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When the RTX 40 series notebook GPU was released, the author thought that the light and thin performance of this generation would have a bright future. Because of the rapid increase in energy efficiency of the RTX 40 series notebook GPU, it only needs relatively low power consumption to release most of the performance. It is very suitable for use in small size fuselage. And the light and thin performance of the leader, of course, is the ROG fantasy 16 series.

This time, the newly released classic version of Fantasy 16 has been upgraded to a new mold, with a more low-key appearance and a more powerful internal configuration. CTOnews.com also got the version of ROG Fantasy 16 Classic i9-13900H + RTX 4070 + 16G memory + 1T hard drive for the first time. So how does it actually perform? Let's take a look at it together in this article.

The design style of Fantasy 16 has always been "outsiders look low-key and use their own fury". Although the classic version of ROG Fantasy 16 uses a new mold, the overall design style has not changed much.

Side A design basically inherited the previous generation, the overall look and feel is still low-key black, taking to work will not be as awkward as the traditional game book. 18710 asymmetrical holes have been dug in half of the A side through CNC, but the color coating in the previous version has been changed to monochrome, making the overall look more low-key and integrated.

LOGO, the black eye of ROG, has also been made into a small nameplate and placed in the lower left corner.

Open the B side with one hand, and the maximum opening and closing angle can reach 180 °. This screen is a major upgrade to the classic version of Fantasy 16, which ROG calls "Star screen". It has 92% high screen ratio, 2.5K high resolution 240Hz, high refresh rate, and high brightness as high as 500nit. We will test it in detail in the next step.

In addition to reducing the frame, the fantasy 16 series also hides the chin with a unique hinge design, which can hardly be seen at a normal angle, and the screen ratio is very shocking. In addition, this design can also increase the air intake at the bottom and assist the fuselage to dissipate heat.

A new face recognition function has been added to the camera at the top of the screen, which can replace fingerprints for a better experience.

The overall feel of the C side is comfortable. The keyboard section supports single-area RGB independent backlighting, and you can set custom lighting effects in Ultron Center. Face An is calm and face C is an electronic competition, which is understood by ROG.

The touchpad below is very large, made of glass and smooth to the touch.

The classic version of Fantasy 16 does not have a digital keypad, but there is also a pair of stereo speakers on both sides of the C side, together with the sound cavities of other parts of the body to form the hardware specifications of six AMP smart speakers with 2 treble + 4 bass, coupled with the built-in Dolby Atoms sound effects, the sound is very shocking.

Finally, let's take a look at side D. The foot pad on the D side is very high and can provide a certain amount of air intake when opening and closing at a small angle. The use of translucent design, quite a sense of technology.

In order to meet the needs of creative workers, the side interfaces are also very rich, with DC power interface, Lightning 4 interface (supporting PD charging), HDMI2.1 port, USB-A port (10Gbps) and 3.5mm headphone hole on the left.

There is a TF card reader, a USB-A port (10Gbps) and a full-featured USB-C interface on the right. It is a bit of a pity that this generation has cancelled the wired network port.

Before testing the performance of the gun, let's take a look at this brand-new star screen of the classic version of Fantasy 16. One of the major upgrades of this generation is that the screen has been upgraded to the ultra-high refresh rate of 240Hz, which has great advantages for e-sports 's game.

At the same time, 2.5K high resolution and multi-color gamut switching function also provides creative workers with an accurate look and feel.

Next, let's test its color performance. Measured by the color calibrator, this ROG nebula screen can cover 99.7% sRGB, 83.8% Adobe RGB and 99.1% DCI P3 color gamut by default. It is a good screen with quite bright color and wide coverage, but it is slightly oversaturated.

In terms of brightness, the middle brightness is about 485nit and the contrast is about 1000 HDR 1. It is a very bright IPS screen that can see every detail in the sun and support the appreciation of HDR content.

If the default mode is oversaturated, the sRGB gamut option is also available in Ultron. After switching, the gamut volume will be reduced to basically the same level as the gamut coverage. It is quite comfortable to use under Windows, neither too rich nor too light.

If creative workers want to create content with a wider color range, the Ultron Center also provides the option of DCI P3 color gamut, which covers 95.7% of the DCI P3 color gamut, while the color gamut volume is precisely controlled.

It is worth mentioning that every ROG star screen has been certified by factory school color and Pantone color. After our measurement, the average color deviation of this screen is only 1.44, and the maximum color deviation is about 5.16. It is a good screen that can be used to trim and cut pictures. If there is a need to further improve the color accuracy, the color calibration function is also preset in Ultron.

