Autonomy and heating
Autonomy
Device autonomy was measured using the PCMark10 integrated battery benchmark. The modes tested were video, productivity and gaming. Power management remained in normal mode and the GPU in hybrid mode. Screen brightness was set to 200Cd/m² without HDR, and sound was output via headphones plugged into the laptop’s jack.
As we can see, we have here a good student in the gaming laptop category, with almost 5h in video mode and almost 1h20 in gaming, this G16 is a real nomad laptop for gaming and why not for work?
Heats up
To test the machine’s heating, we carried out three separate tests, firstly IDLE heating, then heating under CPU load on Cinebench R23 for 10 minutes.
The cooling system
On the outside, we start with an opening on each side of the laptop, right and left, and at the rear we have two large openings to expel hot air. Underneath, we have a large grille to draw in fresh air via the fans we can see through it.
In IDLE
Loaded
On Cinebench R23 after 10 min of stress. The CPU rose to 100°C in the first few minutes before stabilizing at around 84°C. Before stabilizing, the temperature oscillated for several minutes between 100°C and 75°C. Power consumption and frequency fell from 150W and 3900 MHz to 90W and 3200 MHz during this stress test. On the surface, the maximum temperature on the keyboard side was 40°C.
