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CTOnews.com has previously tested the i7-13700HX + RTX 4050 Laptop GPU version of the Seven Rainbow X15 AT 23 game book. At that time, we were deeply impressed by its high performance-to-price ratio and after-sales service beyond the price. But at that time, the configuration will be slightly "high U low display", so Seven Rainbow recently updated a more reasonable version, CPU slightly reduced to i7-13650HX, graphics card upgraded to RTX 4060 Laptop GPU, the initial price also dropped to 6999 yuan, very cost-effective.

CTOnews.com also received this new configuration of Seven Rainbow General X15 AT 23. In this article, we will evaluate its specific performance in detail.

Design Seven Rainbow Star X15 AT 23 is a standard 15.6inch 16:9 game book. Recently, it feels relatively small after touching 17.3in and 16in notebooks. BWH is 359.5 (W) x 238 (D) x 26.9 (H) mm, weighs about 2.35KG and is of regular size.

The star X15 AT still continues the concept of the national tide of the star series, engraving a vigorous "will" on the A side. But the design of side An is a little different. A new metal drawing area is added to the top, showing the Logo of the seven rainbows. This splicing design adds a lot of color to the appearance of the fuselage.

Open the B side, the screen also has a big upgrade, from 1080p 144Hz to 2560mm 1440 resolution 165Hz, the brightness is also increased to about 350nit, the measured color gamut covers 97.6% sRGB, the color gamut volume is 103.7% sRGB, is a standard sRGB wide color gamut screen, very suitable for use in Windows, not too bright nor too light.

C side is a RGB backlit keyboard, the key position is very reasonable, the direction key and keypad are taken care of, and the lighting can be customized through the control software. Below the keyboard is a touchpad of medium size and made of plastic.

The D side is made of plastic, with a cushion design and a large area air inlet. The huge heat dissipation module can be seen clearly from the hollowed-out bottom cover. We will know the specific heat dissipation design later.

The whole machine has 1 USB2.0+2 USB3.2 (Gen 1) interface, 1 USB Type C (USB3.2Gen 2), 1 lightning port, 1 HDMI interface, a set of 3.5mm audio interface, DC power interface and gigabit network port. Among them, Type-C interface, lightning port, HDMI and DP interface can all be used for video output, so it can even form four screens to achieve rich expansion.

Hardware analysis We have this version of the X15 AT 23 CPU that we choose is i7-13650HX, an H55 overvoltage mobile CPU, and an orthodox 13th generation Core. Built on the intel 7 process, it has 6 performance cores and 8 energy efficiency cores, with a total of 14 cores and 20 threads, with a maximum of 4.9GHz L3 cache 24MB. Its own nuclei were 16 EU Xe. It is a powerful HX processor suitable for gamers.

In terms of GPU, the 2023 X15 AT we have is a RTX 4060 notebook computer GPU. Its underlying architecture has been drastically upgraded to Nvidia Ada Lovelace architecture, and DLSS, the killer of software, has been upgraded to DLSS 3 technology. Although the TDP still has a full power consumption of 140W, but thanks to the improvement of energy efficiency, 80-100W has a quite good performance in the actual game, which is quite suitable for notebooks with heat dissipation and gold. In terms of core parameters, RTX 4060 notebook computer GPU has 3072 CUDA cores, 8GB GDDR6 memory, video memory bit width 128bit, frequency up to 2295MHz.

So, will the mold of Star X15 AT be able to move this generation's fully upgraded configuration? Let's take a look at the machine next. As can be seen from the picture below, the X15 AT 23 still uses a six-heat pipe double-fan heat dissipation module, but the heat pipe is covered with a layer of copper, which has a certain homogenizing effect, which is stronger than the traditional heat pipe.

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

The self-contained hard disk is solidigm's P41 PLUS hard disk, which is a middle hard disk of PCIe4.0*4 with QLC particles. It is worth mentioning that the star X15 AT 23 has reserved an extra M.2 position. Both positions support the ultra-high speed of PCIe 4.0 4. If you are not satisfied with the speed and capacity, you can expand the capacity by yourself.

How on earth will the performance of the cooling system of X15 AT 23 be released? We then use AIDA64 for single-baking FPU,15 minutes, the CPU temperature is stable at 87 ℃, when the CPU power consumption is stable at about 95W, has been able to release most of the performance of i7-13650HX.

