Gaming tests – external graphics card
Gaming laptops in a thin body often suffer from two flaws – overheating and short battery life. What to do if you want high processor performance, but in a thin body, with good battery and at the same time not lose graphics performance when you are at home or at work? A gaming notebook with dedicated graphics card will always be heavier than an ultrabook and will not offer such battery life. On the other hand, ultrabooks lack CPU performance. The Legion Y740S resolves this dilemma.
Gaming tests – external graphics card
In gaming tests, there is again an interesting difference between the Y740S with eGPU and competing models OMEN 15, Zephyrus M15 and G14.
In GTA we see the difference between the eGPU configuration and G14 at the level of 17%, 21% for OMEN 15 and up to 89% for M15. In this game, the Y740S does not give very good results.
In Far Cry we see a similar result. It loses by 21% to the G14, 42% to the OMEN 15 and 52% to the M15.
Odyssey shows the worst result so far for the Y740S with eGPU, a loss by 48% to the G14, 73% to the OMEN 15 and 92% to the M15.
SOTTR surprisingly suits the eGPU version and the Y740S beats the M15 by 10%, the G14 by 8%, but lags behind the OMEN 15 by 13%.
In Metro, we return to the results before SOTTR and the Legion loses by 30, 49 and 95% to the G14, OMEN and M15.
When RTX was on, the difference in Metro was reduced to 4% compared to the G14, 42% compared to the OMEN 15 and 88% compared to the M15.
- Contents
- Specs and details
- Testing methodology
- What is eGPU?
- Display tests
- Rendering and Geekbench
- 3D/PCMark and Unigine Heaven/Superposition
- Gaming tests – integrated graphics
- Gaming tests – external graphics card
- Encryption, encoding
- Memory and storage tests
- Heating and battery life
- Blender – test of CPU, CUDA and Optix
- Performance modes
- Utility app
- Rating
