Although the Asus ROG ZephyrusM16 is an excellent gaminglaptop, don't configure it with an RTX 4090 GPU.
Asus ROG Zephyrus M16 MSRP $3,500.00 Score Details DT Editors' Choice “The Asus ROG Zephyrus M16 is powerful and highly portable, but skip the RTX 4090 configuration.” Pros Cons There’s no where else to start this review — the Asus ROG Zephyrus M16 is one of the best gaming laptops you can buy. However, its spec sheet doesn’t say why this laptop is so impressive, and my testing shows that the Nvidia RTX 4090 you can configure this machine with is effectively wasted money.
You have access to the same port selection across all models, which is excellent. In addition to two USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports, you also get a single USB-C supporting DisplayPort and power delivery, as well as a Thunderbolt 4 port with the same support. In addition, there’s a full-sized HDMI 2.1 port and a micro SD card reader. It even supports fast charging, allowing you to get 50% of the battery life back in 30 minutes.
The stylish part comes in the form of the clean top of the laptop and the AniMe matrix. There’s the same subtle branding in the bottom-left corner of the lid that makes the lid feel sleek and classy. This is a gaming laptop, there’s no doubt about that in the design. But while machines like like the Alienware x14 scream that fact from the rooftop, the Zephyrus M16 whispers it.
It’s a 16:10 display with a 2,560 x 1,600 resolution, Pantone Validation for color, and a 240Hz refresh rate. That’s great, but the big boost here is dense local dimming. Asus says the monitor has 1,024 local dimming zones and a peak brightness of 1,100 nits, which are specs on the level of a high-end gaming monitor like the Samsung Odyssey Neo G8.
Keyboard and trackpad High-end gaming laptops like the Corsair Voyager a1600 have adopted “mechanical” keyboards co-developed with Cherry over the past several years, but the Zephyrus M16 doesn’t jump on the bandwagon. And I couldn’t be happier. Processor performance Although Asus offers several configurations for the Zephyrus M16, all of them come with an Intel Core i9-13900H. It’s a Core i9, but the chip has far fewer cores than a high-end chip like the Core i9-13980HX. You get 14 cores total, split across six performance cores and eight efficiency cores, and a boost clock of 5.4GHz.
That sounds like a loss for the Zephyrus M16, but some context is important here. Even compared to last-gen’s Core i9-12900HX, which has more power and access to overclocking, the 13th-gen chip is faster in every benchmark. The Core i9-13900H is still a very powerful processor, though I would’ve liked to see more configuration options from Asus for shoppers who need a little more processor power out of their gaming laptop.
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