{"id":5410,"date":"2020-07-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviancetechnologies.com\/blog\/blog\/xpg-xenia-15-this-intel-designed-laptop-is-light-and-fast\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T10:00:00","slug":"xpg-xenia-15-this-intel-designed-laptop-is-light-and-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviancetechnologies.com\/blog\/xpg-xenia-15-this-intel-designed-laptop-is-light-and-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"XPG Xenia 15: This Intel-designed laptop is light and fast"},"content":{"rendered":"

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XPG Xenia 15: This Intel-designed laptop is light and fast<\/h2>\n

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The XPG Xenia 15 may not look \u201cnew\u201d to you if you\u2019ve been conditioned to consider \u201cold hardware\u201d obsolete the day the new models come out. But it\u2019s actually\u00a0proof that prior-generation parts can be perfectly relevant, and even as fast as the latest generation of hardware.<\/p>\n

The Xenia XPG 15\u2019s main specs consist of the Intel 9th-gen Core i7-9750H and the\u00a0 Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q. Both CPU and GPU are technically eclipsed by the newer 10th-gen Intel CPUs and Nvidia\u2019s new Super line of RTX GPUs, but if you think about the power and thermal limitations of laptops, the picture gets more complex.<\/p>\n

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The Xenia 15 was primarily designed by Intel and even has its logo on the bottom.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Intel designed it<\/h2>\n

Another unusual aspect of this laptop is its branding. Flip the laptop over and you\u2019ll see an Intel logo where you might expect to see XPG\u2019s. XPG is a gaming subsidiary of memory and storage maker Adata), but in this case Intel did much of the design work of the laptop and then tasked Chinese white-label PC maker TongFang with producing it.<\/p>\n

Intel has long developed laptop and other PC hardware, which it shares\u00a0with various companies, which in turn add their own finishing touches. This gives smaller players an opportunity even though they could never pay for the development costs themselves. As a result, you will see other laptops that look a lot like the XPG Xenia 15.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s special about the XPG Xenia 15<\/h2>\n

Because XPG\u2019s parent company is Adata, naturally the company slips its own SSD into the Xenia 15, a 1TB XPG SX8200 Pro. OEM versions of SSDs often offer less performance than their retail counterparts by using higher-density, but slower QLC NAND drives. Not in this case: The SX8200 Pro is a 3D TLC drive with an SLC cache and DDR3 memory. The warranty on the SSD is five years, which is longer than a typical OEM SSD.<\/p>\n

The other part XPG adds is a pair of 16GB Adata DDR4\/2667 modules. Yes, we know, 32GB seems excessive for a gaming laptop. XPG said it opted for a minimum of 32GB for \u201cfuture-proofing.\u201d XPG tries to sweeten the deal by saying the memory in the laptops use \u201chand-picked\u201d Samsung dies, which are all rated with a CAS latency of 19. While it\u2019s true very few laptop vendors ever state the latency of the RAM they use, we should point out that CL19-rated SO-DIMMS are easy to buy on the open market.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Xenia 15 Specs<\/h2>\n

When you look at the whole spec list, you can see that if you set aside any bias toward last-gen parts, there\u2019s nothing \u201cwrong\u201d with this configuration:<\/p>\n