AMD Weichao Excellent Platform+Dual-mode and Three-display are more powerful! Evaluation of ROG Magic 14 2022 All-around Notebook

In the development of PC core hardware in recent years, the competition among the three companies has never stopped. However, looking at the whole market, the shipments of PCs equipped with AMD platform showed explosive growth, especially after the launch of Zen3 architecture Ruilong 5000 series, both high-performance gaming PCs and thin notebook products showed absolute strength, which made many players call "AMD Yes".

In 2022, as the first batch of brand-new AMD Weichao excellent platform notebook products, ROG Magic 14 2022, which combines high value and high performance, is not only equipped with Ruilong 9 6900HS processor based on Zen3+ new architecture, but also equipped with AMD Radium Dragon RX 6800S unique display based on RNDA2 architecture, bringing powerful graphics performance improvement and high frame rate smooth game experience to players. In addition, the ROG "dual-display and three-mode" graphics card switching technology carried by ROG Magic 14 2022 notebook not only releases the higher performance of graphics cards, but also unlocks more application postures for players.

The new ROG Magic 14 2022 equipped with AMD Weichao Excellence Platform has been released. Don't miss it if you want to start with new equipment or upgrade your notebook. What are the highlights and performance of this ROG phantom 14? Let's have a quick look.

First, design: super cute light matrix screen

ROG Phantom 14 has two colors: moonlight shining white and eclipse gray. The A/C surface is made of metal, which makes people feel that the bright A surface is diagonally cut. There is a 14969 CNC opening in the upper right corner, and a built-in 1449 mini LED forms an animation matrix light display matrix screen. Through the personalized setting of ROG Ultron Intelligent Control Center, the pattern is displayed under the light.

ROG Magic 14' s fuselage supports 180 tiling, which can meet the experience of different perspectives. For example, when sharing a design copy with colleagues, everyone can clearly see the screen. In terms of portability, ROG Phantom 14 has a slim body of 1.7kg, with a thickness of about 19.5mm, which can be picked up by one hand and easily carried in a backpack.

The new ROG Phantom 14 has also greatly upgraded the screen. The narrow border design of 14 inches accounts for 9 1% of the screen, which is more visually immersive than the 85% of the previous generation. The nebula screen used can be called ceiling-level display effect in color reproduction and fidelity. 2.5K HD resolution, 16: 10 gold display ratio, 120Hz refresh rate, 3ms response, in addition to 500nits brightness, 100%DCI-P3 professional wide color gamut, Pantone professional color certification, free synchronous tear-proof technology, bringing smooth and perfect games.

The top of the screen is also equipped with a 3DNR+IR camera, which supports Windows Hello facial recognition, can log in to the system quickly and safely, and get a clear picture in the video conference. Built-in microphone, with two-way AI noise reduction function, provides two-way noise reduction function for games, live broadcasts, network conferences and other scenes, making speaking and listening clearer. In addition, there are four dual-channel speakers built in the fuselage, which have passed the Dolby ATOMS sound effect certification. The sound is vigorous and powerful, and the high and low voices are quite good.

We measured this screen with the Starscream color calibrator, and the result is quite good, 100% sRGB color gamut, 89% adobeRGB, 98% P3, 87% NTSC.

In terms of color accuracy, the maximum value is 2.7 1, the minimum value is 0.23, and the average value is only 1.08, which reaches the quality of professional displays.

The C surface is also made of metal, including the white color matching of keys, the shortcut function key area in the upper left corner and the independent power key in the upper right corner. The keyboard adopts all keys without punching, 1.5mm keystroke, and the white LED can adjust the backlight, which can meet the needs of comfortable typing in the whole scene and is not afraid of dark environment. The larger touchpad is designed with accurate positioning and smooth feel, which can replace the mouse to complete various operations in mobile office.

It is worth mentioning that when the upper cover of the fuselage is opened, the specially designed ErgoLift automatically supports the fuselage, and the angle formed with the desktop can effectively increase the air circulation at the bottom. At the same time, the back of the keyboard is convex, which makes typing more convenient and comfortable.

In terms of interface, there is a circular power interface on the left side of the notebook fuselage besides the heat dissipation grille, and the power of the connected adapter is 240W. In addition, there are HDMI 2.0b, USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C (supporting DP 1.4 and 100W PD) and 1 3.5mm audio interfaces.

