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Unwittingly, Seven Rainbow has been in the notebook market for several years. In the past few years, the Seven Rainbow Star series has slowly settled the market of entry-level game books with excellent performance-to-price ratio and leapfrog after-sales. In 2023, when the notebook was replaced on a large scale, Qicaihong launched the X16 Pro 23 based on the new mold, with a lighter body and stronger performance, thus hitting the mid-and high-end market.

The version CTOnews.com received is the i7-13700H + RTX 4060 Laptop GPU + 240Hz QHD screen version, and the initial price is expected to be 8899 yuan. In this article, we will evaluate in detail the specific performance of the X16 Pro.

Design Seven Rainbow Star X16 Pro is a 16-inch 16:10 game book, the BWH is 359.5 (W) x 273 (D) x 19.9 (H) mm, weighing about 2KG, for a game with H45 processor + 140W full power consumption RTX 4060 Laptop GPU originally said to be able to control under the 2CM+2KG, can be said to be quite thin.

This year, Pro and Pro Max, the main flagship of the star series, have removed the word "will" from the A side. Now the A side is a pure black piece of metal, which is very simple.

Open side B, and there is a 16-inch e-sports screen from 16:10 with a resolution of 2560 to 1600, a refresh rate of up to 240Hz, a color coverage of 95% sRGB, a gamut volume of 101% sRGB, and a brightness of about 350nit. Is a very good look and feel of the ultra-high brush electric competition screen. It can not only meet the needs of high-frame games, but also take into account some simple content creation.

The C face is also made of all-metal material, which makes it feel warm and comfortable. RGB keyboard key position is reasonable, and lighting support custom, direction keys and keypad are taken care of. This keyboard supports RGB backlight and feels cool. Above the keyboard is the boot key, and below the keyboard is a touchpad of medium size and made of plastic.

The D side is made of metal, with a cushion design and a large area air inlet, but the exposed copper tube can not be seen from the hollowed-out bottom cover, this is because the star X16 Pro adopts a new heat dissipation design, which we will know later.

As a game book. The interface of X16 Pro is quite rich, and it enriches its own characteristics. The whole machine has 2 USB3.2 interfaces, 1 USB Type C (USB3.2Gen 2), 1 lightning 4 interface, 1 TF card reader, 1 MINI DP interface, a pair of 3.5mm interface, DC power interface, HDMI 2.1and wired network port. Among them, the lightning port HDMI and DP interface can be used for video output, so it can even form four consecutive screens.

Hardware analysis this version of Seven Rainbow upgrades the X16 Pro CPU to the 13th generation H45 processor i7-13700H. The i7-13700H is a newly upgraded high-end notebook CPU with a basic power consumption of 45W, but can release far more performance than 45W on the game book. In terms of core scale, it has 6 performance cores and 8 energy efficiency cores, of which the highest frequency of the performance core can reach 5.0GHz. Compared with the mainstream 12-generation Core in the past, the battery life of this generation will be optimized, so we can also look forward to the performance of its nuclear display output mode.

GPU is the brand new Geforce RTX 4060 laptop GPU, and this time the X16 Pro will directly peak power consumption to 140W full of blood. It has a 3072 CUDA core, GPU frequency up to 2370MHz, 128bit wide 8GB 128bit GDDR6 memory, and supports the new DLSS3 technology to achieve AI frame insertion, resulting in a smoother gaming experience.

The configuration of the laptop is one thing, but what is more important is whether the heat dissipation and power supply are adequate, which is related to whether the performance can be fully released. So what kind of cooling system does it use to suppress it? Let's take a look at the machine next. As can be seen from the figure below, the X16 Pro has been upgraded to a new heat equalizer module. The CPU and GPU are shared by a whole soaking plate, which has stronger thermal conductivity and thinner than the traditional heat pipe.

Below the soaking plate is a memory slot, which comes with a DDR5 4800MHz Inverter memory with a capacity of 16g, and a slot is reserved for expansion. It is recommended that everyone add a 16G one to double the reading and writing speed.

The self-contained hard disk is intel's 670p hard disk, which is a middle hard disk of PCIe3.0*4, and the particles are QLC particles. It is worth mentioning that the X16 Pro has reserved an extra M.2 position and both positions support the ultra-high speed of PCIe 4.0. If you are not satisfied with the speed and capacity, you can expand the capacity by yourself.

The battery is also a change from the past tradition of the star series, the capacity has been increased to the 73Wh, with the nuclear display output mode, the battery performance can be expected.

Network card is Intel's AX211, supports the latest WiFi6E protocol, is a very new high-performance wireless card, this should be praised.