Then we use FurMark doughnuts for single baking GPU,15 minutes, the core temperature is stable at 77 ℃, power consumption is stable at 110W, although not maintained at 140W full power consumption, but because this generation of energy efficiency is very high, 110W is more than sufficient for RTX 4060 laptop GPU, you should know that the desktop RTX 4060 is only 115W.

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 stabilized at 63W and 86 ℃, and the GPU stabilized at 110W and 85.5 ℃. However, it is worth mentioning that this is the data measured when the fan is fully loaded, and the fan noise is also very large, so it is better to limit the daily use.

In terms of running score, RTX 4060 Laptop GPU can basically release all the performance, and the GPU theoretical score of 3DMark TimeSpy reaches 10204, which is not much different from that of the previous generation RTX 3070 Laptop GPU, but the power consumption is only 110W, which shows that the energy efficiency of this generation of Nvidia Ada Lovelace architecture is high.

In R20, which represents the theoretical performance of CPU, the scores of single thread and multi-thread are 724 and 7333 respectively. In R23, it achieved a single-core score of 1892 and a multi-core score of 19668, which is stronger and weaker than the i7-13700HX processor we tested before. it seems to be a cost-effective processor that is more suitable for gamers.

The QLC hard disk of P41 Plus is a high-performance hard disk that can be expanded by itself to meet the performance requirements of PCIE 4.0.

The memory is the standard 4800MHz DDR5 notebook memory, the running score is also in line with the normal performance of a single DDR5 notebook memory. If you add a "double channel" in the same group, your reading and writing scores can be doubled again.

As can be seen from the game test above, the theoretical performance of Star X15 AT 23 is more balanced than the previous version. CPU multi-core performance slightly decreased, but single-core performance and GPU performance have improved, so its performance in the actual game will obviously be better. It is worth mentioning that the star X15 AT 23 also supports the single display direct connection function, which can be manually switched in the BIOS to further increase the number of frames of e-sports 's game, so all of the following games will be tested in 2560 1440 resolution + highest picture quality + single display output mode, and DLSS will be opened to the balance gear DLSS. With DLSS 3, the number of frames of the switch DLSS 3 will be tested separately.

First of all, e-sports games, we selected "CS:GO", "PUBG", "APEX Legend" and "fearless contract" and other mainstream e-sports games for testing. Measured in "CS:GO", running BenchMark can reach an average of 295frames, which can run all over this electronic competition screen.

On the side of "PUBG", it is measured that it can run to 117 frames under the highest picture quality, which can satisfy the high-frame play of the highest picture quality. If you want to play with 144 frames running full of video games, you can consider adjusting it to the commonly used "three extremes" picture quality.

In "APEX Legend", the average number of frames can reach 158frames, which can basically meet the needs of e-sports with high frames. If the NVIDIA Reflex low delay is enabled in the setting, the shooting delay can be further reduced and the feel will be better.

"Dauntless contract" is also a game that supports NVIDIA Reflex's low-latency technology. It can run all over the 2.5K 165Hz electronic competition screen with 215 frames in the training ground. The most important thing is that its latency is very low. You can see from the Frameview tool that its average delay AVG PCL is only 14ms, which reflects that the feel of the gun will be more accurate.

From our above tests, all e-sports games can meet the needs of free play, and the picture quality is the highest. Next, let's test some mainstream 3A games. In Tomb Raider: shadow, with the highest 2K resolution, the number of frames is as high as 104 frames, so it's not a problem to play.

In the classic 3A masterpiece "the Wild Dart 2: redemption", the star X15 AT 23 also showed good results, running to an average of 77 frames at the highest 2.5K picture quality, and the play experience was very smooth.

In the recently launched 3A masterpiece Starry Sky, the optimization is relatively poor. With only more than 20 frames in high quality, we can only reduce it to 2K. At this time, there are an average of 66 frames in the busiest main city of New Atlantis, which can meet the needs of smooth play.

