Just went into a local seller in my country’s e-commerce and found this gem. Seller said it got BSODed during GPU driver installation but it keeps intrigued me since usually a failed GPU only happened when it stopped displaying or having many artifacts during usage. Even with the GPU failed, it might be still a decent laptop with a Zen 3 processor and APU with 1440p screen. So I pulled the trigger and hoped I don’t get scammed.
When it arrived, the GPU went absolutely fine and even play games and did benchmark/stress tests pretty well. Idk what happened but getting an RTX 3080 for this price is just insane for me. This will be my new daily laptop, replacing my Legion 5.
The Aftershock Apex 15R. It uses the same chassis (Tongfang GM5ZG7W) as some laptops like XMG Neo 15 E21 and Eluktronics Mech -15 G3. The BIOS are compatible to each other though the XMG hotkey layout is different.
Lyle said:
A laptop with an RTX 3080 that performs as well as the RTX 4060 and has 16GB of VRAM? That’s a jackpot right there.
The RTX 3080 should outperform the 4060 unless it’s a very low TDP model. From the benchmarks, it seems this one is indeed a lower power version, yet it still outperforms a laptop 4060 in many respects.