You may not believe that Samsung notebook has been in the market for more than 10 years, but has never launched its own game book series. Before the Dark Dragon Knight came out, Samsung was a blank in the game field. The Dark Dragon Knight did not carry the GTX1060 that we are very familiar with, but used the GTX1050. As for why, the author believes that the GTX1050 game originally belongs to the price range of 5~6K. The performance of the GTX1050 is different from that of the previous generation GTX965M. Although there is a gap between the GTX1060 and the top GTX1060, it is enough to cope with many E-sports games, even large stand-alone games, under 1080P, Although the GTX1060 is very strong, its price is high. The so-called cost performance of the GTX1060 in the market has shrunk in terms of work, screen, keyboard, etc. If you step back and choose the GTX1050, there will be a wider audience, and it is easy to form a reputation effect if the sales volume is large. The Dark Dragon Knight has two different colors. In addition to the common black color, Samsung has also added a special white color scheme. Samsung officials said that this is probably the first white game book in the world, and they think this color scheme is very suitable for female players. Based on the particularity of the white game book, we also chose the white black dragon cavalry for this evaluation.
parameter
Model: Samsung NP8500GM-X04CN
Dimensions: 15 x 10 x 2.45 cm
Weight: 2~2.5KG
Screen: 15.6 "16:9 IPS
Resolution: 1920 * 1080
CPU: Intel Core i7 7700HQ (main frequency: 2.8GHz, maximum frequency: 3.8GHz)
GPU: GTX1050 (4GB GDDR5 core frequency: 1354~1493MHz)
Memory: 8GB (2 * Samsung 4GB DDR4 2400MHz)
Hard disk: Samsung MZVLW128HEGR-000 128GB SSD Seagate 1TB 5400 rpm
System: Windows 10 64 bit
Battery: 43320mWh
Interfaces: USB 3.0 * 2, USB 2.0, SD card slot, HDMI, 3.5mm headphone jack, power interface, RJ45 network cable interface.
Wireless: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac Bluetooth 4.1
appearance
At the first sight of the white black dragon cavalry, you can hardly imagine that this is a game book, because in our traditional impression, most game books use dark colors, and most of them are black. In order to maintain the integrity of the whole machine, the dark dragon knight's chocolate keyboard uses white color matching, and also has a red backlight. In terms of modeling, the Dark Dragon Knight adopts the square shape of the game book, with a red backlit longan logo on the back and a dragon scale style heat dissipation design on the bottom, which makes people feel calm, gentle, yet full of strength and wildness.
At the bottom of the body of the Dark Dragon Knight, you can see its special dragon scale type heat dissipation design. The effective heat dissipation area is increased through the metal plate embedded in the electrophoresis swimsuit, and the air outlet of the radiator is designed at the rotating shaft of the screen. Samsung believes that this cooling method is "the combination of fashion and power", which effectively reduces the temperature inside the notebook while well matching the theme of the dragon element, which is very consistent with the image positioning of the Dark Dragon Knight Game Book.
The keyboard of the Dark Dragon Knight supports three levels of adjustable backlight. The above picture is taken under the highest backlight.
The power of the standard power adapter is 19V/6.32A
screen
In order to gain price advantage, some brands on the market also use TN screens with poor quality even in high-end game books, and they are vague in the parameters and specifications of the screens. Users only know it is TN after they get it, which greatly affects the use experience. Fortunately, Samsung Xuanlong Knight uses IPS screens in its entire series, so users don't need to worry about buying TN screen versions. The Samsung Xuanlong Knight uses a 15.6-inch 1080P IPS screen with a manual brightness of up to 300nits, covering 66.1% sRGB. The contrast under the highest brightness is 700:1104 colors, and the average color standard is 4.2. For the game at this price, the performance of the Xuanlong Knight screen can only be said to be in line with the industry average.
performance
PCMARK Creative
Fire Strike Extreme
Fire Strike
3DMARK Cloud Gate
3DMARK SKY Our Dark Dragon Knight uses the combination of i7 7700HQ+GTX1050. Judging from the results, both PCMARK Creative's 4960 points and Fire Strike's 2692 points are normal. GTX1050 uses GP107 core, Pascal architecture, 640 CUDAs, and 112.1GB/s bandwidth. Its performance is between GTX965M and GTX970M, and it can handle most online games and some large stand-alone games, The i7 7700HQ+8GB+128G SSD is more stress free for daily office work.
Batman: Akram Knight
Tomb Raider: Rise
[Special Effect] Preset: High resolution: 1080P Anti aliasing: SMAA Vertical synchronization: Double buffering
Sneaker 4
[Special Effect] Preset: High resolution: 1080P FXAA: On SSAA: Low surface subdivision: On
In terms of the game, we used the Benchmark included in Batman: Akram Knight, Tomb Raider: Rise and Theft Stealer 4 for testing, which is preset as high special effects. In terms of overall performance, Batman: Akram Knight has a slightly poor effect, but it can also maintain 30 frames, while Tomb Raider: Rise and Thief 4 can maintain 40~50 frames, which is satisfactory overall.
"Neil: Mechanical Age"
In addition, we also chose the popular 2B little sister (Neil: Mechanical Age) to test the game of the Dark Dragon Knight. Since Neil: The Mechanical Age is a game with a rather good configuration, we set the resolution to 1600 * 900 (Neil under the PS4 is the same resolution). The special effects are all off, leaving only the shadow: low, the effect: high. From the actual results, Neil can basically maintain 50+frames in desert combat scenes with few people, and reduce to about 45 frames in urban grassland combat scenes, the lowest to 35 frames. In the complex scene with many NPCs, "Rebel Base", the average frame size is about 45 frames. On the whole, the Dark Dragon Knight can basically master the level of 1600 * 900 2B little sister, and can maintain more than 45 frames in multiple scenes.
Use feeling
In real use, the Dark Dragon Knight always gives people a cool feeling. A large part of this is due to its backlight, the red longan logo on the A side, the red backlight on the keyboard, and the red light around the touch pad. Every time a friend sees it, they will be very curious about its configuration. With such a high-profile lighting design, it is unnecessary to emphasize that this is a game book with strong performance. Although it is a game book, due to the author's habit of not bringing a keyboard at ordinary times, most of the time he will use the keyboard that comes with the game book to play games. Since I happen to have a Lenovo Saver series game book on hand, here we will compare the keyboard experience of the two. Lenovo Saver's keyboard is very light, and its key pressure gram is significantly lower than that of the Dark Dragon Knight. Some users may like this lightweight keyboard feel to type, but for the game, the author prefers the Dark Dragon Knight with a slightly larger pressure gram, because it has a clear trigger pressure point, which will be more felt when playing the game.
summary
Xuanlong Knight is the first game book series of Samsung. It gives good consideration to the main attributes of the game book, such as packaging, performance, price and heat dissipation. The pure white color matching also makes it a clear stream in the "dark" game book market. The Xuanlong Knight has a unique dragon scale type heat dissipation design, and its abrasive style is unique while taking into account the performance. It has become a differentiated presence in the game book market of Datong. The price of 5500 yuan for the i5 starting model also makes it very friendly to the people. The 10 series graphics card can be said to be a milestone in the history of graphics cards. The gaming of laptops has never been as powerful as today. The performance of mobile and desktop graphics cards has been greatly reduced. Perhaps this is the reason why Samsung chose to launch the Dark Dragon Knight on this node.
