Dell G7 15 Gaming Laptop Review: Affordable, Stylish, And Powerful
Futuremark’s well-known PCMark and 3DMark benchmark suites features tests that target a wide array of computing devices. In this case, Dell's G7 15 Gaming is armed with discrete graphics, a GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q based on NVIDIA's Pascal architecture.
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PCMark 8 is an older version of Futuremark's productivity benchmark (since replaced by PCMark 10), but that also means we have been able to amass a whole bunch of scores from other gaming laptops to compare with the G7.
In the Work Accelerated test, the G7 is ahead of the pack. Even though PCMark leans heavily on storage, the Core i7-8750H paired with 16GB of DDR4-2666 memory makes this system a productivity powerhouse. It also fared well in the Storage and especially the Work Accelerated tests.
For posterity, here is how the Dell G7 15 Gaming performed in the newer PCMark 10. This is another benchmark where we do not have a large number of gaming systems to compare against, but do have a large collection of laptops in general. Sorted by overall score, the Dell G7 comes in leading the pack.
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3DMark was designed to bring desktop GPUs to its knees. However, since gaming notebooks pack desktop-grade graphics, notebooks can handle the toughest of 3DMark tests.
So the Dell G7 15 has productivity chops, but can it handle graphics and gaming? In a word, yes. In more words, the G7 placed right next to several other gaming laptops with full featured GeForce GTX 1060 GPUs inside in the 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme benchmark, and ahead of them in the DirectX Sky Diver benchmark which tends to be a bit more CPU-limited.
