The Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 is lighter than a MacBook Pro, and it can pack up to an RTX 4090, but it will challenge your expectations about gaming laptops.
Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 MSRP $2,000.00 Score Details DT Recommended Product “The Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 will challenge your expectations about what defines a gaming laptop.” Pros Cons The Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 confuses me. On the surface, it should be one of the best gaming laptops you can buy. It’s thinner and lighter than a MacBook, even when packing an RTX 4090 under the hood, and it has what might be the best display you can find on a laptop.
You can scale up to an RTX 4090, but you probably shouldn’t. A lot of that comes down to the Total Graphics Power, or TGP, of the Nvidia GPUs available for the Zephyrus G16. Asus restricts the power to the graphics card to avoid heat and noise issues that could pop up in such a thin laptop. You’re not getting the full performance out of the GPU, which is a more fair compromise with a card like the RTX 4070 than the RTX 4090.
Weight is one thing, but the Zephyrus G16 is also thinner than the MacBook Pro, clocking in at 0.65 inches at its thickest point . It’s quite a bit thinner than the Razer Blade 16, too, which comes in at 0.87 inches. Asus has really achieved something special here with the thinness and weight of the Zephyrus G16.
Even with the Slash Lighting, the design of the Zephyrus G16 is a massive success. The laptop looks great, but more importantly, it’s thin and remarkably light. It’s one of the only 16-inch laptops I’ve used that feels properly portable, sitting alongside machines like the Alienware x16. You have everything you need here, like the ability to download pictures from your SD card, connect an extra display, and top off your battery with a portable USB-C charger. You don’t need an external USB hub to effectively use the laptop, and that’s a big plus.
A showstopping display If there’s one big reason to pick up the Zephyrus G16, it’s the screen. It’s an OLED display that tops out at 240Hz, which matches full desktop monitors like the LG UltraGear OLED 27. With a sharp 2,560 x 1,600 resolution, excellent color, and response times as low as 0.2ms, it’s tough saying there’s a better laptop screen on the market. I don’t think there is.
Cinebench R24 provides a good point of comparison. In the default performance mode, the Core Ultra 9 185H provides almost identical multi-core performance to the Ryzen 9 8945HS in the Zephyrus G14. Even with the thin design, the Zephyrus G16 should be able to squeeze more performance out of the CPU simply due to being a larger laptop.
Gaming isn’t the top priority The Zephyrus G16 compromises its gaming performance. This is still a gaming laptop by branding and definition, but it’s a departure from what you’d normally expect out of these parts in a 16-inch machine. Frame rates aren’t much better than what you can find in a similarly configured Razer Blade 14, and sometimes they’re downright worse.
The performance here exposes the big upside of an Nvidia GPU, however. Nvidia’s DLSS 3.5 makes running at higher frame rates trivial, even at Ultra settings and native resolution. The numbers aren’t what I’d expect out of a laptop with the specs of the Zephyrus G16, but you can still get a great gaming experience here.
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