The Asus ZenBook Pro 16X is an expertly crafted laptop offering superior performance and a top-notch display.
Asus ZenBook Pro 16X MSRP $2,600.00 Score Details DT Recommended Product “The Asus ZenBook Pro 16X's fun experiments never detract from its great performance.” Pros Cons Asus isn’t afraid to try new things with its laptop designs. The ZenBook Pro 16X is proof of that claim, as it features a keyboard that rises up at a steep angle when you open the lid and RGB lights underneath each side that flash on various system activities.
The MSI Creator Z16P, for example, is a much more expensive laptop, starting at $2,900 for the same CPU, RAM, and SSD, but with an RTX 3070 Ti and a QHD+ IPS display, and it tops out at $4,300 when fully configured with a Core i9, 64GB of RAM, and an RTX 3080 Ti. The Dell XPS 17 also has the same basic components, including the RTX 3060, and it starts at $1,839 with a Core i5-12500H, 8GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD, and a Full HD+ IPS display.
According to Asus, you can set custom ambient lighting modes, but I couldn’t find the settings to do so. Also, Asus describes the keyboard as having per-key White RGB backlighting, but it supports various colors. Of all the unusual features, the lighting system is the least useful, although it’s a whimsical touch for those who like such things.
Asus bundles a utility to control the thermal system to tune for quieter and slower or louder and faster performance. That’s common among manufacturers today, and the Asus utility significantly impacted a couple of our benchmarks. I’ve recorded reports for both balanced and performance modes in the table below. The ZenBook Pro 16X was aggressively tuned, especially in performance mode, hitting 100 degrees Celsius and throttling.
Gaming Asus opted for Nvidia’s Studio drivers, which are optimized for reliable and fast scientific, engineering, and creative application performance. That means the company is aiming this laptop at apps like AutoCAD and Adobe’s creative suite rather than games. Even so, with an RTX 3060 installed, one can hope for at least passable gaming performance.
According to my colorimeter, the display is spectacular in all metrics except its brightness, which while above our 300-nit threshold, isn’t the brightest OLED panel I’ve tested. But the colors are very wide at 100% of sRGB and 98% of AdobeRGB, and the color accuracy is excellent at a Delta-E of 0.84 . And the contrast is extremely high, as with all OLED displays, showing off inky blacks.
Four speakers, two upward-firing and two downward-firing, put out enough volume to completely envelop my home office. Mids and highs are clear and bright, while there’s a touch of bass. The audio system is good enough for bingeing Netflix and listening to music without headphones, Webcam and privacy The webcam is a 1080p version with infrared, an RGB color sensor that can adjust the display’s brightness and color temperature based on ambient lighting, and a time of flight sensor. The webcam provides an excellent video image with 3D noise-reduction technology, and it’s bright and detailed in all kinds of lighting conditions.
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