this is an update to one of my favorite laptops that i've seen recently xpgs xenia15 this is the
xpg xenia 15kc uh it's obviously been sealed i just got it fresh from taiwan you can see it's
all the security seals are good internet who doesn't believe that any unboxings are ever real
that person yeah so as i said xpg xenia 15 this was surprisingly one of my favorite
laptops when i saw it it's a little generic but just to go just to tell you how much
uh my love of this laptop is not crazy dave lee there's another person on the internet dave lee
who loved the previous version of this laptop too
it is a 15.6 inch laptop
huh that box is really small what did we get i was like this is correct that box is tiny
that's just the interior box though so there's basically that's the otterbox
we get the interior box there's actually something else i want to break up before we get there
uh one of the problems i had with the previous version of this is the power brick um of course
it's a standard dcn barrel charger but oh yeah i can already tell it's better
this power brick is not that bad uh because it's tiny the power brick that came with the original
xenia xpg-15 was huge kind of comically large this is actually very reasonable especially because of
the wattage it is a 230 watt power brick so this should give you an idea what is in this laptop
this is not a 1650 ti or a 1660 this is a full-on geforce rtx 30 70.
oh you're right wait a minute what is how does that work
oh i see oh okay i like it does it do anything okay no it's oh it just says game to the extreme
she watches you unbox it okay cool just like everybody else on youtube but so
uh i i just gave away the gpu already rtx 3070 so ain't no slouch of a gpu right 125 watt tgp
also paired with that rtx 3070 is 32 gigs of ddr4 obviously it's in a slot because ddr4
also an intel tiger lake h laptop i don't know if it's an i7 or core i9 but basically um
so basically the big upgrade is previous version was a
was a six core comet lake i'm going to guess this is an eight core tiger lake h and a 30 70.
also let's let's do the ports let's do the ports people always want to see the ports
you get two usb type a's these are both 10 gigs an sd card reader i believe it's a uh s2
on the back 2.5 gigabit ethernet hdmi 2.1 probably hooked directly to the gpu which is good
also you get a thunderbolt 4 port what see we get anything here yep we get another oh look at that
it's even properly marked usb type a 10 gig port and of course a courageous analog headset port
and a a lock port if you run out if you want to chain this down to your desk or something right
so you get a tiger lake inside here oh what else should we go over this keyboard is an optical
keyboard so the switches are optical which it's got good travel it's also mechanical so these
are optical switches mechanical buttons some people sort of complain about their previous
version because there's no real there hasn't been a lot of separate they were very close together
looks like they've kind of spaced them out a little bit more due to the complaints
i actually personally had no problems with the with the uh keyboard on this power button
you want to peel oh should i peel yeah just want to see what the material is
it is made of magnesium i believe i will verify that later before the end of the video but
the one of the things they did is they they made this laptop out of magnesium also let's there are
very few gaming laptops that give you a windows hello ir camera that does facial recognition
they did that on the previous version they're doing it on this one too
if i can get this off so it's xpg which of course is very closely related to a data they make ssds
so they bring their a game to this laptop with the xpg probably going to get this wrong
game x or gamex s70 that is a one terabyte pcie 4.0 ssd rated at i think seven gig
read six gig writes so with tiger lake h gen four ssds you are getting just insane
read and write speeds out of it so the other big update to the xpg is the screen it's 16 900 but
well the previous version had a 1080p panel this is one of those really awesome 2560x1440p
at 165 hertz yeah so if you want more pixels in a 15.6 laptop this is the resolution to get so
very nice upgrade as you can see very good off access i mentioned the windows hello camera i
mentioned the gen 4 ssd i do want to mention the other thing that you know you go like why do you
love this laptop so much gordon because i will say if you wanted to criticize it it is a little
generic looking right it is kind of this is no xps 15 and pure sexiness but what you really get here
is an extremely light laptop this is 30 70 rtx eight core just checked eight core core i7 11th
gen tiger lake cpu and a 4.1 pound laptop that's kind of like what the original super light gaming
laptops weighed and they kind of got they got a little older they got a little fatter this one is
like those older ones that's just thinner that's just lighter four pounds is a big diff big change
from 4.6 pounds it really makes a difference and that's one of the reasons i love this laptop it
