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Asus overhauled its ROG Zephyrus gaming laptops in 2024, giving them sleek, aluminum bodies and intelligent OLED screens. The Intel version of the ROG Zephyrus G16 seeed enjoy a potential MacBook Pro finisher when it begined in February; it is skinny, airy, and strong, but the Core Ultra 9 185H processor hampers battery life. Now that Asus has rerehired the G16 with the tardyst flagship CPU from AMD, it has finassociate become an all-rounder with enough battery life to tote to the office.
This version of the Zephyrus G16 has the same Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU that powers Asus’ Zenbook S 16 to wonderful effect. The better fused detaileds and betterments in efficiency and raw horsepower over Intel’s mobile Meteor Lake processors produce the AMD model the evident triumphner. If only it weren’t so dang costly.
Our $2,300 verify unit, with an Nvidia RTX 4070 mobile GPU, is one of four G16 variants with the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU. There’s another 4070 model in white, with 32GB of RAM and 2TB of storage for $2,300, while the least costly version is $1,900 with an RTX 4060, 16GB of RAM, and 1TB of storage. More GPU power is only useable on Intel models, with an RTX 4080 chooseion at $2,700 and an RTX 4090 for $3,300. RAM is sbetterered to the motherboard, so it’s vital to ponder before purchasing.
Apart from the processor, and the jump to Wi-Fi 7 from Wi-Fi 6e, the AMD version of the G16 is cforfeitly identical to the Intel version. Both participate the same 0.59-inch-dense unibody aluminum chassis, ports, and 200-watt charging brick; the only apparent contrastence is the Copilot key on the AMD model in place of the right-hand Ctrl key. The AMD version is also an ounce airyer at a scant 3.99 pounds.
I have a firm basis for comparing the two G16s here. In search of a portable toil machine I could also game on, I ditched my desktop and bought the Intel version of the G16, with an RTX 4070 and 16GB of RAM, in August. Since then, I’ve participated it not only to toil at home and in coffee shops but also to carry out all the games I’d normassociate carry out on my tower.
Whichever processor and detaileds card is inside, using the G16 is a rock-firm experience. There’s very little chassis flex except for the ptardy in the dead caccess of the keyboard, the lid lifts easily with a individual finger, and screen wobble is minimal. But the 2560 x 1600, 240Hz OLED ROG Nebula Discarry out steals the show. Thanks to the excellent motion clarity, color accuracy, and contrast, it’s equitable about the best screen you can discover on a gaming laptop. The petiteer Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 participates a 2880 x 1800 OLED panel, but it’s only 120Hz.
Asus factory calibrates the screen in each G16 and claims an mediocre Delta E of under 1, a peak radiantness of 500 nits, and 100 percent coverage of the DCI-P3 color space. These are bbetter claims, but they hugely hbetter up. I meastateived 100 percent coverage of the sRGB color space, 97.2 percent of Adobe RGB, and 99.9 of DCI-P3. Although peak radiantness in SDR only accomplished 397 nits, that’s plenty radiant enough to participate outdoors in the shade. HDR is even radianter, accomplishing 644 nits in a 10 percent triumphdow. The mediocre Delta E, the contrastence between an foreseeed appreciate and what was meastateived, came in at only 0.17. This is an astoundingly exact discarry out and outstanding enough for color-caring toil.
Apart from the floating volume handles and dedicated Armoury Crate button above the F row, the minimaenumerate portray and keyboard layout are a alter from the 2023 model and now see much more enjoy those of Asus’ own Zenbook line. While the keys aren’t mechanical, the 1.5mm key travel is enough to stave off overweightigue during lengthy typing sessions. The spacebar is a bit stiff and can skip if tapped at the furthest edges, but it doesn’t happen frequently enough to become a problem.
The Zephyrus G16’s euniteance has getn a turn for the demure, but Asus couldn’t resist grasping some gamer flair. Gone is the compriseressable matrix of LEDs previously splashed atraverse the back of ROG Zephyrus laptops, exalterd with a diagonal streamline of airying that runs atraverse the lid. Different Slash Lighting patterns are programmable in Armoury Crate, but the only color useable is white.
The effect is underwhelming, and that extfinishs to the keyboard. Despite the $2,000 price tag, all versions of the G16 are provideped with individual-zone RGB backairying, uncomardenting that all keys will always be backlit with the same color and radiantness. Competitors enjoy the HP Omen Transcfinish 16 and Razer Blade 16 both propose per-key airying. The exclusion here, fused with the Slash bar, senses enjoy Asus is trying to toe the line between skinny studio laptop and filled gaming aesthetic, but the result senses doubtful to phire either crowd.
