The G5 Gaming Laptop Review: A Delightful Experience for Gamers

As I sat down to test the Dell G5 gaming laptop, I was excited to see how it would perform in various games and benchmarks. The laptop's specs caught my attention, with a 6-core Intel Core i7-8750H CPU, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q graphics, and 16 GB of RAM. I decided to put the laptop through its paces in several games and benchmarks to see how it would handle.

One of the first games I tested was Doom. I set the game to Ultra settings and observed that the dips were fairly low, which meant that the game didn't stutter or lag much even during large fights. The laptop's 40 FPS average was more than enough to keep up with the action on screen. I also experimented with different frame rates, including very high and below 60 FPS. To my surprise, the game still performed smoothly at these speeds.

Next, I moved on to some benchmarking tools to see how the G5 fared in terms of performance. I tested Heaven Valley from Unigine, Superposition from Unigine, Fire Strike Time Spy from 3D Mark, and VR Mark from 3D Mark. These tests gave me a better idea of the laptop's capabilities and whether it could handle demanding games at high settings.

The results were encouraging, with the G5 easily able to achieve high frame rates in these benchmarks. The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q graphics proved to be a great choice for 1080p gaming at 60 FPS, even at max settings. I was also pleased to see that the laptop's performance didn't degrade significantly when using the top-end G5 model.

One of the most interesting aspects of the G5 is its overclocking capabilities. While the CPU itself cannot be overclocked, I was able to increase the GPU clock speed of the 1060 by 136 MHz on average due to power limit throttling. This resulted in a small boost in frame rates, although not enough to justify retesting all games.

I also took some time to explore the laptop's storage options. The G5 comes with a solid-state drive (SSD) that was incredibly fast, achieving sequential read and write speeds of over 500 MB/s and 470 MB/s respectively. While I could have swapped out the SSD for a faster NVMe option, this didn't seem necessary.

To wrap up my review, I briefly touched on the laptop's temperature management. The G5 kept temperatures in check even during intense gaming sessions, which was impressive given its powerful hardware. However, I did note that the laptop is somewhat heavier and chunkier than some of its competitors.

Overall, I was pleasantly surprised by the Dell G5 gaming laptop. For a price around $2200 AUD or $1150 USD, it offers incredible value for gamers who want to play modern games at high settings without breaking the bank. While there are a few minor drawbacks – such as the non-backlit keyboard and somewhat chunky design – these don't detract from the overall experience.

In conclusion, if you're in the market for a gaming laptop that can handle demanding games at 1080p with ease, I highly recommend considering the Dell G5. Its powerful specs, excellent performance, and competitive price make it an attractive option for gamers on a budget.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthe Dell g5 is a well-priced gaming laptop from their new G series so let's take a look at what you get and help you decide if it's a laptop you should consider buying let's start by checking out the specs of this unit as there are a few options available with this model as an Intel i7 8750 h cpu which has six cores and can turbo up to four point one gigahertz and single core workloads in my unit the sixteen gig of ddr4 memory running at 2600 66 megahertz and dual channel but the two slots can support up to 32 gig for storage there's a 256 gig MDOT 2 SATA SSD installed but it supports nvme if you want to upgrade and a one terabyte 5400 rpm hard drive installed for the graphics there's an Nvidia 1060 max-q which powers the 15.6 inch 1080p 60 hertz IPS panel and we'll see how this performs soon in the benchmarks for the network connectivity there's a Gigabit Ethernet port support for 802 2.11 AC Wi-Fi as well as Bluetooth 5.0 the LED and interior are both a matte black aluminium and overall the body of the laptop felt nice and solid but it's also available when red and black instead there aren't any sharp edges and overall the build quality seems pretty solid the physical dimensions of the laptop a thirty eight point nine centimeters in width twenty seven point four centimeters in depth and 2.5 centimeters in height so not exactly thin for a laptop with max-q graphics the starting weight for the lowest SPECT model is listed at two point six five kilos and mine weighed just a bit more than this probably due to the additional one terabyte hard drive with the 180 watt power brick and cable for charging the total weight increases to three point five kilos so a bit heavy compared to other laptops I've looked at in this size with similar specs as mentioned the screen here is a 15.6 inch 60 Hertz 1080p IPS panel no g-sync here available there I found the viewing angles to be pretty good images are still perfectly clear even on sharp angles but that was a bit less brightness when not looking front on I've also measured the current color gamut