We saw similar results on Far Cry New Dawn (1080p, ultra), where the x17 played at 94 fps, just behind the Raider's 99 fps, though here the other Alienware, the m17 R4, took the crown at 104 fps. The Alienware x17 did far better on Grand Theft Auto V ( 1080p, very high), running the game at 129 frames per second, just two frames shy of the Raider, and higher than both the Blade Pro and the m17 R4. At 4K, the x17 rand Tomb Raider at 38 fps. On Shadow of the Tomb Raider (1080p, highest), the Alienware x17 ran the game at 77 fps, but actually fell behind the other laptops, including the MSI GE76 Raider (106 fps), Alienware m17 R4 (103 fps) and even the Razer Blade Pro 17, with an RTX 3070 (86 fps). We also ran the laptop through our traditional benchmarks, which were a bit more mixed. It could even handle ultra settings at 4K, though it dropped to between 38 and 45 frames per second. At 1080p, the laptop ran Deathloop at ultra settings between 80 and 93 frames per second, including in battle. I decided to put the Alienware x17 and its RTX 3080, a top-of-the-line laptop graphics card, through their paces using Deathloop, Arkane Studios' latest FPS.n that game, Alienware's latest didn't disappoint. We, however, test with out of the box settings. Thunderbolt 4, USB Type-A 3.2 Gen 1, USB Type-C 3.2 Gen 2, Ethernet, HDMI 2.1, Micro SD card slot, Mini DisplayPort 1.4, 3.5 mm headphone/mic jackġ5.72 x 11.79 x 0.84 inches / 399.23 x 299.49 x 21.4 mmĮditor's note: September 24: Following our review being published, Alienware pushed out a BIOS update to enable discrete graphics to run continuously over the mux switch. Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU (16GB GDDR6, 165W Max graphics power, 1,545 MHz boost clock)

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