Since AMD's Ryzen processor was launched, I believe many friends are looking forward to the use of Ryzen processors in gaming laptops, and this wish has finally been realized in 2018. As a gaming laptop equipped with Ryzen processor, Acer Shadow Knight
I believe that Volkswagen is very familiar with Acer Shadow Knight. This product series is very mature and is also the gaming laptop that Acer mainly promotes. As the third generation of this series, Acer Shadow Knight 3 has greatly changed its appearance, and the use of Ryzen processor this time is also a highlight of the series' changes.
Acer Shadow Knight 3 Ryzen Edition
· Appearance Design
Appearance Part, Acer Shadow Knight 3 Ryzen Edition is very outstanding. Although the price is affordable, Acer Shadow Knight 3 Ryzen Edition still adopts a distinct game style design, and the details are quite outstanding. The overall Acer Shadow Knight 3 Ryzen version adopts a black and red color scheme, with red mainly concentrated in the axis and keyboard position. The black and red design is very suitable for gaming laptops and can bring a good visual experience.
uses black and red color
Acer Shadow Knight 3 Ryzen version has a tangent design, which is visually tough and sharp. At the same time, the A-side also adopts a black light engraved carbon fiber texture design, which provides a cold visual experience while also adding a calm and tough product temperament to the product. The visual style of the surface treatment of C-side is similar to that of A-side, except that the surface treatment is smoother and more delicate, forming a sharp contrast with the feel of A-side. The entire body looks clear and angular, giving people a powerful feeling.
A surface gaming is more obvious
details, the shaft design of Acer Shadow Knight 3 Ryzen version is more representative. In addition to the conspicuous red, the damping feeling of the shaft is very outstanding. It basically realizes that the pitch angle of the screen can be adjusted with a light push, supports one-hand opening and closing, and is relatively stable after adjustment. From this detail, we can see that the overall workmanship level of Acer Shadow Knight 3 Ryzen Edition is good.
shaft workmanship is very detailed
· Screen, keyboard and interface
Acer Shadow Knight 3 Ryzen Edition uses a 15.6-inch full HD screen with a resolution of 1920×1080, an IPS screen, and the screen surface is treated with matte surface. In terms of actual appearance, the display effect of this screen is very clear and delicate, the color restoration is relatively accurate, and the viewing angle is very outstanding, which is the mainstream level among products of the same price.
uses a full HD screen
64% sRGB
46% NTSC
keyboard part, the Acer Shadow Knight 3 Ryzen version has a very good button feel. First, the key stroke is medium, the compressed grams is medium, and the rebound is fast, giving people a tight feeling and bringing a good experience when playing the game. Moreover, the spacing between the keycaps is relatively large, and accidental contacts rarely occur. In addition, the keyboard also supports red backlighting, and the four "WASD" buttons are also processed separately, which has excellent visual effects. The edge of the trackpad is also decorated with red color, and the surface is covered with glass material, making the touch very smooth.
keyboard close-up
Acer Shadow Knight 3 Ryzen version interfaces are concentrated on the left and right sides, among which the left interfaces are keyholes, RJ45, Type-C, HDMI, USB3.0 and SD card slots, and the right interfaces are adapter interfaces, 2× USB2.0 and 3.5mm headset interfaces respectively. In terms of interfaces, Acer Shadow Knight 3 Ryzen Edition has obvious advantages due to the positioning of the gaming laptop. It can not only connect external keyboards and mice, but also connect monitors and network cables, which is more convenient.
left interface close-up
right interface close-up
· Hardware specifications and tests
Acer Shadow Knight 3 Ryzen Edition hardware specifications are quite attractive. Its processor uses AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, graphics card is AMD Radeon RX 560X 4GB, memory is 8GB DDR4, and hard disk is 128GB SSD+1TB HDD dual hard disk combination. Judging from the hardware specifications, Acer Shadow Knight 3 Ryzen Edition is definitely the one that A fans want.
whole machine hardware specifications
processor part, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U is a processor based on 14nm process technology, adopting a four-core and eight-thread design, with a basic frequency of 2.0GHz, which can be accelerated to 3.6GHz, and has a level 3 cache of 4MB. In addition, this processor also has an AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 graphics card built-in.
processor specifications
The author used Cinebench R15 to test it and finally got the results of multi-core 658cb and single-core 142cb. Judging from the test results, the AMD Ryzen 5 2500U used by Acer Shadow Knight 3 Ryzen version performs very well, even higher than some Ryzen 7 2700U models.
Cinebench R15 test score
graphics card part, AMD Radeon RX 560X adopts a 14nm process technology, has 1024 stream processors, a memory bit width of 128bit, a memory memory of 4GB GDDR5, and a main frequency of 1275MHz.
graphics card specifications
The author used 3DMark to continue the theoretical test of it. The test items were Time Spy and Fire Strike, which corresponded to the results in the 2K DX12 and 1080P DX11 environments respectively. Among them, the Time Spy project graphics card score is 1837, and the Fire Strike project graphics card score is 6322. From the test score, it can be concluded that the AMD Radeon RX 560X is a mainstream independent graphics card that is positioned as a mid-range, and its performance is still very good.