The rear part of the right side of the fuselage is a heat dissipation grille, and the interface has two USB 3.2 Gen Type-A, 1 USB 3.2 GenType-C (supporting DP 1.4) and a 1 MicroSD card slot, which is very useful for users who often go out to take photos.

Second, the armory case Ultron intelligent control center

Ultron Intelligent Control Center is a panel where players can monitor or personalize settings at any time, including the status of CPU, graphics card, memory, hard disk and fan, and quickly set application scenarios. In most office or creative applications, mute or performance mode can be used. If it is a game, it is recommended to turn on enhanced mode.

This notebook also supports ROG's latest "dual-screen and three-mode" graphics card switching technology, which is completed in the system setup of Ultron Intelligent Control Center. When heavy loads such as games or animation rendering are needed, you can switch to single display connection. It should be noted that the system needs to be restarted to switch the direct connection of single monitor, so the current data needs to be backed up before switching. In addition, there is a centralized display mode or mixed mode, which can be used to extend the battery life when moving.

In front of the design, we see the light display matrix of the A-plane. The animation shown above is set in the animation matrix panel of the intelligent control center. In addition to the system's built-in effects, users can also customize, including the display of text.

In addition, after turning on the lighting effect, a ROG desktop pet wizard will appear on the desktop. In addition to moving, minimizing or quitting, you can also see many optional menus by clicking with the right mouse button. In fact, there are several small games. When you feel bored at work or games, you might as well interact with this elf.

Third, hardware performance test: AMD Wei Chao platform brings high-energy experience.

The ROG Phantom 14 we evaluated in this paper is a typical AMD Wei Chao platform notebook configuration: AMD Ruilong 9 6900HS processor+Radium Dragon RX 6800S graphics card, which can bring strong performance, surging creative productivity and cool and smooth gaming experience to thin and light notebooks. Support dual display and three-mode switching technology, which can meet the application needs of users in different scenarios. In addition, this ROG phantom 14 is also equipped with 16GB DDR5 4800MHz high-frequency memory, which can provide 1.5 times the bandwidth of DDR4 3200MHz, and the hard disk adopts Micron 2450 (micron)1tbpcie 4.0sd.

Before the hardware performance test, we have downloaded the latest AMD software: Adrenaline version update driver, and the graphics card driver version is 30.0.14018.10001(Adrenaline 21.40./kloc-0. The motherboard BIOS version number is GA402RK.309, and the operating system is Windows 1 1 home Chinese version, version 2 1H2. During the test, the Ultron Intelligent Control Center of the armory case is set to enhanced mode, and the "dual display and three modes" is single display. The ambient temperature is about 265438 0℃

1、CPU

As one of the first batch of AMD Wei Chao excellent platform notebooks listed in 2022, ROG Magic 14 not only brought us a light, portable and fashionable body design, but also equipped with a Ruilong 9 6900HS processor based on Zen3+ architecture, adopting advanced 6nm technology and 8 cores 16 threads, and the highest frequency can be accelerated to 4.9GHz, 4MB L2 cache and 654,300.

It is worth mentioning that Ruilong 9 6900HS also has a built-in Redeon 680M display based on RDNA2 architecture, with a frequency of 2400MHz. Performance comparable to GeForce GTX 1650, much better than MX series. Jixian can easily run PS, Pr and other design software, and even run some 3A games with low hardware requirements. In the ROG dual-display and three-module integrated display mode, it can effectively extend the battery life and bring more convenient mobile office/creation/game experience.

The first is the CPU-Z benchmark, with a single-core performance score of 648.7 and a multi-core performance score of 650 1.

Film stand test

In the CINEBENCH test, the single-core performance of R 15 is 254cb and the multi-core performance is 2299cb；. R20 single-core performance 6 15pts, multi-core performance 5539pts, R23 single-core performance 159 1pts, multi-core performance 13949pts.

Geekbench 5 platform test

Geekbench 5 is a multi-system compatible test platform, which can give an intuitive evaluation of the performance of single-core and multi-core processors through various scientific computing, multi-core computing and other test items, and is also the most commonly used test platform for many CPU evaluations. In the test of GeekBench 5.4.4, Ruilong scored 9 6900HS for single core 160 1 and 8306 for multi-core.

