This review focuses on the 1 TB 5400 RPM HDD. Sadly, the Dell G3 15 3579 offered slow storage speeds when its storage performance was tested with this drive. The Dell G3 15 and the Dell G5 15 SE both start out as bread-and-butter cheap gaming laptops, but the G5 15 SE can be configured into a premium machine.

Rise of the Tomb Raider ran at 24 fps on very high and 1080p, which is under our minimum 30-fps playability threshold as well as the 41-fps category average. The Asus TUF Gaming FX504 (GTX 1050 2GB) barely ran the game at 16 fps, and the MSI GL62M 7REX (GTX 1050 Ti 4GB) didn't do much better, at 22 fps. But the Lenovo Legion Y520 (GTX 1050 Ti 4GB) pulled off 46 fps. The G3 15 scored a rough 3.5 out of 11 on the SteamVR performance test, which matches the marks from the MSI 7REX and the Legion Y520 but is crushed by the 6.6 category average. The TUF Gaming FX504 scored even lower, with 2.7. While you can theoretically use an Oculus Rift with the G3 15 thanks to Oculus' Asynchronous Spacewarp technology, it's probably not a good idea. Dell G3 15 performance The G3 15 averaged 152fps on the lowest preset, and 114fps on the maximum preset (both manually tuned to 100 percent render resolution), making a clear case for the 120Hz screen. Games in that genre will look smoother, and give you a competitive advantage as your screen updates more frequently. Battery Rundown Test The strongest aspect of the Dell G3 3590 is its serviceability. Unlike the HP Pavilion Gaming 15 or the MSI GP65, the Dell system is easier to upgrade and it doesn't require tearing any warranty seals. Performance is where we expect it to be considering the hardware and the low price of entry makes the system attractive to users who want a decently powerful no frills gaming machine. According to our colorimeter, the G3 15's panel covers a crushingly low 61 percent of the sRGB color gamut. (We consider anything 100 percent and above to be acceptable.) The Asus TUF Gaming FX504 and the Lenovo Legion Y520 covered only 66 and 68 percent, respectively, while the MSI GL62M 7REX took the throne with an impressive 153 percent.

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The G3 15’s decent (but not great) overall speed is demonstrated again on these tests. It’s slower than the competition on two of these tests, though none is exactly ready to churn through media editing or creation. The budget tier isn’t where you look for excellence with these workloads, but they can make it through if you’re willing to wait. Graphics Tests

Therefore, I can only rate it a seven in this review. Dell G3 15 3579 Processor (CPU) Performance Review That's better than the 4:53 category average, as well as the runtimes from the Asus TUF Gaming FX504 (3:57) and the MSI GL62M 7REX (3:33). Dell G3 15 webcam Throughout the testing process, I threw a lot at the Dell G3 to discover its limit. Whenever I got too ambitious with the settings, games would immediately crash, but the hardware never became annoyingly hot or loud. A lot of care clearly went into the design of the G3. It may not feel premium, but it certainly ensures efficient airflow. We also run a custom Adobe Photoshop image-editing benchmark. Using an early 2018 release of the Creative Cloud version of Photoshop, we apply a series of 10 complex filters and effects to a standard JPEG test image, timing each operation and adding up the total. As with Handbrake, lower times are better here. The system draws between 6 W and 28 W when idling on desktop depending on the power profile and system brightness. When running Witcher 3, consumption becomes only 94 W compared to 101 W on the last generation G3 3579. In other words, the G3 3590 is able to offer up to 2x the graphics performance of its predecessor while consuming less power in the process. The GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q SKU is expected to be about 30 percent more demanding than our GTX 1650 SKU when gaming.

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These results are seriously impressive for a gaming laptop. In fact, you’ll be hard-pressed to find another that can match for it for both power and battery life. Why buy the Dell G3 15? We see a respectable, if unremarkable, battery-life result here. The Nitro 5 is a big outlier, while the rest are clustered in the six-to-seven-hour range. Six hours of battery life in the described scenario is good for a gaming laptop, though in case you’re unaware, you won’t be able to play games for that long off the charger. Gaming drains battery much faster than general use (word processing, web browsing, and even watching videos like our test), so you’d only be able to play for a couple hours off the charger (and with diminished performance). Cinebench is often a good predictor of our Handbrake video editing trial, another tough, threaded workout that's highly CPU-dependent and scales well with cores and threads. In it, we put a stopwatch on test systems as they transcode a standard 12-minute clip of 4K video (the open-source Blender demo movie Tears of Steel) to a 1080p MP4 file. It's a timed test, and lower results are better. Despite having a great score of 6509K for Visual Colour Temperature, the Dell G3’s display still looks rather warm when compared to other laptops. This isn’t helped by the dismal colour range, with just 51.8% of sRGB colour gamut. The Dell G3 is just not designed for image or video editing, being unable to reproduce colours accurately enough to be a worthwhile asset for such creative work.