Gamers who want to maximize performance-per-dollar without sacrificing RAM or SSD upgradeability will find the lightweight MSI GF65 attractive. Colors, black-white response times, Thunderbolt, and DisplayPort are either average or completely omitted. CPU performance is also slightly slower than average unless if users decide to enable Cooler Boost mode. Other laptops we've tested thus far with the same GPU are about 10 to 15 percent faster. The MSI GF65 10UE is a relatively inexpensive RTX 3060 laptop and, perhaps not coincidentally, it also comes with a slower-than-average RTX 3060 GPU. This also means that some laptops with the may prefer marginally slower than others even if they come equipped with the same GPU.
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Laptop makers are free to target whatever TGP values they wish within that range meaning that higher TGP targets will net higher performance. The mobile GeForce RTX 3060 operates under a wide TGP range between 60 W and 115 W. Running on battery power will limit performance.
The Cooler Boost feature is therefore not vital for gaming, but it may be useful for those who want maximum CPU Turbo Boost performance out of their GF65 systems. Enabling Cooler Boost would reduce CPU and GPU temperatures even further to just 48 C and 62 C, respectively, while bumping average GPU clock rates just slightly from 1515 MHz to 1590 MHz. Running Witcher 3 causes the CPU and GPU to stabilize at 65 C and 77 C, respectively, which are relatively cool ranges for a gaming laptop. If Cooler Boost is enabled, clock rates and temperature will increase to 3.3 GHz and decrease to 69 C, respectively. Clock rates and temperature would then steadily drop and stabilize at 2.8 GHz and 72 C, respectively. When running Prime95 on Extreme Performance mode, CPU clock rates would reach 4.2 GHz for just the first few seconds until hitting a core temperature of 91 C.