Previous changelog: 0.8
What's Changed?
Test Bench 0.8.1 is a minor update with only two changes. The first change is the addition of Counter-Strike 2 as a game benchmark, and the second brings the keyboard tests more in line with our keyboard reviews.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 2
The addition of Counter-Strike 2 as a game benchmark is necessary, as the original CS:GO is no longer available. Nothing will change in the actual tests, meaning we'll still be testing the average frame rate with High settings, the 1% and 0.1% lows, and the average frame rate with Low settings. We haven't retested any reviewed laptops and don't plan to do so. We'll only include CS 2 as a benchmark in new laptop reviews.
Keyboard
There are a few changes in the keyboard tests:
Pre-Travel: The posted pre-travel value is now an average of all measured samples.
Total Travel: The posted total travel value is now the point where it passes our threshold instead of the last point gathered.
Graph: The graph now shows all measured samples instead of just one. See the examples below.
67 Laptops Updated
We have retested popular models. The test results for the following models have been converted to the new testing methodology. However, the text might be inconsistent with the new results.
- Acer Aspire 3 15 (2023)
- Acer Aspire 3 Spin 14 (2023)
- Acer Aspire 5 15 (2020)
- Acer Chromebook 315 (2020)
- Acer Chromebook 516 GE (2022)
- Acer Chromebook Spin 714 (2022)
- Acer Nitro 5 15 (2020)
- Acer Swift 14 (2023)
- Acer Swift 3 14 (2020)
- Acer Swift 3 14 (2022)
- Apple MacBook Air 13 (M1, 2020)
- Apple MacBook Air 13 (M2, 2022)
- Apple MacBook Air 15 (M2, 2023)
- Apple MacBook Pro 14 (M1, 2021)
- Apple MacBook Pro 14 (M2, 2023)
- Apple MacBook Pro 16 (M1, 2021)
- ASUS Chromebook Flip CX5 14 (2021)
- ASUS Chromebook Vibe CX34 Flip (2023)
- ASUS ROG Flow X13 (2023)
- ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 (2022)
- ASUS TUF Dash F15 (2022)
- ASUS VivoBook 15 OLED K513 (2021)
- ASUS Vivobook 16 M1605 (2023)
- ASUS Vivobook S 16 Flip TP3604 (2023)
- ASUS Zenbook 14 Flip OLED (2023)
- Dell Alienware m16 R1 (2023)
- Dell Alienware m18 (2023)
- Dell G15 (2022)
- Dell Inspiron 14 (2023)
- Dell Inspiron 15 3000 (2020)
- Dell Inspiron 16 2-in-1 (2023)
- Dell Precision 5570 (2022)
- Dell XPS 13 (2021)
- Dell XPS 13 Plus (2022)
- Dell XPS 15 (2023)
- Framework Laptop 13 (2022)
- HP Chromebook 14 (2021)
- HP ENVY x360 15 (2023)
- HP OMEN 16 (2022)
- HP Pavilion Plus 14 (2023)
- HP Pavilion x360 14 (2021)
- HP Spectre x360 14 (2023)
- HP Victus 15 (2022)
- HP Victus 16 (2021)
- Lenovo Chromebook C340 15 (2020)
- Lenovo IdeaPad 3 15 (2021)
- Lenovo IdeaPad 5 15 (2021)
- Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 14 (2020)
- Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5i 14 (2022)
- Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 (2021)
- Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i 15 (2023)
- Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i Chromebook 14 (2023)
- Lenovo Legion 5 Gen 6 15 (2021)
- Lenovo Legion Pro 5 Gen 8 16 (2023)
- Lenovo Slim Pro 7 14 (2023)
- Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11 (2023)
- Lenovo Yoga 7i 14 (2021)
- Lenovo Yoga 7i 16 (2023)
- LG gram 14 (2023)
- LG gram 17 (2021)
- Microsoft Surface Laptop 5 (2022)
- Microsoft Surface Pro 8 (2021)
- MSI Modern 14 (2023)
- MSI Prestige 14 Evo (2023)
- MSI Raider GE67 HX (2022)
- MSI WS76 (2021)
- Razer Blade 14 (2022)