Colorful Hidden Star P15 2024 Gaming Laptop Review: The price-performance ratio remains the same, but the appearance is greatly improved

New year and new atmosphere, many PC manufacturers are taking advantage of the rework season and the back-to-school season to launch the first wave of new products this year. Our site recently got the new Colorful Hidden Star P15 2024 gaming notebook. We tested the old one for you last year. The Hidden Star P16 model has left a deep impression on everyone with its excellent cost performance and bold appearance. So how will the 2024 Hidden Star P15 perform this time? Let’s take a look.

Appearance design

Old users of the Hidden Star series all know that this product has a special appearance design, bold color matching, and high recognition. I think this generation of Hidden Star P15 2024 is more mature and modern in terms of product texture and color matching.

First of all, in terms of design language, the A-side of Hidden Star P15 2024 is very simple and elegant. Although it retains the family-style ID design, such as the straight up and down "Qingtian Wing", It still uses colorful reflective shiny metal material, but it looks much more elegant with the warm white shell. The left and right corners of the top of side A are sharply angular, and two chamfered edges extend, which makes it visually more three-dimensional. With the surface coating, layer processing, the anti-fingerprint/anti-fouling effect is greatly improved.

Officially called this white model as Wuyu White, with the small aster color COLORFUL Logo, it is more refined than the previous generation. Overall, this machine is actually in panda color scheme, which is a contrast between black and white. The collision of the two purest colors really highlights the sense of luxury. However, the Hidden Star P15 2024 is not lightweight, with a thickness of 24.9mm and a bare metal weight of 2.41kg.

Open the screen, Colorful Hidden Star P15 2024 still maintains the old style, such as sharp edges, a plastic bracket outside the screen, and 16:9 screen ratio.

There is a high-definition camera and sound pickup microphone at the top of the screen.

#There is a COLORFUL white logo printed in the center of the bottom of the screen.

In terms of screen, Colorful Hidden Star P15 2024 is equipped with a 15.6-inch 2.5K 165Hz IPS gaming screen, with a screen-to-body ratio of 86% and color gamut coverage of 100% sRGB.

According to actual testing on this site, the sRGB color gamut coverage of this screen is 97.5%, and the screen brightness is 350nit. To be honest, the resolution and refresh rate are fine, but the screen The brightness is a bit low.

The C side adopts the same color matching as the A side, while the keyboard part is still black. Its RGB backlit keyboard is full size and comes with a numeric keypad. area, the keycaps are surrounded by translucent frosting, which can make the keyboard backlight brighter and more uniform, and the lighting can be customized through the control software.

Below the keyboard is a touchpad located to the left. It is medium in size and has a smooth surface. It feels good when touching and pressing, and it is not susceptible to fingerprints.

The D side of the Colorful Hidden Star P15 2024 is made of a large area of ​​black plastic, which is in sharp contrast to the C side. It has a raised design and a large area of ​​air inlet. From the hollow A huge heat dissipation module can be clearly seen in the bottom cover, and its shape is basically the same as that of the previous generation.

In terms of interfaces, Colorful Hidden Star P15 2024 adopts a 3-sided surround layout. There are 1 USB 2.0 and 1 USB 3.2 Gen1 interface on the left side of the fuselage. There are also There is a 3.5mm audio interface.

There is 1 USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C interface and 1 USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A interface on the right side of the fuselage. The left and right air outlets have been blackened. This detail is still very handsome on a white fuselage. of.

The back of the machine is painted all black and has a mini DP interface, an HDMI interface, a DC power interface and an RJ45 network port. The Type-C interface, HDMI and mini DP interface can all be used for video output, and the shape of the air outlet is also very classic.

Theoretical Performance

Colorful Hidden Star P15 2024 is equipped with the 13th generation Core i7-13620H processor. Compared with the more familiar i7-13700H processor, the main difference is the number of cores and the Display specification adjustments.

i7-13620H still uses the Intel 7 manufacturing process, has 10 cores and 16 threads, including 6 performance cores and 4 energy efficiency cores, with a maximum turbo frequency of 4.9 GHz, 24MB L3 cache. In terms of core display, the execution unit has been reduced from 96EU of i7-13700H to 64EU. Therefore, although the core display frequency is 1.5GHz, there is a certain gap in core display performance. Fortunately, the Colorful Hidden Star P15 2024 has a powerful RTX 4060 Laptop GPU. From a cost-effective perspective, the trade-off in processor core and display performance helps to lower the product price.