One of the highlights of the hardware analysis of the classic version of Fantasy 16 is the use of a brand-new mold, which brings huge heat dissipation and stronger expansion. So how on earth is its interior designed? Let's take a look at it now. Unscrew all the screws to pry open the backplane. You can see its intertwined heat dissipation module at a glance. This set of heat dissipation module, called Glacier cooling 3.0, consists of three dust fans + violent bear liquid gold + seven heat pipes, which has been greatly improved compared with the previous generation.

There are also memory upgrades. The previous Phantom 16 uses an on-board + slot memory scheme. The new Fantasy 16 Classic version uses a dual DDR5 memory slot design, with a 16G 4800MHz memory, users can easily expand to 32GB or even 64GB super memory.

The built-in Nic is AX211NGW of intel and supports Wi-Fi6E protocol. At the top of the network card, there is an additional 2280-length M.2 hard disk bit, which is convenient for users to expand their capacity.

In the M.2 slot on the other side is the body's own hard drive, the model is 1TB Samsung PM9A1, is currently the top consumer PCIe 4.0 solid state, excellent performance, but also done a good cooling measures.

At the bottom is a 90Wh battery, and because this computer can be manually switched to check output mode, so the battery life can meet the short-distance office, with 100W PD charger, go out can be shared with the mobile phone, greatly reducing the weight of travel.

Grill & the feature of the new mold of Fantasy 16 is the fully enhanced performance release, and let's see how much it has been enhanced. After we first use AIDA64 for single-baking FPU,15 minutes, the temperature of i9-13900H is stable at 88 ℃, and the power consumption is stable at 112W. This performance release is a great improvement compared with the previous generation, and there is not much difference between i9-13900H and heavy games.

Then we used FurMark doughnuts for single-baked GPU, and with the help of Dynamic Boost 2.0 technology, the classic version of RTX 4070 stabilized at 140W at full power, a huge improvement over the previous generation. The temperature is stable at 77 ℃ and the frequency is about 2100MHz.

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, CPU was stable at 28W and 72 ℃, and GPU was stable at 126W and 77 ℃. The total power consumption reaches 150W, which is the top flow in the lightweight omnipotent book.

Next, we will conduct a theoretical running test. In the 3DMark Time Spy, RTX 4070's GPU running score reached 12470, surpassing the previous generation of RTX 3070Ti.

In addition, we also ran the 3DMark light pursuit test, the measured score was 7424, and the light pursuit performance was almost double that of the RTX 3060 notebook GPU.

In CineBench R20, which represents the theoretical performance of CPU, the scores of single thread and multi-thread are 784and 8147 respectively. Compared with the previous generation i9-12900H single core more than 700 points, multi-core more than 6500 points, an increase of about 20%, quite significant.

The performance of R23 is similar, with a single core reaching the 2000-point mark, close to the 13th generation table-level i7, and multi-core reaching 21300 points, a huge improvement.

Samsung PM9A1's hard drive, which performs extremely well, is currently one of the top PCIe 4.0 solid-state drives.

On the memory side, reading and writing are almost halved because of the use of a single 4800MHz DDR5 memory. It is strongly recommended that you upgrade 32 GB of memory, you can upgrade yourself, or you can buy it in one step.

According to the game test, the i9-13900H + RTX 4070 is quite excellent in theory, so let's run some games to see if we can fill this top 2.5K 240Hz screen.

First of all, the mainstream online games, we selected "CS:GO", "PUBG", "forever robbed forever" and "APEX Legend" three mainstream e-sports games for testing. All games will be tested at 2.5K with the highest resolution and highest special effects, and balanced DLSS will be enabled if DLSS is supported. The measured "CS:GO" runs BenchMark at an average of 266 frames, and can run full of 2.5K 240Hz screens. If it is dual-channel memory, the number of frames will increase significantly.

In "PUBG", the highest 2.5K picture quality can also achieve an average high frame rate of more than 130 frames, the game experience is very excellent.

"Forever robbery" provides DLSS support, which is measured to run around 120 frames on average at 2.5K resolution and highest quality balance DLSS. It is worth mentioning that the game also provides support for NVIDIA Reflex technology, which can further reduce latency in the fight against the clock.

In "APEX Legend", the highest special effects can also achieve an average of more than 130frames, if you are willing to reduce to medium picture quality, easily run to more than 200frames.