makes you go like i just you know what it's worth that extra weight i'm getting a 30
70 and a tiger lake h8 core in here so the weight is where it's at part of that is because this is a
magnesium shell magnesium can let's laptop makers make them a little bit thinner maybe use a little
less material so the screen does flex a little bit but that's worth it because at 4.1 pounds
you're almost going to not feel this does it go all the way back uh yes oh wow it doesn't
go it doesn't fold you know to the table but you know it is a 180 screen it looks like
there's also of course i like this in real time this is your real time performance button if you
are so no light power saver one light one led is balanced and then two is performance mode
this xpg laptop of course has an intel logo on it i'll show it to you again
intel logo because it is an intel co-engineered laptop that they did with xpg what this means
is intel did a lot of the heavy lifting on the engineering xpg does some other cool stuff one
one reason that really is a plus in a laptop you know having it from intel in a way
is a lot of the smaller brands to get drivers to get buyouts is to get utilities
smaller brands sometimes don't keep up to date as you would get out of a bigger oem
lenovo hp and dell they do all their work you get everything quickly
for this laptop if you want a new bios you want new drivers you can actually use intel's software
a driver update service and it will actually go and look at the intel website for the driver for
the bios for this laptop so that's a big plus for a small brand laptop because you're getting it
from a larger company at a more reliable pace than you would from small companies so we're gonna
crank this up just do a few performance benchmarks this is not a review this is not a review but we
do want to just get a feel for where it's going to fall it is eight cores of tigerly h and 125 watt
rtx 3070 so let's see if it has much horsepower uh so come back in one second and we're going to look
at some numbers so we're back and i just finished running a few quick tests on the xenia 15kc
once again this is not a review this is just a quick preview of the performance of the xenia 15
kc we're going to kick this off first with cinebench uh r 20 nt basically using all the cores
on this eight core core i7 eleven eight hundred h on the chart you see red obviously amd the blue
a intel in fact every single uh intel laptop on here is also
a comparable tiger lake h laptops you can see on here the xenia as a core i7 not bad it is hanging
right there with the performance i'm seeing out of bigger 17-inch tiger lake h laptops
still slower than that also slightly better performance in the core i9 11 980 hk in the uh
intel reference laptop which was built off an msi uh z16 little bit bigger laptop but also a little
bit thinner this laptop is lighter though uh that one's got a little more metal in it so we are
seeing very good performance one very important fact i did not mention earlier i should get it now
the other big change with the xenia 15 kc over the previous versions is this one uses liquid metal on
the the cpu so obviously liquid metal is great awesome better cooling a little more trouble for
people to use when they manufacture a laptop but xpg felt it had to go there to compete and it's
paying off here we're seeing better performance out of a core i9 in in a different laptop that's
when you use all the cores though and that's when i'm cranked up on the performance setting
looking at single threaded performance we can see that the core i7 is not going to be the core i9
yes you pay for core and then you do get more generally where you're going to get it is single
threaded performance the performance on that core 911 980 hk in that z16 intel reference platform
is 608 versus 565 here core i7 basically is not going to give you all that in fact even looking
at that gigabyte or 17g which is in a big fat 17 inch gaming laptop not much faster because frankly
you got to pay for core i9 if you want those high single threaded performance numbers but
this is nothing to sneeze at because look it is right there with almost every single amd
ryzen 7 laptop ryzen 9s can outgun it but those are ryzen nine this is core i7 folks
of course what you're also interested in is the gpu i just did a quick 3d mark time spy
test this is only the graphics performance of this laptop i am again running this in performance mode
one thing i do want to note as i said earlier this is a 125 watt tgp geforce rtx 3070 laptop gpu
but when you add in dynamic boost 2.0 it's really sort of like maybe up to 140. in my chart i'm
going to show it as 140. you can consider it everywhere from 125 to 140 and in the darker
green we can see where that rtx 37 sits uh it's not bad it is not going to stand up with any rtx
3080s 3080s in big fat laptops at very high tdps are the fastest thing you can get in the laptop
30 70 is not bad though so the only other real comparable 3070 i have is an acer nitro
5. it's in a 17-inch uh laptop with a ryzen 7 5800h ryzen uh geforce rtx 3080 at 95 watts i
