It's E3 again this year. Is your computer ready for the many top PC games?

It's E3 again. Every year, countless game fans around the world start to pay attention to this exhibition, because almost all major game manufacturers will release previews of their new games and future update plans at E3. So, let's take stock of what games are worth looking forward to at this year's E3. While looking forward to new games, the release of 3A masterpieces every year is a test for players' computer configuration. Can your computer still handle it?

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The Halo series has been around for more than a decade. As a veteran sci-fi shooting game, it has a very high reputation in the gaming industry. At this E3 exhibition, Microsoft released a new game in the series, Halo: Infinite, which was also released on the PC platform. This game was created by 343 Industries, the production team of the Halo series, using the new generation Slipspace engine. The trailer shows a completely different picture quality. This time, we can embark on a new adventure with the Master Chief on the high configuration of the PC platform.

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Bethesda (commonly known as Bethesda) also puts the focus on classic games. "Doom: Eternal" is the second game in the reboot series of the classic shooting game "Doom". "Doom" is a first-person shooter game that first appeared on the DOS system. Due to the refreshing shooting experience, it has become the childhood memory of countless players and the enlightenment of many FPS players. Due to functional limitations, early games can only display dynamic images in the form of PPT. Now, thanks to the higher main frequency of the 9th generation Core i7, high-performance gaming PCs can give us a stable and smooth shooting experience with high image quality.

Image source: Cyberpunk official website

Cyberpunk 2077 is a sandbox RPG game set in a future city. It is also a highly anticipated masterpiece at this E3 exhibition. In addition to the novel game theme, the reason why players are looking forward to it is that Cyberpunk 2077 is produced by CD Projekt RED. The famous masterpiece "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt" in the past few years was produced by CDPR. In addition to winning many awards, the game also became one of the standards for PC game performance testing at the time. The huge game data and a large number of model texture materials require a lot of time to read the disc when entering the game. When equipped with Optane black technology acceleration, the reading time can be greatly shortened to enhance the gaming experience and immersion.

Image source: Ubisoft official website

UBISOFT is also a frequent visitor to E3. At this E3, Ubisoft released the new game in the Watch Dogs series, Watch Dogs: Legion. The game uses the hacker theme of the previous game and is set in London in the near future. You can freely play any role in the game. One of the highlights of the open world games produced by Ubisoft in recent years is the highly restored real landscape. Ubisoft has also been nicknamed a tourist game manufacturer. The open world usually uses seamless loading and reading, which has high requirements for processors and hard drives. In the near future, players can use gaming laptops equipped with Optane SSDs to easily cope with high-intensity data loading, making the gaming experience more stable and smooth.

9th Generation Intel® Core™ Processor Family

After reviewing so many new masterpieces, are you starting to worry about your computer? The improvement of game fluency, stability and image quality is naturally inseparable from the performance improvement of PC hardware. The new 9th generation Core™ mobile processor has up to 8 cores and 16 threads. Compared with computers 3 years ago, the gaming FPS value of a notebook equipped with i9-9980HK has increased by 18% (Note 1) , and the FPS value of games, live broadcasts, and recording simultaneous operations has increased by 2.1 times (Note 2) . The overall performance of a computer equipped with i7-9750H has increased by up to 33% (Note 3) , bringing surging power and easily unleashing the power of players.

Optane™ technology

Today's 3A games often have a capacity of tens of GB, which puts a lot of pressure on the hard disk when reading and writing data in the game. Optane™ technology has excellent read and write response capabilities . According to official data, the 16GB version of Optane technology has a read speed of up to 900MB/s and a write speed of up to 145MB/s; while the 32GB version has higher performance in all aspects, with a read speed of up to 1350 MB/s and a write speed of up to 290MB/s , allowing you to easily handle large-scale data and texture loading under high image quality.

Thunderbolt™ 3 unified interface

In addition to hardware performance, the Thunderbolt™ 3 interface that integrates display transmission, data transmission, and 100W power supply allows you to do everything with one cable. The Thunderbolt™ 3 interface speed reaches 40Gbps, supports connecting to a 5K display with a 60GHz refresh rate, and even supports the use of two 4K 60GHz displays at the same time .

All the above requirements can be met with a laptop equipped with a 9th generation Core™ mobile processor :

Remark:

1.Based on Hitman 2 FPS Workload, test results are based on 9th Gen Intel Core™ i9-9980HK vs. 8th Gen Intel Core™ i9-8950HK.

2. As measured by Mega-tasking Gaming Scenario on Black Ops 4comparing 9th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-9980HK vs. 8th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-8950HK

3. Based on SYSmark* 2018 benchmark, results are obtained by comparing 9th Gen Intel Core™ i7-9750H with 6th Gen Intel Core® i7-6700HQ.

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