Time Spy test
Fire Strike test
hard disk part. The author used CrystalDiskMark to test the performance of the solid-state drive, and finally obtained the continuous reading speed of the solid-state drive is 517.8MB/s and the continuous writing speed is 136.7MB/s.
CrystalDiskMark tests
overall performance. The author uses the Extended mode of PCMark10 for testing, which includes office, design, gaming and other test scenarios, which are relatively complete. In the end, Acer Shadow Knight 3 Ryzen Edition scored 3750 points, which is a good level in the gaming laptop.
PCMark10 test
heat dissipation test
heat dissipation, Acer Shadow Knight 3 Ryzen version adopts a dual-fan dual-copper tube heat dissipation combination. The two fans are larger in size and optimized in air ducts, making heat conduction faster. It also has Acer Coolboost fan boost technology, which can increase the fan speed by 19%, and the processor and graphics card temperature can drop by 11%. The author uses ADIA64's system stability testing program for testing, and checks the three items of Stress CPU, Stress FPU and Stress GPU for the test items. After an hour of testing, the processor core temperature was only 70°, and the graphics card core temperature was only 67°. It can be seen that the heat dissipation module is very powerful.
· Game test
In order to verify the performance of Acer Shadow Knight 3 Ryzen version in actual games, the author selected three games: "Rise of Tomb Raider", "PUBG Battle Royale" and "League of Legends" for testing, corresponding to 3A masterpieces, mainstream online games and high-demand online games respectively.
First of all, the test of "Rise of Tomb Raider". "Rise of Tomb Raider" is a typical 3A masterpiece with good hardware requirements. In terms of image quality settings, the game resolution is 1920×1080, turn on DX12, turn off vertical synchronization, use the high picture quality preset in the system, and run the Benchmark that comes with the game. Acer Shadow Knight 3 Ryzen Edition finally achieved an average of 41.77 frames, which is smooth and playable and has a good performance.
image quality settings
image quality settings
final score
followed by the test of "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds: Battle Royale". As an online game that has been popular all over the world in the past year, "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds: Battle Royale" also has very high hardware requirements. In terms of image quality settings, the game resolution is 1920×1080, vertical synchronization is turned off, and the low image quality preset in the system is used to perform a complete game.Judging from the final results, the overall average frame rate of Acer Shadow Knight 3 Ryzen version is above 45 frames, and the highest frame rate occurs in the skydiving stage, maintaining around 60 frames. The number of frames inside the ground house is also quite considerable, maintaining at about 50 frames, and the number of frames outside the ground is slightly lower, and most of the time changes at about 45 frames. The overall frame rate changes are relatively low, so the overall gaming experience is still good.
Picture quality settings
Skydiving frames
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Finally, the test of "League of Legends". Compared with "Rise of Tomb Raider" and "PUBG Battle Royale", "League of Legends" has relatively low hardware requirements. Considering that the graphics card performance of Acer Shadow Knight 3 Ryzen version is pretty good, the author sets the picture quality of "League of Legends" to the highest, with the resolution of 1920×1080, the graphics are set to very high (i.e. the highest picture quality), and turn off vertical synchronization.
game quality settings
game frames
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From the actual frames in the game, Acer Shadow Knight 3 Ryzen version can completely run the highest quality "League of Legends". The average frame number of the entire game is above 80 frames, and the highest frame number at the beginning of the game is at least 140 frames. However, as the game progresses, the frame number of frames under normal battles is about 90 frames, and the frame number of frames under large-scale team battles can also be maintained at more than 70 frames. The overall gaming experience is still very good.
Judging from the actual test results of the three games, Acer Shadow Knight 3 Ryzen Edition is a mid-range gaming laptop with good gaming performance. Considering that "Rise of Tomb Raider" and "PUBG Battle Royale" have very high hardware requirements, and the in-person price of Acer Shadow Knight 3 Ryzen version, it can be said that Acer Shadow Knight 3 Ryzen version has such performance.
review summary:
Acer Shadow Knight 3 Ryzen Edition is a gaming notebook full of "AMD" elements, which is very unique among current gaming notebook products. Thanks to the combination of Ryzen+Radeon, Acer Shadow Knight 3 Ryzen Edition has performed well in gaming performance and a good experience. In addition, the Acer Shadow Knight 3 has excellent workmanship and good control experience, and the price is very affordable. Currently, this product is only priced at 4,999 yuan on e-commerce platforms, which is at least 500 yuan cheaper than other models with the same performance. Its cost-effectiveness is very outstanding. Friends who want to buy a mid-range gaming laptop with AMD elements in the near future can pay attention.
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