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HP Pavilion Gaming Notebook 15-ak020NB Review

Mobile/Laptops & Netbooks by leeghoofd @ 2016-01-20

HP notebooks are known to many users as daily or as business products, this as they didn't have any or that many notebooks specifically targeted at the gamer community. From the press release in October we at MadShrimps were intrigued by the direction HP took, so it was worthwhile to test the new gaming notebook and see what it is made off. Best of all HP told us that this new announced product would be very competitive in price too; now I'm an avid gamer too and have never been so found of notebooks being able to replace a high end desktop. Maybe the HP Pavilion Gaming notebook could make me change my mind?

2D Performance

Thanks to Tones.be for the provision of several notebooks to have a slightly larger reference database to compare the Pavilion Gaming notebook with.

Let us start off with the performance of the i7-6700HQ CPU: the i5-6300 Skylake I5 model was available, sadly not with a discrete GTX 950M graphics card... so we can only judge the 2D performance impact.

It will be no surprise that the latest Skylake i7-6700HQ has some serious potential, even for a mobile variant, though a Gaming setup is all about the balance between the different components: the CPU, GPU, memory and storage; the weakest part will determine the overall gaming performance. Some end-users are still too focused on just buying a high-end processor, all forgetting about the graphics' cards role and getting mad with the slow loading times of their favorite games when no Solid-State drive is present.

Time to discover how the Pavilions' GTX 950M GDDR3 performs...

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