using the spider v Pro and my results return 32% of sRGB 44% of NTSC and 46% of Adobe RGB so it's not that great definitely find for gaming but for professional content creation you might want to look elsewhere I have performed my usual backlight bleed test on the display which involves having the laptop show a black screen in a dark room to help emphasize any bleeding I then take a long exposure photo to display any bleed so this is a worst-case scenario test there's some minor imperfections that the camera was able to pick up however to my eyes I wasn't able to see anything even in a dark room it looked good to me but this will of course vary between laptops while moving the display there was some flex although it wasn't too bad it's probably just due to the single hinge being found in the middle of the lid it can also be opened easily with one finger demonstrating a fairly even weight distribution above the display in the center is a 720p camera the camera doesn't look too bad with some decent lighting still a bit grainy there microphone doesn't sound that great but you'll be able to judge both for yourself there's no keyboard backlighting at all in this unit however the dull website does note that backlighting is optional despite there being no backlighting in my unit the letters were painted on and still red this made it quite difficult to see the keys in a dark room while lettering would have made that easier overall the keyboard was alright to type with there's some good spacing between the keys an ear in the issue I had was with the small arrow keys the key presses felt a little clicky here's how they sound to try and give you an ideal there was almost no keyboard flex even while pushing down fairly hard it was quite solid the touchpad was alright for the most part but a little annoying I found if I barely touch it it would press down slightly and sometimes register a click but this wasn't the proper mouse click I could push harder to make it through the actual click I don't know if I'm explaining that well but basically while moving my fingers around it felt like I was sometimes clicking when I wasn't not really a deal breaker given you'll likely be using a mouse for games anyway and I'm not sure if this was just an issue with this unit moving on to the i/o on the Left there's a noble lock slot the power input gigabit ethernet port USB 3.1 gen2 on type a port and 2 in one card slot which supports both SD and micro SD cards on the right there's a 3.5 millimeter audio combo jack 2 USB 3.1 gen2 on type a ports USB 3.1 gen2 type-c port with Thunderbolt 3 support and HDMI 2.0 port there's nothing on the back other than these vents for the air exhaust and the same design on the front and this is where the two speakers are found on the left and right sides the speakers sound alright for laptop speakers there's not really any bass but they sound quite clear even at high volume up on the lid there's a red Dell logo in the center the same red found on the keyboard keys and on the trim around the touchpad fingerprints show up but they aren't too obvious on the matte finish and they're fairly easy to wipe off underneath the Cimmerian takes towards the back to keep everything cool as well as some rubber feet that run along the back and front and do a good job at stopping the laptop from easily moving around while in use the laptop can be opened up easily with a phillips head screwdriver there's just one screw to remove to open the panel inside we can see that it's pretty easy to access the components the 2.5 inch drive bay and single m2 slider found on the left along with the Wi-Fi card while the 2 ram slots are found in the middle powering the laptop is a 4 cell 56 watt hour battery and with a full charge and just watching youtube videos with the screen on brightness keyboard lighting off and background apps disabled I was able to use it for five hours and nine minutes a pretty good result the laptop was using the Intel integrated graphics in this test thanks to Nvidia Optimus while playing The Witcher 3 with medium settings and invidious battery boost set to 30fps the battery lasted for one hour and 37 minutes however was only able to run the game between 13 and 21 frames per second as it was current limit throttling I assumed the battery wasn't able to provide adequate power but in any case I definitely recommend playing while plugged in for best performance unless you're playing less demanding games overall the battery life was quite good many more expensive laptops with similar specs I've tested have easily had half as much battery life thermal testing was completed with an ambient room temperature of 18 degrees Celsius it's getting cold here as winter has just started so expect warmer temperatures in a warmer environment at idle both the CPU and GPU were quite warm at around 50 degrees Celsius while playing pub G at default settings the temperatures rise as shown by the green bar but they're not too bad if we apply a minus zero 1.50 volt under bolt to the CPU the temperatures drop back a bit as shown in the orange and we'll see how this affected clock speeds in the next graph the full load stress test was tested with a 264 and the heav'n benchmark running at the same time with the fans running at default speeds I