Gaming Notebooks Compared

One of the most common comments posted in response to mini-PC reviews is that the value proposition of an equivalent notebook is much higher than that of the PC. While there are plenty of factors that might make this comparison invalid, we thought it would be interesting to see how the Zotac ZBOX MAGNUS EK71080 fares against premium gaming notebooks. Towards this, we borrowed a few benchmarks from our notebook reviews and processed them on the EN1080K. In the graphs below, we also have the gaming mini-PCs on which the benchmarks were processed. First, we will look at some artificial benchmarks before moving on to the games themselves.

3DMark Revisited

Futuremark 3DMark (2013)
Futuremark 3DMark (2013)
Futuremark 3DMark (2013)
Futuremark 3DMark (2013)
Futuremark 3DMark (2013)
Futuremark 3DMark (2013)

GFXBench

GFXBench 3.0 Manhattan Offscreen 1080p
GFXBench 3.0 T-Rex Offscreen 1080p

Dota 2

Dota 2 Reborn - Enthusiast

Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor

Shadow of Mordor - Enthusiast

The takeaway from these results is that the performance of the ZBOX MAGNUS EK71080 is beaten only by systems with desktop CPUs (including some desktop replacement (DTR) notebooks such as the Clevo P870DM2).

Gaming Benchmarks Networking and Storage Performance
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    I really want a ZBOX with one of AMD's new Zen APUs. I think they demonstrated one 6 months ago or something but it isn't available yet. Yes, here it is, ZBOX MA551 with a 2200G or 2400G - https://www.anandtech.com/show/12319/zotac-display...
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