Performance review of the Swift 3 with 2700U

I mainly use a desktop With i5 8400 and 5700XT for gaming, but got a really good offer on this laptop (demo-Product for 400usd).

Tested out a the gaming capabilites and was pleasantly surprised.
With CRU I got freesync working With latest AMD-drivers (19.12.3) at 40-70Hz. Tear-free experience in most games

Also tested limiting CPU-speed to improve gaming and at Stock GPU runs at up 700-800 i games. I Limited CPU-speed to 60% and then I get 900-1000MHz in games which gave a boost of 10-20% fps. Tested ROTTR and at 1280x720 With most details at low except medium textures, 16xAF and radeon image sharpening I get 43fps average in the benchmark. Looks quite Nice. Without limiting CPU-speed I got below 40fps.

Gonna repaste With Kryonaut to see how that Works out soon.

Ryzen Controller wont install, gets error even when I run as admin. TDP-limit is 25W and often while gaming temps rise to 70-75C which means thermal throttling, but With Kryonaut I hope this will improve. Hope I get ryzen Controller working soon so I can try 30-35W tdp and get the GPU running above 1000MHz consistently

 

I repasted with Kryonaut and temps are about 5-10C lower on GPU/CPU. Got 100 points extra in 3Dmark 11 due to repaste alone since it runs higher clockspeeds.

Still no luck with Ryzen controller...

 

After cleaning up the failed first install of Ryzen controller it now works. 30W and 85C + 55A is my best setup. I limit CPU to 50% and GPU clock stays at 1000-1150MHz all the time during load with stock 25W limit it would stay between 900 and 1000MHz. Temp lie around 70-78C at both CPU and GPU. I play The Witcher 3 at 40-65fps at 960x540 and high textures and rest at low. Looks great actually since 960x540 is 1/4 of FullHD. Fallen Order at same res and dynamic res scale lies around 25-45.

I tried 35W limit and it works, but temps pass 85C quickly and I get freezing in games. Probably some hardware failsafe of sorts.

Tested ROTTR and avg at 1280x720 and low/medium mix is 43.5fps i benchmark with 50% CPU. GPU runs at 1050MHz avg. With stock powerlimit and CPU 50% it was 42.5fps and GPU 950MHz. At stock with 100% CPU it was 37.5fps and GPU at 800MHz avg.

Freesync works really well and it seems like LFC (low framerate compensation) is working since I see no tearing except when at above 60fps, below 30fps there is no tearing/stuttering, just visibly too low fps. Seems like IPS-panel is 40-60Hz freesync and somehow still LFC works