wasn't able to easily max them out so haven't tested that even with the under vaulting applied the CPU and GPU temperatures stayed the same however the clock speeds do change as we can see here the stress test without under bolting is again shown in red and then with under vaulting in purple out of the box the CPU was power limit throttling in this test so although the temperatures were the same with under vaulting we're able to remove the power limit throttling that was taking place and get a 500 megahertz boost on all CPU cores while gaming the CPU clock speeds didn't change much with or without the under Bowl there was no thermal or power limit throttling taking place so I'm not too sure why the full 3.9 gigahertz or core turbo speed wasn't the average these are the clock speeds they got while just running CPU only stress tests without any GPU load I was still seeing power limit throttling on the CPU without the under vaulting under full CPU only load I attempted GPU under vaulting but I was seeing the same performance and temperatures as without it as for the external temperatures where you'll actually be putting your hands at idle the body of the laptop is sitting in the low 30s so it's quite cool while gaming this increases to the mid 40s and is warmest in the center but it still wasn't too bad to the touch and I saw a very similar result while running the stress tests just a little warmer however the wrist rests and left and right sides of the keyboard stayed fairly cool in comparison as for the fan noise produced by the laptop I'll let you have a listen to some of these tests at idle like it only just here the fan and running the CPU and GPU stress tests was about the same as playing an actual game running the CPU stress test only with no GPU workload does however result in lower fan speeds overall the total system volume is perhaps just a little under most other gaming laptops I've tested maybe because of the max Q graphics I'll also note that there was no noticeable call whine while testing in my unit finally let's take a look at some benchmarks will first cover some real-world gaming benchmarks followed by tests with various benchmarking tools all tests will run at 1080p with the latest Nvidia drivers and Windows updates to date installed starting out with fortnight we're getting really nice results even with max settings the 1% lows are above the 60 Hertz refresh rate of the display but keep in mind that this can vary quite a bit as this game greatly depends on what's going on and what are the players are doing basically take the results with a grain of salt overwatch was tested playing with the boots and again we're getting really nice results for this laptop with 1% lows well above what the display can output at max settings as usual csgo was averaging well above with the refresh rate of the display could output the 1% lows dropped down quite a bit due to the smirks in this benchmark test but even with medium settings the 1% lose was still above the displays refresh rate at 1080p hug G was tested using the replay feature but again take the results with a grain of salt as like fortnight it will depend on what's going on in the game so the results can vary quite a lot as shown by the 1% lose which are quite a bit lower than the averages despite this the results are still fairly good and the game played well I've tested far cry 5 with the built-in benchmark even at max settings were averaging above 60fps and the 1% lausanne too far behind the average frame rates here so again it's going quite well Assassin's Creed origins was also tested with the built-in benchmark and the results were similar in that the 1% lose also weren't too far behind the averages which is ideally what you want to see dota 2 was tested using a fairly intensive replays so this should be a worst-case scenario realistically you'll probably get better results than this while actually playing and even in this intensive test we're always averaging above 60fps regardless of setting level rainbows ceej was tested with the built-in benchmark and we're getting pretty high frame rates at all setting levels despite the 1% lows being a bit further away from the averages there's still a fair bit higher than the 60 Hertz refresh rate of the g5 anyway battlefield 1 was also going quite well even during intense fights the dips weren't too bad as shown by the 1% lows which again even at max settings are higher than the screens refresh rate so it felt quite smooth The Witcher 3 doesn't really need a high frame rate to play and even on Ultra settings it played nicely although you can boost the frame rate quite a bit by stepping down even just one level from ultra rise of the Tomb Raider was tested with the built-in benchmark and were able to average above 60 fps even with max settings Ghost Recon is a fairly resource intensive game and was again tested with the built-in bench mark although ultra settings are quite low this is always the case in this game at high settings we were just able to reach a 60 FPS average watchdogs to is another fairly bristles intensive game but is another that I personally think doesn't need a high frame rate to play I can play this with a 40 FPS average no problem as long as the 1% lows aren't too low at Ultra we can see the 1% lows