2023 has come to an end, and the PC market is still in full swing, but consumers' pursuit of cost performance is becoming more and more intense. After all, everyone wants to be able to do big things with little money, and the premium brought by high-end products is not pragmatic and practical enough for many users. Therefore, there are still many consumers who are still buying laptops equipped with the 12th Gen Core i7-12650H and Ryzen 7 7735H.
Today, we will PK each other to see who has the better performance through two cost-effective Mechanical Revolution Aurora Pro and Ryzen 7 7735H Legion R7000 gaming laptops that are also equipped with RTX4060 graphics cards, but with processors that are i7-12650H.
In terms of exterior design, the 2 notebooks are similar in style at a glance, especially the A-side is a minimalist design.
But there's a big difference when you look closely. The surface of the Mechanical Revolution Aurora Pro adopts a metal sandblasting process, and the silver and white color scheme and the logo of the mechanical revolution are the main features. In terms of texture, though, it's not so great. Although the edge of the Aurora Pro has a circle of high-highlight chamfering, it is still relatively awkward to hold, and the rigidity of the A B side is not very sufficient, so it will still be a little "plastic" when you actually pick it up.
Rescuer R7000 This side continues Lenovo's consistent simple business style,The metal sandblasting process on the surface is more delicate than that of Aurora Pro,The fuselage looks boxy,But it is softer in the hand,Plus the embellishment of the black legion logo,And the silver association label in the lower right corner,The business model is still very sufficient,Just looking at the appearance does not give people the intuitive impression of a game book。
Lifting the A-side, the Mechanical Revolution Aurora Pro comes with a piece of 156-inch, standard 16:9 ratio IPS matte screen, 25K resolution, 165Hz refresh rate, 100% SRGB color gamut, support DC dimming, panel from BOE.
IT Home has measured by a professional color calibrator that the sRGB color gamut coverage of this screen is 967%, with 69 color gamut coverage for Adobe RGB and DCI P34% and 720%。
The Legion R7000 is also equipped with a 156-inch standard 16:9 IPS screen, 25K resolution, 165Hz refresh rate, and also support DC dimming, but unfortunately the factory color correction is removed.
It is worth mentioning that the screen of the Legion R7000 also supports 180-degree opening and closing, which is more abundant in daily use scenarios.
In practice, the screen has 97% SRGB color gamut coverage, and Adobe RGB and DCI P3 color gamut coverage is 699% and 726%。
On the C side, Aurora Pro keeps the color of the keyboard area consistent with other parts, and the keycaps are treated with a black upper cover and semi-transparent edging to make the backlight effect of the keyboard more obvious. It's worth noting that the mechanical revolution Aurora Pro's keyboard backlight is bright blue instead of white, which is different from the practice of traditional thin and light laptops and gaming laptops, although users can still customize the lighting effects in the built-in control center.
This keyboard of Aurora Pro also has a numeric keypad area, and it makes the computer's three-level performance mode adjustment into an independent physical switch key, which is placed on the left side of the power button for easy user adjustment, which really needs to be praised.
Unlike the Aurora Pro, the overall layout of the keyboard of the Legion R7000 is similar, but the details are still more associative and considerate, such as the independent sunken design of the arrow keys, which is easier to find for blind operation. The "0" of the numeric keypad retains the elongated design of the traditional keyboard, and although it is not the standard 2U, it is still more convenient to enter in some scenarios. There is also Lenovo's ancestral ergonomic keyboard, the keycaps are slightly concave, and the bottom is a curved design, which fits the fingers more closely, and it is indeed more comfortable to hit.
In terms of trackpad, the Aurora Pro has an asymmetrical design, with a moderate left area, and a surface material similar to the palm rest, but smoother.
The Legion R7000 has a larger trackpad area and is centered in the center, making it smoother to the touch and more solid in the feel of the press feedback.
Next, let's compare the interfaces. The Aurora Pro has 3 USB-A ports, 1 USB-C port, 1 MiniHDMI port, a MiniDP port, an RJ45 LAN port, a full-size SD card slot, as well as a power port and 35mm audio, microphone interface set.
Most of the interfaces on the Legion R7000 are concentrated on the back, the configuration of the 3A2C port is more balanced, and the HDMI interface is 21 specification, there are no Aurora Pro's 2 mini ports and SD card slots, how to choose depends on everyone's own needs.
The CPU specifications of these two products are certainly familiar to everyone, and they are even familiar with them for a long time. Among them, the 12th-generation Core i7-12650H equipped with the Mechanical Revolution Aurora Pro is a facelifted version of the i7-12700H.
