Last year's Redmi Book Pro 15 differentiated in the hot notebook market with high-quality screens and excellent workmanship, leaving a deep impression on many consumers.
A year later, Redmi Book Pro ushered in iteration, and when warming up, it said that it wanted to "challenge the peak performance of thin and light notebooks." It happens that we have this just released Redmi Book Pro 15 2022 on our hands.
This article let us take a look at this all-round thin and light notebook and see how the results of the Redmi notebook’s opening work are.
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Appearance
The first feeling when I opened the express box and took this "thin and light notebook" out of the packaging was: this notebook looks very valuable both in terms of whether it looks and picks up.
Redmi Book Pro 15 2022 still continues the excellent workmanship of the previous generation. The whole machine is made of aviation aluminum alloy and is shaped by CNC integrated carving. The silver-gray color on the body is a very conservative color, but because it is made of metal, it looks very good.
It is also because it is a pure metal body that the weight of the whole machine reaches 1.8kg. The A side of the body of
has a clean side, only one Redmi logo and their slogan "Power Your Creativitiy". I personally think this layout and printing are indeed more advanced and more beautiful than the English version logo layout of the "xiaomi" on the Xiaomi laptop Pro on . The
B surface basically continues the previous generation's design, with a 15.6-inch screen with a Redmi logo printed on the bottom. By the way, the damping of the shaft is very good, it is neither loose nor tight, and the screen can be opened and closed with one hand. There are many things worth talking about: the trackpad has a large area, but the user experience is still the regular level of Windows. It can be said that it is not easy to use, but it is enough for emergency response.
keyboard typing experience is very good. For me who is used to using the MacBook Butterfly Foot Keyboard, the 1.3 cm key stroke is a bit high.
It is a bit regrettable that there is still no numeric keypad this time, but there are several function keys such as page up/page down. I always pressed these keys incorrectly when editing pictures and typing texts at the beginning, but I got used to it. It is quite convenient for text workers like me, which can easily turn pages, fall back, etc. In addition to these, there is a special key in the upper right corner of the keyboard.
D On the surface, more than 8,000 holes were made, the heat dissipation ports were added, and the height of the foot pads was increased. These upgrades were almost all to prepare for the hardware to bring enough heat dissipation.
Personally, I hope that Redmi can also move the "Nvidia RTX" stickers and "intel Core" stickers on the C side to the D side to post them uniformly, so that the C side will be cleaner.
hardware configuration
What we got is the top-end Redmi Book Pro 15 2022, which is the combination of i7 12650H + RTX 2050. The current price of this configuration is ¥7199.
screen
After using it for so many days, this screen is the one that impressed me the most among all the hardware.
5.6 inch 3.2k resolution (3200:2000), 242 ppi, and 90Hz refresh rate make this screen very large, but it is still very "delicate" in overall appearance.
is right, the brightness has been upgraded compared to the previous generation, and it has been upgraded from 300 nit to 400 nit. It is enough to use this brightness outdoors.
processor and graphics card
In addition to the screen upgrade, the 2022 processor and graphics card have also been upgraded, from the i5-11300H + MX450 combination to i7 12650H + RTX 2050. Both CPU and GPU are a significant improvement compared with the previous generation.
first is CPU. This i7 12650H uses the Intel 7 production process, a combination of 6 large cores, 4 small cores, 16 threads. Because this U castrated four small cores, it is still far from the "complete" i7 12700H, and the Cinebench R20 has a running score of 5059. In terms of power consumption, the AID64 single baking test we did, the overall power consumption during single baking is around 56W, and the temperature is stable at around 96 degrees. The
GPU part did not use Nvidia's newly released MX550 this time, but directly used the RTX 2050 released at the same time.
Many friends are very curious about why Nvidia is still launching 20 series graphics cards in this year. Indeed, the positioning of this graphics card is very strange, and it really makes people confused.
RTX 2050 can be regarded as a shrinking version of 3050: it uses a 30-series ampere architecture GA107 core, equipped with 4GB 64bit GDDR6 video memory, and is equipped with NVIDIA Encoder encoder, supporting ray tracing and DLSS.
We actually measured DMark TimeSpy score is 4117 points, between RX480 and GTX 1060 6GB.
DMark Fire Strike score is 8886.
The actual performance of this graphics card will be discussed in detail later.
Other hardware
The top-end Redmi Book Pro 15 2022 in our hand is equipped with 16GB LPDDR5 5200MHz dual-channel memory and 512 GB solid-state drive .
See the current disassembly on the network. This time, Redmi book 15 only has one m.2 interface, so the space for upgrading is a bit small.
Redmi Book Pro 15 2022's interface configuration is a bit difficult for me to describe:
It is equipped with a USB-C 3.2 Gen2, a Thunderbolt 4, a USB-A 3.2 Gen 1, an HDMI 2.0, a 3.5mm headphone control, and a high-speed SD card UHS-II reader and writer.
Overall, the lineup of the interface is very luxurious, Thunder 4, SD card slots are all given, which is very convenient for users in need. But in terms of quantity, I feel a little less when I use it.
Like my daily USB-A port, the Logic 's Excellent Connector Receiver is inserted in one of the USB-C ports and charging, and there is only one USB-C port left.
If you plug in and unplug external devices on a daily basis, I personally recommend that you prepare a dock to prepare a USB drive that comes from time to time.
large battery also continues the tradition of the previous generation. This time, a 72Wh battery was given, but the charger has changed and is equipped with a 130W multi-stage power adapter . Although it is a type-c port, the entire charger is still very "silly, big, black and thick", with a weight of nearly 490g, which is not as light and convenient as the previous generation. However, the computer itself also supports PD 3.0 fast charging, and it is still time to temporarily recharge the charger that supports PD protocol when going out.