Will X16 Pro's new equalizing plate heat dissipation system be able to withstand the full power consumption of RTX 4060 Laptop GPU and the 13th generation H45 Core i7-13700H processor? We first use AIDA64 for single-baking FPU,15 minutes, the CPU temperature stabilized at 98 ℃, when the CPU power consumption reached about 94W, this performance release can be called radical.

Then we use FurMark doughnuts for single baking GPU,15 minutes, the core temperature is stable at 81 ℃, power consumption is stable at 140W full power consumption, it seems that the performance release is quite sufficient.

Next, we run the above two software at the same time to simulate the maximum pressure and run the double baking for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, the CPU is stable at 63W and 88 ℃, and the GPU is stable at 140W and 84.7 ℃. The graphics card can maintain full power consumption throughout the process, and the CPU is also running on the standard power consumption of 55W. However, it is worth mentioning that the fan noise is also very loud at this time, so it is better to limit the daily use.

In terms of running points, RTX 4060 Laptop GPU can basically release all the performance, and the theoretical score of GPU has reached 10211, which is about 20% higher than that of the previous generation of RTX 3060 Laptop GPU and reaches the level of RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.

In R20, which represents the theoretical performance of CPU, the scores of single thread and multi-thread are 661and 7521 respectively. Compared with the previous generation of mainstream i7-12700H, both single-core and multi-core have been significantly improved.

In R23, it reached 1699 points for single core and 19329 points for multi-cores, with a theoretical performance improvement of about 10% and 15%.

The QLC hard disk of Intel 670p is a high-performance hard disk that can expand the capacity of PCIE 4.0if it has the requirement of performance.

The memory is the standard 4800MHz DDR5 notebook memory, if you add the same group of "dual channels", the reading and writing performance can be doubled.

The actual measurement of the game can be seen from the above that the hardware improvement of Seven Rainbow Star 16 Pro is quite significant. So is there a huge improvement in its actual gaming experience? It is worth mentioning that the Seven Rainbow Star 16 Pro also supports direct-connected hot switching. All of the following games will be tested in 2.5K resolution + highest image quality + solo output mode, and DLSS will be opened to balanced DLSS. If there is DLSS3, the number of frames of the switch DLSS3 will be tested separately.

First of all, e-sports game, we selected "CS:GO", "PUBG", "forever robbed forever" and "APEX Legend" four mainstream e-sports games for testing. We hope that in e-sports 's game, the star 16 Pro will be able to run all over the 2.5K 240Hz screen. Measured in the "CS:GO", the running BenchMark can reach an average of 313, which can run all over this electronic competition screen.

On the side of "PUBG", it is measured that it can run to 96 frames under the highest picture quality of 2.5K, which can satisfy the high-frame play of the highest picture quality. If you want to play with the number of e-sports frames, you can consider adjusting it to the commonly used "three extremes" picture quality.

In the domestic martial arts Battle Royale Games "forever robbed forever", 2.5K highest picture quality + balance file DLSS can reach an average of about 103frames, the knife spelling experience is very excellent.

In "APEX Legend", the average number of frames can reach 113 frames, which is also good for smooth shooting. If the NVIDIA Reflex low delay is enabled in the setting, the firing delay can be further reduced.

Next, we test some mainstream-level 3A games that do not support DLSS3 but support DLSS2. In Tomb Raider: shadow, under the highest 2.5K special effects, the number of frames is as high as 95 frames, so playing 3A is not a problem.

Next, let's test the light pursuit test evergreen tree: "Control", even if you turn on the highest picture quality and the highest light pursuit, it can reach an average of 77 frames. What RTX 3060 notebooks couldn't do in the past, now RTX 4060 notebooks can do it.

In fact, the improvement of RTX 4060 compared with RTX 3060 is not in the theoretical performance, but ‏ is that it can achieve a further surge in the number of frames through DLSS3 technology. The so-called ‏‏ DLSS3 is a performance multiplier ‏‏ technology ‏‏ driven by AI, driven by a new fourth generation Tensor Core and a new optical flow accelerator, is the latest version of NVIDIA's highly acclaimed deep learning supersampling technology, and has a groundbreaking optical multi-frame generation function, which will open a new era of NVIDIA RTX neural network rendering games and applications. ‏

‏ simply put, the past DLSS2 is to render a low-resolution image, and then AI zoomed in to high-resolution, to achieve the improvement of image quality and frame number. The new DLSS3 not only is compatible with DLSS2, but also adds a frame generation function, which can insert a new frame calculated by AI between two real frames to double the number of frames. Combined with the super-resolution function of DLSS2, AI can reconstruct up to 7/8 display pixels, compared with no DLSS, the game performance can be improved by up to 4 times ‏‏ ‏‏! ‏

