Considering that I could get the framerates high enough, even with the lower settings, it could scratch the itch of needing to play your favorite FPS or racing game. Where gaming on the Laptop 3 makes sense is when traveling, taking a controller with you to do a bit of gaming in a hotel room. What you get with the Laptop 3 is a laptop that works as a casual gaming laptop when you are away from your primary device. At 916, the Laptop 3 is far from a gaming machine but it’s worth pointing out that it was not pitched as one either. If you lower the resolution and turn off many of the visual-enhancements, you can get 30-50FPS in games like Fortnite and Apex Legends.įor a raw data point, you can see the Time Spy score. The short version is that it is possible to game on the hardware but not at optimal settings. While the CPU was usually less than 50%, the GPU was maxed at 90% or above for testing of higher-end settings. I know this because, using the Game Bar that is built into Windows 10, you can see your system perf in real-time.

But I can tell you, neither the RAM nor the CPU was the bottleneck, it’s the GPU that was holding the scores back in every game that I played. And even if you were not curious, I was, so I downloaded a couple of titles and put the new hardware to the test.įor this experiment, I was using the 15in, AMD Ryzen 5 with Vega 9 GPU and 16GB of RAM. This week, Microsoft’s third-generation Laptop will become available and if you are planning to buy the more expensive 15in iteration, you may be wondering how it performs with a bit of casual gaming.

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