Titan 16 Professional actually stands out from the remainder of the RedMagic gaming laptop computer lineup as a result of, uh… there is not one. RedMagic has by no means made a laptop computer earlier than. It is made gaming telephones, gaming equipment, screens, and mouse pads, however the Titan 16 Professional is the corporate’s first foray into precise laptop computer territory. On paper it seems fairly good, with a high-wattage GPU, high-refresh panel, and DDR5-5600 RAM, however can it match the competitors?
Out of the field, it is clear all that gaming smartphone design has influenced the Titan 16 Professional. We’re speaking sheer, fantastically milled, matte black steel with hardly any greebles, simply the RedMagic emblem illuminated with RGB lighting on the again. It is constituted of a single piece of machined steel, and though the facility cable blocks the display screen from going again too far and the entrance edge is a bit sharp, the chassis is properly understated. Personally, I believe it is exterior seems rival the Razer Blade machines our Dave is so in love with, however that is an argument for behind the scenes.
One of many specs listed on the RedMagic Titan 16 Professional website is “All black inner parts”, as if that is one thing individuals are searching for in a laptop computer. Will it enable you sport higher? In all probability not, but it surely’s completely brutal (throws horns).
Opening the laptop computer lid tells a far much less refined story, with a considerably overdone keyboard design. It is busy. Plenty of graphics on the area and enter keys make it visually complicated to take a look at, although you do get used to it after some time. And if warning stripes are your most popular aesthetic, this one’s very city. There are a few inconsistencies with the typeface on sure keys, which is upsetting, however the designers have no less than managed to suit a full sized keyboard in. It is a bit squished, however that is to be anticipated on a 16-incher.
Titan 16 Professional specs
CPU: Intel Core i9 14900H
GPU: Nvidia RTX 4060 (140 W)
RAM: 1x 16GB DDR5-5600
SSD: 1TB NVMe PCIe Gen4
Display: 16-inch | 2560 x 1600 (16:10)
Refresh charge: 240 Hz
OS: Home windows 11 House
Weight: 2.4 kg | 5.3 lb
Ports: 1 x Thunderbolt 4, 1 x USB 3.2, 1 x HDMI 2.1, 1 x RJ45 Gigabit, 2 x USB 3.2, 1 x SD UHS-II, 1 x 3.5 Audio
Dimensions: 36 x 26 x 2.3 cm | 14.2 x 10.2 x 0.9 in
Worth: £1,599 | $1,699
The Titan 16 Professional is not exorbitantly heavy both at 2.4 kg / 5.3 lb. It isn’t as svelte as some notebooks, but it surely’s simple sufficient to hold about. It is made even simpler with the compact adapter hooked up to the cable, which might’t be mentioned for many higher-powered laptops. Nonetheless there is not any use taking it round with you if it would not sport.
Within the preliminary 3D Mark Time Spy Excessive artificial benchmark it seemed as if the Titan 16 Professional was going to be a reasonably nippy machine, significantly when pitted towards different machines with lower-wattage RTX 4060s. And so far as rendering goes, I used to be completely impressed with the Core i9 14900H’s Blender and Cinebench scores. Typically, that bodes properly for CPU-intensive video games with lots of simulation occurring, just like the infamous Metro Exodus, however that wasn’t precisely the case right here.
With the Titan 16 Professional’s body charges beating even a few of the dearer RTX 4070 machines of current years, significantly these backed by the mid and decrease finish of Intel’s thirteenth and 14th technology processors, the numbers would possibly look promising… however sadly it struggles in the case of CPU intensive video games.
I watched the Titan 16 Professional stutter one thing terrible within the Cyberpunk 2077 and Metro Exodus benchies, even at 1080p. And though the body charges appear to not mirror the difficulty—trying fairly normal for a lappy of its weight class—it was positively having hassle maintaining, particularly once I whacked it as much as 1440p, or its native 2560 x 1600p. From the super-low minimal CPU scores in Hitman’s Dartmoor benchmark, it is plain that Intel’s beastly Core i9 14900H is affected by a low-end GPU pairing
It is also probably having points as a consequence of its single-channel reminiscence. Positive, it is speedy DDR5 RAM, however with out the bandwidth you might need some hassle multitasking.
Nonetheless, so long as you are taking part in appropriate video games, Nvidia DLSS does go a protracted approach to checking out the stuttering. And the Titan 16 Professional does alright within the majority of video games in our ringer, performing completely averagely for a high-wattage RTX 4060 GPU. The larger issues lie a bit deeper.
Due to the Titan 16 Professional’s high-wattage GPU, its battery life is sapped fairly sharpish when gaming. It solely lasts round an hour and fifteen minutes which kind of negates the purpose of getting a conveyable machine. I’ve examined 140 W RTX 4090 gaming laptops with higher battery life than that, such because the Gigabyte Aorus 17X which has an entire half an hour on the Titan 16 Professional.
Purchase if…
✅ You do lots of rendering and productiveness duties – The Titan 16 Professional’s Intel Core i9 14900H makes it properly suited to rendering and different studio work, and the 16:10 side ratio makes it nice for workplace work.
✅ You do not thoughts dropping the graphics for aggressive gaming – If you wish to profit from the speedy 240 Hz panel, you will both must drop the settings down exponentially at its native decision, or go for middling graphics at 1080p.
Do not buy if…
❌ You’ll be able to afford to spend an additional few hundred – When you can splash out, you would possibly as properly go for a machine with a GPU pairing that higher enhances a 14th Technology Intel CPU.
❌ You are on a very tight funds – for $400/£400 much less you possibly can nab the Gigabyte G6X, which performs rattling admirably by comparability, particularly for an inexpensive gaming laptop computer.
On prime of that little nugget, the followers whirr up fairly intensely even when the Titan 16 Professional is sitting idle, making it tough to have a dialog in its presence. You’d suppose that will preserve it cooler, however you are still max CPU temps of 100 °C, and GPU temps topping out at 78 °C.
I’ve to present the machine its dues on the display screen, although. It is beautiful, with vivid colours and an excellent 16:10 side ratio that is properly fitted to productiveness. And whereas the Titan 16 Professional may not be capable of profit from that 240 Hz panel with out some graphical tweaking, it is good to have extra pace and never want it, than to wish and never have it, particularly when RedMagic is not charging an arm and a leg for the privilege.
With a worth to rival the equally specced, however barely much less highly effective Asus ROG Circulation X13, it seems just like the Titan 16 Professional just about hits the mark money-wise. However examine it to one thing just like the $400/£400 cheaper Gigabyte G6X, and it is made clear what the Titan 16 Professional may have been with much less of a gulf between the core parts.
It’s a bit unhappy that such a strong processor is being undermined by a lower-end GPU and single-channel 16GB RAM, inflicting some bottlenecking in CPU intensive video games. And regardless of being certainly one of my favourite trying laptops up to now (no less than on the skin), it falls into one too many gaming laptop computer pitfalls to advocate completely.