Thunderobot Range 17 G2 Max 17"

The Thunderobot Range 17 G2 Max 17″ is a gaming laptop with a weight of 2650 g and a compact volume of 2749.032 cm³, measuring 396 mm wide, 267 mm deep, and 26 mm thick. It features an active cooling system rather than a fanless design, and comes with a backlit keyboard for comfortable use in low-light environments. The chassis is neither weather-sealed nor built to a rugged standard, and it carries a one-year warranty.

The laptop features a 17.3″ IPS LCD panel with LED backlighting, delivering a 2560 x 1440 px resolution at a pixel density of 169 ppi. With a 165Hz refresh rate, the display is well-suited to fast-moving content, though it does not include a touch screen or an anti-reflection coating. The system supports up to four connected displays simultaneously, extending its versatility beyond the built-in screen.

The laptop is powered by a 10-core, 16-thread CPU built on a 4 nm process, with six cores running at 2.4 GHz and four at 1.8 GHz, reaching a turbo clock of 4.9 GHz, and multithreading is supported across all threads. System memory consists of 32GB of DDR5 RAM at 5600 MHz, expandable up to 64GB, paired with a 1024GB NVMe SSD for fast flash-based storage. On the graphics side, the GPU carries 8GB of GDDR7 VRAM, clocks at 2235 MHz with a boost up to 2520 MHz, and delivers 23.22 TFLOPS of floating-point performance alongside a texture rate of 362.9 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 121 GPixel/s. The GPU connects via PCIe 4 and supports DirectX 12 Ultimate and 64-bit processing, while XeSS is not available on this configuration.

In PassMark testing, the laptop achieves an overall score of 23805, with a single-core result of 3569 reflecting the per-core processing capability of the CPU. The GPU registers a PassMark G3D score of 19987, providing a standardized reference point for its graphics rendering performance.

The laptop offers a varied port selection including one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port, one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A port, one USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A port, and one USB 2.0 port, while USB 4, Thunderbolt 3, Thunderbolt 4, and a full-size DisplayPort are absent. Video output is handled by one HDMI 2.1 port and one mini DisplayPort, with no VGA connector present. Wired networking is covered by a single RJ45 port, and wireless connectivity includes Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) with backward compatibility for Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 4, alongside Bluetooth 5.2 and AirPlay support. There is no external memory card slot on this model.

The laptop houses a 53.35 Wh battery and includes sleep-and-charge USB ports, allowing connected devices to be charged even when the system is powered off or in sleep mode. It does not use a MagSafe power adapter.

For audio and video, the laptop includes stereo speakers, a 3.5 mm headset jack, a single microphone, and a 1MP front camera, though it does not feature Dolby Atmos, an S/PDIF output, or an optical disc drive. On the graphics side, it supports ray tracing and DLSS, expanding its capabilities for visually intensive workloads. Biometric and motion sensing features are not part of this configuration — there is no fingerprint scanner, 3D facial recognition, gyroscope, accelerometer, or compass — and the laptop also lacks GPS, voice command support, and a stylus.

The CPU is a laptop-class processor using big.LITTLE technology with a clock multiplier of 24, a TDP of 50W, a maximum operating temperature of 100°C, and a maximum supported RAM speed of 5200 MHz, backed by 9.5 MB of L2 cache and 24 MB of L3 cache across two memory channels; the multiplier is locked, and supported instruction sets include SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, AES, FMA3, F16C, and MMX, with NX bit also present. The discrete GPU is based on the Blackwell architecture and features 4608 shading units, 144 texture mapping units, 48 ROPs, and 64 execution units, operating at a memory speed of 2000 MHz over a 128-bit bus with an effective memory speed of 25400 MHz and a maximum bandwidth of 405.8 GB/s; it supports double precision floating point, multi-display output, and stereoscopic 3D, but does not include LHR. The system also integrates UHD Graphics 770 as an additional graphics option, supports ECC memory, and enables Intel Resizable BAR for optimized GPU memory access, while API support covers OpenCL 3 and OpenGL 4.6.