My Next Laptop! [ZenBook 14 Pro OLED | RTX 4070 | 120Hz OLED]

hey guys I'm Donald Tech Chap and this is the new Asus zenburg Pro 14 OLED and I absolutely adore this thing and it might just tempt me away from my MacBook Pro now before we dive in properly a big thank you to Asus for sending this out for me to have a play with and also Nvidia for sponsoring this video because they were Keen for me to test this run my benchmarks and just see what an Nvidia GeForce 40 series laptop GPU in one of these new 14-inch form factors is actually capable of so what makes this so special well let's talk about the screen first 14.5 inch 2.8 K 120 hertz OLED touchscreen with Dobby Vision top-notch color accuracy we're talking 100 DCI P3 it's Pantone validated and it supports the Asus pen 2 for all you doodlers and drawers and designers out there inside we have an Intel 13th gen I9 the 3900h that's a 45 watt chip which can actually be boosted up to 75 Watts together with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 laptop GPU which is actually a 90 watt tgp variant of the card but a season Nvidia have actually boosted it in here so it's a 110 watt tgp and thanks to asus's ice cool Pro thermal technology we actually can have up to 125 watt combined TDP uh between the CPU and the GPU which can dynamically shift I also have a slightly peculiar 48 gigabytes of ddr5 RAM that's two memory modules 132 gig 116 and that's paired with a whopping 2 terabyte PCI for SSD but what's special here is that this kind of performance in this smaller form factor just really wasn't possible until this new series of gpus from Nvidia it really is thanks to the vastly improved power efficiency and performance of this new Ada architecture that we get with the 40 series cards that makes this possible and together with improved Cooling and also the likes of dlss3 and other software features we've never had performance like this on a small form factor laptop whether it's for gaming or you know creative workloads and actually doing some work with it as well this is very much a Creator laptop first I would say gaming laptop second but there's such crossover you really can use it for both and on top of the raw performance of the GPU we have all of nvidia's tasty extras for gaming you've got dlss3 now with frame generation Nvidia reflex Ray tracing which as it says on the tin generates entirely new frames not just new pixels but then for you rendering editing streaming you've got the av1 encoders you've got their Studio drivers and their Nvidia broadcast Suite just the name a few by the way if you're wondering the difference between a game ready driver and a studio driver essentially all those game drivers are still packaged within that studio driver but they've also spent more time testing this with a wider range of professional and creative applications so you can definitely game with the studio drivers although they may not be quite as up to date as the game ready ones but they're not far behind these days but if you are using this as a workstation then you probably want to go with Studio why 14 inches or more specifically in this case 14 and a half inches well obviously portability I mean compared to a 15 16 17 inch laptop this is a whole lot smaller and easier to carry around all day whether you're going to school the office work whatever it may be a gaming LAN party and also it's a little bit less obnoxious if you're bringing out in a coffee shop and also if you've ever tried to use a 15 or 6 inch laptop on a tray table on a train or a plane and actually the other day I did have a six inch laptop with me on an economy flight and the lady in front of me reclined and it hit the top of the screen and for a second I thought it was going to shatter the whole thing not ideal so there were definitely benefits clearly to the compact smaller more portable size of a 14 inch form factor but then the other side of it is when you do get home or to your studio or to the office because we've got such a great range of ports HDMI 2.1 Thunderbolt 4 you can hook it up to a nice big external display if you like so that way you have more of your screen real estate so it's kind of like The Best of Both Worlds portable for any traveling but a nice little hub for when you're back at the office which is all great in theory but the question is especially with a laptop like this which is geared towards creators professional workstation users and also Gamers is it powerful enough how fast is this thing well let's find out and to add a bit of context let's also bring in my MacBook Pro with its M2 Max and 64 gigs of memory but then more importantly some real world benchmarks the Zenbook is on average eight percent behind the MacBook in the Premiere Pro Puget test sadly The DaVinci Resolve Studio pewter test doesn't support Mac right now so I can't do that comparison but then if I bring in my blender results firstly from the blender Benchmark you can see the Zenbook is around twice as fast as the MacBook which is pretty crazy but what's about gaming well I think regardless of performance there's a pretty clear Advantage for the Asus because it's running Windows which obviously has a access to a much bigger library of games than a Mac does but if we fire up the Classic Shadow of the Tomb Raider the Zenbook is twice as fast and actually even without dlss if we run it again turn it off it's still a third faster and in fact to give you an idea of how much of an impact the 4070 has over the zenbox integrated Intel XC Graphics well it's about five times faster and just for fun I also ran the blender Benchmark again the GPU makes it around 10 to 20 times faster and so