Actually looking at the running scores, the single-core performance of the i7-13620H is quite outstanding. The score of 777 is not inferior to the i7-13700H at all. However, in terms of multi-core performance, the comparison There are 4 less energy efficiency cores, so the score is about 900 points lower than the i7-13700H. However, it still has a certain advantage over the R7 7840H, with a single-core lead of about 24.5% and a multi-core lead of about 6%.

In the CineBench R23 test, Colorful Hidden Star P15 2024 obtained a single-core score of 1851 points and a multi-core score of 16299 points respectively. The single-core score and multi-core score were similar. It has a slight advantage over the R7-7840H, and is suitable for ordinary players.

The next step is 3D Mark’s CPU Profile project test. Its analysis of CPU single-thread and multi-thread performance is more specific. Colorful Hidden Star P15 2024 finally got the single-threaded performance test. The thread score is 999 points, and the maximum thread score is 7680 points. Compared with the R7 7840H notebook, the multi-core notebook has an advantage and the single-core notebook is evenly matched.

In terms of GPU, RTX 4060 is also an old friend that everyone is very familiar with. We conducted a simple theoretical test on it through 3D Mark. The first is 3D Mark’s Time Spy stress test to examine stability. Generally, a score higher than 97% is required to pass the test and pass the test. Colorful Hidden Star P15 2024 passed the test successfully with a final score of 99.5% in the 20-round Time Spy cycle.

In the 3D Mark Time Spy benchmark test, which represents DX12 game performance, the graphics card score of Colorful Hidden Star P15 2024 easily exceeded 10,000, and the CPU score also reached 11,566 points, making it a mainstream game player. There are no issues with AAA gaming performance.

In the 3D Mark Fire Strike test, which represents DX11 game performance, the graphics card score of Colorful Hidden Star P15 2024 was as high as 27584 points, and the physical score exceeded 3W points. There is not much difference in performance between i7-13700H and i7-13700H.

In terms of light-tracing performance, we tested it through Port Royal. The final RTX 4060 score was 5833 points, which is a satisfactory level. Running mainstream light-tracing games is not a problem.

In terms of daily office work and productivity, we have also tested several mainstream professional software for you. In the PC Mark 10 modern office test, the overall score of Colorful Hidden Star P15 2024 was 7176 points. Thanks to the performance of the RTX 4060 graphics card, the digital content creation score reached 1.3W points. The other two scores were in line with the expected level. It can be used for daily office work.

In terms of V-Ray, the CPU BenchMark score was 11127 points, which is quite obvious compared to the i7-13700H with a power consumption of 40 to 50 watts.

In the test session of V-Ray for CUDA, Colorful Hidden Star P15 2024 scored 1142 points.

In the V-Ray for RTX test, the Colorful Hidden Star P15 2024 ran a score of 1669 points, which is normal performance for the RTX 4060.

In the benchmark test of version 4.0 of another professional modeling software blender, the three scenes of Colorful Hidden Star P15 2024 scored 1596 points, 885 points and 847 points respectively. , able to meet their professional creative needs.

However, I have to mention here that the Colorful Hidden Star P15 2024 is equipped with a single 16GB DDR5 5600MHz memory by default. Due to the limitations of the CPU platform, the actual frequency is only 5200MHz. Therefore, the performance in the AIDA64 memory test is quite satisfactory, which has a certain impact on the entire performance test part and the subsequent game test part.

As for the hard drive, old users may be familiar with it. The model used in the Colorful Hidden Star series is as shown in the picture. It is a Marvell88SS1100 master controller. The one we have has a capacity of 512GB. .

The actual reading and writing speed performance is also relatively average, the reading speed can reach 3500MB/s, and the writing speed is 2218MB/s. Fortunately, there is a reserved space inside the machine. PCIe Gen4 *4 M.2 slot, friends who are concerned about its storage configuration are recommended to upgrade the memory and solid state, and the use experience will be better. This review is based on single-channel memory testing. If you install dual-channel memory, the actual performance and game performance should be better than our test results.

Let’s take a look at its performance release and baking machine performance. The first is to bake the FPU alone. After 10 minutes of baking, the CPU temperature is 99 degrees and the power consumption remains at about 84W. The P core frequency of the CPU is 4.0GHz and the E core frequency is 3.0GHz.

Bake the GPU part alone. After baking for 10 minutes, the temperature of the graphics card remains near 75 degrees, the temperature of the video memory is 74 degrees, the power consumption of the graphics card is 100W, and the frequency of the graphics card is Around 2010MHz.

