit 1 and a brightness of the screen.

We tested its color gamut and color accuracy with Aceri professional color meter and DisplayCal software, and measured that it covered 99.6% sRGB color gamut, 82.9% Adobe RGB color gamut and 98% DCI-P3 color gamut.

The average Delta E is 1.18.The largest Delta E is 1.96. the performance is more omnipotent, basically capable of learning, entertainment and even creative design.

On the C side, Acer Shadow Knight 2022 stuffed a full-size keyboard into the 15-inch fuselage, with a sunken design, including a numeric keypad area and full-height arrow keys, which is rare.

The overall design of the keyboard continues several consistent features of the Shadow Knight series, such as the power key is placed in the upper right corner to prevent mistouch, WASD, direction keys and other keys are designed to emphasize color to improve recognition. The keypad area comes with a performance mode switch button, which makes it easy for players to quickly change the computer's performance scheduling in different scenarios.

Its power button also has a very useful small function, a menu will pop up on the desktop on time, with four options to turn off the monitor, sleep, hibernate and turn off, which is more convenient and efficient than going to the start menu.

The key cap part is treated with white edging, so that players can see clearly at night or in a dark light environment. It supports four-zone RGB backlight and a variety of light effects, and more functional options can be adjusted in NitroSense. The rebound of the key cap on the typing feel is more like that of the hand, and the sense of paragraph drop is clear, which is not easy to be mistakenly touched.

Acer Shadow Knight Rock 2022's touchpad is large in the 15.6-inch machine, slightly to the left. The trackpad uses an integrated keystroke design, which is soft and supports global pressing, which can be triggered by a light touch.

There is a hollowed-out slot above the keyboard with both air intake and decoration functions, which helps to reduce the temperature of the keyboard surface under high load.

Acer Shadow Knight 2022 is well-behaved in the design of the D side, without much pattern and element decoration, and there are a set of stereo loudspeaker openings near the left and right sides of the bottom.

Generally speaking, the appearance mold design of the new Acer Shadow Knight 2022 is very distinctive, giving people a refreshing feeling, especially the neon painting of the A side and the four-partition backlight of the keyboard, which is very thoughtful and recognizable, and it is also the place that moves me the most in appearance.

Configuration and performance

Acer Shadow Knight 2022 has adopted a more sweet-grade configuration this year, that is, the combination of 12-generation Core i7-12700H processor and 140W full blood version of RTX3060. The specific configuration information is shown in the figure above.

The Shadow Knight Lake uses the latest 12th-generation Intel ®Core ™i7 processor 12700H Magi Alder Lake using 10nm lithography, 14 cores, 20 threads, processor basic frequency 2.7GHz, theoretical maximum single-core Rui frequency 4.7GHz, which can achieve 90W + performance release in Shadow Knight Rock NitroSense mode.

However, the biggest highlight of this 12-generation core processor ™is the brand-new heterogeneous design. Large cores with high frequency can handle complex games or work tasks, while small nuclear power is more efficient to handle simple tasks. CPU can dynamically allocate work cores according to specific tasks, just like using a cow knife to kill a cow and a chicken knife to kill a chicken to make the notebook work more efficiently.

And GPU, 140W full blood version of RTX3060 can maximize the performance of this graphics card, with real-time ray tracing technology, DLSS2.0 technology, can get a very excellent game experience. The processor and graphics card configuration are in place, how about the specific performance? Let's look at the test.

First of all, explain the test environment, room temperature 26 degrees without air conditioning indoor environment, turn on the only display direct connection and performance mode, battery strategy to choose the best performance, graphics card driver upgraded to the latest 522.25, the system is Window 11.

In the CPU-Z running test, the i7-12700H of Acer Shadow Knight 2022 scored a single-core 747 and a multi-core score of 6930, beating the previous generation of desktop i9-11900K processors.

In the performance test of CinBench R20, the single kernel of i7-12700H is 684, and the multi-core is 4880, which is a good level.

When using CineBench R23 for performance testing, this Shadow Knight engine throws out a single-core score of 1674 and a multi-core score of 14009, which is also excellent.

