Mechanic Sugon 16 Air review: Powered by Core Ultra, it feels like an AI PC

This is a mechanic Dawn 16 Air.

As a new thin and light notebook product mainly recommended by mechanics, this notebook inherits the brand’s consistent exquisite design style and is equipped with the latest Core Ultra series processors. Optional storage configurations of up to 32GB and 1TB make it comparable to first-tier manufacturers in terms of performance, and even surpasses it in some aspects.

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This generation of Core Ultra This series of processors adopts a new 3D high-performance hybrid architecture. In addition to the conventional CPU and iGPU, it also adds NPU-assisted AI generation. It is characterized by high computing power and low energy consumption, and is more suitable for continuous background AI tasks. In theory Complex AI tasks can be run directly on the PC.

It just so happens that Xiaolei is also very interested in the "AI PC" concept promoted by Intel, so he took advantage of getting this new Mechanic Dawn 16 Air Core Ultra 7 16GB 1TB Today, let’s take a look at its actual experience on AIGC through the evaluation.

Appearance: white and thin body, exquisite but with a little regret

As the old rule, we still start with the appearance let's go.

Speaking of the Mechanic brand, there are two main impressions left on everyone. One is the high pricing strategy of second-tier products similar to Thor, and the other is the The similarity between the product and the Alienware gaming laptop is extremely high.

The Mechanic Sugon 16 Air naturally retains this design style. It is like a twin brother’s butt design with the Alienware X16, with the same RGB illuminated logo and rear air outlet. It can be said that it continues the e-sports gene that the mechanic has always had.

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Although it looks very It's like a gaming laptop, but it's a large-screen and lightweight laptop. The 16-inch body is only 18mm thick, and the weight is controlled within 2kg. It still feels a little heavy in the hand.

But no matter what I say, the pure white body really wins my heart.

Turning to the B side, the phone is equipped with a 16-inch 16:10 ratio screen. This screen has a 2.5K resolution (2560×1600) and a 120Hz refresh rate. The screen frame is narrow on three sides and wider at the bottom, and there is no prominent brand logo.

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10Bit color depth, The official promotion is 100% sRGB color gamut, which is considered to be the first-tier screen quality even in today's thin and light notebook market where many experts are there. However, the design of the matte screen will make the screen look less transparent and clear. It's a double-edged sword.

With its huge 16-inch body, the C side can easily fit a full-size keyboard and numeric keypad. The sunken direction keys are very popular, but when actually typing, The pressing feel is a bit soft and lacks some light and powerful feeling.

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Left side of the fuselage There are 2 Type-C Thunderbolt 4 interfaces, one HDMI 2.1 audio interface and one Type-A USB 3.2 interface.

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Right side of the fuselage There is a Type-A USB 3.2 interface, a Type-A 2.0 interface, a 3.5mm audio interface and an SD card slot.

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3A2C interface configuration , which is quite comprehensive among thin and light notebooks.

It’s just that the RJ45 network port is missing, which is a bit of a pity. After all, there is enough space on the back of the fuselage to arrange more interfaces.

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In addition to the 75Wh battery , is also equipped with a 100W gallium nitride power adapter, which is currently the most common high-power thin and light notebook power adapter.

Performance: Powerful, worthy of Core Ultra

In terms of CPU, the Mechanic Sugon 16 Air is equipped with New generation Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor.

The specific specifications are 6P 8E 2LPE, a total of 16 cores and 22 threads, a maximum core frequency of 4.8GHz, a 24MB L3 cache, and a built-in core display of 128EU Arc core It is a powerful mobile processor that is very suitable for office production.

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In terms of performance release, the Mechanic Control Center provides three modes, among which The highest grade can provide 65W performance release, and our test was also conducted in performance mode.

The built-in test of CPU-Z shows that the single-core score of this processor is 739.9 points and the multi-core score is 8192.5 points, which is at the upper level among thin and light notebooks. , still very good.

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In R20, R23 In the test, the R20 of Sugon 16 Air scored 634 points in single-core and 5387 points in multi-core. The R23 scored 1754 points in single-core and 15470 points in multi-core. The results are still good.

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In CrossMark, Sugon 16 Air achieved a total score of 1733, which is a good performance.

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From the running test Judging from the results, the Ultra 7 155H has outstanding multi-threading performance and rendering performance, and can basically handle heavy multi-tasking work. The new processor architecture and newly added NPU unit are even more impressive for its battery life performance and AI. Ability has more expectations.

