- Can Corsair make a laptop?
They clearly can.
The real question is can they make a good laptop?
(box rattles)
Let's find out.
They have a nice little cloth
to get your fingerprints off of it.
Comes with a nice little laptop case,
Corsair branding on it.
For power we get
230
Watts,
from this brick right here.
Delivered through a barrel plug.
This is a very tall laptop.
I mean, look at this.
The way that they have their whole
streaming chummy up here.
Like just for comparison here,
that's the XPS 15.
It's so
much longer.
This is going to be a legitimate problem
for a lot of people, I think.
Backpack's designed for 15 inch laptops.
I don't think we'll be able
to put this in it.
Overall though, I think it looks pretty good.
It looks mean, I think that's accurate.
It also looks like it's attracting fingerprints.
Geez, I see why they included this.
What do we have for IO?
Two USB type C's,
not Thunderbolt, because this is AMD.
We also have headphone/microphone combo,
our barrel input.
Anything on the back?
Nope.
Then around this side we have
full size USB type A,
another USB C,
and a full size SD card reader.
Really like to see that.
I was just told these are USB type C Gen 4
and it has Thunderbolt 3 compatibility?
Damn, it just feels like,
maybe just under five pounds, 5.28, not bad.
Oh my God, it's so tall.
Look at this, this is ridiculous!
We have so much space down here
for their streaming do dads.
Like I think the actual display is the-
yeah the display is the same size.
It's so tall that it's like screwing up our lighting.
I'm not getting light to like this half of the laptop.
This is shockingly stiff, if I'm honest.
I was expecting it to be a bit
of a flop monster,
because Corsair's never done this before.
And I kind of figured that they have what?
2,500 employees?
A company like Dell has like 160,000.
Like how would they possibly
be able to match that?
Massive track pad, too.
Oh, we've got our streaming buttons.
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I'm looking at this message on our track pad here.
And I don't quite understand what it's saying.
If I double tap here,
does it just disable the right side?
It does.
Why would you want to do that?
Like I could make an argument
for why you might want to disable the left side.
'Cuz like, if you're gaming,
you have your mouse here.
You have your hand here, it's going
to be resting on the left side
of your track pad.
But here they disable the right side where...
I don't get it.
- [Andy] Arrow keys!
- Arrow-
No one uses the arrow keys, Andy!
But whatever, we'll never use it again.
By default we have Elgato stuff here
and it looks like that we have streaming buttons bound.
That was satisfying peel though.
This Elgato software,
which I think should be working but is not.
S Macro keyboard.
What is this, then?
Nothing's assigned,
but they have this Elgato overlay here
that matches the layout of my macro keys here.
But it just does nothing.
If I'm honest, I don't stream.
But I do use macros all the time,
that I will normally have like,
a bunch of ones set up for Word,
Excel, and Solid Works,
and that just makes my life a lot easier.
Info, S buttons can be programmed
for streaming actions
in the Elgato stream deck software.
But it just told me to come here!
This is a bit of a pain in the arse to do.
I really like macro software
where you're able to program it
without going in and doing
all this software bullcrap.
This is the sort of stuff that I will use once
and then probably never touch again.
And if it isn't quite what I want
I'm never gonna bother with it.
New assignment, keystroke, key
S2.
Text,
text three.
Jake is a
butt.
Not the
Jake that is here.
The other one.
And S4, let's have it open up notepad.
'Cause that's where I want to go next.
Select application.
Hit S4, yep, okay.
She works.
Alright, we open up notepad.
B-Roll, L-Roll, Jake is a butt,
not the Jake that is here,
the other one.
It's working, alright, great.
I could legitimately see this being very useful.
It works decently well.
It's not making your keyboard in a stupid spot.
Like some of the ones where they'll
have macro keys over here
and your whole keyboard's like (makes noise).
Alright, let's open our notepad back up
and figure out what the keyboard is like.
It's not the best that I've ever experienced.
It's kind of weird.
There's like a lot
of travel kind of before, it actually types.
The way that the keys yield,
is just kind of strange.
There's not really like a tactile bump.
It's kind of like a- (grunts)
that sound is the only way
that I can describe how this key press feels.
