- This is the world's most powerful laptop.
Now it may not be six inches thick
and need a portable nuclear reactor to run.
However inside this chassis
we have a full RTX 3080 laptop GPU.
This is all thanks to Nvidia who were very kind
not only sponsor this video
but also provide us with an early sample of this,
the MSI GS66 Stealth.
Now, of course, when you look at what they
had last generation with the RTX 20 series
of laptops, they were very powerful, right?
They had some serious graphics horsepower
in fairly thin and lightweight packages.
Am I, am I not?
(drilling)
Do I have, did I forget how to screw?
So inside we have a lot of cooling.
Okay, so we have one, two, three, four, five, six heat pipes
keeping our RTX 3080 cool.
Now, one of the things to keep in mind is that
with the RTX 30 series of laptop GPUs they're of course
a huge jump over the last generation.
So we're seeing those same kind of gains
not only for traditional games
but also games that take advantage of ray tracing.
So essentially you're just getting a ton more performance.
But on top of that the initial configurations
are slightly different.
If you're familiar with the big chungus itself,
the RTX 3080 on the desktop side while
it is an incredibly powerful GPU,
it's also, I don't know how to put this, big
like big with three Gs.
Now to get all of this power into a laptop
what Nvidia opted to do is slightly change
up their configurations.
So if you look at the raw performance
and the specs of this laptop GPU,
you'll see that it's actually fairly similar to something
like the desktop RTX 3070, which makes sense considering
that a laptop has to not only be thin
and last more than 15 seconds on a battery.
There's a whole lot of heat that needs to be moved
out of the way because this laptop, I mean,
it's got a 1440p 240Hz panel.
That's a lot.
So of course there are tons of features I wanna try
and test and benchmarks and all that kind of stuff.
But the most important thing here is how does it game?
It's almost like I'm testing a gaming laptop
or something right now.
So before we go into Max-Q and all that kind of stuff
let's just load up a couple of games
and see how it actually performs.
Oh, I need a mouse.
I need to get a mouse.
Where's my mouse, is that my mouse?
Yay, my mouse, look at that.
Now Fortnite might not be the first game you think
of when you think the world's most powerful laptop.
However they're actually a couple of features
that do make it a good sort of test case.
Not only does it support ray tracing, which is important
because the ray tracing cores are much more powerful
on this laptop than previous generations
but also it has very good support for DLSS.
Now that is something which can make a big difference
to your frame rate while still allowing you to
have a ton of image quality and importantly
a ton of performance.
I will say this screen on the GS66 is certainly far better
than pretty much any laptop display I've ever used.
Not only is it a full 1440p resolution
but importantly it supports Nvidia G-Sync.
Oh man!
But it also runs a full 240 frames per second.
Is that enough to keep me from dying in Fortnite?
No, no, it is not, but at least the laptop supports me.
Now because this is not final software
and certainly not final hardware,
it's hard to judge it too harshly.
I will say the fan noise is a little bit louder
than I would personally like,
you can turn it on silent mode if you'd like.
But there's a lot of power in this laptop.
Part of that is because this is taking advantage
of Nvidia's Max-Q technology.
Now Max-Q's a little bit of a marketing catchall
for a lot of individual different things.
So things like optimizing not only of course
the GPU and the fan curves and all the cooling apparatus
but also like even down to like the PCB
and the individual chips on board.
There's a lot that goes into getting
that Max-Q certification.
And of course every Max-Q laptop
can be designed differently.
But why don't we play a game that's not Fortnite?
I think that's a good idea.
There are so many wide varieties of games
that are not Fortnite that I could
be playing right now such as Cyberpunk.
Which actually to be fair is a legitimately
really good benchmark because the thing
with Cyberpunk, that is a demanding game.
So I've not tried playing Cyberpunk
at all on this system yet.
So I'm actually curious to see,
well it immediately throws me to high and ultra ray tracing.