‏ Let's first take a look at the most stressful ‏‏ "Cyberpunk 2077" ‏‏. ‏‏ ran its own BenchMark under the highest quality super light of ‏‏ 2.5K ‏‏ and got the following data. ‏‏ averages only 21 frames by default, so it can't play smoothly, even when DLSS2 is turned on, it can reach 40 frames. However, when the DLSS3 option is fully on, it can achieve a three-fold increase in the number of frames, increasing the average frame to about 62 frames, satisfying 2.5K fun. It seems that DLSS3 technology is really outstanding. ‏

‏ legendary 3A masterpiece "Wizard 3" has also recently updated the next generation version, which greatly improves the configuration requirements, but also provides the support of DLSS3 technology, which is undoubtedly good news for the ‏ RTX 40 series laptop GPU ‏. ‏

‏ from the frame number test, the ‏ RTX 4060 laptop GPU ‏ is still very difficult to chase the 2.5K 3A. Without DLSS, it even has an average of 19 frames. The average frame in the DLSS 2 balanced gear is only 36 frames. If you turn on DLSS3, you can achieve an average of 57 frames. Basically can be smooth, if you want a higher frame rate, you can appropriately reduce the first light chase. ‏

‏ in another picture quality explosion of the next generation 3A masterpiece "Plague Legend: Requiem", we also need the blessing of DLSS3 technology to achieve high-frame smooth play. ‏

It is difficult for ‏ to run Plague Legend without turning on DLSS, with an average of 34 frames. However, after turning on the performance of DLSS 3, the number of frames has almost increased by 2.5 times, reaching an average of 76 frames, meeting the needs of 2.5K playable next-generation 3A masterpieces. ‏

Overall, as an excellent performance release RTX 4060 notebook, will Star 16 Pro will be able to meet the vast majority of games with the highest 2.5K picture quality to play mainstream games. If you want to challenge light pursuit, you need the support of DLSS3 technology.

Productivity performance Xing 16 Pro as a lightweight high-performance notebook, because the design is very low-key, it is also possible to take to work. So how is its productivity performance? In Adobe Premiere, which is commonly used by creative workers, we turn on GPU Cuda acceleration and then test it with PugetBenchmark. The final score is 894, which can satisfy the editing of regular 4K video.

‏, don't forget that in the post-video section of ‏‏, the ‏ RTX 4060 laptop GPU also adds ‏ AV1 coding support and ‏‏ 's built-in ‏‏ dual encoder. AV1 is the next generation video coding technology, which can provide faster video coding and higher quality streaming media transmission performance ‏‏ while occupying the same space. At present, a number of mainstream video software adapt to AV1 coding. Because this code is free and open source, it is sure to become mainstream soon. ‏

In another stressful special effects software, Adobe Effects, we also use PugetBenchmark for testing. The final score is 1082, and you can also make some more complex special effects.

‏ We also tested the BenchMark of some modeling rendering tools. In ‏‏ V-Ray Benchmark ‏‏, i7-13700H scored 13309 points, which can successfully cope with the needs of medium-intensity modeling rendering. ‏

Because of the existence of CUDA core in ‏, it is necessary to use GPU to accelerate modeling. The measured score of ‏‏ in V-Ray GPU RTX also reached ‏‏ to ‏‏ 1133 ‏‏, and ‏‏ increased by about 15% compared with RTX 3060. ‏

In tests of another commonly used modeling tool, Blender, the RTX 4060 laptop GPU has outperformed the desktop RTX 3070. It seems that the energy efficiency improvement of this generation is obvious, and the stronger performance can be stuffed into the notebook.

The above high-load productivity software can live in Hold, not to mention CrossMark, which is used to test comprehensive office performance. The measured total score can reach 1764, which can meet all daily office needs.

Battery life also affects productivity to a great extent, and finally let's test its performance. When we switch to power-saving mode, the system will automatically turn on the "nuclear display direct connection" and shield the display alone to save power. Then we ran the PCMark 10 modern office battery test and ended up running for about 6 hours and 38 minutes, which was pretty good in the game book.

To sum up, with the blessing of the new mold, the Seven Rainbow X16 Pro has indeed achieved a balance between lightness and performance. The ability to release more than 200W of performance into the body of a less than 2cm does give people a sense of a high-end notebook. The author thinks that the current General X16 Pro has made a high-end model, but it is still lack of some recognition. If we can make more unique designs, we will certainly be able to gain a foothold in the middle and high-end notebook market.

In terms of price, the version we have is i7-13700H + RTX 4060 Laptop GPU+ QHD screen, and the initial price is expected to be 8899 yuan. This price is very cost-effective in this lightweight new game book. If you are interested, you can go to the official Colorful (Colorful) flagship store JD.com at 22:00 on February 22nd to participate in the pre-sale.

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