What would I rate it as though?
A minus, I think?
This is a very good track pad.
Like I am honestly shocked that Corsair
has been able to come out of the gate
and make something that's this good.
Well, they probably didn't.
They probably just sourced
a good track pad from someone.
In which case, good job.
A lot of people have a lot
of trouble doing that.
For the processor we get a Ryzen 9 69-
Nice, hundred HS,
that is 8 core, 16 threads.
And just generally quite a nice little processor.
I believe this one goes up to 40 Watts.
We also have 32GB of RAM.
That's 4,800 mega transfers per second, DDR5,
2TB SSD.
This is gonna be a fricking expensive config.
Also Wi-Fi 6-E thanks to Qualcomm.
And to round it out
we have an AMD Radeon RX,
6800 M.
And that slots somewhere between 30/70, 30/80 performance.
Here we have
what I would consider
the best gaming laptop that you can buy,
that's reasonably thin and generally just a good one.
For specs, this has same processor, 6900HS.
Same amount of RAM, same speed.
It does have one TB less storage,
but most importantly, we have an RTX 3070Ti for the GPU.
Now we already know
that the Zephyrus G15 is an excellently cooled machine
and that 100 watt TDP, it does it great.
How did Corsair do?
Apparently they have a vapor chamber.
I don't know how well they have actually done it.
This is a streaming orientated device.
And although it seems to have some
pretty cool streamer things,
one thing I was a bit concerned about was the GPU.
AMD's
Radeon GPUs
are pretty great
at gaming- actually I would say they
are exceptional at gaming.
What might matter to you though, is the encoders,
and videos NVENC encoders are fricking incredible.
So if you want to stream, you can do so
on video GPU and it is going to be just a great time.
Just simply recording some stuff right now on this.
And it is taking up 43% of the GPU,
and the GPU is currently at 76% Celsius.
Now for this test we are going
to be using a fairly aggressive bit rate.
So 1,500 KBs per second.
But I also know that, that is absolutely fine
with a NVENC encoder.
Okay, so in fairness to what I said before,
task manager is currently showing the NVIDIA GPU
at 70% usage while it is doing this.
The difference though, is that the AMD Radeon one
has all of its stuff in the 3D category.
So that's possibly the stuff that you use to do games.
I don't really know.
Another thing about having an AMD GPU here
that is just worth noting,
'cuz we're running the Tomb Raider benchmark
is that it does support NVIDIA's DLSS.
I'm disabling it
but you could potentially get way better performance
by just enabling that on this.
We do have Radeon super sampling in this
which you can apply to anything through their drivers
but it's kind of a pain in the arse,
so you probably won't most of the time.
I'm almost certain that the Zephyrus is gonna win.
I think this one right here is really struggling
because of the streaming stuff.
They are very similar in loudness.
Oh, and their FPS's look identical.
All right, maybe I was just an AMD hater for no reason,
but they're both 240 Hz,
and they both look fantastic to my eyes.
Well, here we go.
81 FPS,
87 FPS.
So the Zephyrus won, but just a tiny bit.
And I imagine that depending on the game
it's going to flip flop around depending
on which one of these wins, my bigger concern
was the video encoding,
but at the same time, same settings on each one
running on AMDs encoder NVENC, they both worked great.
Yep, that's very nice, smooth playback right here.
Same with the Zephyrus.
Alright, my concerns about AMDs encoders
were completely unfounded so, good job,
Windows update,
freaking incredible.
Alright, you've gotta love it
when windows updates just decide
to insert itself in your game play.
I don't know how much battery life
this Corsair laptop gets, but I can guarantee you
if you leave it in your backpack,
it's gonna be dead afterwards
because of Windows modern standby.
It's terrible.
Corsair, go and talk to Microsoft.
Tell them it's trash.
Even though this is only one benchmark,
I am very impressed that Corsair
has been able to keep up with the Asus
because like they have been at this for a very long time.
And
the G15
absolutely
destroys
a bunch of other like 15, 16 inch laptops
that don't have proper vapor chamber cooling in them.
Huh, I think that we went two FPS slower
without streaming on NVIDIA.
