Coming to benchmarks, Time Spy returned a GPU score of 18043 with the CPU clocking 14,994. Port Royal rated the GPU at 11,153. In Cinebench, the laptop scored 9056 points, 792 points, and 114 points respectively for the GPU, CPU (Multicore), and CPU (Single Core) tests. Gaming laptops are rarely used without plugging them into a power socket. With the charger plugged in, the machine heated up considerably, throttling the CPU in every stress test with average CPU temperature reaching 89 degrees Celsius, while it just made it on battery power. We repeated the stress tests in various scenarios, and finally, a simple laptop cooler helped the machine to achieve 97.9 percent and 98 percent respectively in Time Spy and Time Spy Extreme stress tests. Our hunch points to the ABS plastic exterior without a metal surface to act as an external heat sink and dissipate the extreme heat produced by the 14900HX and the massive 330W charger since the laptop is supposed to have an otherwise flawless heat dissipation system. For the record, we conducted these tests with all three fans running at maximum.
The laptop uses a 90Wh battery. In default mode, the battery drains in no time, but with careful optimisation, you can reduce the drain considerably if your task doesn’t involve gaming.