Name: Is a $650 Gaming Laptop Worth It?
Uploaded: 2020-03-27T17:43:07.000Z
Duration: 6 min 55 s
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Now while it might not look like a gaming laptop,

inside it is rocking the brand new AMD Ryzen Mobile.

If you've bought a laptop in the last few years,

more than likely it was powered by Intel.

However, AMD has stepped up in a big way with Ryzen Mobile.

Not only does this have a much more powerful CPU,

but the graphics should be good enough for actual gaming.

So it is definitely a larger laptop with a 15 inch display.

But, as part of their x360 line, what we're getting here

is a fully convertible design, which actually isn't

So we're getting a slightly sharp, angular design, which

But considering the $650 price point, it looks

Open this guy up and we're going to see the full size

keyboard, as well as number row, as well as the

Something you won't find, however, are any stupid Intel

Actually, there are no AMD stickers at all, are there?

For ports, there's a pretty decent selection, including

HDMI, a USB 3, as well as your headphone jack.

And on the other side, you're going to be getting

one more USB 3.0, a USB-C that supports charging,

HP doesn't claim this is a gaming PC, but with Ryzen 5

inside it should be capable of some decent gaming.

So not only are we getting a Quad-Core Zen processor,

but we're also getting eight Vega GPU cores.

Now that's not going to be able to blow away some

proper dedicated graphics, but the idea is, is that

for $650, especially considering that this is

a very battery focused, sort of, lightweight laptop,

it should give us decent gaming performance.

Ryzen has proven to be pretty impressive on the desktop

side, offering a lot of fast cores at a reasonable price.

Thankfully, that comes across to Ryzen Mobile.

So in Geekbench, while it's not quite on par with Intel's

latest 8th-gen, 15 watt processors, it actually performs

really well compared to slightly older Core i5s.

Definitely plenty of performance for pretty much any

Where things get really interesting is with

So it is a huge step up over something like Intel

Integrated Graphics, and it's even on par with

some of the lower end dedicated graphics options.

Now this might not sound that impressive, but consider

It nearly matches Intel's latest and greatest

on the processor side, and completely destroys them

Now here running at 1080p medium, we're actually getting

So we're averaging somewhere between the high 40s

Obviously, ideally you're running in like 300,000 frames,

but considering that we've got a $650 laptop,

Now this is a game that is pretty popular, and it's

And yet again, here we're running at 1080p, this time

Now the frame rate's actually really impressive here.

We're just pretty much staying above 60 frames per second

So, in theory, we actually can bump those settings up,

all the way up to the high quality if we wanted to.

Move over to GTA, and we're actually getting

So on normal settings, at 1080p, we're getting between

For less demanding areas like this, we're actually

When you get a lot of explosions, sometimes it dips

To really put this to the test, we have Pubg.

So, low settings at 720p, we're barely getting like 27, 28

I mean, this is a little bit more of an open area,

but even after we walk inside this building we're still

It's not the worst experience I've ever tried.

But, maybe not the best Pubg machine in the world.

Things aren't all perfect in normal use either.

So when I was first setting up this laptop, I had

some weird driver issues, where the screen would go

really dim and I would have no control over it,