High end laptop CPU and GPU under utilized, worthiness?

Gova456

Dear friends,

     Hi, Good morning/ afternoon/ evening.

     I am Govarthanan A, from Chennai. I am a great fan of Acer, especially for its laptop line-up. Thus, I bought 'Acer Nitro 5' (INR 64K) as my second laptop with a huge expectation for gaming, for which it is especially ment for. I have been testing its limit with few high end games, to say Forza horizon 4, GTA 5 & NFS payback,.. It performed well at low graphics settings, but when I increased the graphics, frame rate drops & the game hangs a bit.

     I compared its performance with a budget laptop (INR <45 K),  the performance was almost similar. Thus I started my analysis to find the reason behind it. Being working in an Electronic company helped me a lot to come up with the below analysis.

Analysis:

     My analysis began when I first saw my laptop charging adapter, which provides a power of 135 W to my laptop. Then I put this in comparison with the overall power consumption of my laptop (refer below table).

Manufacturer	Acer
Model	AN515 52 76 VR
Mfg date	12-08-2018

Sourced	S.No	Part name	Description	Typical Power Consumption (W)	TDP (W)	remark
Actual (Intel data sheet)	1	CPU	Intel Core i7-8750H (Socket 1440 FCBGA, Coffee Lake, 1 Processor, 6 Cores, @2.19 GHz & max 4.1 GHz @, 9 MB cache, 64 bit architecture, 14nm Lithography)	225	45	Power consumption data not available, thus considering 80 % efficiency
		Integrated-GPU	Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 (4GB, @ 350 MHz & max @ 1.1GHz)
Actual (Nvidia data sheet)	2	GPU	GTX 1050 Ti (DDR5, 4 GB, @1290 MHz & MAX @ 1392 MHz)	375	75	Recommendation: Minimum 300W or greater system power supply Power consumption data not available, thus considering 80 % efficiency
Relative (Seagate data sheet)	3	Storage	1 TB HDD @ 7200 RPM	5.3	-	At Idle condition 4.6 W
Relative (Samsung data sheet)	4	Screen + Backlight	15.6" IPS 60 HZ	10	-	Approx
Relative (Micron data sheet)	5	Memory	2 Power - 1197 MHz 8GB DDR4 SDRAM	3.06	-	Typical V=1.2 V
-	6	Fans	-	15	-	Approx
-	7	Speakers	-		-
-	8	Wireless card	-		-
-	9	Motherboard  and small components	CFL Freed CFS		-
-	10	Chipset	Intel HM370		-
-	11	Optane memory	-		-
-	12	Battery	LG Chem, 3320 mAh (Typ 48 Wh, 15.2 V, 4 cell, Li-ion)		-
			Total	633.36

    We can clearly see that when all the components in the laptop are working at  its maximum capable limit, the power supply of 135 W is nowhere near its power requirement.

    From this I can clearly say that the CPU and GPU in the laptop were underutilized, even though I pay the price as a whole (for a high end CPU (8750H) and GPU (1050TI).

    I can't judge a well established brand just like that, thus I thought of figuring it out. 

   
    Kindly help me with this analysis.

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Have you considered power consumption for all the USB ports and some reserved for upgrade such as additional drives and potential add-on ? 

Anyway, it is good to have some reserves instead of stretching power consumption to the limit. That's what I think.

Gova456

"Have you considered power consumption for all the USB ports and some reserved for upgrade such as additional drives and potential add-on ?"
Yaa, thanks Nanba. 
That too has to be considered but I didn't, lets first figure out for the internal components. 

"Anyway, it is good to have some reserves instead of stretching power consumption to the limit. That's what I think."
Yes, its good to have reserve & all products does have some safety reserve. But here reserve seem to be too tooooo... high.

Note: Re-posting the table content which didn't come up well in the previous post(dated on August 24).

Sourced	S.No	Part name	Description	Typical Power Consumption (W)	TDP (W)	remark
Actual (Intel data sheet)	1	CPU	Intel Core i7-8750H (Socket 1440 FCBGA, Coffee Lake, 1 Processor, 6 Cores, @2.19 GHz & max 4.1 GHz @, 9 MB cache, 64 bit architecture, 14nm Lithography)	225	45	Power consumption data not available, thus considering 80 % efficiency
		Integrated-GPU	Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 (4GB, @ 350 MHz & max @ 1.1GHz)
Actual (Nvidia data sheet)	2	GPU	GTX 1050 Ti (DDR5, 4 GB, @1290 MHz & MAX @ 1392 MHz)	375	75	Recommendation: Minimum 300W or greater system power supply Power consumption data not available, thus considering 80 % efficiency
Relative (Seagate data sheet)	3	Storage	1 TB HDD @ 7200 RPM	5.3	-	At Idle condition 4.6 W
Relative (Samsung data sheet)	4	Screen + Backlight	15.6" IPS 60 HZ	10	-	Approx
Relative (Micron data sheet)	5	Memory	2 Power - 1197 MHz 8GB DDR4 SDRAM	3.06	-	Typical V=1.2 V
-	6	Fans	-	15	-	Approx
-	7	Speakers	-		-
-	8	Wire less card	-		-
-	9	Mother board  and small components	CFL Freed CFS		-
-	10	Chipset	Intel HM370		-
-	11	Optane memory	-		-
-	12	Battery	LG Chem, 3320 mAh (Typ 48 Wh, 15.2 V, 4 cell, Li-ion)		-
			Total	633.36