OK, this is my review. I love this thing. It’s so grown up. Doesn’t sound like a jet engine and it does perform.

Good job on the review, I appreciate the detailed comments on how the laptop will preform when the correct settings are setup. Very thorough review sir!!!

I see the CPU temp is around 80-85c in this video, but I heard of people with the G16 having their CPU temp over 100c just from idling. Is this a serious issue? Does it have to do with the tri fans versus the vapor chamber cooling setups?

it would be cool to see your g16 4090 tests with 175 watts of cast vbios from scar 16 2024 (do not forget to do an undervolt, put a limit of 150 watts in afterburner and similar things) Furthermore, try to change liquid metal to kryosheet, it also would be very interesting tho I saw on the Reddit who that turned such, but I would like to see everything in video format

@GizmoSlipTech

3 ай бұрын

This is a review unit from Asus, so I don't think they want me flashing the VBios (I have done this before, but on the Scar 15 2021, I think). Maybe if it was my own laptop. It can be hard to trust reddit posts sometimes--they may not be monitoring temps/actual wattage/boost clocks, etc. If you swapped in the 175W vbios, you'd probably just run into thermal throttling non-stop somewhere around the 130-150W range, even with max fans. Also, a 60W boost to the GPU would help performance, but it would also put the VRMs at risk if looking for long term use, imo. A good way to fry the motherboard potentially.

You forgot to test its igpu while on battery. I can see myself buying this over the newer gaming handhelds even if its a lot more expensive

Pls review the 2024 RAZER BLADE 18 PLEASEE

I'm looking for strix g16 I still don't know about whistling sound from the fans

kind of disappointing you didn't ever do a follow up video like this for the scar 18. it deserves it

Just bought one for my son. Same model.

what about the fan noise ar rhe maximum performances? some reviewers noticed loud fan noise cause of small chasis

@GizmoSlipTech

3 ай бұрын

Thats in the 4060-4070 models, different fan setup

Please review lenevo loq ryzen 7 8845hs , Rtx 4060 , 1440p display

2 thunderbolt ports and i would have said it was the best 2024 laptop.. but they should have used solid state blowers instead of the fans

Good review! 1 major issue .. 22 mins of review and not a single mention of battery life 🤦‍♂️ one of the biggest selling points of this laptop compared to the higher powered machines is much longer battery life which should have been mentioned 🤷‍♂️

Good day sir. can you make a comparison video/review between rog strix scar 18 and msi titan 18hx? cuz idk which of these two laptops are the best of the best. i have enough budget for either one of them

@mostnamesaretaken959

2 ай бұрын

strix

Can you please restart the entire review uninstalling Armoury Crate and installing G Helper instead ? So we can have final temps, noise and performance results, since the gap is massive between both software.

@calvinholloway3802

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, I wanna see him. Do it too

Great review! Do you think 60 fps locked games will have good motion without motion blur in game settings on this display? And could you try Ark Survival Ascended too as it's one of the most demanding games out of there? First question is important to me so if you can answer it would be awesome for me deciding whether I would buy one or skip for other models. I just want a good motion clarity on 60 fps content. OLED panels seem to have lowest response times so I thought getting one would serve me good.

@GizmoSlipTech

3 ай бұрын

I wouldn't think 60 FPS would have any issues since this has G-Sync. Should work fine for games like Elden Ring (60 FPS lock).

@AkaruIez

3 ай бұрын

@@GizmoSlipTech Previously I used Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Gen 8 with 4090 and its panel wasn't good at 60hz/60fps. Even though it had fast response times on 240hz, image was getting pretty blurry under 75 fps or something. So I thought I had to get an OLED laptop to solve this motion clarity issue with how game feels at 60 fps because of having near instant response times.

keyboard light is not changing its stuck in blue

Another great review! I'll be honest though, this is what I came to see 10:50

why is that time spy score the same as my old g14 4080 - bro...

What is your preference between this laptop and scar 16 2024? Does oled display really change the experience compared to that new miniled?