are fairly low so the dips were a bit noticeable it played well at very high or below there Doom was tested using Vulcan and again to me it felt really smooth even during large fights always savaging 100 FPS even a max settings I've got a couple more games covered in the dedicated gaming benchmark video if you're interested now onto the benchmarking tools I've tested Heaven Valley and super position from Unigine as well as fire strike time spy and VR mark from 3d mark just pause the video if you want a detailed look at these results in general the Nvidia 1060 is a great option for 1080p 60fps gaming with good settings and the max Q 1060 is generally only around 10% slower than the regular 1060 based on my previous testing as it's clocked slower so I think it's still going to give you pretty good results in gaming and as we've seen we're getting pretty good results in all of these games on the g5 it's also important to keep in mind that these results are with the top-end g5 it's also available with 1050 or 1050 Ti graphics with single memory and with the four core i5 8300 H CPU so expect lower results with the lower spec model as for overclocking the 8750 h CP you can't be overclocked but i was able to increase the GPU call clock of the 1060 although i tried applying a 200 megahertz increase we can see here that it only rose about 136 megahertz on average due to the power limit being reached with both cpu under bolting and GPU overclocking applied we get a little boost in games but not really enough of a difference to justify retesting all of the games just a few frames per second here and there I've just quickly got some CPU benchmarks here and we can see that it's a decent step up from the seventh generation as we've got two extra cores with slightly faster single-threaded clock speeds and we can see there's a nice boost with the undervolt applied but I plan on comparing this more in a dedicated feature comparison video in crystal disk Mart the 256 gig end up to solder SSD was getting above 500 megabytes per second in sequential reads and about 470 megabytes per second in sequential writes so pretty typical for a SATA based SSD but it's worth remembering the laptop does support faster nvme storage to the one terabyte hard drive was getting above 120 megabytes per second in both so quite good for a 5400 rpm drive I've tested the SD slot using a V 90 rated card to remove the card as a bottleneck and the read and write speeds of the slot don't seem to be very good as for the price the g5 with these exact specs comes in at around 2200 Australian dollars here in Australia at the time of recording or about eleven hundred and fifty US dollars in the US went on sale but this will differ based on the selected configuration as this is the top-end model in the g5 series overall I think the price is pretty good it's not too much more than the older dell 75-77 and yet has a better cpu I'll be making a comparison video between the two in the future so make sure to subscribe to that one so what did you guys think of the g5 gaming laptop from Dell for the price I think it's pretty good especially considering you're getting the latest Intel 8th gen coffee like 6 core I 78758 CPU as you've seen it can basically play all modern games at 1080p with decent settings no problem thanks to the 1060 max Q graphics the battery life was quite good although not great for playing mid to high end games and the Thunderbolt 3 port gives you future expansion options if say you want to use an external GPU enclosure the temperatures don't get too high and the performance can be improved by under vaulting the CPU to remove power limit throttling the only issues I had were that it's a bit on the heavier side and a bit chunky looking the screen quality isn't ideal for creators but is perfectly fine for gaming I would have preferred either a backlit keyboard or different colored lettering to make the letters stand out better but realistically these are minor issues and overall this is a great gaming laptop for the money let me know what you guys thought down in the comments and leave a like to let me know if you found the review useful thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe for future tech videos like this onethe Dell g5 is a well-priced gaming laptop from their new G series so let's take a look at what you get and help you decide if it's a laptop you should consider buying let's start by checking out the specs of this unit as there are a few options available with this model as an Intel i7 8750 h cpu which has six cores and can turbo up to four point one gigahertz and single core workloads in my unit the sixteen gig of ddr4 memory running at 2600 66 megahertz and dual channel but the two slots can support up to 32 gig for storage there's a 256 gig MDOT 2 SATA SSD installed but it supports nvme if you want to upgrade and a one terabyte 5400 rpm hard drive installed for the graphics there's an Nvidia 1060 max-q which powers the 15.6 inch 1080p 60 hertz IPS panel and we'll see how this performs soon in the benchmarks for the network connectivity there's a Gigabit Ethernet port support for 802 2.11 AC Wi-Fi as well as Bluetooth 5.0 the LED and interior are both a matte black aluminium and overall the body of the laptop felt nice and solid but