Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 review: A rip-roaring laptop for gamers

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About two months in the past, we examined the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14, a compact 14-inch laptop computer that packs a severe punch within the efficiency division, making it an acceptable machine for both gaming or content material creation. It wasn’t low cost, nevertheless it was very good. Now it’s time to take a look at its large sibling, the Asus ROG Zephyrus G16.

The idea is identical, however in a bigger format. It’s a solidly constructed laptop computer that provides blazing quick gaming efficiency and a premium OLED show behind a shiny glass floor. You additionally get a sober, low-profile keyboard that’s comfy to sort on for hours at a time and a touchpad designed for inventive work with a big floor space, nice precision, and multi-touch gestures. While it’s on the costlier finish, we really feel it’s effectively price the associated fee.

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Asus ROG Zephyrus G16: Performance, keyboard

If you just like the look of a conventional gaming laptop computer, you’re in luck. You’re getting RGB backlighting within the keyboard in addition to a diode strip within the display screen that, though it solely glows white, could be set to cycle mild reveals or sync with the pc’s audio.

You’re getting actually good gaming options from each {hardware} and software program. Performance is kind of good due to the environment friendly cooling system inside the massive chassis. The cooling pumps extra air and is a bit noisy consequently, nevertheless it delivers excessive and steady body charges even in demanding video games.

You may get the ROG Zephyrus G16 with both 4080 or 4090 graphics, when you actually need to break all of the graphics boundaries, run twin displays, or plug in a 4k monitor. But 4070 is sweet sufficient for this monitor and for somebody like me, who isn’t a infamous fps maxer. Hitting 60 fps in most video games is sweet sufficient.

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Asus ROG Zephyrus G16: Display

The ROG Zephyrus G16 has a quick, colourful 16-inch OLED show. It doesn’t have a touchscreen (commonplace for gaming laptops) and the 2560×1600 decision is greater than sufficient. It does have a whopping 240Hz body charge, a lightning quick response time, and help for Nvidia G-Sync for optimized fluidity in video games. It is, in spite of everything, a Republic Of Gamers laptop and it undoubtedly lives as much as that title.

The display screen can be nice for productiveness and artistic work, with a large panel shade gamut and preset shade profiles for SRGB, DCI-P3, and show P3. It’s licensed for Vesa Display HDR 500 True Black as effectively, which suggests you possibly can depend on nice dynamics with a number of nuance in mild and darkish areas. This is nice when you’re modifying video or pictures, for instance, and a Delta E worth for shade accuracy of lower than one means you possibly can belief the tones in photographs.

As an leisure machine, the Asus ROG will ship due to the show’s good HDR capabilities. But when you’re going to stream a movie or simply surf a bit between classes, you might need to set the pc to “Silent” mode, which reduces the worst fan cooling speeds. You do that both within the Armoury Crate management program or with the hotkey on the keyboard.

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Asus ROG Zephyrus G16: Audio, webcam

The audio system produce wealthy sounds with the Dolby Audio help and excessive quantity. There’s a stunning quantity of bass, however there’s an absence of depth within the treble, so it will not be appropriate for every type of media. Large upward-facing speaker grilles on both facet of the keyboard imply Asus has opted out of a numeric keypad, which didn’t match.

On the edges is a decent set of exterior ports, two USB-C, certainly one of which is Thunderbolt 4 with help for many issues, and the opposite is USB 3 with DisplayPort help. You additionally get two quick USB-A, an HDMI port, and an analogue headset port. Here you’ll additionally discover an SD card reader.

The 1080p webcam feels surprisingly low cost in an in any other case top-tier laptop. It produces a low-contrast picture with a 30Hz lag. It’s nice for a video assembly, however not for skilled streaming. At least you’ll get help for AI-powered Windows Studio results for computerized framing, background blurring, and eye contact correction. You’re additionally getting good microphones, for which you’ll arrange audio pickup and noise discount intimately within the Armoury Crate function.

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This evaluate was translated from Swedish to English and initially appeared on pcforalla.se.