@yuding237

3 ай бұрын

Oled will give you mouthwatering colors but mini led will make you feel like ur in heaven cuz the mini led is so bright and contrast in dark scenes is insane🔆

@AkaruIez

3 ай бұрын

​​​@@yuding237though oled is much better at motion handling because of near instant response times compared to miniled which is pretty big deal in games with 45-70 fps range

@GizmoSlipTech

3 ай бұрын

The MiniLED displays are noticeably brighter--but sometimes literally too bright to where I need to turn brightness down to 60-80%. Both have slight bloom. Both have great peaky whites and perfect blacks. I think I would prefer a MiniLED if it was my money for the brighter display when in sunlight, which I have to occasionally deal with.

@yuding237

3 ай бұрын

​@@AkaruIez yeah agreed, but u can just turn off local dimming and turn it into an ips for performance games lol

Hey GizmoSlipTech how does this do when gaming and streaming on Twitch at the same time? My friend's Alienware X17 from 2022 is already overheating so I am still looking. My old laptop was a Asus ROG G551JW which is super outdated. I currently have a ROG Ally but I am looking to upgrade as I don't want to bring a keyboard and mouse everywhere with me.

@YayaTia_II

2 ай бұрын

Also Brandon any whining noise from your sample? Other reviewers had issues on their 4070 and 4080 units of the Zephyrus G16 I guess it is a weird fan clicking noise or something hope Asus ROG firmware updates or fixes these issues with future batches of units.

Am I wrong for assuming that aside from the chassis and screen this isn't that big of an update coming from teh 2023 model ? Like even the QHD panel from last year gets brighter than this, same resolution and out here in canada they're charging us out the wazoo for this model... Is the new chassis really that much better ? Also 2023 model has higher cpu performance...

@GizmoSlipTech

3 ай бұрын

If you already have a capable gaming laptop, I typically wouldn't recommend upgrading after only 1 year. Usually 2-3 years provides much better bang for the buck.

@xx-knight-xx2119

8 күн бұрын

Would you recommend the 4080 version or 4090 version? I don't have a laptop and plan on keeping it for probably 6-7 years before upgrading again. ​@@GizmoSlipTech

I want this laptop with an 18 inch screen. Please and thank you ASUS!

I want a Rog duo 16 with a 5090...

A rolls royce here? "fast ENOUGH, portable ENOUGH" with posh screen... Like!

in my testing, setting the display mode to optimus increased my cpu time spy score to 12500+ best time spy score so far- overall- 17053 gpu- 18088 cpu- 12880 there seems to be an issue where optimus is increasing cpu performance. this performance increase was very dependent on settings and I was using Ghelper to stop asus services which seemed to have an impact on cpu performance. putting it in optimus, making sure gsync is full screen only, using g helper to stop asus services, seems to give the best performance. any variation of these settings seems to cut the cpu score in time spy from 12500ish to 11500ish. also did a 150/250 overclock on the gpu and that score was with cpu boost on efficient aggressive.

@AkaruIez

3 ай бұрын

How does display perform at 60hz, did you try any of 60 fps locked games yet?

@coreyhunter5404

3 ай бұрын

@@AkaruIez not yet. my tech knowledge doesn't really compare to these guys. I've been talking with someone trying to figure out why the cpu is performing better in optimus but we're not sure. only had it less than a week myself so I've just been playing helldivers. i will say I'm getting better performance than he is at around 75-85 fps on ultra in the thick of the action 100+ in the ship

@AkaruIez

3 ай бұрын

@@coreyhunter5404 alright, do you think this machine is worth getting for oled panel? In my country this is the only oled model that is advertised as gaming and equipped with pretty decent cooling hardware and I am really sick of lcd motion when playing games (everything becomes blurry especially with low fps) but does not provide top notch performance levels. Furthermore, did you encounter any QC issues that Asus has been going through last year like famous coil whine or dead pixels on the screen? One last question or wish if you can call it, can you try limiting your fps to 60 in helldrivers and disable motion blur in game settings then tell me the smoothness of motion you get? In theory motion should look as crisp as static image when you are not moving your camera as oled panels do have near instant response times. I've tried DS: Remastered (60 FPS) on Asus Vivobook OLED and it was amazing. Not sure about this panel though so I need a confirmation.

