Lego 2K Drive- Performance Review on Dell Alienware X15 R2

Editor’s Be aware: 2K supplied a evaluation copy of Lego 2K Drive for PC and Dell India supplied Dell Alienware X15 R2 for long-term efficiency testing to IGN India.

Lego 2K Drive is now accessible on for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X and S, Xbox One and PC. Developed by Visible Ideas and revealed by 2K, the sport launched worldwide on April 19. The sport will take you, a racer, on an journey within the Lego world of Bricklandia as you compete for various cups. On this journey, you possibly can compete towards different gamers, or just benefit from the panorama within the story mode.

Forward of the worldwide launch, IGN India acquired a evaluation copy of Lego 2K Drive. We examined the sport on the Dell Alienware X15 R2 to see the way it performs at launch. For context, X15 R2 is provided with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GPU and Intel Core i7- 12700H CPU. Right here’s extra on our expertise of taking part in the Lego 2K Drive on the Dell Alienware X15 R2.

System Specs of the Dell Alienware X15 R2

Earlier than we deal with the efficiency of the sport, let’s revisit the whole specs sheet of the X15 R2. This gives you some thought about what to anticipate from the sport efficiency part. Right here is the whole specs record.

• Mannequin: Alienware x15 R2
• Show: 15.6-inch FHD (1920×1080), 360Hz Refresh Fee
• Processor: twelfth gen Intel Core i7-12700H (14 cores, 20 threads) 24MB cache, As much as 4.70 GHz Clock Pace throughout Turbo increase.
• Graphics: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GPU with 8GB GDDR6
• Reminiscence: 32GB LPDDR5 5200 MT/s
• OS: Home windows 11 Dwelling
• Storage: 1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD
• Webcam: 720p
• Ports: 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 port with PowerShare, 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Sort-C port with DisplayPort and Energy Supply, 1x Thunderbolt 4 port with DisplayPort and Energy Supply, 1x Common Audio Jack, 1x HDMI 2.1 port, 1x MicroSD card slot
• Connectivity: Wi-Fi 6 (6E Pre-certified) AX1675 802.11ax 2×2 Wi-fi LAN and Bluetooth 5.2
• Dimensions: 14.16 × 10.91 × 0.626-inches (W x D x H)
• Weight: 2.35 kg

Instructed System Necessities for the sport

Try the system necessities for PC that 2K has recommended to run the sport easily.

Minimal:

• Requires a 64-bit processor and working system
• OS: Home windows 10 64-bit, Home windows 11 64-bit
• Processor: Intel Core Intel i5 4690 / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X or higher
• Reminiscence: 8 GB RAM
• Graphics: Nvidia 960 2GB / AMD R9 380 or higher
• DirectX: Model 12
• Community: Broadband Web connection
• Storage: 12 GB accessible house
• Sound Card: DirectX 9.0x appropriate sound card

Really useful:

• Requires a 64-bit processor and working system
• OS: Home windows 10 64-bit
• Processor: Intel Core i7-4790 / AMD Ryzen 5 3500 or higher
• Reminiscence: 8 GB RAM
• Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 1070 4GB / AMD RX Vega-56 or higher
• DirectX: Model 12
• Community: Broadband Web connection
• Storage: 12 GB accessible house
• Sound Card: DirectX 9.0x appropriate sound card

The Dell Alienware X15 R2 fulfills each the minimal and really helpful parameters of the sport. Let’s have a look at how Lego 2K Drive performs in the actual world.

Testing Lego 2K Drive in numerous modes

Lego 2K Drive doesn’t supply complete customization choices for the graphics facet of the sport. There are solely few toggles accessible together with completely different DirectX modes. We ran the sport at 120 FPS which is the utmost refresh price choice accessible and carried out the assessments in each DirectX modes.

Throughout the first run, we centered performed the sport in DirectX 12 mode and the second, we tried the DirectX 11 mode. Right here is the way it carried out in each these modes.

Understanding the assessments

Let’s perceive what “1% Low Common” and “0.1% Low Common” imply within the image above. 1% Low is a metric that represents 1% of the frames of the complete length of our gaming session, which recorded the bottom body charges per second. 0.1% low refines issues additional, to present us the bottom 0.1% of the frames from everything of our gaming session, with the least framerates per second.

Efficiency of the sport

When in DirectX 11, the sport runs at a excessive common FPS of 80.8. Even the 1% Lows are at a median of 45 FPS and 0.1% Low common was 29.9 FPS. As these values spotlight, there was hardly any stuttering or lag that I observed. Taking part in the sport on the Dell Alienware X15 R2, was a clean expertise.

Nonetheless, in DirectX 12 mode, whereas the common FPS stayed related, the 0.1 Low common and 1% Low common, dropped to 10.2 and 26.4 respectively. The sport did noticeably stutter a few times, but it surely didn’t matter a lot within the warmth of the second. Total efficiency was satisfying for me. However, contemplating the much less advanced nature of the sport, I anticipated higher efficiency from the laptop computer and the sport.

Thermals

The Dell Alienware X15 R2 persistently thermal throttles whereas gaming with temperatures peaking at 109-degree Celsius. It’s value noting that I positioned the laptop computer in a sufficiently ventilated and funky house whereas gaming when these temperatures have been recorded. Regardless, this would possibly pose a problem to some gamers when taking part in racing video games like Lego 2K Drive.

It’s potential that you could be additionally really feel some portion of the warmth whereas urgent down on sure keys throughout prolonged gaming classes. We double checked with Dell to substantiate that this working temperature is regular for a skinny bundle just like the X15 R2.

Verdict

Summing up, taking part in Lego 2K Drive on the Alienware X15 R2 has been painless if I ignore the thermal state of affairs. Even whereas taking the thermal efficiency under consideration, the visible and graphics high quality, the smoothness and the audio efficiency, the general expertise was very satisfying and fulfilling. I don’t bear in mind registering any main efficiency points past some minor stutters all through the length of the sport. Nonetheless, we did hope for some increased tier of efficiency from the {hardware} this laptop computer options contemplating the extent of this sport.