Made a mistake when I was showing the chargers. I was holding the wrong ones lol. The ASUS G16 uses a 240W power brick for the 4080/4090 and a 200W brick for the 4070. What do you guys think of t he ASUS G16?

Thank you so much for taking time to show the power bricks as most people dont, i travel for work so its really important for me and then the sockets where i work only take 10amps, so this is perfect. i guess this will run decent on usb-c aswell

Damn 4:50 the webcam test really shows how flappy the screen is. I hope it could be easily fixed by tightening up the screws.

As always excellent review Sir. I am surprised to see its BATTERY LIFE as it is not EVO certified and no variable refresh mode of 48Hz mode and 60hz. Overall great laptop and fan noice is not that bad considering it is very thin and light. I really loved this laptop but they should have provided variable refresh rate of 48hz or 60hz.

Thank you for the great video. As notebookcheck highlighted the annoying noise of the 4070 version third fan even under low load, what does this one with the vapor chamber sounds like ? The "silent" setting measurement was still under load at that setting right ?

Will a double sided NVME fit in that secondary m.2 slot?

i was waiting for the new g16 but since i needed a new laptop quickly i went with the slim 7i. watching this made me realize my expectation on this laptop were too high lol

Matthew, love the video. Also, bump to put timestamps on the video?

Thanks for the review Matt. The G16 looks like it would be a worthy successor to my VivoBook S15. Everything is better but I especially like the improved screen and speakers.

Bueautiful Design but still the same mistake RAM soldered...Asus C'MON.

Thank you for reviewing the 4080 version. Great Review! Thank you for showcasing more about this unit and the performance. I have been eyeing this model since its announcement. I am in need of a windows device, I have been going back and forth between which laptop I want to purchase after seeing many reviews between Razer, Asus and Windows. personally I want to stay under 3500 with warranty added. I am looking to do some light gaming maybe if that, particularly diablo 4 and hell divers 2 atm, don't really game much but need to have the GPU power to run CAD software smoothly for hobbies and run VM. I was using a 16" M2 Pro MacBook Pro for creative work, fantastic device and quality, sold it. But I am finishing my major in Cyber Sec. So Macs are not the go to for this line of work. When it comes to windows side, I have a love and hate relationship with this Asus product right now. It certainly gives Razer competition. It has a professional look and form factor to it. Just the one thing really throwing me off from buying this G16 is that damn screen wobble. Its a ugly feeling seeing how poor quality these hinges were made and passed through inspection and offered into production. I am glad Asus went and revised the design from last year models. This years model has checked a lot of boxes that gives great satisfaction to an extent. However If I am going to spend Apple price tag money for a device that's going to be my unit for many years. That wobble better not exist in a display. Its annoying to be outdoors and have some small wind breeze blow your screen like a rocking chair while studying or on a table and any small movements just makes it wobble. Hoping there is a way to tighten them or resolve that issue some other way. Wobble aside, It is difficult to find options for a premium 14-16" windows laptop that checks off a lot of boxes as a premium laptop with great performance in a form factor like this, it is a step in the right direction though. I may pull the trigger on this one when it becomes available in white.

Tnx for review. I was wondering is it worth buying this laptop with ram16?

Timespy seems odd. The 4090 from ultrabookreview unit got 16.2k on turbo. I was expecting 15k or something for the 4080. Their silent mode also had 35db at head level. I'm guessing the fan noise here was measured directly at the exhaust vent instead.

Hi, I know that maybe this is not the channel to ask this but as programming I would like to know how power bi runs on this and also how much can process data like 2gb of csv files ?

The timing on this release is pretty perfect for me. Been looking for the thinnest gaming laptop that doesn't have a crazy amount of leds or overly dramatic lines/accents. One that wouldn't look out of place at the office or in the library, but is more than capable for gaming. This seems to fit that description to a tee

Still looks like the near perfect laptop, but man, that amount of screen wobble is absolutely horrifying.

Wish i had the money for this, coming from an rtx 2060 laptop, probably will wait till its in stock or get a newer one next year.

