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With the release of the 13th generation mobile phone Cool and the RTX 40 series notebook GPU, MSI has also launched their new series: ghost Shadow. From the current release of several new Shadow 15 products, this series focuses on full blood performance + color screen, is the main RTX4060-4070 positioning high-performance game book.

CTOnews.com has also got the high-end version of i7-13700H + RTX 4070 MSI Magic Shadow 15 (B13VGK-278CN). In this article, let's take a look at its game performance.

Design MSI Shadow 15 is a regular-sized 15.6mm game book that is 359mm long, 259mm wide, high 26.9mm and weighs about 2.3KG.

The A side is made of metal, and the overall design style inherits the tough style of this series of MSI games. Side An is a MSI classic Dragon Dun reflective Logo, as well as a large area MSI brand identification.

Shadow 15 supports one-handed opening and closing with a maximum of 180 °. After opening, there is a good glazed moon screen with a resolution of 2560 to 1440 and a refresh rate of 165Hz. It is an excellent mainstream e-sports screen with a color gamut coverage of 100% DCI-P3 (typical value).

After the measurement of the color calibrator, this screen covers 99.7% of the sRGB and 94.9% of the DCI-P3 gamut, and the brightness is about 310nit. It is indeed a wide color gamut screen with excellent color coverage.

The C side is a RGB keyboard that supports four-zone backlighting, the key position is very reasonable, and the direction keys and keypads are taken care of. And the light also supports custom zone dimming.

Under the keyboard is a touchpad, medium-sized, made of plastic, with a full sense of electric competition pattern design, feel tight and not loose.

The D side has a cushion design and a unique air inlet design, which is officially called the dragon scale micro-air duct design. The exposed copper pipe can be seen directly from the hollowed-out bottom cover, which is helpful to heat dissipation to a certain extent.

There is also a USB2.0+1 Type-A USB 3.2 Gen1 interface and a DC power interface on the left side of the fuselage. The random standard power adapter is 240W.

There are 1 Type-A USB 3.2 Gen1, 1 Type-C USB 3.2 Gen1, 1 HDMI2.1 interface, 1 3.5mm interface, and gigabit network port on the right side of the fuselage.

One of the major upgrades of hardware analyst MSI 15 is the upgrade of CPU to Intel's latest 13th generation Core i7-13700H processor. I7-13700H uses the upgraded version of Intel 7 process, with 6 performance cores and 8 energy cores, composed of 14 cores and 20 threads, maximum 5.0GHz, maximum 3.7GHz, cache 24MB, basic TDP of 45W, and has a great improvement in terms of service life.

On the GPU side, the one we have is a RTX 4070 laptop called GPU. The underlying architecture of RTX 4070 has been drastically upgraded to Ada Lovelace architecture, and DLSS, the killer of software, has also been upgraded to DLSS 3. And due to the substantial improvement of the process, the energy-efficiency ratio is quite amazing. Although the fuselage can provide 140W full power performance release, but the actual game about 100W has a pretty good performance, for an inch of gold notebook is quite suitable. RTX 4070 notebook computer GPU has 4608 CUDA cores, core frequency 1655MHz boost frequency 2030MHz; video memory is 8GB GDDR6, bit width 128bit, video memory frequency 2025MHz.

So, can the mold of Shadow 15 bring the fully upgraded configuration of this generation? Let's take a look at the machine next. As can be seen from the image below, Shadow 15 uses a micro-star cold cooling system with five heat pipes and double fans. CPU and GPU have a shared heat pipe design that can distribute heat well, while the video memory is covered by a special heat pipe.

Below the heat dissipation module is a memory slot, which comes with two DDR5 4800MHz 8GB memory with a total capacity of 16GB. The slot design is also convenient for later expansion.

The built-in hard drive is Samsung's PM9B1 hard drive, which is a mid-range hard drive with PCIe 4.0channel and TLC particles.

Battery capacity specification is good, reached the 90Wh, in the game book can be called one of the best, this is also a fine tradition of MSI.

So what is the performance release of this cooling system of Shadow 15? We then use AIDA64 for single-baking FPU,15 minutes, the CPU temperature stabilized at 92 ℃, when the CPU power consumption reached about 80W, this performance release is still good.

Then we use FurMark doughnuts to bake for GPU,15 minutes, the core temperature is stable at 80 ℃, and the power consumption is stable at 140W, which is more than enough for the RTX 4070 laptop GPU.

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 43W and 84 ℃, and the GPU is stable at 120W and 79 ℃. The two cores can basically run at the standard power consumption, and the performance release of the whole machine can reach more than 160W. It is worth mentioning that the noise of Shadow 15 is relatively low in the RTX 40 series notebooks that the author has tested, and it is more comfortable for daily use.

In terms of running points, the RTX 4070 laptop GPU can basically release all the performance. 3DMark TimeSpy's GPU theoretical score reached 12379 points, surpassing the previous generation RTX 3070Ti notebook computer GPU and approaching the RTX 3080 notebook computer GPU. But the power consumption is much lower.

In R20, which represents the theoretical performance of CPU, we get a score of 717 for single thread and 6571 for multi-thread. In R23, it achieved a single-core score of 1872 and a multicore score of 17731, surpassing the previous generation of i9-12900H flagship processors by about 5 per cent.

The hard drive is Samsung's PM9B1 TLC hard drive, which is well-behaved and better than stable and low energy consumption. And the default standard is 1T, which is enough for most users. High-performance hard drives that have requirements for performance or capacity can be expanded by themselves to PCIE 4.0. now the hard disk is already priced in cabbage, and the cost of upgrading itself is very low.