@coreyhunter5404

3 ай бұрын

@AkaruIez if you're looking for essentially an ultrabook that can play any game with a beautiful screen, this is the computer to get, in my opinion. It does get hot, but it works within the thermal limits of the components. With this much power in such a thin laptop, you're going to get heat, but it seems managed well. The 4080 and 4090 versions have a different cooling system that gets rid of the 3rd fan for a vapor chamber, so keep that in mind. I haven't noticed any QC issues with my unit, but asus is a large company, and people don't tend to post about how perfect their machine is. From looking around before buying, it appears every company has QC issues haha. But no coil whine or dead pixels that I can tell. I did set the screen to 60hz and helldivers to 60fps and it still looks amazing. I'm not a fan of motion blur myself, but I'm also not too picky, so take that into account. I imagine most oled screens should perform the same, but I'm not sure.

@AkaruIez

3 ай бұрын

@@coreyhunter5404 Thanks for the detailed answer! If you disabled motion blur in game settings and still getting amazing motion clarity at 60 fps that's just too good to pass, I'd drop performance for good motion in my most played games any day of the week. I guess I'll go for 4090 one too as it has best thermals as you said, I hope I don't regret my purchase as I pretty much regretted getting a 4090 Legion since it was poorly optimized for 60hz content.

Why no upgradeable ram....

I will wait for the next gen intel/amd/nvidia. All these "new" notebooks are a minor upgrade.

New intel are very hot and under full load performance near 50% drop....hope asus use amd ryzen 3D

Heard fans on this are abnoxiously loud even when not under load. Your review skipped fan noise is there a reason for this?

@GizmoSlipTech

3 ай бұрын

I just forgot it. Derp. But this has a vapor chamber with dual fans, while the 4060/4070 versions have louder third fan and heat pipes. Check fan noise in full livestream at 1:40:00 kzread.infox4lcoOYgbQE?si=Qxb_A8YMA99_JA2R

I'm wondering why should a company put a 4090 in such a thin laptop like this and limit its power :). thx for the review tho ❤

@coreyhunter5404

3 ай бұрын

there's someone experimenting with different vbios and pushing more power to the gpu. results seem promising. apparently the sweet spot is around 150w

@GizmoSlipTech

3 ай бұрын

It's for people that need to carry their laptop around with them every day to class/around the office/house. If you don't have to move your laptop constantly, I'd recommend getting a full power RTX 4080/4090 if possible. At least this Zephyrus G16 also undercuts some of the other premium laptops such as the Blade 16 and Alienware X16 R2--so that helps make up for the lower power limit GPU as well, in terms of price to performance. Thicker = cheaper = more powerful, but is a lot less portable for someone who can't be bothered with a 9-12 lb carry weight (with power adapter/cable)--and who might want to carry a smaller backpack with books/papers/etc, which requires a thinner laptop like this one.

@rayanheidari-wb7cf

3 ай бұрын

@@GizmoSlipTech I agree, this is a great laptop for who can afford the price. But what I meant is that this cpu with a maximum RTX4070 would be a much reasonable choice in terms of price and performance.

@vinhvu155

3 ай бұрын

I disagree. The G16 is still very big. In fact, it is just that they don't want to engineer more into it. Look at the Razer Blade 16 and Legion 9 they are kinda the same dimensions, yet pack a full powered 4080/4090. The 4060 and 4070 is still a scam imo, even after so long, Nvidia still hasn't bothered to uncap the 100w limits on those, yet their performance is at best 10% more than their predecessor, but commanding a huge price hike. But who knows, it might be a small bump in performance either way. MSI Stealth 18 is advertised with a 150w 4080/4090. And that pc is slimmer. How come Asus is not at least put it at that wattage?

@CosmicApe

3 ай бұрын

@@GizmoSlipTech But does it really "undercut" other laptops if the internals are weaker, and thus on par with lower end specs of other laptops? The RB16 with an i9 and 4080 is around the same price as the G16 with 4090, and the RB16's 4080 will outperform the G16's 4090 and the RB16's actual full i9-14900HX will handily outperform these i9 Ultra cards.

What do you reckon, this laptop with a 4080 for blender, unreal engine 5, halo infinite, and games like that?

Me looking at this while Im still saving up for a lenovo slim 5 1220$

@josephle2381

3 ай бұрын

You can wait for this laptop to go on sale

how is battery life?