I really, really, really want it. I don't know about that CPU tho, could you please run a Cronoa render benchmark and report please?

I'm coming from OG ROG GL552VW, so this seems a good upgrade for my 3DS max Intense work. also in India, we only have an ultra 7 with a 4070 model. Suggestions are welcome.

I didn't know you had another channel! Cool seeing the BMWi review.

Is it silent at (near) idle? Wasn't sure from the video, I assume the Silent profile being not as silent was under some/full load?

Did you mention anything about battery life? Did you get 10 hours? I’m looking at either getting this one or the 2023 m16. Thanks I think the m16 battery life is poor.

Dude, I just wanna know how it performs on battery power vs plugged in and how it compares in that department from the previous generation, cuz if it is better on battery power than last gen with that battery life per charge, I'm sold on this.

I am back to laptop reviews after buying my 2022 razer blade , the speakers have totally changed !

Wait, why would you need to reboot when switching between internal and external GPU:s?? I thought the G16 has Advanced Optimus which can handle the switching without rebooting?

You used to complain on the magnesium alloy feeling a bit plasticky before. Has it been improved in this re-design, does it feel more premium?

I have a 10 year old laptop and I’m between the 2024 G16 or The 2024 Duo 💔 Can u help me decide?

Specs are great, but, would you recommend this as an option to the macbook m-series specially on the battery life?

Can this thing sit on a flat-couch/flat-bed? How is wobbly display on spongier surfaces? Alot of laptops can't sit on ur lap or anything other than a table anymore. How does it compare to the G14....asus seem to put all the good stuff in the G14 versions and cheap their 16 inch customers out. Is a 4090 going to run louder and have more thermal issues in general on laptop? I thought I heard the 4070 ran cooler than numbers below itself. So by that standard higher number might be quieter and cooler. Or are all the heating issues if any going to come from the intel i9 chips?

Did you tested RTX HDR mod that can bring over 500 nits?

Looks like Matt is testing Timespy in performance mode. Other testers uses Turbo mode and can get about 16k score instead of 13k like in the video

How does this machine perform on AI tasks such as Stable Diffusion? Does the NPU make any difference?

I havent bought a laptop in a while, im talking 10th gen intel lol, and im not sure about oled screens, but honestly i think this year ill be buying the exact model you got haha, 4080 and 32 gigs of ram with decent battery life seems like a good edc laptop that i can use for work and casual gaming.

How heavy do you think it would be compared to a g14?

Hey Matthew, thanks for focussing on overall aspects of the laptop. Do you think it is worth spending extra money for the 4080 configuration vs 4070 one? The cost difference of 4070 vs 4080 configurations is $1000 Canadian. I want to know which one do you think is a better value. The only other difference in these configurations is 1TB vs 2TB SSDs.

Does this mean a m16 with a 4080 would be more powerful than a g16 with the same gpu? I do like the sleekness, screen, and battery life more of the g16, but I wonder if I were to buy the g16 then id be missing out on a power difference compared to the m16. For some context on getting the laptop, i'm not getting it for gaming but rather my second year in an architecture program where we'll be running 3D rendering programs.

Great video. A little off topic what was the spec of your MacBook Pro again? Was it the m3 max or pro?

@MatthewMoniz Can someone do me a favor and check your ROG Zephyrus 2024 for similar issues? I have the model with the RTX 4090. I noticed several things I either do not like or might be defective: 1. I noticed the trackpad mouse click is very stiff. By stiff, I mean perhaps the stiffest click I have ever encountered. After using the laptop for awhile my wrist is throbbing. Are you guys finding the mouse click to be higher than other laptops? I find the stiff click to a be a real letdown. 2. Just an observation but the fans on the default power mode are loud, very loud. I don’t understand why the fans need to be loud and audible just typing an email or work document. Obviously, I can change to silent but then the power drops and you defeat the point of paying for top-of-the-line hardware. I owned the Razer 16” recently and the fans never came on to browse, type, or do similar low wattage activities. If you use your computer to work all day, it is not fun to hear the whistle of fans constantly. 3. My biggest concern involves the OLED panel. Specifically, when I am looking at medium to dark colors (blacks are fine), especially greys, I can see what looks like noise. Medium to dark solid colors don’t look uniform. The way I would describe the noise is it looks like compression artifacts from a low-quality signal or a high ISO digital image. I wasn’t even looking for anything and I started to notice many of my dark backgrounds contained noise, much like a lower quality panel. To make sure I was not just being picky, I compared the colors to my older, cheap laptop with and IPS Screen and my 5 year old Benq photography monitor. Neither had any hint noise or uniformity issues. I’m really wondering if there is an issue with either my laptop or these OLED screens in general. The problem is easy to identify and replicate, simply go to Fullscreen.one (or Google search it) and click on the 60% or 80% black and look closely. On mine you can see all kinds of random noise patterns. If you have this laptop, please do me a huge favor and check out your results and post what you find. Thanks guys!

