Toshiba Qosmio X775: Toshiba's Gamer Grows Up
by Dustin Sklavos on August 17, 2011 12:25 AM ESTGaming Performance
While the Toshiba Qosmio X775 and its NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M don't jump whole hog into the highest end of mobile gaming hardware, there's enough performance here to merit a pretty broad look at it across our spectrum of tests. Note that it features a screen with a 1600x900 native resolution; while I'm not a fan of that resolution on 17.3" notebooks, you'll see it does seem to be about the right resolution for the GTX 560M.
Right away from our medium tests, you can see why the 560M probably didn't need this suite of tests run. We tend to want to test performance class GPUs like the 560M and Radeon HD 6800M series at our medium and high presets, but the 560M bridges the gap between high and ultra. Medium settings barely put a dent in the 560M. That said, for whatever reason the Qosmio seems to suffer some overhead compared to our other i7-2630QM systems in StarCraft II; hopefully moving the bottleneck further to the GPU will let the Qosmio shine.
Somehow the ASUS G73SW continues to be a freak of nature, outperforming the Qosmio X775 despite the X775's more recent drivers and 100MHz core clock advantage. The X775's performance isn't bad necessarily and the clocks are running at spec, though the benchmarks it leads in, the leads are fairly slight. As with PCMark, there appears to be some optimization left on the table, or possibly the use of Optimus is having a slight impact on performance.
There it is. At our ultra setting, the 560M finally begins to break away from its predecessor, though we don't seem to be quite there yet in terms of pure performance. Given that the 460M and 560M have the same memory bandwidth, there are likely some titles where that's the bottleneck. Ultimately, though, the GeForce GTX 560M is by no means a bad gaming GPU, but it still can't hang with the top end graphics hardware. This is a mainstream gaming part best suited for 900p or 1080p, but definitely not with 4xAA enabled on all titles.
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SlyNine1 - Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - link
"...the clock has gone up 100MHz to 775MHz..."You mean 675 to 775.
Just trying to help out my favorit review site. Thanks for the great reviews and keep up the good work!
SlyNine1 - Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - link
Never mind. My bad lol.danjw - Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - link
No SSD option, plus an extra pound to get a decent resolution display. 2 hard drives? What a waste. My question is are the hard drives user replaceable? So I could pull out the dead wait and install an SSD?danjw - Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - link
err, dead weight.JarredWalton - Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - link
Yes, you can swap the HDD out. Also, since the HM65 doesn't support RAID, that at least means you don't need to worry about doing a RAID0 to non-RAID downgrade first (a problem I've encountered on some MSI models).rallstarz - Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - link
Any word when your review of the Mythlogic laptops is coming out? Thanks!JarredWalton - Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - link
Writing as we speak... hope to be up by Friday.rallstarz - Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - link
Great! Thanks! Looking forward to it.Solidstate89 - Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - link
Although it's not a gaming laptop, is there any chance of you guys doing a review of the new Dell Precision notebooks? Especially with the option of the IPS panel on the 15" M4600.Heck, I've got the TN panel version and its black levels are at least as good as the E-IPS monitor I use for my desktop. I figure it's a perfect way for you to get over all these disappointing screens Dustin, by reviewing a laptop with a good one ;)
Hrel - Thursday, August 18, 2011 - link
I can't even start to consider this with that screen. I kind of understand skimping on lower end laptops, under 700 bucks. Even under 1000 to a certain degree. But this is among the worste 900p screen I've ever seen. Most of the time I consider 900p to be "good enough". On a 1300+ 17" laptop though... Whatever screen Clevo is using, is the minimum I expect.GTX560M is fine for a 15.6" laptop, I get it, heat constraints. But I expect more in a 17" laptop. From my perspective 17" is too big to be something you carry around everywhere anyway. So it's probably acting as a desktop replacement. Which means it needs to be able to play every current game at 1080p at max settings at over 60fps. Idk, maybe that can't be done for 1500 or less yet on laptops; but I'd never consider getting a desktop replacement if it can't be.
The other thing I consider required is 2+ hdd bays and 4 RAM slots. Again, it can be done in 15" models, 17" should be a piece of cake.
Fuck Blu Ray; that is all.