Benchmarks: Gaming
It's safe to call it a clean sweep in the performance stakes. The CPU, memory and SSD all deliver chart-topping numbers, and the same can be said for the overclocked GeForce GTX 1080.
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Strong scores in Fire Strike Extreme, Time Spy and VRMark Orange Room hint at plenty of gaming potential with high-resolution hardware, but the Time Spy Stress Test introduces a wrinkle. The Asus machine fell just short of the 97 per cent pass mark, and our logs reveal that the GPU struggled to maintain peak frequencies during extended use.
We've run a selection of modern games and in the above graphs the orange bar represents framerate at the native full-HD resolution, while the blue bars highlight QHD and UHD potential via an external monitor.
There's more than enough firepower to drive full-HD gaming, and high framerates combine with the 120Hz G-Sync display to deliver a beautifully smooth experience. Should you choose to attach a higher-resolution panel, the G701VI hardware is perfectly adept at QHD gaming and makes a reasonable fist of things at 4K UHD.
Given the permutations on offer, we wonder if gamers will appreciate the full-HD 120Hz configuration, or whether they'd prefer, say, a QHD resolution with G-Sync at 60Hz?