Starry Sky is a very stressful game, but for the more stressful 3A masterpieces, it is difficult to flow smoothly without DLSS 3 technology, and we are going to test several masterpieces that support DLSS 3 technology. ‏ 's 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 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 ‏‏ DLSS 3 ‏‏ 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 ‏‏ 2560-1440 resolution ‏‏ superlight and got the following data. ‏‏ only averages 20 frames by default, so it cannot play ‏ fluently.

Even if the DLSS 2 balance gear is turned on in ‏, it can only reach 45.6 frames, and the game experience is not very smooth. ‏

However, when the DLSS 3 frame generation option is turned on, ‏ can achieve more than three times the number of frames, increasing the average frame to about 68 frames, meeting the needs of high-resolution frames for free light pursuit. This is the charm of NVIDIA DLSS 3 cool techs. ‏

‏ legendary 3A masterpiece "Wizards 3" has also recently updated the next-generation version, with greatly improved configuration requirements, but also provides support for DLSS 3 technology, which is undoubtedly good news for the ‏ RTX 40 series laptop GPU ‏. Judging from the frame count test, it is very difficult for ‏ RTX 4060 ‏ to catch up with Wizards 3. Without DLSS, it even has an average of 24 frames. ‏

The average frame of ‏ is only 42 frames in DLSS 2 balanced gear. ‏

‏ but if you turn on DLSS 3, you can achieve an average of 64 frames. 60 frames of play can be achieved in most scenes. ‏

‏ is better optimized for another exploding next-generation 3A masterpiece, the Legend of the Plague: Requiem, which can play at more than 40 frames without DLSS, which is not particularly smooth, but it can still play. ‏

After ‏ opened the DLSS 2 balanced gear, the number of frames increased to an average of 71 frames, and the game experience has been excellent. ‏

If ‏ opens the DLSS 3 quality file, the number of frames directly reaches an average of 94 frames, and it can play 3A masterpieces with nearly 100 frames, which is not an excellent experience. ‏ in the next few years, the RTX 4060 laptop GPU + DLSS 3 will be standard for 2K fun 3A.

Creative production of Seven Rainbow Star X15 AT 23 as a high-performance game book, can also be used for some creative production capacity, RTX 4060 can also install NVIDIA Studio drivers to accelerate more than 110 of the most popular creative applications. Proprietary SDK makes these applications run faster and provides exclusive features such as Optix, DLSS, and Maxine. NVIDIA Studio has a full range of creative applications, including NVIDIA Omniverse, Broadcast, Canvas and RTX Remix.

The 3072 CUDA cores of the RTX 4060 provide hardware acceleration for increased productivity. Almost all modeling software optimizes NVIDIA's GPU, so it can take into account efficiency, stability and compatibility. For example, in the commonly used rendering tool V-Ray, you can take advantage of the ray tracing feature of RTX acceleration to achieve high-performance final frame rendering. In addition, GPU with AI noise reduction can further accelerate interactive rendering and provide a smoother work experience.

We also measured the performance of V-Ray Benchmark. I7-13650HX scored 13194 and RTX 4060 scored 1158. Can handle some medium-sized modeling rendering needs.

‏ benefits from the multi-core performance of the 13th generation Core i7 processor, and ‏ X15 AT 23 is also suitable for daily office work. CTOnews.com also chose the representative software PCMARK10 to test it. The measured score is 7020, which can fully meet any office needs.

CrossMark, which also represents comprehensive office performance, has a comprehensive score of 1963, which can also meet the needs of office production.

We also tested the PR commonly used in video clips. Will Star X15 AT 23 scored 961 points, Intel shows strong decoding ability plus NVENC graphics card acceleration, a two-pronged approach, can smoothly clip 4K video.

In conclusion, compared with the i7-13700HX+RTX 4050 version we tested before, the author thinks that this new i7-13650HX+RTX 4060 version is more suitable for game lovers and college students. The configuration of the whole machine is balanced, and there is no obvious deficiency. With the blessing of DLSS 3, we can conquer the most stressful Guangchui 3A masterpieces at present.

What is even more impressive is its performance-to-price ratio. The initial price is only 6999 yuan, which is the lower price among similar configurations on the market. Coupled with the excellent after-sales service of Seven Rainbow, the new Seven Rainbow X15 AT 23 will definitely be the cost-effective choice in the game. If you are interested, you can go to the official JD.com flagship store of Colorful computer to participate in the pre-sale.

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