In addition to the CPU performance, the core display of Core Ultra is also very interesting this time.

The new Arc core display uses the Xe-LPG architecture, containing 8 Xe cores, 128 computing units, and a frequency of up to 2250MHz.

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in 3DMark’s Time In the Spy and Fire Strike Extreme tests, the new Arc core display scored 3887 and 8447 respectively. The theoretical performance has surpassed the mobile version of GeForence GTX1650. It can be said that the MX series of mobile-side castrated graphics cards have no value.

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In order to better utilize the performance of this core display, Sugon 16 Air is equipped with 32GB LPDDR5X-7467MHz high-frequency memory and a 1TB PCIe4.0 NVMe M.2 solid-state drive. The actual model is Yangtze Storage PC300. The measured reading speed is 3968.25MB/s and the writing speed is 2970.09MB/s.

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By the way, in After removing the back cover of the fuselage, we can also find that Sugon 16 Air has reserved an NVMe M.2 solid-state drive slot in advance to support user upgrades. Although the price of solid-state drives has rebounded slightly recently, there is still nothing to say goodbye to storage anxiety. question.

Actual test: From generating pictures to light games, the AI ​​capabilities are powerful

As mentioned on the promotional page In this way, Dawn 16 Air is positioned as the latest AI PC in e-sports, so AI testing and game testing are naturally indispensable.

The first is Intel AIGC Assistant, which is a demonstration Demo that integrates multiple local large language models and is dedicated to realizing intelligent human-machine without being connected to the network. dialogue.

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Turning off the laptop network In this case, except for the initial deployment, which takes a certain amount of time, follow-up questions can basically be answered within 1-2 seconds. Whether it is answering questions, translating or writing, it is very fast, and the content of the reply basically has no logical errors, and can still be answered automatically. Negotiable.

Considering that Microsoft Copilot is still not available in China, the advantages of Intel's local deployment of large models are quite obvious.

Then comes Stable Diffusion.

As the most popular local AI drawing application, the original Stable Diffusion relies heavily on independent graphics computing power. Traditional thin and light notebooks can only perform hard calculations through CPU computing power, which ultimately leads to The generation time of a 512*512 picture is stretched to 3-5 minutes.

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But, I have to say but.

OpenVINO is a semi-open source toolkit developed by Intel specifically for optimizing and deploying artificial intelligence reasoning. It is mainly used to optimize deep reasoning.

After deploying the Stable Diffusion OpenVINO integration package, just open the "Accelerate with OpenVINO" script for acceleration, then you can compress the generation time of a 512*512 image to about 10 seconds.

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However, Stable Diffusion OpenVINO is not a panacea.

Start the Stable Diffusion of the OpenVINO plug-in. Every time you change keywords and models, it will take a certain amount of time to warm up before it can enter the continuous output state. And currently this application It does not support many commonly used plug-ins such as Lora.

To obtain a better experience, continuous optimization by Intel is required.

Let’s look at the games again. We have selected three popular games: “Cyberpunk 2077”, “Shadow of the Tomb Raider” and “Forza Horizon 5” 3A masterpiece to measure the gaming performance of Dawn 16 Air.

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Judging from the test results, under the FHD medium and high image quality settings, Sugon 16 Air can achieve about 50-60 frames of performance in the three games. It can perform like this on 3A masterpieces, so when faced with large-scale online games with mature operations, this product can completely achieve stress-free play.

Summary: Excellent large-screen thin and light notebook, AI PC great transformation

In terms of price, the mechanic Sugon 16 Air has There are two versions, Ultra 5 and Ultra 7. The Ultra 5 version starts at 4,999 yuan, and the Ultra 7 version starts at 5,499 yuan. The Ultra 7 32 1TB version we have is priced at 6,199 yuan.

After actual experience, the new mechanic Sugon 16 Air, with the support of Ultra 7 155H, can realize end-side AI applications in pictures, videos, and texts, and at the same time, the latest The Arc core display can also meet users' 3A entertainment needs at medium and low image quality, achieving a gorgeous upgrade from a thin and light notebook to a full-featured AI PC.

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It should be noted that , the 16-inch body design not only achieves good heat dissipation, but also brings a body weight of nearly 2kg. It can only be said that although the mechanics have tried their best to make it thinner and lighter, it is not as good as the 14-inch product with the same positioning. It's still a lot heavier in comparison.

In my opinion, this product may be more suitable for young office workers who work in fixed locations than students who often carry computers around.

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