So well, Cyberpunk believes in me.
I don't know if I believe in myself.
All right, I mean, everything's on, context, shadows,
high, high, ultra, ultra, ultra, high, high, high, high,
I mean, pretty much everything's on.
I will leave DLSS on of course, but yeah, okay, cool.
Well, let's see how this actually looks.
I'm sure you've seen all the RTX On memes at this point
but it does do a lot to ground you in the immersion
of a game especially when you're gaming on a laptop.
I mean, just look at the reflection here
on the ground, right?
You can see how it sort of naturally blooms as
sort of, it's slightly damp but we walk over
to a little bit more of a puddle
and then you get those much sharper reflections
of the screen all the way up here.
I mean, it just does a lot to ground you in a game
and while yes not everything takes advantage
of ray tracing right now.
You're also getting all the additional performance
of the RTX 30 series first even like, you know,
non ray traced games.
There are lots of marketing demos showing
you ridiculous unreasonable things
like running five Chrome tabs at the same time,
which is clearly impossible by the laws of physics.
However, what we can do is
my own patented ultra super tasking demo
that I definitely have created completely
by myself with no help from anyone.
So start out with we have a copy of Cold War running, right?
So we are running here.
It is full screen, 1080p 60.
So actually I will show you the settings just
so you can see it's all running at the same time,
full screen 60p 1080p.
And then we also have pretty much all settings on high.
We even have like ray tracing on and whatnot.
So you can see this obviously is running well.
However, at the same time,
I also have a copy of OBS running.
So I'll go ahead and start recording ,
will be the same file with streaming.
And now we're recording that gameplay
as well as my webcam feed at a smooth 60 frames per second.
Now this is mostly thanks to that NVENC encoding built
into the GPU so they can close look right down here.
We're only using about 2% of the CPU, which is impressive
because it really enables us to not only stream
but also game at the same time.
And we're really not losing that performance.
However, who just games and streams on a laptop?
That's ridiculous.
So let's also fire up a copy of Adobe Premiere.
Yes, I'm going to also play back some video
so you can see, we'll just play some random clip
that we were watching earlier.
We're playing back at half resolution
but this is also that same 1080p 60.
It plays back fine but importantly
I'm going to export it at the same time.
Is this a good idea?
Probably not.
We have a two and a half minute 1080p export.
I'm gonna go ahead and start that
and hopefully if my house of cards
doesn't completely collapse, there we go.
So we're exporting it in like two minutes or so.
- [Ken] Sorry, what two minute clips?
- Two minute clips- - [Ken] almost real time?
And now I'm gonna switch back over to Cold War and look
I'm playing the game at the same time.
Oh, you know what, let me go check on my OBS.
Hey look, I'm still recording
and I haven't dropped any frames.
And then I wanna switch back over
to Abode Premiere and it is still exporting.
This I think is a slightly ridiculous example
of how you can take advantage
of something like the power of the RTX 3080.
But the nice thing is we have all the resources we need.
I mean, this GPU has 16 GBs of VRAM.
That's more than the desktop RTX 3080.
- [Ken] And what's crazy is
that was all GPU for the most part.
And we probably had CPU headroom for OBS again
if you really wanted to.
- Exactly.
So while this might not be the most practical thing
in the world it really does go to show
what you can do with this kind of horsepower in a laptop,
which is this thin.
So this is pretty clearly
the most powerful laptop I have ever tried.
Then well, yes, this specific configuration
won't be out for a little while.
So definitely be sure to stay tuned
if you want more on this stuff
because there's a whole lot more stuff coming soon.
But regardless I think it's safe
to say this is never going back to Nvidia.
Thanks guys for letting me borrow your laptop.
Make sure to check out the links in the description.
You can buy your own 30 series laptop.
I mean, you get like a 3060 for 1000 bucks or something
but this one's spoken for by me forever.
Thanks for watching.
I'll see you next time I do some multitasking.