Performance Part 3: GPU/Gaming
Synthetic GPU Benchmarks
The jump from the last ASUS ROG machine we reviewed is a significant one given that it’s been around a year and a half since. Of course, all of the new G751 series machines feature the latest GeForce GPUs, but as always, the prices between them range even more widely than the prospective gaming performance. At the lowest end—just $100 less than our test model, at $1,400—there’s the G751JL-DS71, which features a 2 GB GTX 965M, while the top-of-the-line model (the $2,800 G751JY-DH72X) sports a 4 GB GTX 980M with a 512 GB SSD and a whopping 32 GB of DDR3L RAM. All of the models retain the 1 TB hard drive (whether for primary or secondary storage) and comparable CPUs to the i7-4710HQ, so you can safely ignore just about all the other variables.
Specifically, we’re coming from an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M all the way up to a 3 GB GeForce 970M. Let’s see how that translates to gaming prowess.
First up, synthetic results.
3DMark
Mostly we’re worried about Fire Strike here, and the G751JT literally doubles up the G750JX’s score. Cloud Gate paints a different picture, but it’s less relevant in this context. So far, so good for the G751.
3DMark 11
Unsurprisingly, the improvement is also echoed by 3DMark 11, where we find a boost of 34% over the G750JX. Meanwhile, the GT72 speeds off into the distance with a premium of yet another 57% on top of the G751JT’s score—insane. Still, cost is a very real consideration here. And for $1,500, the G751JT again holds its ground pretty well.
Gaming Benchmarks
Do the games agree? Let’s see what transpires.
Just Cause 2
Metro 2033 (Subway benchmark)
Bioshock Infinite
Overall, an impressive performance for a sub-$1,500 mobile gaming machine. All of these games are thoroughly playable on the chosen settings, and they look fantastic. And best of all, the machine is barely audible during these sessions. No joke!
Hasn’t asus just announced
Hasn’t asus just announced that g-sync is coming to the G751? The weren’t clear whether this model is getting it with a driver update, or new hardware (?) only.
I have 2 g751 of different
I have 2 g751 of different configs. But both of them seem to have massive USB issues. The usb ports on the right side seem to work fine but the two on the left will never mount external HDDs.
Are your USB external HDDs
Are your USB external HDDs drawing power from the USB or is it external power? If I recall, not all the USB ports are fully powered on most, if not all Notebooks.
Nope, external 3.5 inch Glyph
Nope, external 3.5 inch Glyph drives, powered externally was what I was using. Also, if you plug in a thunderbolt device it drops all the internal sata drives except for c.
I am teh cool guy
I am teh cool guy
These laptops are riddled
These laptops are riddled with trouble, they software they use to make backup disks rarely works, bios updates fail on a regular basis bricking the laptops, the quality of assembly is plagued with defects, the ASUS brand software is known for causing latency issues that make the machine unusable for WIFI gaming. They use the same cheap keyboard internals as their 300 dollar model laptops that don’t even support 3 key rollover. Do use use ESDF to game? Not on this laptop, Shift+E+Space is a dead key. If you have to send in for warranty repair, expect it to come back damaged and have to fight for a claim. Buyer beware.
If you don’t believe me just
If you don’t believe me just go read the ASUS ROG forums.
Having owned an ASUS Nexus 7
Having owned an ASUS Nexus 7 for a few years, I thought ASUS quality would be on all their products, evidently NOT!
After reading the above revues, I won’t be buying any ASUS products in the future, but..the Nexus 7 works perfectly!
Well it appears to be a hit
Well it appears to be a hit or miss thing apparently because I have owned 5 different ROG laptops ranging from the GTX8 series all the way to the 10 series and other than the first model I had that had an issue with blowing out the KB leds when you flashed the bios requiring it be sent in for a new board, all of them worked as advertised, even my G751JT-TH71 I have flashed 5 bios revisions without any issues, I think alot of what you read in the forums is also alot of non-technical consumers doing things, and breaking them. Case in point the number of users using winflash over the UEFI bios update (preferred) and bricking their units. Any tech worth their stuff knows even if winflash does what it should, the method that most often is more secure and successful is not withing the windows environment.
The only complaint I have for the G751 is this rediculous notion that ASUS will not just give us i7 4710HQ owners the gsync option, it can be done, its not hardware related both panel, GPU and connection support it, its a silly license.
So, at that same price you
So, at that same price you can get the brand new G-sync MSI GT72 with a slightly higher clocked Broadwell. Most of the rest of the specs are virtually identical. The MSI has USB 3.1 ports rather than the Thunderbolt port, but I would take the USB 3.1 ports anyway.
I can’t imagine buying a non-G-sync laptop, especially when you can get a G-sync one at the same price.
I don’t get why it’s not
I don’t get why it’s not getting 9,000-10,000 3dmark 11 points? Is it the ssd or lack of?