Great video Matthew! I'm very interested and probably would buy the G16 when the price drop. I'm torn between 4060 and 4070 and can't decide between these. I'm just a casual gamer so probably don't need all that powerful game performance. What I'm thinking is long term performance, do I lose 1 or 2 years of good performance down the road? I know right off the bat 4070 is definitely going to out perform 4060 but it's $500 price difference on same spec

Double sided SSD compatible?

What’s the shelf life of one of these? Very enticed but not looking to replace it every year😂

I'm getting this laptop with the 4070 and intel core ultra 9 with 32 gigs of ram and 1 tb nvme ssd. I intend to use it for the next 10 years

Great review, wish you had talked more about that trackpad. I don't know way trackpad is so underrated to the reviewers, should always compared to the apple trackpad as a reference for us.

Hi, I am a software engineering student in second year. I am looking for upgrade my old laptop to a new, lightweight and powerful laptop. I also studying game development. Should i go with zephyrus M16(2023) model or G16(2024). Do you have any recommendation for that.

Can you please share the thermal situation while gaming on this? And Core Ultra 9, How you see this processor? Will it be able to handle high work load like the i9 13th gen?

Hello, is it possible for daily use to use a USB-c docking station to power the ASUS G16?

would you perfer that over the new hp spectre 16

I don't get why they only use intel processors on the G16, I prefer the bigger screen but I wish they offered the ryzen like for the G14.

Wish theyre going to make a version of this with strix/halo.

Man, I’m torn. I wanna use a laptop for good gaming and overall general use for media creation and just normal non intensive tasks. I don’t know if oled and the slim look is better than a mini led g18 strix. What do you suggest is better with either a 4070-4080

The LED line looks like it’s the X twitter logo

Finally someone reviewed 4080 version

I would like to ask because I don't fully understand so the 4080 model is better than the 4070?

Matthew, thank you for the great review! The quality of the screen is most important, since one is looking at this all the time. OLED is amazing, with the only worry being no burn-in after 24 months. Then comes the weight. In my opinion, a laptop should be no more than 2.2 kg. And necessarily must be an aluminum body. The best combination in my opinion is Intel+Nvidia. ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16 is currently the best choice for portability, office and coding work, and casual gaming.

If this didn't have the slash on top, i would've been sold

Finally a review of the G16!! Can now we get a review for the Omen Transcend?

Was the price before tax? I ordered mine in Germany and it was 3.5K same specs. Sounds like a lot more than your 2.7

i was thinking about buying this as my desktop replacement. im wondering if i can use this with the lid closed since i have 2 monitors i want to connect?

Will word processing or watching movies be loud?

Maybe they can put ram on the extra ssd card slot?

Could you tell me about the settings you used to get your battery life results? I just got the same 4080 model but I'm getting estimates of about 4 hours of battery life when watching movies while limited to a max of 80% battery through the ASUS software.

The delta between the G16-4070 to the G16-4080 is a massive $700 difference. Yikes. Kinda crazy when you consider that Razer's delta for their 4070 to 4080 is $500 (I know, I know... the Razer laptops are already way overpriced to begin with) so one would think the delta for Asus would be similar if not slightly less.

