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Based on reviews posted on popular review sites as well as from Alienware 17's website, Alienware 17 performs very well in terms of high quality graphics relative to other gaming laptop brands.

The review site laptopmag.com gives Alienware 17 excellent ratings for high quality graphics in a review posted on its website. Here's a brief quote from this review:

The cheaper Alienware 17 and its Nvidia GTX 1070 GPU with 8GB of VRAM pack quite a performance punch, and the version with the GTX 1080 is even more powerful. With either configuration, you'll be able to play intense games at high settings, and even get buttery-smooth VR performance.

The review site pcworld.com gives Alienware 17 excellent ratings for high quality graphics in a review posted on its website. From this review:

Graphics performance on the Alienware 17 is excellent—as you might expect from an all-new graphics card with 8GB of GDDR5—but it still can’t rival the insanely powerful dual-, triple-, or even quad-GPU setups you can stuff into a desktop tower. With its single 880M graphics card, the Alienware 17 delivered excellent frame rates with all of our medium-quality graphics tests at resolution of 1920x1080. In BioShock Infinite, the Alienware 17 popped out 122 frames per second (fps) suto the Asus G750’s 105. In Grid 2, the units were more evenly matched: The Alienware 17 managed 135 fps, while the Asus G750 was slightly ahead with 138 fps.

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