RTX 3060 i7-11800H, ASUS Tianxuan 2 high-burning experience light chasing masterpiece

The picture quality of games continues to improve, and the requirements for PC performance are getting higher and higher, and players are always eager for a smoother, high-quality gaming experience. Since its inception, the ASUS Select series has been deeply loved by players for its superb appearance and performance. Equipped with the RTX 30 series laptop GPU, Tianxuan 2 brings real-time ray tracing and AI-driven DLSS to tens of millions of gamers and creators. It is also equipped with the 11th generation Intel Core high-performance mobile processor H45. Help the strong to win.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 laptop GPU is based on the new NVIDIA Ampere architecture. A major change in the new architecture of the Streaming Multiprocessor (SM multi-unit stream processor) is that the throughput of FP32 operations can be increased up to twice compared to the previous generation Turing architecture. In addition, the NVIDIA Ampere architecture also adds the second-generation RT Core and the third-generation Tensor Core, which further enhances the light-tracing computing capabilities and DLSS efficiency.

The most time-consuming part of ray tracing is the intersection calculation. To improve ray tracing performance, the main thing is to accelerate the two kinds of intersections (BVH/triangle intersection). Compared with the previous generation, the second-generation RT Cores has doubled the throughput of ray and triangle intersection calculations, greatly improved dynamic blur and ray tracing performance, and supports ray tracing and shading at the same time. The more ray tracing is performed, the faster the acceleration. .

The implementation of the third-generation Tensor Cores optimizes sparse network performance and greatly improves AI computing performance. Through DLSS, it can achieve close to high-resolution display output through low-resolution hardware requirements, and achieve high-resolution display output at high resolution. Reduce frame loss in ray tracing gaming environments. As we all know, after DLSS is turned on, the GPU only needs to process a small part of the pixels, which can greatly improve game performance without increasing system power consumption and maintaining game image quality.

In terms of appearance, the most talked about game notebook of Tianxuan 2 is its cross-dimensional high-looking design. The packaging box of Tianxuan 2 is enough to attract players’ attention. The colorful packaging box has the ASUS Chosen 2 logo, the image of the Chosen Princess and some cheering bullets printed on the front of the package. The large area of ??light blue complements the standing painting of the Chosen Lady.

The Chosen 2 has two colors: the vibrant Magic Blue and the mysterious and cold Eclipse Gray, breaking the traditional exaggerated punk lighting design of the game in one fell swoop. The Tianxuan 2 we got this time is in Eclipse Gray color. If the Magic Blue color is more favored by girls, then the Eclipse Gray is closer to the toughness of the military-grade products of the TUF series of products of Tianxuan 2, which makes Tianxuan Ji The lady looks more heroic and agile. It has been tested under extreme conditions such as drops, vibrations, high temperatures, low temperatures, and high humidity. It is solid and reliable, ensuring stable use by players.

The design of side A is simple and friendly. The initials TX LOGO of Tianxuan are placed closer to the edge. The four corners are decorated with rivets and three slashes, plus the neat lines of the whole machine. , which doubles the appearance of ASUS Tianxuan 2.

Also included is a set of Chosen-themed stickers, which players can use to decorate the A side of ASUS Chosen 2 or any other surface according to their own preferences.

From the top of side A, you can also see the keyboard hinge on side C. In addition to a "TUF GAMING" logo, there are four indicator lights: indicating power status, battery capacity, hard disk Read and write, flight mode.

The B side of ASUS Tianxuan 2 is a 100s RGB full HD 15.6-inch IPS gaming screen with a 240Hz refresh rate, paired with an RTX 3060 Laptop GPU. Players will no longer miss every moment when playing games. detail.

The screen resolution supports 1080P and supports Adaptive sync technology to eliminate smearing, tearing and motion blur, ensuring that players can enjoy smooth, tear-free and awesome images during high-frame gaming. Moreover, the screen also supports DC dimming technology to eliminate flicker and make the viewing experience more comfortable.

The narrow bezels on three sides make the screen look larger than it actually is. The top of side B is slightly raised and integrates a camera, a camera indicator light, and two microphones.