Anyone else finds the performance of the RTX 4050 laptop as more interesting? Of course it's very expensive, but hardware wise I think it's doing well compared to the far more powerful in theory laptops. When you were about to play the speakers, the ad kicked in with some really cool classical music. I had the browser minimized and it sounded amazing. Funny.

Now my question is how long that oled is going to last.

I want mini led and no oled! Also changeable ram slots

I want a RTX 4080 laptop. Should I go for the Zephyrus g16 or the Strix Scar 16? 🤔

The webcam test had the audio not synced

Is the fps stable and good on low settings on Fortnite and is it better then the asus dog strix g16 please reply this is how I’ll know what’s better

damn the MBP 16 speakers are so good.

I am a MacBook pro lover. But I am also a gamer... so I routinely find myself in a predicament where my Mac is exactly what I want to use, 60% of the time. The other 40% however, I find myself wanting something that can play games... this new model of Zephyrus might be the sweet spot for me. Mac-like portability and decent battery life, but with Windows, so I can game. I also prefer MacOS for non-gaming tasks... so theres that. Maybe I need one of each LOL

hey Mathew can you tell why many meteor lake laptops are either core ultra 7 155h or ultra9 but very rarely 7 165H?

I get 53 pts for single core cinebench score on turbo mode setting on mine which is half of what is expected I have no idea why that’s happening

typo: new power brick is 180W (vs 280W for 2023 model)

Can you do a review for Samsung book 4 ultra ? Thanks

Thank you I normally come here for your sticker analysis report

Should have used AMD like G14 - doesn't make sense why they'd have different SKUs just for different screen sizes.

Wait for Asus ROG flow X16 2024 . Is any one knows release date?

okay but one problem.. there is no stock -.-

justjosh got ~15k on his timespy result whereas here it shows 13.5k. was this run on silent?

This or the galaxy book 4 ultra with the 4070?

I can confirm there is zero screen wobble on my device. I duno if these review units are different but i have no screen wobble or flex at all

Please sir can you make a review for the Galaxy book 3 or 4 series. I want to be sure about how it stacks up against the competition thanks sir.

for daily use should i get the g14 or g16?

Hi, has anyone else experienced issues booting up their laptop with an Ethernet cable plugged in? In my scenario, my laptop freezes during boot-up, but if I disconnect the cable, it starts up normally. Interestingly, it works flawlessly with the Ethernet connected when I’m using Windows.

i hope they make a right angled charger accessory, as someone that uses a laptop to watch youtube and shows in bed a lot it would be nice

Asus decision of putting Intel on G16 feel dumb when they have M16 for intel version. I feel like they should have kept G16 with Amd and M16 to Intel. Not sure whether they are discontinuing M16 for this decision.

Wait... The white model costs $200 more? Where was that announced? Is that why Best Buy Canada only has the grey available for order?

Any one have an idea how this 4090 @ 115tgp compares to a 4080 laptop at 175tgp?

how´s the difference between a 4080 with 175watt TGP?

Price in Europe of the Ultra 9, 32GB, 1TB version is 5000€! Crazy compared to macs.

How about the surface temperature?

they spent all that money on a new chassis and they couldn't manage to create a better hinge? I have terrible eyesight - a shaking screen while I type drives me NUTS. Guess I'll have to look at something else. Excellent review, as always.

I literally don't care about how it compares to a Mac which is always inferior because it can't game.

Which would you choose between Msi ge76 raider and lenovo slim 7i (2023) if money wasn't an problem? Lenovo slim 7i - rtx 4070.. 32gb ram... 2 tb storage... 240hz ...intel 19-13900h Vs Msi-- rtx 3060.. 8tb storage ... 64gb ram...360hz...intel 19-11980hz And gaming will be a priority too

Is there an option to get this without a glossy screen? Reflections like that are terrible when I'm out and about and there are windows.

Is it WOLED or QD-OLED?

I think the only thing Asus is lacking is their own Linux distribution packed with all working drivers.

all your reviews named amazing dude

Loved the old design way much.

on the battery life overview, is the mentioned spectre the 14 or 16 version?