it's also available when red and black instead there aren't any sharp edges and overall the build quality seems pretty solid the physical dimensions of the laptop a thirty eight point nine centimeters in width twenty seven point four centimeters in depth and 2.5 centimeters in height so not exactly thin for a laptop with max-q graphics the starting weight for the lowest SPECT model is listed at two point six five kilos and mine weighed just a bit more than this probably due to the additional one terabyte hard drive with the 180 watt power brick and cable for charging the total weight increases to three point five kilos so a bit heavy compared to other laptops I've looked at in this size with similar specs as mentioned the screen here is a 15.6 inch 60 Hertz 1080p IPS panel no g-sync here available there I found the viewing angles to be pretty good images are still perfectly clear even on sharp angles but that was a bit less brightness when not looking front on I've also measured the current color gamut using the spider v Pro and my results return 32% of sRGB 44% of NTSC and 46% of Adobe RGB so it's not that great definitely find for gaming but for professional content creation you might want to look elsewhere I have performed my usual backlight bleed test on the display which involves having the laptop show a black screen in a dark room to help emphasize any bleeding I then take a long exposure photo to display any bleed so this is a worst-case scenario test there's some minor imperfections that the camera was able to pick up however to my eyes I wasn't able to see anything even in a dark room it looked good to me but this will of course vary between laptops while moving the display there was some flex although it wasn't too bad it's probably just due to the single hinge being found in the middle of the lid it can also be opened easily with one finger demonstrating a fairly even weight distribution above the display in the center is a 720p camera the camera doesn't look too bad with some decent lighting still a bit grainy there microphone doesn't sound that great but you'll be able to judge both for yourself there's no keyboard backlighting at all in this unit however the dull website does note that backlighting is optional despite there being no backlighting in my unit the letters were painted on and still red this made it quite difficult to see the keys in a dark room while lettering would have made that easier overall the keyboard was alright to type with there's some good spacing between the keys an ear in the issue I had was with the small arrow keys the key presses felt a little clicky here's how they sound to try and give you an ideal there was almost no keyboard flex even while pushing down fairly hard it was quite solid the touchpad was alright for the most part but a little annoying I found if I barely touch it it would press down slightly and sometimes register a click but this wasn't the proper mouse click I could push harder to make it through the actual click I don't know if I'm explaining that well but basically while moving my fingers around it felt like I was sometimes clicking when I wasn't not really a deal breaker given you'll likely be using a mouse for games anyway and I'm not sure if this was just an issue with this unit moving on to the i/o on the Left there's a noble lock slot the power input gigabit ethernet port USB 3.1 gen2 on type a port and 2 in one card slot which supports both SD and micro SD cards on the right there's a 3.5 millimeter audio combo jack 2 USB 3.1 gen2 on type a ports USB 3.1 gen2 type-c port with Thunderbolt 3 support and HDMI 2.0 port there's nothing on the back other than these vents for the air exhaust and the same design on the front and this is where the two speakers are found on the left and right sides the speakers sound alright for laptop speakers there's not really any bass but they sound quite clear even at high volume up on the lid there's a red Dell logo in the center the same red found on the keyboard keys and on the trim around the touchpad fingerprints show up but they aren't too obvious on the matte finish and they're fairly easy to wipe off underneath the Cimmerian takes towards the back to keep everything cool as well as some rubber feet that run along the back and front and do a good job at stopping the laptop from easily moving around while in use the laptop can be opened up easily with a phillips head screwdriver there's just one screw to remove to open the panel inside we can see that it's pretty easy to access the components the 2.5 inch drive bay and single m2 slider found on the left along with the Wi-Fi card while the 2 ram slots are found in the middle powering the laptop is a 4 cell 56 watt hour battery and with a full charge and just watching youtube videos with the screen on brightness keyboard lighting off and background apps disabled I was able to use it for five hours and nine minutes a pretty good result the laptop was using the Intel integrated graphics in this test thanks to Nvidia Optimus while playing The Witcher 3 with medium settings and invidious battery boost set to 30fps the battery lasted for one hour and 37 minutes however was only able to run the game between 13 and 21 frames per second as it was current limit throttling I