@user-xs5ht5yv5w

3 ай бұрын

pretty solid

Should i go for the aorus 17h 4080 i7 13th or the acer helios 16 4080 i9 13th

alienware m18 R2 please

anyone know how the 4060 version of this laptop is?

@garys2157

26 күн бұрын

It's using the i7 instead of the i9, available in either 16g or 32g ram, 512 or 1 terabyte drive, might be available to find on sale for a decent price.

Single player games, as long as they are 60 and above should be great gaming experience. 👍

I think you missed an opportunity for a more fair comparison with competing laptops. You focused too much on the name "4090" and not enough on the actual wattage and performance of the laptop. The full powered 4080 in the RB16 will outperform the 95W 4090 in the G16, and the i9-14900HX in the RB16 will significantly outperform these i9 Ultra cards, and these two specs are almost the same in price.

helldivers 2 is cpu bound, not gpu bound in your testing. a full power 4080 would provide no benefit.

95 watt 4090 is a waste, dont get me wrong i know they cant put a full power 4090 in that thin body. I wish they just maxed out at 4080 as they cant utilize the full 4090 or the 16gb vram.

@LCJammer

3 ай бұрын

imo anything above a 4070 is a waste of money. best price to performance is usually a 4060.

@alvinamana1459

3 ай бұрын

@@LCJammer Horribly wrong 4060 is budget laptop that doesn't have the power needed regardless. 4070 and 4080 are the best options for power and wattage depending on the laptop a 17 inch and above can handle the right wattage for 4080 or 4070, This laptop is a waste however 4090 is just too powerful for such low wattage. But yeah best price for performance def is not 4060 best bang for back way to under powers if you want to actually play any of these games and not have a toaster inside your laptop

@alvinamana1459

3 ай бұрын

completely agree its all a gimmick to spend that much money and its only going to be delivering power of like a 4070 maybe is wild lol

@GizmoSlipTech

3 ай бұрын

@LCJammer Some of us want more performance than a 4060 can provide. @excee4798 Yes, but if it can actually play all your games on basically maxed settings anyway (minor fiddling sometimes with this one in some games)--then what's the problem with going thinner/lighter/more portable if you need to carry the laptop every day? I prefer max performance RTX 4090's, but I can understand the draw to portable performance as well. For me, the best blend of portability and performance is probably the RTX 4090 125W in the Zephyrus G14 2023.

@alvinamana1459

3 ай бұрын

That doesn't make much sense the last part for portable an performance you can get a 4080 with more wattage an it's just as portable. That's still horrible for a 4090 with those specs an that little bit of wattage for performance. At that point you are basically saying you want portability but don't care about performance so much. I'm sure even a few 4070s would perform a 4090 in those specs an it will never be able to even get close to the screen resolution unless it's a very weak game lol

Every review i watch is someone only doing the 4090 version i wish someone would do the 4060 version.

@GizmoSlipTech

Ай бұрын

Looks like Asus will send me a lower range one with the new Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU

Overall, this is the best thin and light gaming laptop for 2024. I only wish that either this shipped with faster RAM or that the RAM was user replaceable. There were bound to be compromises made to make a laptop thin and light in terms of performance. One really important consideration is that the speakers are really good. They are almost as good as the Macbook Pro 16, which are considered the best speakers that you can get on a laptop. The big thing that I think needs to happen is that Intel needs to step up its game on CPU efficiency. The performance per watt is really bad - and that is reflected in the battery life of Windows laptops.

@fardrives

3 ай бұрын

No. If money is not an issue, the Razer Blade is still the best thin and light gaming laptop. The G14 & G16 will thermal throttle very fast during gaming and not to forget it has soldered RAM so you have to choose the 32GB option. Its basically a Creator's laptop masquerading as a Gaming laptop.

@CosmicApe

3 ай бұрын

@@fardrives Not only that, mid-tier specs in the RB16 will outperform the top-end G16 b/c Asus put pretty underpowered components into this laptop. It works great as an "ultra portable" thin and light, but a 95W 4090 and i9 Ultra card will perform noticeably worse than a full powered 4080 and an i9 14900HX.

@crazyelf1

3 ай бұрын

@@fardrives The Razer also has big issues with throttling. The issue I don't trust with Razer is long-term reliability. They've had some high profile failures in the past.