The C-side panel is made of brushed technology. The Shadow Blade keyboard has a key travel of 1.8mm and feels comfortable in the hand. With Overstroke technology, it can be accurately triggered with only 62 grams of force. The keyboard also follows the consistent design style of Tianxuan notebooks. The numeric keyboard and navigation keys are also very complete. The navigation keys also assume the function of the FN key combination, which is mainly used to adjust the keyboard backlight and AURA lighting effects.

The keyboard area comes with three levels of adjustable RGB backlight, supporting four lighting modes of constant light, breathing, flashing and color cycle without software switching. The square buttons are designed with rounded corners to avoid pricking your hands, and the surface coating is comfortable to touch and non-sticky. The WASD keys on the keyboard are fully transparent and highlighted, making it easier for players to prepare for combat faster in dark environments.

From left to right on the left side of the fuselage are the power jack, Gigabit LAN port, HDMI 2.0, 2 USB 3.2 Gen1, one USB3.2 Gen2 Type-C (supports DP1.4) and A headset-in-one interface.

There is only one USB 3.2 Gen1 interface and security lock hole on the right side of the fuselage. In terms of interfaces, it has full-size HDMI 2.0b and three USB 3.2 Type A interfaces. It also provides Thunderbolt 4 interfaces, which supports up to triple screen expansion, even for multi-monitor usage scenarios.

Since the interfaces are set at the left and right ends, all interfaces are removed from the tail of Tianxuan 2, thus increasing the area of ??the heat dissipation port.

Speaking of heat dissipation, let’s take a look at the D side. The bottom of Tianxuan 2 adopts a honeycomb structure of heat dissipation openings. The honeycomb heat dissipation holes also have the texture of a magic mecha. In combat mode, it looks like a machine with full firepower. Mechas are generally very domineering.

Tianxuan 2 adopts a newly upgraded "glacier cooling system", with more efficient four flat heat pipes to increase the contact area, up to three air outlets, a major upgrade of the dust-free fan, new materials, and blades Thinner and denser, the heat dissipation fins are also upgraded to remove heat faster. It also has Storm Boost intelligent cooling. Players only need to press FN F5 to adjust and switch between three modes: silent, performance, and enhanced. It not only adjusts the fan speed, but also adjusts the overall performance of the notebook.

After entering the system, we can see the default desktop wallpaper of Tianxuan Ji. At the same time, the system UI is also set to light color by default. The translucent material is combined with the background color to produce a pink and purple color. The transition between pink and green.

Along with the system startup, there will also be a Q version of the Desktop Pet of the Chosen Princess, which is full of interesting expressions. When it is turned on and off, it will also say hello and farewell to the player. Even if the image is soft and cute, it is not two-dimensional. Groups will also be well-loved.

The Desk Pet of the Chosen Princess comes with an alarm clock setting function and can be reset in size. After turning on the walking mode, the cute Chosen Princess will also stroll around the desktop, which is a lot of fun.

Her function is not only cute. In the system status, players can check the usage of the computer's CPU, memory, storage, and the upload and download speed of the network. The Chosen Girl will give real-time feedback on the computer's performance with different actions. Running status.

Armory Crate is a management software that comes with ASUS and ROG laptops. Open the Armory Crate software, and we can intuitively see the statistics, memory and storage of the current running status of the CPU and GPU on the homepage. Depending on the usage status and fan speed, users can also adjust the three-speed modes of silence, performance and enhancement according to their own needs.

For game players, you can consider setting specific situations, such as setting "FPS game", adjusting system settings and application settings, and opening a specific game will complete the operation according to the default.

At the same time, ASUS Tianxuan 2 also supports MyASUS software. In addition to improving functions such as ASUS Live Update and ASUS Battery Health Charging, it also adds the new function of Link To MyASUS.

Players can connect computers and mobile devices to create an integrated experience. When your mobile device is placed on the desktop, users can exercise all the functions of the mobile device through the mouse, keyboard and touch screen of the computer.

(Mobile device display interface)

Using Link to MyASUS, users can make or receive calls, send and receive text messages, access contacts, and access contacts on the computer through the computer's speakers and microphones. Get notifications on your phone, share files or web links with each other, mirror your mobile device screen content to your computer, and even use your mobile device as an extended display for interactive use cases with your mobile apps.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series Laptop GPU currently mainly covers RTX 3050, RTX 3050Ti, RTX 3060, RTX3070 and RTX 3080. They adopt the new generation NVIDIA Ampere architecture and are equipped with the new SM multi-unit stream processor, The second generation RT Core and the third generation Tensor Core. In the latest version of GPU-Z, we can already see the various parameters of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU in detail. This GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU has 3840 CUDA cores, a BOOST frequency of 1425MHz, a memory frequency of 1750MHz, and is equipped with 192bit 6GB GDDR6 video memory.

