Fierce PC Dream Machines P960RN Gaming Laptop Review

Let’s not beat around the bush here, the Dream Machines laptop is not cheap. Of course, that’s because it has some pretty fantastic high-end hardware, so as you might expect, it delivers some pretty fantastic performance too. It scored big in 3DMark, even beating out the ROG STRIX Scar III and the equally fantastic Zephyrus systems by quite a large margin. Of course, it’s also got the fastest GPU of any recent laptop we’ve reviewed, so no big surprise there. The same is true in Unigine, with a score of 4844, performing very close to the desktop systems with the 5700XT and liquid cooling systems.

Even the new i7 processor pulled its weight nicely, clocking 4930 in PCMark10, and a very swift 170.14 (for a laptop) in WPrime. I am impressed by the CineBench R15 score too, which was just ahead of the 9600k  + RTX 2070 equipped Novatech Elite Sentinel; again, that’s laptop vs desktop performance here. It also scored 48 FPS transcoding 4K video, the fastest we’ve had from a laptop to date.

3DMark Firestrike

Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme

PCMark 10

WPrime 32m and 1024m

Cinebench R15

Handbrake MP4 to MKV Conversion 4K