The memory is the standard 4800MHz DDR5 notebook memory, and the running score is also in line with the normal performance of dual-channel DDR5 notebook memory.

According to the actual measurement of the game, i7-13700H + RTX 4070 is quite excellent in terms of theoretical performance, and Shadow 15 also supports double display and three-mode technology, which can shield the core display in the output screen in direct connection mode, and output directly by the independent display to reduce the loss of frames. The built-in MSI Center supports AI intelligent performance control, and can also be overclocked manually in extreme mode. In the following tests, we will do it in the ultimate mode + 2.5K + the highest image quality, and games that support DLSS will turn on the balance file DLSS.

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, Shadow 15 can run all over the 2.5K 165Hz screen and make full use of this electronic competition screen. Measured in the "CS:GO", the running BenchMark can reach an average of 342, which can run all over this electronic competition screen.

On the side of "PUBG", it is measured that it can run to an average of 133frames at the highest picture quality of 2.5K, which can meet the requirements of high-frame play with the highest picture quality. If you want to play with more than 165frames of e-sports, 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 achieve an average of about 134frames, the knife spelling experience is very excellent.

In "APEX Legend", the average number of frames can reach 158frames, 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, let's test some mainstream 3A games that do not support DLSS 3 but support DLSS 2. In Tomb Raider: shadow, under the highest 2.5K special effects, the number of frames is as high as 107 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, you can reach an average of 87 frames. What RTX 3070 notebooks couldn't do in the past, now RTX 4070 notebooks can do it.

The biggest advantage of RTX 40 series notebook GPU is that it can further increase the number of frames through DLSS 3 technology. The so-called DLSS 3 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.

To put it simply, in the past, DLSS 2 improved the image quality and the number of frames by rendering a low-resolution image, and then AI zoomed in to high resolution. While the new DLSS 3 is compatible with DLSS 2, it 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 DLSS 2, AI can reconstruct up to 7/8 display pixels, and the game performance can be up to four times better than without DLSS!

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 an average of 27 frames, so you can't play smoothly, even if you turn on DLSS 2, you can reach 54 frames. However, when the DLSS 3 option is fully on, it can achieve a three-fold increase in the number of frames, increasing the average frame to about 80 frames, satisfying 2.5K play. It seems that DLSS 3 technology is really outstanding.

The legendary 3A masterpiece "Wizard 3" has recently been updated with a greatly improved configuration, but it also provides support for DLSS 3 technology, which is good news for the RTX 40 series laptop GPU, which makes it difficult for old computers to play with high definition.

From the frame number test, it is very difficult for the RTX 4070 laptop GPU to chase the 2.5K 3A. However, with the blessing of DLSS 3 technology, you can still play smoothly. First of all, there is only an average of 25 frames without DLSS. The average frame in the DLSS 2 balanced gear is only 47 frames. If you turn on DLSS 3, you can achieve an average of 72 frames. Can play smoothly, if you want a higher frame rate, you can appropriately reduce the first light chase.

In another next-generation 3A masterpiece with exploding picture quality, the Legend of the Plague: Requiem, we also need the blessing of DLSS 3 technology to achieve smooth play in high frames.

It is difficult to run the plague legend without turning on DLSS, with an average of 26 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 72 frames, meeting the needs of 2.5K playable next-generation 3A masterpieces.

Overall, as an excellent performance release of the RTX 4070 notebook, Shadow 15 can meet the highest 2.5K quality of most games to play mainstream games. If you want to challenge the light chase, you need the support of DLSS 3 technology. With the wide adaptation of DLSS 3 technology, RTX 40 series notebooks will become more and more popular.

Productivity performance what is the productivity performance of Shadow 15 since it has good multicore performance and GPU CUDA acceleration? In the Adobe Premiere commonly used by creative workers, we use PugetBenchmark for testing. The final score is 778, which can satisfy the editing of regular 4K video.

In the latter part of the video, the RTX40 series notebook GPU also adds AV1 coding support and built-in dual encoders. 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 have adapted 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 1173, and you can also make some more complex special effects.

We also tested the commonly used graphic design tool PhotoShop. In PugetBench, Shadow 15 got 1000 points, which can successfully meet the needs of large-scale graphic design and revision.

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, from our tests, MSI Shadow 15 is a fairly comprehensive and balanced game book. It has a good performance release and a good screen, in most online games, it can meet more than 2.5K 165 frames to play, and in the 3A masterpiece, it can achieve the highest picture quality + light pursuit of smooth play, in the next three or four years, it will not be out of date. In terms of visual presentation, the wide-color domain eSports screen with a fast 2.5K / 165Hz / 100% DCI-P3 is quite outstanding, while in the game experience, it is equipped with a 4-partition RGB e-sports keyboard, WASD highlight processing, and full keyboard + full-height arrow keys provide a good game input experience.

In terms of price, we have the version i7-13700H + RTX 4070 Laptop GPU + 16G + 1T, which is currently priced at 9999 yuan:

JD.com MSI Shadow 15 game book 15.6in notebook (13th generation Core i7-13700H full blood RTX4070 16GB 1TB 165Hz 2.5K 100% DCI-P3) 9999 yuan direct link in addition, Shadow 15 also provides i7-13700H + RTX 4060 version, the price is 8999 yuan, if you are interested, you can go and buy:

JD.com Weixing (MSI) Shadow 15 games this 15.6in notebook (13th generation Core i7-13700H full blood RTX4060 16GB 1TB 165Hz 2.5K 100100 DCI-P3) 8999 yuan direct link

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