if I bring in the rest of my gaming results and I'm consistently getting close to that 120 which means we're fully taking advantage of the screen's High refresh rate and as I say a huge part of it is down to these new cards with the much more efficient architecture so we're using less power but getting better performance now it's worth mentioning that I ran all my tests with the mark switch set to a discrete GPU by default it's on Ms hybrid so it can use the integrated Auto discrete based on what you're doing which is obviously better for bad battery life and also in terms of the fan profile I've set it to Performance you have also got standard and Whisper which limits the wattage of the components and therefore also lowers the fan noise which you might want if you're using this out in public but one thing I did note is that in the Pro art Creator Hub here you also have full speed mode for the fans in addition to the three other options that were in the my Asus app now you can hear it's pretty loud although if you've got a good pair of headphones with noise canceling it's not the end of the world but I did find that in this mode specifically it did boost my results so my frame rates by like 10 across the board so if you can put up with that noise maybe you're rendering a video or you know you've got good headphones then I would definitely keep it in full speed mode so that's a pretty good start but let's talk about what we get on the outside and in terms of ports we have two Thunderbolt 4 USB type C's as well as a type A that's a USB 3.2 Gen 2 a audio combo Jack full size HDMI 2.1 and yes an SD card reader full size uhs2 so really fast SD card reader very nice we also have a full HD IR webcam so you can have fast face unlocking in any lighting really a huge touch pad which also includes asus's famous dial pad in the corner here and that is all packaged in an incredibly well built laptop this is one of the sturdiest machines I've used in a long time there is not a lick of flex or screen wobble I mean if I put some pretty serious pressure into that it does not budge at all we also get Gorilla Glass protecting the screen because it has a touch screen these super thin bezels which are flush which is very nice except for this tiny lip at the edge for protection and they've crammed all that in a chassis that's just 17.9 millimeters thick and the tip the scales at just three and a half pounds or 1.6 kilograms thereabouts my only complaint is it does get a little bit smudgy you can see my fingerprints all over the lid here I'm genuinely really excited about this laptop and in many ways it's kind of like the windows MacBook Pro 14 except this can also play games as well going back to the my Asus app here that you've got options for everything basically from changing the screen color profiles we also have all the OLED care settings like pixel refresh because of course you want to prevent burning which isn't something you really have to worry about especially with all these which is set to default and as I say on top of all that we also have the pro art Creator Hub because this is very much a Creator laptop and also we have this Asus dial pad down here if you're not familiar yeah you can use this to do simple stuff like adjust brightness and volume within windows or more app specific stuff like scrubbing through a project timeline or zooming in and out I also appreciate there's a subtle Groove and you can kind of feel your way around the dial which means you can kind of use it without looking and what I do kind of like is unlike its bigger brother the pro Art Studio book which has a big physical dial pad next to the touchpad and keyboard you can just turn this off if you want a little swipe from the top right corner of the touchpad turns it on and off so you don't have to use it if you don't want to it doesn't get in the way but if you do well you have that extra option there quick mention of battery life and it's okay we have a 76 watt hour cell in here which is not bad for a 14 inch form factor an Asus claim you'll get up to about 10 hours of light use in my experience it's a little bit less than that I got around seven hours but still six and a half seven hours of light use with sort of 50 brightness whisper mode fan profile and obviously if you are doing more demanding tasks then it's going to drain the battery much faster and also you're not going to get that maximum performance so generally keep it plugged in if you're doing anything intensive but for just everyday travel light use at the office you you get about a full day if you're careful also while this screen is absolutely glorious we're looking at about 480 nits in SDR and 550 Nets peak in HDR and that's pretty good for an OLED but you're not going to get any kind of crazy bright HDR experience that you might get on a regular TV or with a mini LED screen for example although I do appreciate this supports Dolby Vision HDR and also Dobby Atmos and actually the speakers on this are pretty good and so that my friends is the Asus Zenbook Pro 14 OLED starts from around 2100 I'll put more pricing info in the description below and also have a look at nvidia's full range of GeForce RTX 40 Series Laptops but what do you reckon would you be tempted to buy one of these and if you did pick one up what would you use it for gaming editing developing let me know in the comments below thank you so much for watching guys if you did enjoy this video a like And subscribe would be very much appreciated and I'll see you next time right here on the tech chat

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Length: 9min 55sec (595 seconds)

Published: Mon May 08 2023