In GPU-Z, we can also see that this NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU supports Resizable BAR technology. This technology mainly allows the CPU to directly access all GPU video memory through PCI-E. Make the data exchange between the two more direct without having to go through the system memory. Especially now that there are more and more game files and they are larger, it is easy for data to be queued in the traditional access mode. Resizable BAR can Let the CPU and GPU perform more efficient processing in games.

In the GPU system information, we can see that the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU introduces WhisperMode 2.0 and Dynamic Boost 2.0, making high-performance gaming laptops perform far better than before. In the new version of NVIDIA's driver, ASUS Tianxuan 2, which supports Dynamic Boost 2.0 technology, is already turned on by default. Players usually do not need to care about turning this technology on and off like the old version.

Dynamic Boost 2.0 will automatically help you determine the system's power consumption allocation based on the game's running conditions. It will analyze the game's running conditions based on the performance requirements of different games and different scenarios, combined with AI technology, and automatically adjust the GPU and CPU. Power consumption allocation, power consumption of GPU and GPU memory to maximize their respective operating efficiency. We take "Assassin's Creed: Valhalla" as an example and conduct actual tests under various image qualities. We can see that as the image quality in "Assassin's Creed: Valhalla" improves, more power consumption is allocated to the GPU to ensure performance, while CPU power consumption has been significantly reduced.

WhisperMode 2.0's AI-driven algorithm manages CPU, GPU, system temperature and fan speed to provide you with good noise performance while still maintaining excellent performance. In the actual experience, we can indeed feel that the noise control of Tianxuan 2 is very good. Even if the enhanced mode is turned on, the sound of the notebook running is still very small.

In addition to noise levels, users can adjust the minimum frame rate target to ensure a smooth gaming experience, providing users with an ultra-efficient mode to make the laptop quieter while gaming and creating.

After multiple generations of optimization of the 14nm process technology, Intel's mobile high-performance processors finally ushered in the new 10nm process, which is the 11th generation Core H. The 11th generation Intel Core high-performance mobile processor H45 uses the Willow Cove processor microarchitecture and core GPU. Compared with the 10th generation Intel Core H series mobile processors, it can be said that the changes are very big.

The ASUS Tianxuan 2 in our hands is equipped with a Core i7-11800H processor, which is based on the 10nm process technology and brings the power of 8 cores and 16 threads. The core frequency is as high as 4.9GHz and the TDP is only 45W. , taking into account low power consumption and high performance, providing powerful power support for game operation.

After the CPU-Z test, we can see that the single-core performance of the i7-11800H is 594.9, while the multi-core running score is 5249.2.

The test result of CINEBENCH R20 scored 5253cb, and the single-core score was 583cb. In the CINEBENCH R23 test, the single-core performance score was 1508pts and the multi-core performance score was 13624pts.

With the support of the new 10nm process and new architecture, the 11th generation Core H45 processor has been substantially improved. The Intel H45 mobile processor can be perfectly paired with the PCIe 4.0 x16 independent GPU. This is A first for a high-performance notebook platform. Regardless of productivity or gaming and entertainment, when the power is fully turned on, the performance is naturally extraordinary.

After talking so much, let’s run the test through 3DMark to see how the performance of ASUS Tianxuan 2 is.

In the DX12 test project Time Spy benchmark, the final score of the GPU running score was 8050, and the total score was 8021, while the score of Time Spy Extreme was 4019 points, of which the CPU score was 4988 points.

In the DX11 performance test project Fire Strike benchmark test, the score is 18926 points, of which the graphics card scores 19798 points, and the CPU physics score reaches 24057; Fire Strike Extreme scores 9521 points, of which the graphics card scores 9790 points, and the CPU physics score reaches 24057. The score reached 24327; Fire Strike Ultra’s total score was 5008, of which the graphics card scored 4984 points and the CPU’s physical score reached 24084.