The Ryzen 7 7735H carried by the Legion R7000 is actually the vest of the Ryzen 7 6800H, and these two processors are a typical case of head-to-head competition in the same price range.
For notebooks, if the processor performance is to perform well, then doing a good job of power scheduling and heat dissipation is definitely the first priority, let's take a look at the performance of the two machines on the oven first. Using AIDA64 for a single-bake FPU test, the mechanical revolution Aurora Pro soared to nearly 90W power consumption as soon as it came up, and slowly dropped to around 80W after 5 minutes, but the strange thing is that the CPU frequency is still slowly declining after 10 minutes, and there is no intention to stop, so we continued to bake until about 20 minutes, and found that the P core frequency of the final CPU dropped to 37GHz, although the power consumption is still 80W, but the CPU temperature is as high as 93 degrees, and the results are a bit strange.
On the Legion R7000 side, the instantaneous power can reach 100W, while the long-term power has stabilized at about 80W after 8 minutes of baking, and the CPU frequency has also stabilized at 42GHz, at this time, the CPU temperature is basically maintained around 88 degrees, which is obviously more reasonable than the mechanical revolution Aurora Pro.
In the double baking session, Aurora Pro's power consumption scheduling for the CPU is more aggressive, and the CPU power consumption remains at 52W after 10 minutes of baking, but the P-core frequency is only 30GHz, CPU temperature 92 degrees;The power consumption of the graphics card has come to 105W, the performance of the whole machine is as high as 155W, and the temperature of the graphics card is 80 degrees.
In contrast, the Legion R7000's dual-roast performance is a bit more stable, with CPU power consumption remaining at 45W and CPU temperature at 836 degrees, CPU frequency at 35ghz。At the same time, the GPU power consumption is also 100W, and the total performance release of the whole machine is 145W, which belongs to the performance level of mainstream gaming laptops.
Next, we set the performance mode of the two machines to the highest set as usual, without adjusting other manual parameters. First up is the Cinebench R23 test, where the Aurora Pro scored 1758 points for CPU single-core and 14876 points for multi-core. The Legion R7000 has a single-core score of 1550 points and a multi-core score of 14526 points. The Aurora Pro showed a slight advantage in this link.
In another test that also tests the performance of CPU cores, the 3D Mark CPU Profile, the Mechanical Revolution Aurora Pro ran a score of 974 points for a single thread and a score of 7252 points for a maximum threadThe Rescuer R7000 has a single-threaded score of 933 points and a maximum thread score of 7351 points. It can be seen that the i7-12650H does have an advantage over the Ryzen 7 7735H in single-core performance, but in terms of multi-core performance, in the running score of 4 cores and above, the Ryzen 7 7735H has always been the first to beat the i7-12650H, which is very interesting.
In terms of graphics cards, both machines are RTX4060, but in the CPU score of 3D Mark's Time Spy test, the Aurora Pro's i7-12650H is more than 1000 points higher than the Ryzen 7 7735H, which is a bit surprising to us, because the previous machines with the same CPU did not have a thousand-digit gap with the Ryzen 7 7735H.
In 3D Mark's Fire Strike Extreme test, the Aurora Pro's i7-12650H once again beat the Ryzen 7 7735H in the house, and it can be seen that the mechanical revolution Aurora Pro's running score strategy is more aggressive, because the power consumption of the first two baking machines is 80W, but the difference in some scores is more than 1,000 points.
In addition to the core configuration, how do the two machines perform on more utilitarian hardware such as memory and hard drives?The Mechanical Revolution Aurora Pro comes standard with 16GB DDR5 4800MHz RAM, and the actual read, write, and copy scores are all 4Above 50,000 mb s, the latency came to 917ns, L3 cache latency is also as high as 249ns。
The Legion R7000 is also equipped with 16GB DDR5 4800MHz memory, but the read and write speeds have reached more than 50,000, and the copy speed is also 2000+MB S, and the latency is basically the same as that of Aurora Pro, which is 914ns, but the latency of L1-L3 cache is lower than that of Aurora Pro, especially the latency of L3 cache is directly worse than 13ns.
The performance of the SSD is more interesting again, in the Q8T1 and Q1T1 queues of sequential read and write performance, the performance of the Rescuer R7000 is better, but in the two scores of the 4K queue, the mechanical revolution Aurora Pro has shown certain advantages, considering that the 2 machines are divided into a smaller space for the system at the factory, that is, the system disk, on the whole, it has its own advantages.