In the video card part, we used 3D Mark to test. In the Time Spy representing the performance of DX12, Acer Shadow Knight Rock 2022 scored 9140 points and GPU scored 8723 points.

In the Fire Strike Extreme, which represents the performance of DX11, Acer Shadow Cavaliers 2022 scored 10315 and GPU scored 10610.

So, put into the actual game experience, 140W power consumption full of blood version of RTX3060 can cope with competitive online games and mainstream 3A? Because the screen resolution of Acer Shadow Knight 2022 is 2560x1440, that is, 2K, so we will test the game on the basis of 2K resolution. This time CTOnews.com has found a total of 5 games to test.

The first is the vanguard of competitive online games Vanguard 2: back, Acer Shadow Knight 2022 in 2K extremely high quality, the average number of frames is 219 frames, competitive online games like FPS have no pressure on it.

In the game with excellent screen performance and supporting the light pursuit effect in the PC game, we use the highest image quality of 2K, which is enabled by default, and the DLSS level selects the balance gear. Through its own performance benchmark test, Acer Shadow Knight engine 2022 gets an average number of frames of 63.4 frames. In the actual game, the number of frames can reach 80-90 frames.

The following are two optimized 3A games, in Tomb Raider: in Shadow, 2K has the highest picture quality, without light pursuit and DLSS, the average frame number is 78 frames; then the light pursuit level is high, DLSS chooses balance, and the average frame number is frame.

In Ultimate Speed: horizon 5, 2K ultra-high image quality is selected, and the light pursuit level is high by default. Acer Shadow Knight engine 2022 scored 78 frames in its own benchmark performance test.

Finally, there is cyber punk 2077, which runs its own performance benchmark when the highest picture quality is 2K and does not turn on light tracking, with an average number of frames of 79.43 frames, which is quite good.

If you want to experience light tracking, you can also change the resolution to 1080p, adjust the image quality to medium light pursuit, and then select the balance gear in DLSS, and the average frame rate can also reach more than 60 frames. Acer Shadow Knight 2022 has basically conquered the mainstream 3A games at 2K resolution. Even if you want to experience light pursuit, you can play at the level of 60 + frames by appropriately reducing the resolution and turning on DLSS. The actual game experience is good.

Storage and battery life

Let's take a look at the storage performance. It was mentioned earlier that Acer Shadow Knight 2022 uses two Hynix DDR4 3200MHz memory, runs through AIDA64, and the final read and write speed reaches more than 50000MB/s, and because the DDR4 memory is very mature, delay control is also OK.

In the hard disk part, Acer Shadow Knight 2022 uses 512GB's Meguiar 3400, and its sequential reading and writing scores are 6500MB/s and 3927MB/s, respectively, which is basically consistent with the official theoretical reading and writing performance.

Finally, let's take a look at the battery life. Acer Shadow Knight 2022 has a 57.5Wh battery capacity, which is not very large. We evaluated through the modern office benchmark of PC Mark 10, the test condition was 50% screen brightness, Bluetooth was turned off, the battery strategy selected the best energy efficiency, and the direct connection was turned off in the NitroSense setting, and the final battery life was 4 hours and 28 minutes. This achievement is still a bit unexpected, after all, the actual office should be able to last a little longer than the theoretical results.

To sum up, this year's Intel 12-generation Kerry processor is very strong, through a new heterogeneous design, so that the size of the processor core to find the most suitable for processing tasks, greatly improve performance, but also have a higher energy consumption ratio. Coupled with the fact that Duxian has almost become the mainstream game standard this year, the previous shortcomings of Acer Shadow Knight Rock series have also been made up, and consumers have got a real experience upgrade.

After experiencing Acer Shadow Knight 2022, it gave me the feeling of both surprise and reservation. The surprise is that at an affordable price, it gives the dessert-level mainstream configuration and a good 2K gaming experience, and the upgrade of the mold makes it more attractive, which means that some of the hardware has not been upgraded to the latest generation of specifications. If you want to buy a cheap and versatile book, then Acer Shadow Knight 2022 is a good choice this year.

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