Arrangement Performance

Permit'southward take a look at how the Alienware 15 with the GTX 1060 stacks upwards in a range of system benchmarks.

Across the lath, the Alienware 15 R3 is around four percent slower than the other i7-6700HQ/GTX 1060 laptop I've reviewed recently, the MSI GS43VR 6RE Phantom Pro. This isn't a massive margin, and because the Core i7-6700HQ has been around for a while, the crude performance provided by gaming laptops in professional workloads has remained stagnant for at least a twelvemonth now. I don't look performance to improve drastically when H-serial Kaby Lake parts are bachelor in a few months either.

Of course the big benefit to having the Core i7-6700HQ in this laptop is its quad-core CPU, which is around seventy to 100% faster in multi-threaded workloads compared to the latest Kaby Lake Cadre i7-7500U processor. Even in single-threaded tasks, similar MATLAB simulations, you'll get performance around 15% meliorate.

My review unit of measurement packs a 256GB NVMe PCIe SSD from Toshiba, and it provides great performance. It should exist noted that lower-end SSDs are SATA, so performance in that location won't exist quite as good, but anything 256GB and upward is very fast. This SSD isn't the fastest I've tested, but it falls in line with nigh other gaming laptops.

In that location is also a 7,200 RPM difficult drive in the Alienware 15, which is a good archive drive for games and less critical data. If you lot want your games to load much faster, however, you lot should aim to install them on the SSD where possible; loading times are typically cut in half, if not more, thank you to the SSD's splendid read speeds.