In the above theoretical test session, the CPU performance of the mechanical revolution Aurora Pro seems to have more advantages than that of the Legion R7000, but as a game positioning, the real test of the comprehensive strength of the 2 machines is the game test, after all, they are also equipped with RTX4060 graphics cards, and they also support the output mode of independent graphics direct connection, so the following game tests are carried out with the direct connection function of the independent graphics card turned on, and the highest performance mode of the non-manual mode is selected in the control center software.
The first is the competitive game "CS2", after the major version upgrade, the performance requirements of this game are almost doubled, the recommended configuration of both machines after entering the game is high, there is a small episode at 1080p resolution, the frame rate fluctuation of the mechanical revolution Aurora Pro This machine has an abnormal range of frame rate fluctuations, and has been jumping directly and repeatedly at 300 to 100 frames, after trying to reinstall the graphics card driver, restarting the game and other operations, although the final average frame rate is 245 frames, but the game experience is not good. With an average frame rate of 268 frames, the Legion R7000 fluctuates normally and has a better gaming experience.
At 2K, the average frame rate of the Mechanical Revolution Aurora Pro is 186 fps, and the average frame rate of the Legion R7000 is 172 fps, and the Aurora Pro is slightly better, but the frame rate fluctuation performance is still not as stable as that of the Legion R7000.
Next up are 2 traditional raster games, in Shadow of the Tomb Raider, first select the highest image quality at 1080p resolution, run the game's built-in performance benchmarks, the average frame rate of Aurora Pro is 126 frames, and 1% low frames are 113 frames;With an average frame count of 136 frames and 1% low frames of 109 frames with the Legion R7000 taking a 10-frame lead in this project.
At 2K, the Aurora Pro averages 96 fps and 78 fps for 1% Low fpsThe Legion R7000 averages 92 frames and 1% low 76 frames. The two sides have won and lost each other at the two resolutions, but the overall gap has not widened.
In the classic western triple-A masterpiece Red Dead Redemption 2, we ran its own benchmark directly at 2K maximum quality, and the average frame rate of the Aurora was 62 fps, and the 1% low fps were 52 fpsWith an average frame rate of 62 fps and 51 fps for 1% Low, the Legion R7000 is indistinguishable.
Let's test another pure ray tracing game, Metro: Departure, which has very high requirements for graphics card performance, plus support for ray tracing and DLSS, which can help us further squeeze the performance of 2 machines. At 1080p resolution, Ultra quality, ray tracing high level, and DLSS turned on, the built-in benchmark was run, and the average frame rate for Aurora was 65 fps, and 1% Low fps was 34 fpsThe Legion R7000 averages 74 frames per second and 37 frames per 1% low. At 1080p, both machines can easily run above 60 fps.
Switching to 2K resolution and testing again, the average frame rate for the Aurora Pro was 56 fps, and the 1% low fps was 32 fpsThe Legion R7000 averages 55 frames per second and 31 frames per 1% low. The 2K resolution put a bit more pressure on both machines, and neither side was able to stabilize at 60 fps, which shows that "Metro: Gone" is still a lot of pressure on the RTX4060.
After the end of the test of the game part, we can see that the two machines actually did not show a one-sided performance, after all, in the previous baking session, the power consumption gap between the CPU and the GPU is not very large, and the total performance release level is 10W, but in the actual game frames, the gap has been further narrowed. If you want to talk about the difference, that is, in the competitive game "CS2", the frame rate fluctuation of the Aurora Pro is very unstable, which affects the operation experience, while the Legion R7000 does not have this problem.
Finally, let's take a look at how well the battery life of the two machines performs. We tested the battery life of a modern office using the PC Mark 10 at 50% screen brightness, Bluetooth turned off, and battery mode set to optimal energy efficiency. The Aurora Pro ended up with a final score of 4 hours and 23 minutes, and the Legion R7000 ended up with a final score of 7 hours and 16 minutes, which is a bit of a big difference to be honest. Although consumers generally do not have high expectations for the battery life of gaming laptops, once they go out and encounter a low battery scenario, the significance of longer battery life is very great. In addition, the Legion R7000 also supports 100W PD charging, which can be charged to 70% in 30 minutes, making it even more advantageous to travel with a lighter travel weight and faster charging.
Judging from the main configuration,Both machines are cost-effective models for volume positioning,Mechanical Revolution Aurora Pro**Cheaper,**Sensitive users should choose it directly,After all, it is not left behind in the game experience。 However, judging from the overall performance of the two machines, the Legion R7000 is better in terms of exterior design, workmanship materials, battery life and charging, and the product power is indeed better than that of the Aurora Pro. Coupled with Lenovo's years of after-sales service and brand effect, as long as the budget is not particularly tight, the Legion R7000 is obviously a better choice.