7-Zip

In the benchmark test built in 7-Zip compression and decompression software, the total score reached 77.95 GIPS.

X264 FHD benchmark test

Video format conversion is also a common operation, especially for many friends who are engaged in video work at present. Format conversion occurs almost every day. In X264 FHD benchmark test, it reaches 6 1+ FPS, which can smoothly convert video formats.

V-ray reference

V-Ray Benchmark is a free and independent rendering speed testing software, and the performance results of hardware are given. The test shows that the V-Ray rendering score of AMD Ruilong 9 6900HS processor is 9788.

Blender reference starter

Blender is an open source cross-platform all-around 3D animation software, which provides a series of animation short film making solutions from modeling, animation, materials, rendering, audio processing, video editing and so on. Its specially developed Blender Benchmark Launcher has become a common tool for evaluating PC performance. The new edition tests three items and gives the number of samples per minute, among which the result of monster is 97, that of junkshop is 54 and that of classroom is 43.

Cross-marking application testing

CrossMark is mainly tested from three application scenarios: productivity, content creation and response speed. The results show that the productivity score is 16 14, the creativity score is 1655, the responsiveness reaches 1587, and the comprehensive score is 157 1.

In fact, as the high-end processor of Ruilong 6000 series, AMD Ruilong 9 6900HS can undoubtedly bring us a smooth and smooth experience whether it is game or content creation. We use PS design software to open a newly released photo of the sun. A single file is about 56MB, with a resolution of 9 148×9 1 12 and a depth of 24 bits. Almost every second, and can quickly enter the editing state.

2. Graphics card

AMD launched a brand-new mobile GPU series at this year's CES 2022 exhibition: Radium Dragon RX 6000S series, including Radium Dragon RX 6800S, RX 6700S and RX 6600S. With lower power consumption and uncompromising performance, it is possible to manufacture thin and high-performance notebook computers. Among them, the flagship Radium Dragon RX 6800S consumes as much power as 100W, which is mainly used for high-end thin games and creators' laptops. The identification of GPU-Z shows that it is based on Navi 23 core of new RDNA 2 architecture, shader 2048, Boost frequency 2250MHz, 8GB GDDR6 memory, and bandwidth 256 GB/s.

3dmark running point

The operating environment temperature is about 2 1℃, and the comprehensive score of 3DMark Time Spy is 9282, among which the score of graphics card is 9403. In the predicted game performance, the frame rate of Battlefield V in 1440P Ultra mode can reach 90+ FPS.

Time spy supreme comprehensive test score 4255.

In the benchmark performance test of DX 1 1, Fire Strike Extreme and Fire Strike Ultra were tested respectively, and the comprehensive scores were 23673, 1 1725 and 6304 respectively.

AMD Radiron RX 6800S also supports optical tracking technology and uses FSR(FidelityFX Super Resolution) technology to improve the frame rate of game images. When running games that support the optical pursuit effect, such as Cyberpunk 2077 and Never Robbed, you can get better game quality and smoother experience. In the test of 3DMark Port Royal Optical Pursuit, the final score is 4377.

It can be seen that as a lightweight design of ROG Magic 14 notebook, AMD Radium Dragon RX 6800S can easily meet the requirements in terms of game performance, daily office and content creation. In addition, ROG Magic 14 comes standard with a single memory of 16GB, but actually a memory slot is reserved inside. Therefore, if you want better game effects and higher efficiency, you can expand the dual-channel memory by yourself, so as to get a better performance experience.

3、PCMark 10

PCMark 10 can simulate extremely complex office and content creation environment and give the results. Among them, the common basic function score is 9707, the productivity score is 9747, the digital content creation score is 1 1365, and the game items include graphics and physics scores, reaching 19547. There are no shortcomings in performance, especially in game operation.

4. Game test

In the game test of Tomb Raider: Shadow, the image is set to the highest, the shadow quality of ray tracing is turned off by default, the texture quality is super high, and the resolution is 2560× 1600. Finally, 72 FPS was obtained.

Night of the Fortress is a third-person shooter with a resolution of 2560× 1600, and the picture quality is automatically set.

When you enter the game, you can keep the frame rate of 50 to 60+, which can run smoothly and the picture is delicate enough.