assumed the battery wasn't able to provide adequate power but in any case I definitely recommend playing while plugged in for best performance unless you're playing less demanding games overall the battery life was quite good many more expensive laptops with similar specs I've tested have easily had half as much battery life thermal testing was completed with an ambient room temperature of 18 degrees Celsius it's getting cold here as winter has just started so expect warmer temperatures in a warmer environment at idle both the CPU and GPU were quite warm at around 50 degrees Celsius while playing pub G at default settings the temperatures rise as shown by the green bar but they're not too bad if we apply a minus zero 1.50 volt under bolt to the CPU the temperatures drop back a bit as shown in the orange and we'll see how this affected clock speeds in the next graph the full load stress test was tested with a 264 and the heav'n benchmark running at the same time with the fans running at default speeds I wasn't able to easily max them out so haven't tested that even with the under vaulting applied the CPU and GPU temperatures stayed the same however the clock speeds do change as we can see here the stress test without under bolting is again shown in red and then with under vaulting in purple out of the box the CPU was power limit throttling in this test so although the temperatures were the same with under vaulting we're able to remove the power limit throttling that was taking place and get a 500 megahertz boost on all CPU cores while gaming the CPU clock speeds didn't change much with or without the under Bowl there was no thermal or power limit throttling taking place so I'm not too sure why the full 3.9 gigahertz or core turbo speed wasn't the average these are the clock speeds they got while just running CPU only stress tests without any GPU load I was still seeing power limit throttling on the CPU without the under vaulting under full CPU only load I attempted GPU under vaulting but I was seeing the same performance and temperatures as without it as for the external temperatures where you'll actually be putting your hands at idle the body of the laptop is sitting in the low 30s so it's quite cool while gaming this increases to the mid 40s and is warmest in the center but it still wasn't too bad to the touch and I saw a very similar result while running the stress tests just a little warmer however the wrist rests and left and right sides of the keyboard stayed fairly cool in comparison as for the fan noise produced by the laptop I'll let you have a listen to some of these tests at idle like it only just here the fan and running the CPU and GPU stress tests was about the same as playing an actual game running the CPU stress test only with no GPU workload does however result in lower fan speeds overall the total system volume is perhaps just a little under most other gaming laptops I've tested maybe because of the max Q graphics I'll also note that there was no noticeable call whine while testing in my unit finally let's take a look at some benchmarks will first cover some real-world gaming benchmarks followed by tests with various benchmarking tools all tests will run at 1080p with the latest Nvidia drivers and Windows updates to date installed starting out with fortnight we're getting really nice results even with max settings the 1% lows are above the 60 Hertz refresh rate of the display but keep in mind that this can vary quite a bit as this game greatly depends on what's going on and what are the players are doing basically take the results with a grain of salt overwatch was tested playing with the boots and again we're getting really nice results for this laptop with 1% lows well above what the display can output at max settings as usual csgo was averaging well above with the refresh rate of the display could output the 1% lows dropped down quite a bit due to the smirks in this benchmark test but even with medium settings the 1% lose was still above the displays refresh rate at 1080p hug G was tested using the replay feature but again take the results with a grain of salt as like fortnight it will depend on what's going on in the game so the results can vary quite a lot as shown by the 1% lose which are quite a bit lower than the averages despite this the results are still fairly good and the game played well I've tested far cry 5 with the built-in benchmark even at max settings were averaging above 60fps and the 1% lausanne too far behind the average frame rates here so again it's going quite well Assassin's Creed origins was also tested with the built-in benchmark and the results were similar in that the 1% lose also weren't too far behind the averages which is ideally what you want to see dota 2 was tested using a fairly intensive replays so this should be a worst-case scenario realistically you'll probably get better results than this while actually playing and even in this intensive test we're always averaging above 60fps regardless of setting level rainbows ceej was tested with the built-in benchmark and we're getting pretty high frame rates at all setting levels despite the 1% lows being a bit further away from the averages there's still a fair bit higher than the 60 Hertz refresh rate of the g5 anyway battlefield 