In addition, Wi-Fi 6, 3411 dual speakers, cooling system and other hardware will not be repeated. After getting started, Redmi Book Pro 15 2022 took on 85% of my work, and its configuration easily handled the work at hand.
Next, let’s start from the actual experience and talk about this product.
actual experience
My work content mainly revolves around text, image processing and lightweight video editing.
Use Redmi Book Pro 15 2022 During this period, I used it as the cover of the video and the graphic content of Weibo . It is indeed much smoother than the 18 MacBook Pro 13 I used to use. I can obviously feel less lag, load faster, and there is no problem with stability. At least I have not encountered a crash yet.
Due to time reasons, I have not used it to do very complicated video projects yet, I have only edited a few short videos with it. As expected, the Redmi Book Pro configuration with lightweight videos did not encounter any pressure. I will try to let him render some video projects with more complex studio timelines to see if it can withstand the real-time rendering of for multi-track 4k videos.
What bothers me about processing text content is not his hardware configuration, but I have not found a good enough markdown software to write under the Windows system. For example, the bear and markdown.app I used in the past have not yet launched Windows versions.
I would like to ask you, are there any good (except word) text writing software recommendations?
game test
This part we need to pay attention to: Don’t look at this "thin and light notebook" from the perspective of a gaming notebook. Its graphics card is not born for heavy games. During testing, we adjusted the computer to "extreme speed" mode and powered on.
In addition to being a productivity tool, I also try to do some entertainment on it.
I don’t play many games personally. During the test, I chose two popular games and one that I am familiar with. I also found two games that support ray tracing and saw if the "ray tracing" mentioned by Redmi is really practical.
is the most familiar CS:GO. The image quality is set to the highest and the resolution is set to 3K of the screen, that is, 3200 * 2000. The average frame number runs around 150 frames. Reduce the resolution to 1920 * 1080, the average frame rate can be increased to about 300 frames, and the maximum can be run to 350 frames, which is quite smooth to play.
Rainbow Six · During the siege test, the image quality was set to high, with a resolution of 1920 * 1200, and the game can run to about 180 frames. The GPU occupation is almost full. Even if the image quality is reduced to medium, the GPU occupation will not change much.
Genshin Impact We started to 3K (3200 * 2000) resolution + medium image quality. At this time, the game can be stable at around 40 frames, and there are not many lags that can be perceived. If you want to further improve the gaming experience and increase the frame rate, you can reduce the resolution to 2048 * 1152, so that the game can run steadily at 60 frames.
Before testing the game, we tried to test the Port Royal for ray tracing on 3D Mark, but the software prompted us that "the hardware may be incompatible and the GPU and VRAM are insufficient", but we still tested it and scored 515 in the end, with an average frame rate of less than 3 frames. It seems that this test is really a bit difficult for it. In terms of
ray tracing game testing, we chose cyberpunk 2077 and Minecraft. The ray tracing of Cyberpunk 2077 is difficult to resist for 3050 graphics cards. Can the 2050 graphics card be able to withstand and play?
After our actual test: it can play, but it is not fun to play. At
K resolution, low image quality, without turning on ray tracing and dlss, the game can run to about 27 frames, the video memory occupies 99%, and the maximum 40 frames can be reached after turning on dlss. We try to consecrate +dlss at this resolution, and the video memory is probably bursting and the game crashes directly.
reduces the resolution to 1920 * 1080. If DLSS is not turned on, the game's frame rate can reach 60 fps. If DLSS is turned on, you can run to 80 frames.
But at this resolution, it is still not easy to consecrate this graphics card. It can only run in single-digit frames. Even if DLSS is turned on, it can only maintain a maximum of 25 frames.
Minecraft, we chose the RTX test map in the Bedrock Edition store. When the ray tracing is not turned on and the rendering distance is set to 16 frames, the game can run to about 80 frames. Turn on ray tracing, the rendering distance will be limited to 8 frames. If "image quality improvement" is not enabled at this time, that is, DLSS, the game can only run in single-digit frames. Even if DLSS is enabled, the frame number will be only 16-18 frames.
Look at this, the ray tracing of this graphics card has greater publicity and is not very practical in the game. The experience of playing ray tracing with a number of more than ten or twenty frames can be said to be very poor. In the game, you can only take screenshots at most. The scene can be directly stuck and can't be played by moving around a large area. You can feel the effect of ray tracing quietly.
Summary
After reading the parameters and test data, chatting about the actual experience and game performance, you can summarize this Redmi Book Pro 15 2022.
i7 12650H + RTX 2050, with a weight of 1.8 kg (not counting as a charger), it has actually been a bit separated from the ranks of thin and light notebooks, and it is more like an all-round notebook.
It is very suitable for those who do not like the appearance of the gaming laptop and do not need too strong performance, but still need strong performance to support their work and occasionally play games. They can find high-quality workmanship in Redmi Book Pro, performance that can handle video editing and engineering drawings, and graphics cards that meet the basic gaming experience.
Talk about two more
Xiaomi has been making laptops for nearly 8 years. Xiaomi's first product to enter the notebook market is Xiaomi notebook Air, which relies on cost-effectiveness, excellent workmanship and screen to catch the opponent off guard.
But these "advantages" did not continue to the Pro product line and gaming laptop product line that were later launched. These products have caused the reputation of Xiaomi notebook to fall to the bottom due to their strange configuration and unsatisfactory actual experience.
It was not until last year that Redmi launched the Redmi Book Pro. With the combination of "excellent screen + excellent workmanship + good price", the reputation of Xiaomi laptops gradually improved. Can the Redmi Book Pro, the
022 model, continue the reputation of the previous generation in the increasingly fierce notebook market and gain the recognition of consumers?
Let's wait and see.
