The MSI GP75 Leopard 9SF gaming laptop has some powerful specs inside, but just how well
does it perform in games? I’ll be testing out 20 games at all setting levels to show
you how well it performs, and then compare it with other gaming laptops afterwards.
Just quickly before we jump into the benchmark results I’ll cover off the specs in my unit.
I’ve got the 9SF model, so we’ve got an Intel i7-9750H CPU, Nvidia RTX 2070 graphics,
no Max-Q here and 16gb of memory running in dual channel. The GP75 is available with different
specs though, you can find examples and updated prices linked in the description.
The MSI Dragon Center software allows you to enable turbo mode, which basically overclocks
the GPU by 100MHz on the core and 200MHz on the memory, and I’ve tested with this enabled
as well as coolerboost, which sets the fan speed to maximum.
We’ll only be covering gaming performance in this video, so if you’re new to the channel,
you'll definitely want to get subscribed for the upcoming full review. Let’s start out
by going through all 20 games at all setting levels, then afterwards we’ll see how the
GP75 compares with some other laptops and see how it stacks up.
The Division 2 was tested with the built in benchmark, and this game is a recent addition
for me. From what I’ve seen so far ultra settings always seems to have much lower 1%
low results compared to average FPS. Despite this the averages at ultra and high were noticeably
better over the other lower powered machines tested in this game.
Battlefield 5 was tested in campaign mode, and the results here were very good, as we’ll
see later when we compare against some other laptops. Even RTX was playing ok at higher
settings, just below a 60 FPS average with high settings, though if you want best performance
with decent looks leaving RTX off and just using ultra is the way to go.
Battlefield 1 was also tested in campaign mode, and like always it’s running well
and performing better than the newer Battlefield 5 just shown, with average FPS at ultra settings
close to the refresh rate of the display, and while 1% lows were lower comparatively
I had no obvious issues while playing.
Apex Legends was tested with either all settings at maximum, or all settings on the lowest
possible values, as it doesn’t have predefined setting presets. It was playing very well,
I seem to test in a more demanding area, because even lower specced machines will hit the 144
FPS cap at times at different areas, so these are great results where I test.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider was tested with the built in benchmark, and the results here
are again quite good, though a bit lower at lower settings compared to even lower specced
machines, which seems to indicate possibly lower CPU power in games while the powerful
GPU holds it up at higher settings.
Far Cry New Dawn was tested with the built in benchmark. This game seems to be fairly
CPU heavy, and while we’re not seeing much higher results compared to other lower specced
laptops, the extra GPU power does seem to help more at higher settings.
Far Cry 5 was also tested with the built in benchmark, and the results were ahead of the
newer Far Cry New Dawn just covered, and we’ll see how this one compares to some other laptops
later.
Fortnite was tested with the replay feature, and at max settings it was working extremely
well, easily surpassing 100 FPS for the 1% low at max settings in my test, absolutely
no issues at all in this less demanding game.
Overwatch is another well optimized game and was tested in the practice range, again extremely
nice frame rates for a laptop are being seen here, with almost 200 FPS at max settings,
while low was reaching the 300 frame cap.
Metro Exodus was tested using the built in benchmark, most parts of the game perform
a fair bit better than this, so don’t take these results as a good indication of what
to expect throughout the entire game, it’s more of a worst case but does let you perform
the same test to compare against.
CS:GO was tested using the Ulletical FPS benchmark, and again pretty good results, above average
over most other laptops given the specs, though not really by much considering how much extra
GPU power there is, as this is more of a CPU driven test.
Rainbow Six Siege was tested with the built in benchmark. Even with maximum ultra settings
we’re getting well above 100 FPS for the 1% low on a 100% render scale, so great performance
once more.
PUBG was tested using the replay feature, and the results were quite good for this test,
but realistically not all that different from a lower specced machine at the lower setting
levels.
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey was tested with the built in benchmark, and as a CPU heavy
test the results at lower settings aren’t too different from many other machines, however
the extra GPU power does put it in front at higher levels.
Dota 2 was tested playing in the middle lane with an average amount of action going on,
and was playing quite well even with ultra settings with very high frame rates and no
issues that I could notice.
Watch Dogs 2 uses a lot of resources, though the results were still pretty good here, with
above 60 FPS averages at ultra settings it was playing perfectly fine maxed out. This
is great considering I can play it just fine with a stable 30 FPS for 1% low.
Ghost Recon is another resource intensive game and was tested with the built in benchmark.
Generally we need quite powerful laptops to hit 60 FPS in this test at ultra, and we’re
able to achieve it with this config of the GP75 which is a great result.
The Witcher 3 was also playing well at ultra settings, and I’ve found this one to work
favourably with more GPU power, which was also the case here. Even ultra settings was
running above 100 FPS and playing great.
DOOM was tested using Vulkan, and is a game that pretty much always runs quite well on
modern hardware, so with our powerful specs here we’re getting great performance. Ultra
settings was playing perfectly smoothly, with the 1% low not too far behind the 144Hz refresh
rate of the display.
Strange Brigade was another game that was tested with Vulkan but was tested with the
built in benchmark, and is another test that always spits out high frame rates, with the
average FPS at ultra matching the screen’s refresh rate.
Let’s also take a look at how this config of the MSI GP75 compares with other laptops
to see how it stacks up, use these results as a rough guide only as they were tested
at different times with different drivers.
In Battlefield 5 I’ve got the GP75 highlighted in red near similarly specced machines. It’s
performing quite well in this game, actually coming out in first place in terms of average
FPS out of these specific laptops shown, so basically beating 2080 Max-Q machines with
G-Sync. The 1% low isn’t quite as impressive, though it’s still up there.
These are the results from Far Cry 5 with ultra settings in the built in benchmark.
Again we’re seeing great results here, with the GP75 coming in at third place. It’s
behind the Razer Blade Pro 17 with a Max-Q 2070, but keep in mind it’s running with
a much higher than normal power limit for that GPU, is also overclocked, but also has
the CPU undervolted by default. Otherwise the 1% low was in second place out of all
machines, and still outperforming MSI’s GS75 with 2080 Max-Q.
These are the results from Shadow of the Tomb raider with the built in benchmark at highest
settings. Once more very good results here, with the GP75 clearly ahead of the other two
2070 machines I’ve tested just below it, the ASUS Scar III and Aorus 15. This time
it’s performing equally to the blade pro, but not quite able to keep up with the 2080
Max-Q machines.
Overall the GP75 is performing very well here, the full RTX 2070 is performing a fair bit
better over the other two 2070 laptops I’ve tested, and the only difference I can really
pinpoint is that MSI are overclocking the GPU with turbo mode which is clearly helping.
The GP75 is available with different specs though, so expect different results with different
hardware, and I’ll also be checking out thermals in a future video, so keep an eye
out for that.
Let me know what you thought of the gaming performance from the MSI GP75 Leopard gaming
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