don't think that that considers a dynamic boost in there for some reason but you can basically
see they're both about dead even so 30 70 on 30 70 despite the tgp differences whatever it is
uh about even so 30 70 of course is better than 30 60 20 60. so it's it's pretty decent oh
also i do have one more score and there's another 30 70 and a smaller nitro 5 lower cost laptop not
tuned up as much as this and you can see about 8500 not a huge difference from this but still
the xenia and the the 3070 is pushing it harder than that smaller lower cost acer nitro 5. so
gaming performance basically should be pretty awesome plenty uh one thing i do want to show
off though this is crystal dismark we don't always do uh storage performance benchmarks but you know
xpg really wants to show off their ssd so let's see if you're really getting all that you paid for
and you are seeing we are seeing getting in crystal dismark 8 about 7.1 gig read sequential
that's a queue depth of 8 single threaded writes about 5.9 so yeah you are not going
to touch that with your gen 3 ssd and one other thing i do want to point out on this as well
is for performance the performance center that you're going to get in the xpg xenia 15 kc
is now run by intel previously it was a suite that was branded xpg looks like they're going
full intel with this one and this is the intel nut software studio it does all the performance
shooting let's let's dive in here see what you get you can basically set your performance modes
your fan modes um if you want your battery saver to be a little faster or a little slower you can
set all that here and also check this out this is very nice there's actually a passive cooling mode
and there's also a benchmark mode because if you just want to run benchmarks you want those fans
to go all the time it's basically a mac setting it looks like on the fans that's kind of handy
for somebody doing testing i guess with all the fans on just doing to annoy you the other thing
i also want to point out is the keyboard uh let's i really again i i really this is one of
my favorite laptops because of the weight because of the performance to weight ratio you're getting
out of the laptop one thing i don't like is the rgb lighting in the laptop i don't know if you
can see it here this room is fairly brightly lit they are per key i really don't mind the switches
optical mechanical switches those are great but this rgb is just ganky it's just like tick
tick tick tick tick tick let me tell you if you worked at razer and this was your first project
min himself who runs razer would come and fire you for doing rgb like this because rgb matters
for the people who are into their rgb of course in other modes it's not quite as in your face but
here you can just you just don't get that smooth flow of rgb that you get just about everywhere
on any gaming laptop these days so they got to pick their game up here also i'm not really a fan
of these grills there's actually a new additional intake here these are all mostly intakes i believe
but these sort of slats it's just it doesn't give you a premium feel you know it's just
kind of like it's like somebody just cut out these lines you're just not going to see this
in other higher end brand laptops so last thing i'm going to close off with is price this laptop
with 32 gigs of ram one terabyte gen four drive 3070 and core i7 eleven eight hundred eight core
twenty five hundred dollars to give you a comparison a qhd razer laptop which is about
similar size but heavier about six hundred dollars with half the ram so you're getting more ram
and it's for a little less money i will say the twenty five hundred dollars though
um i don't know if that's a long term price but xpg has told me they will have an introduct
introductory price of they're not really sure yet but it looks like 2200 dollars to 2300
which with 32 gigs of ram and a 1 terabyte gen 4 drive is a pretty good deal yeah i can overlook
the rgb for that because i i like the lightness of this laptop so twenty three hundred dollars
really makes this laptop competitive with a lot of those
ryzen based laptops those ryzen based laptops give you a lot of value for your dollar because
amd really wants to break into this market you're getting a lot of ram you're getting a
lot of gpu you're getting a lot of cpu with those ryzen systems so at twenty three hundred dollars
it's a pretty good deal because you're right there with most of those ryzen laptops just want to give
you that and also last spec i didn't drop 94 watt hour battery that is a big fat battery
i'm gonna guess since this is this is not a g-sync panel you should get a very reasonable you know
six to seven hours of use real use out of this laptop so this is just a really great all-around
powerful gaming laptop 11th gen tiger lake very light and pretty reasonably priced so
again i'm a big fan of it i still have to run all my tests so come back to pc world
to see what they are but i'm going to guess it's going to do pretty well based on what i've seen