"Control" DX 12 operation mode, the display quality is preset to the default, and the light tracing is turned off, and the frame rate can reach 60-80, even if it is in combat, it will not be dropped or stuck.

Singularity Ash is a real-time strategy game. We used its built-in hardware benchmark, with the quality set to advanced and the resolution of 1080P.

Finally, we get a frame rate of 48-95 FPS, which is above 65 most of the time. It can be seen that this radium dragon RX 6800S graphics card is quite good.

Step 5 remember

This ROG Magic 14 notebook is equipped with 16GB DDR5 4800MHz dual-channel memory, which has larger bandwidth and larger memory capacity, and can effectively improve the multitasking performance of the whole machine. If the budget allows, users are advised to upgrade to 2× 16GB DDR5 4800MHz dual channel, and 32GB of memory has more room for both games and running large-scale applications.

The memory test using AIDA64 shows that the reading speed is 347,265,438+0 MB/s, the writing speed is 34,346 MB/s, and the delay is 77.9ns. Similarly, if it is 32GB, the score will be much higher.

6. Hard disk

In terms of hard disk storage, Meguiar's 2450 solid state, 1TB capacity, PCIe 4.0 x4 transmission mode, sequential reading speed of 3625MB/s, writing speed of 35 13.97MB/s, and greater data transmission of games and materials. , have a better experience.

7. Heat dissipation design

ROG Phantom 14 laptop adopts a higher-end version of Glacier Cooling 2.0. Both CPU and GPU use purple bearing liquid metal to conduct heat, and double heat pipes and steam chamber conduct heat, covering CPU, GPU, power supply and video memory. In addition, 12V double fans, 84 blades and four air outlets at the left, right and back of the fuselage are adopted, which not only has good heat conduction and heat dissipation, but also has large air volume.

Single baking CPU

The ambient temperature is 21C. Run the FPU pressure test of AIDA64. The core temperature of CPU is 96℃, the initial power consumption can reach 70+W, and then it drops to 58+W, which has been stable in the baking machine for 37 minutes.

Single baking GPU

Using FurMark to bake GPU, it runs for 16 minutes, the GPU temperature is 82℃, and the power consumption is basically 99- 100W, which realizes the full power performance release.

Double roasting

Run two tools at the same time to test the double baking pressure of CPU and GPU for 28 minutes. CPU temperature is 96℃, power consumption is 30W, GPU temperature is 85℃, and power consumption is 95W.

In the double baking mode, the surface temperature of ROG mold 14 is measured by infrared temperature sensor. The temperature of the C-plane is mainly concentrated on the back, and the highest area in the middle of the keyboard surface is 48.9℃, which is also the core temperature area of CPU and GPU, but it does not affect the operation feel. The temperature at the bottom of the fuselage is also in the middle area, 46.4℃. Because the bottom is the main air inlet, it is not recommended to use it on the legs.

ROG Magic 14 fuselage surface temperature detection (left: plane C; Right: surface d; Ambient temperature: 2 1 Celsius)

Fourth, the evaluation summary:

The combination of AMD Ruilong 9 6900HS processor and Radium RX6800s mobile graphics card is a typical excellent platform configuration of AMD Wei Chao, which provides players with one more platform choice and can play a very high performance experience on thin and light notebooks. Whether you are running 3A games or creating content, you don't lose the combination of blue and green factories at all, and it has a higher cost performance, which will undoubtedly attract more players' attention and choice this year.

In terms of appearance value, the color matching of ROG Phantom 65438+ April Baiyao and Eclipse Ash is eye-catching. The interaction between ROG pet elf and A-side luminous matrix is definitely the most eye-catching landscape in notebook industry, which shows ROG's attainments in light efficiency. The nebula screen equipped with ROG Magic 14 has a high resolution of 2.5K, a high refresh rate of 120Hz and a high brightness of 500nit. With the help of the RX 6800S mobile graphics card, it brings players a more extreme visual experience, which is more realistic and smooth in watching movies, designing games and running games.

This brand-new ROG Phantom 14 equipped with AMD Wei Chao's excellent platform has been put on the market at present, and there are many configurations to choose from, which will be the greatest gospel for players who like AMD platform, so pay close attention to it.