Gaming and Battery Life
Our regular laptop gaming benchmark is Just Cause 2 at 1,366x768 with medium-quality settings. This, clearly, isn't enough to challenge the XMG P503 PRO - at these settings, the GPU simply isn't a bottleneck.
Gaming Performance |
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| Game | Quality Settings | Average FPS |
| BioShock Infinite | 1,920x1,080, Medium Quality | 74.3 |
| 1,920x1,080, High Quality | 64.8 |
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| 1,920x1,080, Ultra Quality | 35.3 |
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| DiRT Showdown | 1,920x1,080, 4xMSAA, Medium Quality | 111.7 |
| 1,920x1,080, 4xMSAA, High Quality | 93.9 |
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| 1,920x1,080, 4xMSAA, Ultra Quality | 35.5 |
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To get a better feel for what the Core i7-4800MQ and GeForce GTX 770M combination can do, we've run a couple of modern titles at the laptop's native 1080p resolution with medium, high and ultra quality presets. The results are impressive. Even at the ultra presets, the laptop is able to achieve in excess of 30 frames per second in BioShock Infinite and DiRT Showdown. Drop down to still-lovely high quality and you'll see more than 60 frames per second in most titles.
Our battery life test entails looping a 720p movie clip with 50 per cent screen brightness and all wireless radios disabled, timing how long it takes for the laptop to enter hibernation.
We don't expect powerful gaming laptops to be tuned for maximum battery life, but the XMG P503 PRO nonetheless does well to eke out four hours of continuous playback from a single charge.