ⓘ Asus
Courtesy of an ongoing sale on Walmart, a well-equipped gaming laptop from Asus ROG is now available with a sizable $600 discount for a limited time. This laptop comes equipped with a powerful 16-core AMD CPU, an RTX 5060 GPU, and 16 GB of RAM.
Thanks to an ongoing sale on Walmart, the powerful Asus ROG Strix G16 gaming laptop is now available with a massive $600 discount, bringing its price down to just under $1,400.
This variant of the G16 gaming laptop comes equipped with an extremely powerful 16-core AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX CPU paired with 16 GB of DDR5 RAM, as well as an RTX 5060 Laptop GPU with 8 GB of GDDR7 VRAM.
Asus G16: 16-core AMD Ryzen 9 CPU eats through intensive CPU workloads
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the 16-core AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX "Fire Range" CPU is an absolute benchmark champion, consisting solely of full-fat Zen 5 cores. In synthetic tests, the CPU easily keeps up with the Core Ultra 9 285HX from Team Blue. Apple's M4 Max does manage a slight advantage in Cinebench 2024, but not by a whole lot.
In simpler terms, the gaming laptop CPU performance is very admirable, and the G16's chassis does a decent job at maintaining performance over multiple runs, as stated by UltrabookReview's review. The vast majority of intensive multi-threaded workloads should not pose any threats whatsoever - when plugged in, of course.
ⓘ Asus
The 115-watt GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPU comes only with a paltry 8 GB of VRAM, which might not prove to be sufficient 2 or 3 years down the road, unlike the properly high-end CPU. Still, 1080p gaming at high frame rates should be easily possible, but there is no doubt that this specific variant is geared more towards those with more CPU-intensive workloads.
The G16 gaming laptop's 165 Hz IPS display features 100% coverage of the sRGB color gamut and sports a resolution of 1920 by 1200. The panel should be perfectly serviceable for fast-paced gaming, but it is clearly nothing quite worth writing home about.
The I/O on offer is good enough and has been detailed below:
- 1G Ethernet
- Dual USB 4.0 Type-C ports, one with PD
- Dual USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports
- 3.5 mm audio
- HDMI 2.1
Dual SODIMM slots are present, only one of which comes populated with a 16 GB DDR5-5600 stick (Corsair Vengeance currently $229 on Amazon). The 1 TB SSD can also be upgraded, courtesy of dual M.2 slots. At its current price on Walmart, the Asus ROG Strix G16 gaming laptop is a decent choice for folks with heavy CPU-intensive workloads.
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