1 was also going quite well even during intense fights the dips weren't too bad as shown by the 1% lows which again even at max settings are higher than the screens refresh rate so it felt quite smooth The Witcher 3 doesn't really need a high frame rate to play and even on Ultra settings it played nicely although you can boost the frame rate quite a bit by stepping down even just one level from ultra rise of the Tomb Raider was tested with the built-in benchmark and were able to average above 60 fps even with max settings Ghost Recon is a fairly resource intensive game and was again tested with the built-in bench mark although ultra settings are quite low this is always the case in this game at high settings we were just able to reach a 60 FPS average watchdogs to is another fairly bristles intensive game but is another that I personally think doesn't need a high frame rate to play I can play this with a 40 FPS average no problem as long as the 1% lows aren't too low at Ultra we can see the 1% lows are fairly low so the dips were a bit noticeable it played well at very high or below there Doom was tested using Vulcan and again to me it felt really smooth even during large fights always savaging 100 FPS even a max settings I've got a couple more games covered in the dedicated gaming benchmark video if you're interested now onto the benchmarking tools I've tested Heaven Valley and super position from Unigine as well as fire strike time spy and VR mark from 3d mark just pause the video if you want a detailed look at these results in general the Nvidia 1060 is a great option for 1080p 60fps gaming with good settings and the max Q 1060 is generally only around 10% slower than the regular 1060 based on my previous testing as it's clocked slower so I think it's still going to give you pretty good results in gaming and as we've seen we're getting pretty good results in all of these games on the g5 it's also important to keep in mind that these results are with the top-end g5 it's also available with 1050 or 1050 Ti graphics with single memory and with the four core i5 8300 H CPU so expect lower results with the lower spec model as for overclocking the 8750 h CP you can't be overclocked but i was able to increase the GPU call clock of the 1060 although i tried applying a 200 megahertz increase we can see here that it only rose about 136 megahertz on average due to the power limit being reached with both cpu under bolting and GPU overclocking applied we get a little boost in games but not really enough of a difference to justify retesting all of the games just a few frames per second here and there I've just quickly got some CPU benchmarks here and we can see that it's a decent step up from the seventh generation as we've got two extra cores with slightly faster single-threaded clock speeds and we can see there's a nice boost with the undervolt applied but I plan on comparing this more in a dedicated feature comparison video in crystal disk Mart the 256 gig end up to solder SSD was getting above 500 megabytes per second in sequential reads and about 470 megabytes per second in sequential writes so pretty typical for a SATA based SSD but it's worth remembering the laptop does support faster nvme storage to the one terabyte hard drive was getting above 120 megabytes per second in both so quite good for a 5400 rpm drive I've tested the SD slot using a V 90 rated card to remove the card as a bottleneck and the read and write speeds of the slot don't seem to be very good as for the price the g5 with these exact specs comes in at around 2200 Australian dollars here in Australia at the time of recording or about eleven hundred and fifty US dollars in the US went on sale but this will differ based on the selected configuration as this is the top-end model in the g5 series overall I think the price is pretty good it's not too much more than the older dell 75-77 and yet has a better cpu I'll be making a comparison video between the two in the future so make sure to subscribe to that one so what did you guys think of the g5 gaming laptop from Dell for the price I think it's pretty good especially considering you're getting the latest Intel 8th gen coffee like 6 core I 78758 CPU as you've seen it can basically play all modern games at 1080p with decent settings no problem thanks to the 1060 max Q graphics the battery life was quite good although not great for playing mid to high end games and the Thunderbolt 3 port gives you future expansion options if say you want to use an external GPU enclosure the temperatures don't get too high and the performance can be improved by under vaulting the CPU to remove power limit throttling the only issues I had were that it's a bit on the heavier side and a bit chunky looking the screen quality isn't ideal for creators but is perfectly fine for gaming I would have preferred either a backlit keyboard or different colored lettering to make the letters stand out better but realistically these are minor issues and overall this is a great gaming laptop for the money let me know what you guys thought down in the comments and leave a like to let me know if you found the review useful thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe for future tech 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