@michaozga7825

2 ай бұрын

@@CosmicApeand costs 2x more

The problem with these ultra thin laptops are when it comes to gaming they will thermal throttle very fast. This is basically a Creator's laptop disguised as a Gaming laptop.

A 4060/4070 with 32GB would have been perfect. Asus locking the 32GB to the 4080 (at least in the US) is such a scummy sales tactic.

Eh for a $3000 gaming machine, mediocrity at gaming and low'ish brightness is not acceptable. I'd look at a full power TDP option, this feels like a luxury portable notebook for light business/work tasks. Maybe next years revision will be worthy of the ROG branding.

Imagine all the flexing by the YT community if Apple released a new gen Mac with CPU worse than the previous year! Of course, it is everyones fav, Intel, that year-after-year have mediocre performance gains and gets a way with it. Glad Apple did their own thing and revolutionised chips. Intel has closed a bit but this year is a sabbatical and probably not a good year to upgrade despite over-positive reviews. Especially with the price increases; it is at a point where Macs are now competitive with Windows premium machines when comparing as a pro machine.

Tbh I think they botched this year's G14/16, like instead of a powerful productivity/gaming laptop it suddenly became what the Dell XPS Ultrabooks should be at(don't get me started with that). Seems like theyre trying to beat the Macbook Pro lineup. It's sad to see 120W on a 4090 which is like a 3060 with Dynamic Boost but then only 20W away from a 4050/60/70 100W voltage limit. Or maybe I just love the '23 Zephyrus G16 (i9,4060,QHD) that I bought last year idk.

@KRFrostFire1

3 ай бұрын

Just get the old version, it is still RTX4000 and there is not much CPU changes this yr too anyways.

@AkaruIez

3 ай бұрын

Man you're exaggrating, it's not 3060 with max power. It's fairly bit of better than 4070 mobile and a bit of behind 4080 mobile.

@GizmoSlipTech

3 ай бұрын

RTX 3060 average Timespy GPU score is 8200. RTX 4090 at 115-125W (Zephyrus G16 2024): 17,068 As you can see, the 4090 in the Zephyrus G16 is literally double the performance of what you are claiming.

@tjdultra6982

3 ай бұрын

My bad! Maybe comparing it to a 3060 was exaggerating it. I was just referring to the *slight wattage difference between the RTX offerings on this model.

DO NOT get this laptop if your MAIN reason is to game. It WILL thermal throttle, it WILL have a lot of endurance issues for gaming. Soldered RAM means you HAVE to get 32GB of RAM. If you're casually gaming but more focued on real world applications this is a good laptop.

Hi bro 👇In these two Lenovo laptops which one is worth it 👉 1st Legion Slim 5 16APH8 2023 - $899 ₹75,000 Processor AMD Ryzen™ 5 7640HS (6C / 12T, 4.3 / 5.0GHz, 6MB L2 / 16MB L3) Graphics NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4060 8GB GDDR6, Boost Clock 2370MHz, TGP 140W Memory 2x 8GB SO-DIMM DDR5-5600 Storage 512GB SSD M.2 2280 PCIe® 4.0x4 NVMe® DESIGNDisplay 16" WUXGA (1920x1200) IPS 300nits Anti-glare, 45% NTSC, 144Hz, FreeSync™, G-SYNC® 👉 2nd Lenovo LOQ 15IRX9 2024 - $890 ₹74,300 Processor Intel® Core™ i7-13650HX, 14C (6P + 8E) / 20T, P-core 2.6 / 4.9GHz, E-core 1.9 / 3.6GHz, 24MB Graphics NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4060 8GB GDDR6, Boost Clock 2370MHz, TGP 115W Memory 1x 16GB SO-DIMM DDR5-4800 Storage 512GB SSD M.2 2242 PCIe® 4.0x4 NVMe® DESIGNDisplay 15.6" FHD (1920x1080) IPS 300nits Anti-glare, 100% sRGB, 144Hz, G-SYNC® Or is there any other laptop for gaming and productive under $950. Kindly suggest me Thank you 😊

what a waste of a 4090

review ASUS TUF FA617NT-A16.R77700 for us please, directly from Brazil, you are incredible

It's not future proofing when it's slower. It's called 'we're screwing you. Bend over.'.