The last step is double baking. This time we baked the machine for 20 minutes. You can see that the CPU temperature is 79 degrees, the power consumption is 43W, and the P core frequency is 3.0GHz; The graphics card temperature is 79 degrees, the video memory temperature is 76 degrees, the graphics card power consumption is about 100W, and the GPU frequency is 1995MHz. Judging from the above results, the single-baked CPU performance of the Colorful Hidden Star P15 2024 model is relatively average, the single-baked GPU performance is normal, and the double-baked performance has improved a lot. After all, the dual-baked CPU was not satisfied before, but now it can be maintained at 140W is full power consumption, and the temperature performance is not bad.

Game Test

Next we officially enter the game test session. Before the test, it needs to be emphasized that Colorful Hidden Star P15 2024 has a built-in control center software this time, through which users can quickly switch. Switch the machine's performance mode, graphics card working mode, and check the working status of the main hardware.

The page of the control center is relatively intuitive. The performance mode is divided into four levels. From high to low, they are performance mode, entertainment mode, power saving mode and quiet mode. It supports custom fan speed. The shortcut on the right The function switches are also very rich, and it also supports switching between the two graphics card working states: independent graphics direct connection and integrated graphics mode. In the game test, we always use the performance mode, automatic fan speed, independent graphics direct connection mode, and the resolution is always 2K.

In addition to regular hardware status viewing and shortcut function switches, Hidden Star P15’s built-in control center also supports keyboard lighting customization functions, allowing you to freely change the color and brightness of the lighting.

#The key macro function is also supported, allowing players to easily customize their own game and office shortcut keys. Of course, mouse macros are also available.

In addition, the control center has also made some optimizations to power management, such as limiting the maximum power, customizing charging, etc.

The first one is "CS2", the most popular online competitive game on Steam. This game has significantly increased its PC performance requirements after a major version update.

After entering the game, we performed practice battles at the default high quality, and used FrameView to capture game data. The measured average number of frames at 2K resolution was 202 frames, 1% Low The frame rate is 57 frames and the average delay is 14.1ms, which is not bad.

We chose 2 traditional raster games. In the classic 3A game "Shadow of the Tomb Raider", we chose the highest image quality of 2K, and did not turn on ray tracing and DLSS. option, the average number of frames is 93 frames.

In another classic 3A game "Red Dead Redemption 2", we chose the highest image quality of 2K, did not turn on the DLSS option, and ran the benchmark test that comes with the game. , the final average number of frames was 67 frames.

In terms of light chasing games, in the extremely well-optimized racing game "Forza Horizon 5", select 2K resolution extreme image quality and turn on the DLSS 3 option , DLSS 2 selects the quality level, and the final average number of frames is 84 frames.

The last one is "Cyberpunk: 2077" which is very stressful. After entering the game, we choose 2K super image quality, manually turn on the ray tracing option, and turn on DLSS 2 balancing Turn on the DLSS 3 frame generation option and run the game's own benchmark test. The average number of frames of Colorful Hidden Star P15 2024 is 92 frames. It can be said that at 2K resolution, it can't beat all mainstream game types.

Finally, let’s take a look at the battery life. This time we tested it twice, once with the independent graphics direct connection turned on, and once with the integrated graphics mode. Performance The modes are all in power saving mode, while the battery options are best performance and best energy efficiency respectively. It can be seen that if the maximum performance is turned on, the modern office battery life of PC Mark 10 is only 2 hours and 36 minutes.

After switching to the integrated display mode, the battery life is suddenly increased to 5 hours and 11 minutes, and the battery life is doubled, so if you use it out, you still have to remember to make full use of the integrated display mode. display mode to extend the use time.

Summary

Overall, I think the biggest improvement of this Colorful Hidden Star P15 2024 model is the appearance. After all, the previous old models, including the Hidden Star P16, also had the same configuration, but In terms of appearance, Wuyu White can be said to completely beat the old model. The other pure black color is also very practical for players who don’t like to be ostentatious. The new color matching makes the texture of the machine much more advanced and more resistant to stains. I believe it will be used by those with good looks. Love the new changes.

On the other hand, the configuration is a bit like old wine in a new bottle, but the price/performance ratio is still excellent. It is also a relatively balanced configuration combination among current game laptops. It is still worth it for those with limited budgets. priority. However, if you have performance obsessive-compulsive disorder, you will definitely have to spend extra money to install and upgrade it. I hope that Colorful will be able to provide storage in one step. After all, buying a notebook is just for peace of mind and convenience.

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