MSI GE62VR 6RF Apache Pro Review: A Pascal-Powered Gaming Laptop
MSI GE62VR 6RF Apache Pro Gaming: Bioshock, Mordor and Tomb Raider
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Based on Epic’s Unreal Engine 3, BioShock Infinite takes you (as former Pinkerton agent Booker DeWitt) to the mysterious, flying city of Columbia. You find yourself helping Elizabeth, who soon turns out to have unusual powers. The game offers a first person shooter (FPS) style view but the storyline is as compelling as the battles and Bioshock infinite has won awards and praise for its story and art design.
Folks, this is impressive. Bear in mind that the GeForce GTX 1060 is three rungs down on Pascal's GeForce 10 Series ladder, or four rungs if you count the Titan X. Yet here it is outpacing not only previous generation laptops powered by the GeForce GTX 970M, but also manages to stiff arm the GTX 980M. That used to be the top dog in mobile for NVIDIA, but now it's suddenly looking a little lethargic by comparison.
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All of the game's graphics-related options were enabled, along with FXAA and Camera Blur...
The Apache Pro broke 100 frames per second by averaging 110.83 FPS at its native resolution (1920x1080) in Middle Earth, which shows the kind of headroom you have to play with. It should be a long time before the Apache Pro needs to have game settings dialed down, and even longer before needing to scale back the display resolution. Still, we included benchmarks of the system running at 1600x900 and 1280x720 here to see how it compares to laptops based on Maxwell. As you can see, it's no contest.
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We also ran the game's benchmark running in its DX12 code path mode.
A similar story played out in Rise of the Tomb Raider where the Apache Pro once again managed to keep a great deal of distance between it and previous generation laptops based on Maxwell. No two ways about it, this is an impressive showing for Pascal in a mobile system.