This particular configuration is equipped with a 15" 2560x1600 165Hz OLED display, Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX CPU, Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 GPU, 16GB of DDR5-5600MHz RAM, and a 1TB SSD. The highlight here is the gorgeous OLED display. Aside from the true OLED panel, it featuers enhanced 2.5K resolution, 165Hz refresh rate, HDR 600 True Black certification, and 100% DCI-P3 color space. The Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX has a max turbo frequency of 5.1GHz with 16 total cores. According to PassMark, it's the fourth best Intel laptop CPU right now. and similar in performance to the AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX.
The GeForce RTX 5070 is 5%-10% better than the RTX 4070
The mobile RTX 5070 GPU performs about 5%-10% better than the RTX 4070 that it replaces. That's not a very big generational improvement, but the RTX 5070 also supports multi-frame generation, which means the margin will widen in games that support DLSS 4.0. It should have enough power to run most games at a comfortable framerate on the display's enhanced 2560x1600 resolution. If you want a significantly better performing Nvidia GPU, the next step up is the RTX 5070 Ti GPU, which does offer a pretty reasonable performance upgrade. There's one on sale right now for $1,860, but a $600 upcharge might not be worth it for you depending on which games you play.
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