Testing the FIRST Intel 14th Gen Laptop! [ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED | Intel Ultra 7 155H]

ooh okay okay hey guys I'm Tom Tech and this is Theus Zenbook 14 OLED and while its predecessor may have only come out 6 months ago during the summer we already have a refresh and it's a pretty big update both outside and inside because this is the very first laptop I've got my hands on to come with Intel's brand new 14th generation meteor Lake processors and I have the new Intel Core Ultra 7 155h in this guy and this year it's all about the graphics with the new Intel Arc integrated GPU and also a new npu for the neural processing the Intel AI boost so lots to talk about but first a big thank you to assus for sending this over for me to test it is just one of a handful of review units in the world right now and also very kindly sponsoring this video now although you can actually buy this from today well at least in the US Canada and India I think other countries are coming soon so before Christmas which is pretty impressive for the new generation of Hardware uh this actual review sample I've got here is a pre-production version now I can run tests and benchmarks all my own tests all my own results and I will share that with you in a minute because they are pretty interesting but I do have to caveat that this is not a quite final retail model but before we N Out on some 14th gen goodness Asus have made some other very tasty upgrades to the Zenbook 14 OLED and the very first thing you'll notice is the size now sadly I don't have the pretor model here to compare it directly to they reduced the weight from 1.39 kg to just 1.2 so roughly 200 g lighter and they've also slimmed it down from 16.9 mm to 14.9 mm so a couple 100 G less a couple of millimet thinner it's a lot more compact but still keeping that lovely 14-in OLED screen the same 75w battery same 180° hinge and touchcreen of course uh and also the same pretty good range of ports given the size including two Thunderbolt 4S a full-size type a USB headphone jack and an HDMI 2 2.1 obviously an SD card reader would have been nice but not too bad it comes in this blue color or silver foggy silver as they call it although I do think I would prefer the silver as I have noticed the lid on this get a little bit fingerprint I say a bit same lovely backlit keyboard with what Asus call ultra quiet Keys your friends and family around you when you're working on this will definitely appreciate that and of course the touchpad down here also doubles as a numpad with the press of a button as for the screen we have a 14-in OLED touchscreen with a 3K resolution so that's 2880 x 1880 but they have bumped the refresh rate from 90 to 120 Herz which makes everything feel smoother and also it's a good deal brighter now Asus quoted the previous model as offering 400 nits in SDR and 550 in HDR but I measured this at a hair under 500 nits in SDR and around 750 in HDR my only complaint is the screen is very very glossy and also there's a little bit of wobble to that hinge up top we have a 1080p webcam with an i sensor beside it so you can use the windows hello face unlocking even in low light or at night you can also see I've got the auto framing turned on and we'll talk more about that in a second but I also do appreciate we have a privacy shutter up here blah blah blah blah let's get to the good stuff right let's talk about 14th G processors now on the Intel side they've had a bit of a Rebrand we've gone from say the core i5 i7 I9 to the core Ultra 5 Ultra 7 and Ultra 9 although similarly the higher the number the higher the here of chip but just as importantly as ever is the suffix Intel have dropped the P series which for the last couple of generations have sat between the U and the H so this new zenok 14 OLED comes in Ultra 5 Ultra 7 Ultra 9 options all with Intel arc graphics allbe it at different clock speeds and this particular one I have here as I say has the ultra 755h which is bang in the middle of their new H series lineup it's a 16 core 22 thread processor the new Intel arc graphics packs in 8 XE cores we also get dx12 ultimate support Hardware Ray tracing mesh shading and it's better optimized for their xes AI super sampling the new chips also do support Wi-Fi 7 although this particular laptop is still stuck with 6E I say stuck with barely anyone even have a 6E routed but 7 would have been nice for you know future proofing but it does support av1 encoding and decoding which previously you'd have to have say an Nvidia 40 series GPU to get and av1 is basically a much more efficient codec than h264 and that's a pretty big deal for any video editors out there the bottom line though is Intel are claiming double the performance per watt versus the previous gen that's a big claim now to add a bit of context let me bring in the LG gam style this has the previous 13th Gen 136p processor the same one used in the old Zenbook 14 OLED and also packs in 32 gigs of RAM different laptop different chassis yes but it should give us a decent indication of how much faster 14th gen is but in Gig bench 6 we're looking at a minimal change to the single core although an impressive 33% optic in multicore although in cinebench we're seeing a 20% bump in single core and a whopping 113% gain in multicore PC Mark 10 shows a 21% overall optic and in time spy incredibly it's nearly three times faster overall and in the blender Benchmark we're looking at 22 36 and 55% jumps respectively for each test that's pretty huge now opening up Premier Pro 24 and timing the explore of my 4K 60 h264 project it took 4 minutes 32 seconds on the Zenbook versus 9 minutes and 13 seconds on the LG variables aside the 14th gen did it in almost half the time but what about games can I finally play some AAA titles with you know decent settings on integrated Graphics well the answer is yes in Shad of the Tomb Raider we're looking at almost double the performance at 42 FPS and that's with high settings at 1200p Rainbow Six Siege went from a jumpy 38 to a super smooth 79 that's over double the frame rate so gaming is definitely possible now although dropping to 800p might be a better option for the most demanding games and in most cases including Premier Pro we're looking at up to twice the performance year on year that is ridiculous although under load and in performance mode the tempts to get quite High easily in the '90s while video editing or gaming and peaking over 100° C so this can get hot both inside and outside I'm also really surprised that actually the performance on battery isn't that much worse than on power usually we see quite a big drop and that's one of the reasons I love MacBooks is genuinely you get similar performance on battery although I found that's not really the case with gaming but with this guy there's a sort of 5 to 10% drop in performance going away from the charger but that's not bad at all so far so good then but we need to talk about Ai and the big push this year is for on device AI acceleration because we've got all the things like you know Windows co-pilot we've got chat GPT you've got your photoshop with generator fill but that all uses cloud-based AI which is great and generally faster but what we're seeing now is this AI acceleration locally on device which means a you don't need a connection to the cloud a lower latency so it's generally faster fewer privacy concerns cuz nothing's leaving your laptop and it is all done on your laptop so now we've got our CPU the processor the GPU the graphics and the npu or neural processing unit and you can see when the Intel AI boost kicks in in this case when I'm using some webcam Studio Effects but the AI acceleration we get as a result of having this dedicated mpu makes AI tasks much faster and more efficient and as I say it can take some of the workload off your CPU and your GPU but it is early days and you have to have the hardware in place to then you know have developers optimize their apps and games to support the AI acceleration with an mpu so while I would not rush out and buy this purely based on the fact that it has an mpu and we have much faster and more efficient AI performance I would consider buying this because of the improved graphics performance and also the overall upgrade to the laptop in terms of the design the screen and everything else as a package the new zenok 14 OLED starts in the UK at $10.99 that gets you the Ultra 5 CPU 16 gigs of RAM of 512 storage which I think is a pretty good base spec and probably might pick of the bunch although you can spend a little bit more to get the ultra 7 or the ultra 9 topping out with 32 gigs and a terabyte of storage and overall I think it's a lovely laptop beautiful screen lovely design nice and thin and light solid performance particularly in the graphics thanks to 14th gen and I think the price is pretty reasonable for what you're getting and if you do fancy checking this out for yourself I will leave links in the description below if you've got any questions at all drop a comment and I'll do my best to answer them and also if there's anything else you'd like me to test on this with that new 14th gen CPU thank you so much for watching guys and I'll see you next time right here on the tech chat I've just realized there is a cat who's been watching me the whole time would you go for a Macbook or a Zen book what do you think

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Length: 8min 54sec (534 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 14 2023