Ray tracing has become the new standard for gaming, delivering stunningly realistic gaming graphics unmatched by traditional rasterized gaming. More and more popular games support ray tracing. The ray tracing performance of the NVIDIA Ampere architecture has also reached a new level. In 3DMark's Port Royal test, the RTX 3060 Laptop GPU scored 4756 points.

DLSS can greatly improve game performance without increasing system power consumption and maintaining game image quality. This is also one of the biggest advantages of RTX. In the NVIDIA DLSS function test of 3D Mark, we can see that after turning on DLSS, the average number of frames in the test soared from 22.84 to 53.02 frames.

After the theoretical test is completed, it is natural to use actual testing to see how the game frame rate of Tianxuan 2 is performed. In the next test, we will increase the picture preset to the maximum.

Through the above tests, we can see that ASUS Tianxuan 2 can play smoothly with more than 60 frames in many 3A masterpieces. It is worth mentioning that thanks to the Tianxuan 2, A display with a block refresh rate of up to 240Hz and a response speed of 3ms can output faster and smoother images even when playing FPS games such as "CS:GO". In some games that can reach 200fps, it is obvious that 144Hz is not enough, so it is necessary to upgrade the refresh rate to 240Hz in Tianxuan 2.

Ray tracing has become the new standard for gaming, delivering stunningly realistic gaming graphics unmatched by traditional rasterized gaming. More and more popular games support ray tracing. The ray tracing performance of the NVIDIA Ampere architecture has also reached a new level. After NVIDIA launched RTX ray tracing and DLSS AI supersampling technology, more and more game manufacturers began to try to use these two new technologies in games. Players also found that turning on these two options in the game will bring To revolutionize the game, in "Cyberpunk 2077", each special effect of light tracing can be operated independently, including ambient occlusion, global illumination, diffuse illumination, reflection and shadow.

"Watch Dogs: Legion" is also a game that supports ray tracing technology and supports enabling DLSS to increase the frame rate. After turning on ray tracing, we can obviously see an improvement in picture quality.

These two games also support DLSS technology. After being tuned by DLSS 2.0, the game not only has a more detailed picture, but also has a considerable improvement in frame rate. The game supports 5 DLSS modes, among which the automatic option of "Cyberpunk 2077" will automatically set the best DLSS mode for the selected resolution. DLSS allows games to render at lower resolutions, increase frame rates, and then leverage AI and game engine data to deliver image quality comparable to the original output.

We can see that after turning on DLSS, even under the load of ray tracing, the game frame rate is significantly improved. With the powerful ray tracing technology, DLSS has more than doubled the performance. !

Finally, we use the oven to see the heat dissipation effect of Tianxuan 2. We use AIDA64 single FPU in an environment with an indoor temperature of 25°C. After 22 minutes, we can see that the CPU temperature is relatively stable at 92°C. CPU power consumption remains at around 70.87W.

On the basis of the single-baked FPU, FurMark was added to perform the GPU stress test. Through the double-baked test, it can be seen that the CPU temperature at this time is 95 ℃, and the CPU power consumption remains at about 44.29W, while the GPU The temperature is at 85.2°C and the power consumption remains at around 91.18W.

Thanks to the glacier cooling system, under this workload, the surface temperature control of Tianxuan 2 still has very good performance, and you can basically not feel any excess heat when your palms are placed on the keyboard area. The heat is basically dissipated from the tail and bottom heat dissipation holes.

In terms of configuration, the latest upgraded version of ASUS Tianxuan 2 does perform well, whether it is the comprehensively advanced H45 i7-11800H processor NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU’s “king-shattering” performance configuration , or the appearance from the two-dimensional design aesthetics, high refresh screen, and exclusive cooling system, the ASUS Tianxuan 2 gaming notebook can bring users a better gaming competitive experience. According to the overall test results, ASUS Chosen 2 has no pressure to challenge the light chasing masterpieces.

This ASUS Tianxuan 2 has been sold on the e-commerce platform. The price of 8,999 yuan brings an extremely comfortable gaming experience. ASUS also provides players with more configuration options.

As the mainstream positioning model among the GeForce RTX 30 series laptops, it is a very cost-effective product for the vast number of players who pursue the smooth gaming experience of the latest light-tracing masterpieces and high frame rate competitive games.