The big screen is a bit of a disappointment to me having gotten used to the gorgeous Nebula Displays Asus has jammed into its other laptops, though maybe that would have jacked up the price prohibitively. That's a 24-core processor with 32-threads, but remember Intel is mixing eight of its Performance cores with 16 Efficient cores to hit its thread target. The most powerful Intel mobile chip we've seen has been the Core i9 13980HX in the Asus Strix Scar 16, this machine's smaller sibling. I repeat, we are talking about 16 full Zen 4 CPU cores here. In heavily multithreaded loads I was seeing a regular 4.7GHz, which is no mean feat. And that's actually a reliable boost, too, because I was reliably seeing the chip ramping up to that level during single-core loads in my testing. The nominal clock speed of the chip is just 2.5GHz, with a boost clock of 5.4GHz. It's a 16-core, 32-thread processing monster that so far hasn't burned up inside the confines of this surprisingly slight chassis. It's AMD's latest Zen 4 architecture brought into the laptop realm and it's pretty damned special, hosing the competing Intel 13th Gen chips used in comparative systems. We've already spoken in great length about the mobile RTX 4090, decrying its misnaming as an RTX 4080 in a thin disguise, but the mobile AMD CPU is the big new thing here. The key spec, as always in a gaming notebook, is that of the CPU/GPU combo. If you're gaming, consider the battery like some sort of uninterruptible power supply rather than something to rely on for long. Or y'know, all those other places people like to be seen writing doing their important business in public.Īnd you absolutely do need to be plugging it in because, despite that 90Wh battery, it really doesn't last long away from a wall socket. But, that being said, if you're looking at a high-performance notebook, with this category of GPU inside it, you're going to be plugging it in on a desk rather than whipping it out on a train, coffee shop, or in the park. The downside is about whether you want that 17-inch form factor-these are big ol' laptops after all. It's also one of the best performing RTX 4090 machines I've seen, which is a double whammy that makes it difficult to recommend any of the rest. This is the most affordable RTX 4090 machine I've seen in this generation, so I guess in some regards being a seen as a lesser light in laptops terms has maybe served this AMD-powered system after all.
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