Next, let's take a look at the performance of the classic version of Fantasy 16 in the 3A masterpiece with higher configuration requirements. Take "Wild Dart 2: redemption" as an example, under the highest 2.5K special effects, the average number of frames of Benchmark can reach 84 frames, and there is no problem with playing the highest quality 3A.

Another 3A masterpiece Tomb Raider: shadow is similar. The highest picture quality can run to an average of 98 frames. It can be said that Fantasy 16 can ensure high-quality and high-frame play in traditional 3A masterpieces.

These are appetizers, and the most attractive thing about the RTX ™40 series notebook GPU is that it can further increase the number of frames through DLSS3 technology. 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 acclaimed deep learning supersampling technology, and features groundbreaking optical multi-frame generation, which will usher in a new era of NVIDIA RTX neural network rendering games and applications.

To put it simply, the past DLSS2 is to improve the image quality and the number of frames by rendering a low-resolution image, and then AI zooms in to a high resolution. 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 DLSS2's super-resolution function, AI can reconstruct up to 7/8 display pixels!

Let's first take a look at the most stressful "Cyberpunk 2077", which runs its own BenchMark under the 2.5K highest quality super light, and gets the following data. The default state is only 22 frame rate, which makes it impossible to play smoothly.

However, when the DLSS 3 option is fully turned on, the number of frames can be increased by 3.5 times. And there is almost no loss of picture quality, and the game experience is improved instantly.

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 notebook GPU. From the frame number test, this game is really quite "next generation", without DLSS or even an average of 21 frames.

On the other hand, the average high frame of more than 60 frames can be played smoothly under the DLSS 3 balance, and the number of frames can be increased by nearly 3 times.

In another next-generation 3A masterpiece with exploding picture quality, the Legend of the Plague: Requiem, the number of frames to run the Plague Legend can only reach 40 frames without turning on DLSS, so the game experience is not good.

After opening the DLSS 3 balance gear, the number of frames has more than doubled to an average of 85 frames, fully meeting the needs of 2.5K high-frame playable next-generation 3A masterpieces.

In addition to frivolous games, the positioning of the Productivity performance Fantasy 16 series also undertakes the task of creative work. Its excellent screen and slim figure make it very suitable for going out to create. Such as cutting videos, doing special effects and large-scale drawings. So how is the productivity performance of the classic version of Fantasy 16? 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 749, which can be used for 4K video processing smoothly.

In another stressful special effects software, Adobe Effects, we also use PugetBenchmark for testing. The final score is 1193, which has reached the level of the previous generation of heavy game books, which is enough to see the progress of energy efficiency in recent years.

Graphic design tasks can also be assigned to Fantasy 16, we tested PugetBench For PhotoShop, the score reached 998 points, which can meet the needs of large-scale drawing and revision.

We also tested the BenchMark of some modeling rendering tools. In V-Ray Benchmark, i9-13900H scored 14305 points, which can successfully cope with most of the modeling rendering requirements.

The score of RTX 4070 on V-Ray GPU RTX also increased to 1206, enough for large-scale modeling rendering fluently on the mobile side.

In the test of another commonly used modeling tool, Blender, the performance of the classic version of Phantom 16 is very close to that of the desktop-level RTX 3070Ti we tested before. for professional designers, a slim Phantom 16 is enough.

The above high-intensity creative production is no problem, CrossMark this kind of test comprehensive office performance is not to mention, the measured score reached 1991 points, perfectly competent for all kinds of daily office.

Finally, let's take a look at the battery life, first of all, switch between double display and three modes in the Ultron Center, turn on the "nuclear display output" + power-saving mode to run the PCMark 10 modern office life test, and finally run continuously for about 6 hours and 26 minutes, with a 100W PD charger, which can meet the office needs of a short trip.

To sum up, I had a friend who wanted to study abroad and asked me to recommend a computer, so I recommended Fantasy 16 to him. Because this is an all-round player who can take them to class, do tasks in the lab and play games in the dormitory at the same time. Today's Fantasy 16 classic version uses a brand-new mold to make it look more low-key, but the performance is more powerful. For specific groups, the classic version of Fantasy 16 is almost a unique choice.

At present, ROG Fantasy 16 Classic and Magic 16 2023 are already on the shelves. We are testing the ROG Fantasy 16 Classic with RTX 4070 and the Phantom 16 2023 with old molds with RTX 4060. Both will start the next rush at 22:00 on February 22, with initial prices of 13999 yuan and 10999 yuan, respectively. You can find out if you are interested.

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