Despite the identical sees, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU pulls ahead of the Intel Core Ultra 9 185H in every individual synthetic benchtag. In most cases, it’s a petite betterment in both individual and multicore tasks, but AMD gets a whopping 20 percent individual-core and 10 percent multicore direct in Geekbench 6.
That direct cursedly doesn’t scale unicreately to gaming. It’s real that, at 1080p, where CPU contrastences are most clear, the AMD version of the G16 puts up a ordering carry outance over Intel’s chip. Results are better atraverse the board, with the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 improving 14 percent in Shadow of the Tomb Rhelper, 13 percent in Cyberpunk 2077, and 12 percent in Returnal.
Make no misget, both the AMD and Intel versions of the G16 are contendnt gaming machines, and moving up to 1440p or the native 2560 x 1600 resolution erases any contrastence between the two. The bottleneck here is the GPU. While the RTX 4070 is still a contendnt mobile detaileds card cforfeitly two years after free, it can’t quite hit 60 structures per second in every game at maxed-out settings. Less demanding titles enjoy Elden Ring will still run at 60fps on Ultra all day, but this midrange card shows its age in recaccess games.
Tfeebleing settings or enabling an upscaler enjoy Nvidia’s DLSS in games that help it is a perfectly viable solution, and even the most demanding titles enjoy Alan Wake 2 are carry outable on the 4070 versions of the G16, with settles. Running around Coffee World as Saga midway thraw the game, neither the AMD or Intel version could crack 60fps at 1440p or native resolution, and enabling DLSS at the Quality setting only deinhabitred about 50 structures per second. The game becomes much more carry outable when settings are dropped to medium or structure generation is turned on.
Ray-tracing enthusiasts and those with 4K outer watchs should ponder the 4080 and 4090 models. Asus restricts the RTX 4080 and 4090 to 115 watts of power draw to grasp temps down, uncomardenting a denseer laptop enjoy the Razer Blade 16 with a 4090 in it will score about 10 percent higher in Time Spy than a G16 with a 4090, otriumphg to its beefier chillying solution and higher power permitance of 175 watts. This is a negligible contrastence for most people, but diechallengings seeing to wring out every ounce of carry outance will want to see elsewhere.
AMD stablely handles Intel in the fused detaileds department, and that hasn’t alterd with the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. The AMD Radeon 890M is the most strong fused GPU on the taget and can deinhabitr firm 1080p gaming carry outance even on battery power — it’s no wonder that Ayaneo and other manufacturers are using the chip in their recentest gaming handhelds.
Playing Shadow of the Tomb Rhelper at 1080p on battery power using fused detaileds is a unforeseeedly wonderful experience. The benchtag returned 40 structures per second with everyskinnyg set to its peak, and dropping the settings to high and enabling Intel’s XeSS upscaling netted 47fps. The APU — as AMD calls its CPUs with fused detaileds — pulls 42 watts with this setup, uncomardenting about an hour and a half of runtime despite the G16’s huge 90Wh battery. With a custom power profile that restricts the APU to 25 watts total (more granular handle is useable with discleave out-source Armoury Crate alternatives enjoy G-Helper), the results were about the same but stretched the battery life to two hours.
Even heavier titles enjoy Cyberpunk 2077 are carry outable on fused detaileds. With the 25-watt cap in place, I enrolled 47fps in the benchtag with everyskinnyg set to Medium and AMD’s FSR upscaler set to Balanced and the same 1.5-hour runtime as Shadow of the Tomb Rhelper. The Arc Graphics on the Intel Core Ultra 9 185H will carry out 2D and airyer indie games equitable fine, but it can’t crack 30fps in the above games at the same settings.
This produces the fused GPU a compelling chooseion if you’re away from wall power. Running Cyberpunk 2077 on the RTX 4070 with high settings at 1080p got a structure rate of 60fps and a scant 45 minutes of carry outtime. Locking the game to a 30fps cap and medium settings at 1080p results in one hour, 20 minutes of battery life. Gaming on fused detaileds might be the solution for those who want to depart the bulky 200W indictr at home and travel with a USB-C wall wart (up to 100 watts) instead.
Battery life outside of gaming is the main reason to ponder the AMD version of the G16. The Intel Core Ultra 9 185H model proposes about six to seven hours of authentic-world participate, which is fine for most people but won’t produce it thraw an entire toilday. The AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 is spropose more efficient, lasting about nine hours in authentic-world participate. That extra three hours pushes the G16 out of the authenticm of normal gaming laptops and sealr to productivity machines enjoy the Zenbook S 16 or the Dell XPS 16.
