The necessary cooling and acoustic demands rein in the GPU from the peak clock speeds it can hit when unleashed in 'Turbo' mode, but if you're happy to accept the audible assault from the required cooling you'll see between 20% and 30% higher gaming frame rates than listed here in the benchmarks above. In standard 'Performance' mode the Max-Q Design kicks in and you get gaming performance that slides in behind the Acer Predator Triton 500 (opens in new tab) and MSI GS66 (opens in new tab) notebooks. The speakers may be good, but if you put this thing into 'Turbo' mode and enable its reliance purely on the dedicated graphics (disabling Optimus, enabling G-Sync, and ditching the potential power-saving integrated CPU graphics), then the cooling fans are going to drown out anything the speakers are capable of outputting. The caveat to that is the peak performance is only accessible if you're willing to forego any semblance of acceptable acoustics. Sadly that's not a practicable solution when you're out and about.Īs you'd expect, with all that's at the disposal of the Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15, it's a hell of a performer. Which does mean I keep slapping the spacebar trying to use the pad where my brain thinks it should be, and also means Asus ships it with a rubber wrist rest which sits on your desk to make it more comfortable to type on the chiclet keyboard. The upshot of adding in the ScreenPad Plus is that, like the original Zephyrus, the keyboard has been shifted to the front of the laptop and the trackpad to the right-hand side. Arrange your windows how you want them, click the capture button and it will store your layout so you can recreate it quickly without having to go through the whole dragging and resizing rigmarole. The quick launcher button means you can boot specific software at the touch of a button, adjust settings, and capture screen configurations. It's designed to be able to offer quick access to apps and screen setups too. It's touchscreen too, which neither of the potential main displays are. The ScreenPad Plus is a 14.09-inch IPS panel, but with a seriously letterbox aspect ratio delivering a native resolution of 3840 x 1100. Sure, you can always run games at 1080p on the 4K screen, but that introduces a whole new heap of issues. When you're gaming, however, you need to be able to take advantage of a high 1080p refresh rate-running at 4K the RTX 2080 Super can't even deliver a consistent 60fps at a graphics preset that won't make you sad you spent $4,000 on it. On the productivity focused Zenbook Pro Duo, yeah, go 4K and edit all that ultra HD content you're working on full screen. And honestly, that would be my preference. There is the option to have a Zephyrus Duo 15 with a 1080p main IPS display running at 300Hz if you want to dial into the gaming prowess of this Asus ROG machine. Our sample is one of the 4K versions, sporting a 15.6-inch UHD IPS panel with G-Sync support, though it's only capable of a 60Hz refresh rate. In a world where we've got fast PCIe 3.0 and 4.0 SSDs I'm not that convinced about the pace of this RAID 0 pairing, and should one drive fail at any point any operating system or information stored across them is toast… ![]() This version just comes with another 16GB stick, giving it 32GB RAM running in dual-channel mode at 3,200MHz.įor storage there are a pair of 1TB NVMe SSDs (opens in new tab), arranged in RAID 0 to try and max out the solid state speeds. On the system memory side, the Zephyrus Duo comes with 16GB of DDR4 onboard, with an additional SODIMM slot to drop in up to another 32GB of RAM. Drop Premiere windows or Photoshop toolbars onto the second screen and you have your main working display clutter-free and easily accessible. Asus' ZenBook Duo and Pro Duo (opens in new tab) machines introduced the concept of the ScreenPad Plus in a laptop more designed for productivity than the gaming raison d'etre you'd expect for an ROG device. To me it feels like it's there purely because it can be. ![]() But I really question why there's a need for a gaming laptop (opens in new tab) to come with an integrated second screen. ![]() The build quality is excellent-more effective than the first, mildly flimsy Zephyrus notebook-and the performance is pretty outstanding when you push it as far as it can go. Graphics card - Nvidia RTX 2080 Super Max-Q
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