Editor’s Note: 2K supplied a assessment copy of Lego 2K Drive for PC and Dell India supplied Dell Alienware X15 R2 for long-term efficiency testing to IGN India.
Lego 2K Drive is now out there on for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S, Xbox One and PC. Developed by Visual Concepts and revealed by 2K, the sport launched worldwide on April 19. The sport will take you, a racer, on an journey within the Lego world of Bricklandia as you compete for various cups. On this journey, you possibly can compete in opposition to different gamers, or just benefit from the panorama within the story mode.
Ahead of the worldwide launch, IGN India acquired a assessment copy of Lego 2K Drive. We examined the sport on the Dell Alienware X15 R2 to see the way it performs at launch. For context, X15 R2 is supplied with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GPU and Intel Core i7- 12700H CPU. Here’s extra on our expertise of taking part in the Lego 2K Drive on the Dell Alienware X15 R2.
System Specifications of the Dell Alienware X15 R2
Before we concentrate on the efficiency of the sport, let’s revisit the entire specs sheet of the X15 R2. This offers you some concept about what to anticipate from the sport efficiency part. Here is the entire specs listing.
- Model: Alienware x15 R2
- Display: 15.6-inch FHD (1920×1080), 360Hz Refresh Rate
- Processor: twelfth gen Intel Core i7-12700H (14 cores, 20 threads) 24MB cache, Up to 4.70 GHz Clock Speed throughout Turbo enhance.
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GPU with 8GB GDDR6
- Memory: 32GB LPDDR5 5200 MT/s
- OS: Windows 11 Home
- Storage: 1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD
- Webcam: 720p
- Ports: 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 port with PowerShare, 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port with DisplayPort and Power Delivery, 1x Thunderbolt 4 port with DisplayPort and Power Delivery, 1x Universal Audio Jack, 1x HDMI 2.1 port, 1x MicroSD card slot
- Connectivity: Wi-Fi 6 (6E Pre-certified) AX1675 802.11ax 2×2 Wireless LAN and Bluetooth 5.2
- Dimensions: 14.16 × 10.91 × 0.626-inches (W x D x H)
- Weight: 2.35 kg
Suggested System Requirements for the sport
Check out the system necessities for PC that 2K has instructed to run the sport easily.
Minimum:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and working system
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit, Windows 11 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core Intel i5 4690 / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X or higher
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia 960 2GB / AMD R9 380 or higher
- DirectX: Version 12
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 12 GB out there area
- Sound Card: DirectX 9.0x suitable sound card
Recommended:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and working system
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i7-4790 / AMD Ryzen 5 3500 or higher
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 1070 4GB / AMD RX Vega-56 or higher
- DirectX: Version 12
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 12 GB out there area
- Sound Card: DirectX 9.0x suitable sound card
The Dell Alienware X15 R2 fulfills each the minimal and really helpful parameters of the sport. Let’s see how Lego 2K Drive performs in the true world.
Testing Lego 2K Drive in several modes
Lego 2K Drive doesn’t provide complete customization choices for the graphics facet of the sport. There are solely few toggles out there together with completely different DirectX modes. We ran the sport at 120 FPS which is the utmost refresh charge choice out there and performed the exams in each DirectX modes.
During the primary run, we targeted performed the sport in DirectX 12 mode and the second, we tried the DirectX 11 mode. Here is the way it carried out in each these modes.
Understanding the exams
Let’s perceive what “1% Low Average” and “0.1% Low Average” imply within the image above. 1% Low is a metric that represents 1% of the frames of the complete period of our gaming session, which recorded the bottom body charges per second. 0.1% low refines issues additional, to present us the bottom 0.1% of the frames from everything of our gaming session, with the least framerates per second.
Performance of the sport
When in DirectX 11, the sport runs at a excessive common FPS of 80.8. Even the 1% Lows are at a mean of 45 FPS and 0.1% Low common was 29.9 FPS. As these values spotlight, there was hardly any stuttering or lag that I seen. Playing the sport on the Dell Alienware X15 R2, was a clean expertise.
However, in DirectX 12 mode, whereas the common FPS stayed comparable, the 0.1 Low common and 1% Low common, dropped to 10.2 and 26.4 respectively. The sport did noticeably stutter a few times, but it surely didn’t matter a lot within the warmth of the second. Overall efficiency was satisfying for me. But, contemplating the much less complicated nature of the sport, I anticipated higher efficiency from the laptop computer and the sport.
FPS | DirectX 11 | DirectX 12 |
| Average | 80.8 | 78.7 |
| 1% Low Average | 45 | 26.4 |
| 0.1% Low Average | 29.9 | 10.2 |
Thermals
The Dell Alienware X15 R2 persistently thermal throttles whereas gaming with temperatures peaking at 109-degree Celsius. It is price noting that I positioned the laptop computer in a sufficiently ventilated and funky area whereas gaming when these temperatures have been recorded. Regardless, this would possibly pose a problem to some gamers when taking part in racing video games like Lego 2K Drive.
It is feasible that you could be additionally really feel some portion of the warmth whereas urgent down on sure keys throughout prolonged gaming periods. We double checked with Dell to verify that this working temperature is regular for a skinny bundle just like the X15 R2.
Verdict
Summing up, taking part in Lego 2K Drive on the Alienware X15 R2 has been painless if I ignore the thermal state of affairs. Even whereas taking the thermal efficiency into consideration, the visible and graphics high quality, the smoothness and the audio efficiency, the general expertise was very satisfying and fulfilling. I don’t bear in mind registering a single efficiency associated situation past some minor stutters all through the period of the sport. However, we did hope for some increased tier of efficiency from the {hardware} this laptop computer options contemplating the extent of this sport.