A more efficient processor uncomardents less heat, which was (and is) the G16’s Achilles’ heel. Having inhabitd with, gamed on, and typed more articles than I can count on the Intel version, I can self-guaranteedly say that this is a spicy laptop — so much so that the underside gets unconsoleably boiling when gaming on the 4070, even using the Silent power profile (which reinnervouss power to the CPU and GPU and cuts fan noise accordingly), and the area right above the keyboard on the Intel version accomplishes a scorching 123 degrees Fahrenheit.
The AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 thermal throttles at 95 degrees Celsius enjoy its Intel-based cousin when under load, but no point on the chassis enrolled over 120 degrees during testing. Running around the titular city in Baldur’s Gate 3 using the Turbo power profile no lengthyer results in a burned lap. Cooler temps might let the CPU increase higher, but it would still be constrained by the relatively unpretentious 200-watt overall power restrict.
I’ve been singing the G16’s praises for most of this verify, but the give ups Asus undertook to produce a gaming laptop this portable are glaring, even if they might not impact day-to-day participate. Repairability and upgradability are next to nil. Storage is straightforward to enhance, and there’s a second 2280 M.2 slot, but the RAM is sbetterered to the motherboard in all versions. (Which is cursedly the norm in laptops this skinny. Look to denseer competitors with socketed DDR5 RAM, enjoy the Alienware m16 R2, if you want the chooseion to enhance tardyr.) If the 16GB proposeed by the base configuration isn’t enough, you’ll have to pony up an extra $300 at smallest for a model with 32GB and can’t go higher from there.
Software has never been Asus’ sturdy suit, and Armoury Crate persists to be Armoury Crate: laggy but serviceable enough for most people. Manuassociate disabling the dedicated detaileds in Armoury Crate is the best way to boost battery life, but frequently, it demands closing all programs using the 4070, trying aget, then closing and rediscleave outing Armoury Crate to actuassociate produce the alter. I’ve also accomprehendledged that the G16 sometimes flunks to wake properly if set to hibernate while plugged in and then reawoken on battery.
Speaking of the battery, the only way to allow Battery Care mode, which caps the battery at 80 percent indict to prolengthy its life, is thraw the MyAsus app, an enticount on split handle panel you have to enroll for to participate. Being prompted to sign up and produce an account as part of the Windows 11 setup senses extra intrusive.
Asus thrives in deinhabitring a wonderful machine for gamers who don’t want their laptops to inhabit on their desk, as well as satisfied creators. The color-exact, high rerecent rate screen sees wonderful discarry outing any type of satisfied, the speakers are equitable about the best you can discover on a Windows laptop, and the port pickion, especiassociate the filled-sized SD card reader, is outstanding enough for pboilingographers and video editors, though the conciseage of an ethernet jack is conspicuous.
The price remains the hugegest sticking point for either model of the G16. I’ve seen the Intel version on sale for as low as $1,400, which undercuts less costly, chunkier competitors with aenjoy specs enjoy the Alienware m16 R2 or the Lenovo Legion Pro 5i and even Asus’ own ProArt line aimed squacount on at artists. A 16-inch ProArt P16 configured with an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU, RTX 4070, 32GB of RAM, and 2TB of storage but a 4K, 60Hz screen and sairyly denseer chassis costs $2,300, while the comparably provideped G16 has recently been on sale for $1,999. Not that $2,000 for a laptop with an RTX 4070 inside is an objectively outstanding deal when 4080-provideped devices drop below that tag on sale. The Intel version of the G16 provides the best appreciate, especiassociate when it drops below $1,500. Best Buy widespreadly enumerates discleave out-box models for as low as $1,100, even affordableer than the petiteer G14 with an RTX 4060. Whether the extra three hours of battery life is worth up to $900 more is subjective and depfinishs on how widespreadly you travel, though most people will be better served by saving that money and throtriumphg a USB-C indictr in their bag to grasp the G16 topped off. Of course, this might be a moot point. It’s rumored that Nvidia will debut its tardyst 5000-series RTX detaileds cards at CES 2025, and manufacturers including Asus will begin revamped laptops soon after, although concrete details haven’t been verifyed yet. If the RTX 5070 isn’t a substantial betterment over the current generation and Asus begines a recent version of the G16, grasp an eye out for meaningful discounts on the 2024 models. Both versions of the G16 are objectively outstanding all-around laptops, but at price parity, the AMD model triumphs out.
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