PCSpecialist IONICO 15 Laptop Review (14900HX / RTX 4070)

Battery life wasn't great when tested using the Modern Office battery test within PC Mark 10. The IONICO achieved 255 minutes (4hr 15min) when running the out of the box settings and 50% screen brightness.

CPU Power consumption reveals the difference in power limits when changing between the three tested performance profiles. At idle, the i9-14900HX uses 10w of power regardless of profile, but this is where the similarities end. While, out of the box, the CPU is limited to and uses 75w of power during a Cinebench R23 multi-core benchmark, that figures jumps up to 102w in ‘Custom Profile 2' and 120w in the laptop's ‘Turbo Profile'.

The difference in power usage directly correlates to increases in CPU temperatures as expected. The processor did experience some thermal throttling when using both ‘Custom Profile 2' and the ‘Turbo Profile'. For more information on this watch our full video review on YouTube.

There's no doubt that GPU temperatures are high, with hot spot and memory figures hovering between 96-98C depending on the profile. That is technically in spec, but it is definitely getting a bit too close to the danger zone for comfort.

System noise was also almost identical regardless of power profile. The IONICO 15 laptop was measured at roughly 51-52dB when running through a 30 minute Cinebench R23 multi-core benchmark, so it does get fairly loud, like most laptops with a similar spec.

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