While desktop CPU performance continues its inexorable advance with Rizen and the weirdly
named i9 the world of portable computing continues to try to adapt to this post-smartphone
world were we all expect portability while still having enough power to get things done.
From this strange environment the intel core m series was born.
With the letter m substituting the usual i, intel was aiming for the core m series to
fill a gap between the smartphone-like Intel Atom and the regular beefy i3s, i4s and i5s,
delivering the performance expected of a fully fledged PC while still being limited to a
TDP 4.5 Watts or lower.
Providing another option for passively cooled ultra thin laptops.
These were never design for gaming, I don't think you will often see a "gaming" laptop
with one of these but if we wanted… what would be the heavier games you could play?
To answer this question I got my hands on this device, the Jumper EZbook3 Plus.
Jumper is a Chinese brand that specializes in very thin laptops like this guy.
This is a metal body thin ultrabook that still manages to have enough space for a couple
of usb ports, a micro hdmi and a headphone jack.
But more interesting is what is inside this computer.
This is equipped with a dual core, hyper threaded, Intel Core m3-7Y30, an interesting CPU from
the core m Kaby Lake generation, right around the time when intel realized the idea of a
"high end intel core m" might be confusing and dropped the i5s and i7s from the line.
With a low TDP of 4.5 Watts it does not use active cooling and so it thinner than the
Xiaomi Air laptop that has become my main device.
And so it comes with a rather new Intel® HD Graphics 615 and 8 GB of ram.
So, being an intelHD and a low end CPU I started with CSGO with lowest settings and a low resolution
and oooooh.
The result where… better than I expected which forced me to reconsider the types games
I planned to make work here.
So let's try something more intense.
Something that caught my eye is that intelHD GPU is recent enough that intel has actually
released a driver that makes it compatible with Vulkan... which is why I wanted to give
Doom a try.
There have been a lot of discussion regarding the performance of this game due to the upcoming
switch port so I have been looking into the possibility of playing this game on an intelHD
laptop and this seemed like the perfect opportunity.
So of course thanks to the magic of Vulkan the game already maintained something between
30 and 40 fps even while in combat.
This is amazing considering that I have still not applied the extra tweak from my Doom on
Intel HD video that removes some of the game's shadows.
With that boost it did slightly better, all things considered this game is fairly playable
on this setup.
I wanted to change gears and wanted to return to an online game for the next test.
Overwatch using the same resolution either on windowed or Fullscreen using the tweaks
and recommendations from these two videos.
Overwatch was a really interesting case study due to the fact that it started to show the
performance and thermal limits of the CPU, bottlenecking the game quite severely which
was causing occasional stutter.
This is a good opportunity to remind of the importance of an FPS cap in order to mitigate
part of CPU bottleneck stuttering.
This also exemplifies another thing I wanted to point out of core m series CPU, even with
a TDP as low as 4.5 Watts it can still heat up quite heavily when you are using a passive
cooling system.
After all the m3 was not designed with the intention of gaming, and so this sustained use.
Which is not to say an actively cooled CPU does not overheat as well, but the core m
seems to be designed to get as much performance as possible before hitting its cooling limits.
If you can put up with the heat you can get some decent results. I was able to play a very successful match of Overwatch
using these settings on this computer, another unexpected surprise.
Finally I decided to give a go to the game that is taking away all my personal Overwatch
time, the recent free to play PUBG clone-competitor Fortnite battle royale using the settings
from my somewhat recent video.
This flipped the tables, once again being limited by GPU with the CPU barely keeping
along.
Curious enough the performance was acceptable and close to 30 during most of the moments
I encountered in my test match.
The GPU really started to suffer on some of the vast open areas of the map, even with
a ridiculously low draw distance enabled, something that can be improved by a more dramatic
use of the internal resolution scaler from the video.
So, in conclusion, while the core m series was never designed with gaming in mind you
can squeeze a fair a bit more from them than you would expect, specially when using some
of the fancier IntelHDs on newer chips.
A combination of lower resolutions and a healthy those of other tweaks can get
you somewhat gaming on some popular titles, specially if they have vulkan compatibility.
However, you need to keep an eye out on games with hefty CPU requirements that might push
the limits of the passive cooling that is often associated with core Ms. Consider an
FPS Cap or one of those fancy cooling pads if you still want to venture into those games.
If you are interested in more info about this laptop the link is in the description.
It has proven to be a much better device than I expected with the only bad thing being that
the headphone jack next to the charger occasionally causes interference with certain headphones
but in general it might actually make for a good portable device where you can do some
gaming as well.
Before we go, a lot of people have been asking for a return to the LowSpecGamer Giveaway
so I decided to partner with Outfox, which has been a kind sponsor and supported of the
channel recently to giveaway a Razer BlackWidow Chroma Keyboard, one of those fancy Keyboards
that light up like a Christmas tree.
You can sign up in the link in the description and to apply you simply need to follow me on twitter
also Outfox and sign up to their free trial.
This runs until november 1st, so plenty of time to apply
Let me know what you think of the giveaway so I can do better things in the future.
And thank you to my dear Patreons for their continuing help.
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