So enable OPS makes your games run faster.
That's a tech tip right there.
No, actually don't do that.
I do think the Corsair is running quite a
bit faster though.
Now that it is not encoding.
Alright.
98 FPS.
Alright, so we got 10 more
by not streaming coding at the same time.
That's a fair bit faster than this guy here.
So you do have a performance hit buy encoding
on the AMD GPU, which you did not have on the Nvidia one
but at the same time in this game
at least at these settings, the AMD one's a bit faster.
I don't think this is gonna be great.
I can guarantee you that the XPS 15 blows us
out of the water.
That's better.
(laughs)
Yeah, that's-
That's not even like same ballpark like this right here is
like kids playing T-ball in the sound department
go and contact Harmon or someone Corsair.
We also get to look at the displays here.
Unsurprisingly, the XPS 15's display is better
but at the same time, this one's 240 Htz.
I think for a gaming laptop
this is an exceptional display, especially 16 x 10.
You don't get that all the time on gaming laptops
but it gives you just a little bit extra vertical room.
So it's awesome for doing productivity stuff as well.
Corsair says that they have a very good 10 ADP webcam,
in this.
The problem is the quality of your actual hardware.
Doesn't really matter.
It's pretty much 100% software at this point.
Now the XPS 15,
even though this generation was not very good,
it was a huge leap over the old one.
And this is like, pretty all right.
This is bad.
Oh my God, this is terrible.
Okay, so we're gonna have to just manual do this
so that, okay, so
maybe more brightness and more contrast.
That's starting to look a bit better,
but it's also kind of looking like
a early 2000s music video.
Yeah, the con- too much contrast
and it looks kind of strange, but at the same time
it's not the worst that I've ever seen.
This is pretty challenging lighting
like gonna have a hat on it's a little bit better.
The shadows are pretty crushed.
The higher, they're kind of weird.
It's perfectly okay.
Like I think it is doing now
that I've tweaked the settings a little bit better
than Dell's, which makes sense.
720 P
10 ADP.
You'd hope you'd be able to get a little bit better.
I would say that the webcam
and microphone on this are perfectly fine.
Okay, heck yeah.
We have got Windows
facial recognition on this thing, which is awesome.
So we have our fingerprint reader right here
and also facial recognition up there.
Having both is excellent.
Alright, up until now Corsair
has done a shockingly good job.
If it's upgradeable, I'm damn impressed.
The screws are not the same size.
So if you are taking it apart
just make sure that you do something like this.
Keep track of where they go.
Don't put a long screw in a short screw spot
or you're gonna have a screw poke
through the frame of your chassis.
Dang.
Alright.
So here we have a massive vapor chamber covering
both our CPU and GPU.
We've got our fans, fin density, not super high,
but at the same time, like,
we saw that it works pretty decent.
Two SSD slots.
So one of them's unpopulated rate over here
super easy to upgrade your storage.
We've got our RAM right there.
Corsair Vengeance RAM.
Damn, who would've thought.
Oh, good old DDR5,
batteries right here.
Super easy to replace if you want to.
And if you can get replacements for it
and we have our wifi controller right there.
And looking under there,
if you take out the battery,
it looks like you can even pop
the track pad right out.
It's just held in with a couple screws.
Good job Corsair.
Oh, the chassis CNC milled as well.
You can see it right here.
We have our mill marks,
whole thing's probably done
out of aluminum.
Looks like it's all anodized as well.
So, it should last quite a while
before it looks like poo.
Pricing, oh, it's really fricking expensive.
This one's what, like, three grand?
More than that?
As tested this one right here is 3050?
That's a lot of change, but at the same time
this one specked very high.
What does it start at?
Like a bit over two grand?
27?
Oh, okay.
So you're basically in it for three grand.
So you get the G 15
with an RTX 3080
which will help make up that performance gap.
Same processor,
$800 more.
Oh, you have to really want some macro keys to suit that.
Geez.
So good job Corsair.
You've made an excellent laptop.
I really hope that you can make a lot more
of them to get some economies of scale to bring that price
down a bit so that I can properly recommend it.
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