In addition to the flagship dual-screen laptops, ASUS also has a very popular thin and light 14 “ROG Zephyrus G14 gaming laptop. The 2022 update not only includes AMD’s latest Ryzen 6000 series CPUs, but has also introduced it. for the first time in this product line Radeon RX 6000 series notebook GPUs have become the representative model of AMD Advantage notebooks.
Specifications and design
The ROG Zephyrus G14 2022 model tested this time is the GA402RJ, which also retains a 14-inch body, is only 19.5mm thick, weighs 1.72kg, and is priced at NT $ 54,900.
While this doesn’t feature the awesome AniMe Matrix dot matrix LED display, it uses colored reflective film instead, which is equally dazzling in the light. In addition, the number of CNC holes on the top cover has increased from 6536 in the previous generation to 14969. The nameplate in the corner uses the PVD (Physical Vapor Deposition, Physical Vapor Deposition) method and the color rendering is richer, which improves the general appearance and texture. This time the display hinge also supports 180 ° expansion.
The GA402RJ uses AMD’s Ryzen 9 6900HS CPU and Radeon RX 6700S GPU designed for thin, high-performance laptops, which draws up to 100W of power with AMD SmartShift technology and comes with 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM.
This laptop is also equipped with a MUX Switch chip, so that the GPU signal does not have to bypass the internal display, but goes directly to the screen, which can further improve performance.
To solve the heat generated by the above two high-efficiency components in such a thin and light body, ASUS directly used a large surface vapor chamber (vapor chamber), a heat pipe, then combined with heat conduction in liquid metal and ultra-thin fan blade fan which effectively blows heat from the fuselage and even achieve a quiet mode where the fan stops in low load application scenarios.
The memory is also upgraded to DDR5 with the new processor but uses 8GB onboard with 1 set of slots and the default configuration is 8 + 8GB to form two channels. System storage is a 1 TB Micron 2450 PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD.
The display is another specific feature that has been greatly improved.This ROG Nebula display has an aspect ratio extended to 16:10, a 91% screen ratio, a resolution of 2560×1600 and a refresh rate of 120Hz, a Response time as short as 3ms and color rendering capability 100% DCI-P3 coverage, Pantone certified, brightness up to 500 nits and Dolby Vision HDR support. Variable speed supports Adaptive-Sync and AMD FreeSync Premium Pro.
Measurement of effectiveness
From the perspective of various CPU tests, the Ryzen 9 6900HS, which sits in the slim and light ROG Zephyrus G14 2022 body, can perform relatively close to the Ryzen 7 5800X3D desktop processor with the same 8 cores, although it is much better than the desktop processor. Ryzen 7 5800X3D with the same 8 cores. Ryzen 7 5800X3D desktop processor. ROG Zephyrus Duo 16 Ryzen 9 6900HX slightly weaker.
In terms of games, the average stream rate of AAA games with fully activated Full HD 1080p ambient effects can be kept at roughly over 80fps, and some of the more demanding games have a 60fps minimum rating.
After the resolution is increased to WQHD 1440p, the pressure on the Radeon RX 6700S GPU will be slightly more and the image fluency will be kept at roughly 50 ~ 60fps, but the heavy game will drop to around 30 ~ 40fps.
Although the corresponding 1TB Micron 2450 SSD only has sequential read and write speeds of around 3600/3450 MB per second, the Q32T16’s 4K random write is measured near 820,000 IOPS.
Recap
Unlike the high-performance flagship machines, the ROG Zephyrus G14 (GA402RJ) 2022 is a thin and light 14-inch, with CPU performance close to mid-range desktop PCs, decent GPU performance, and excellent textures. the design is really a rare small, slim, high-performance gaming notebook.
The only drawback is still due to the limited space of the 14-inch body, there is no physical RJ-45 network port and only one set of slots is open for the interface and M.2 memory, so expansion is limited. Also, the micro SD card reader is less versatile and it’s more practical to switch to another set of USB Type-C.
All in all, the ROG Zephyrus G14 2022 with AMD Advantage design really brings a very different specification to the gaming laptop market. If you need a laptop with a compact body but powerful enough performance in the near future, the ROG Zephyrus G14 2022 is really worth buying as a reference.
–
