ASUS ROG Strix G15 Review: AMD Advantage Edition Gaming Laptop
AMD Radeon RX 6800M And ASUS ROG Strix G15: Power, Acoustics And The Verdict
However, every laptop has different brightness ranges, so it’s critical to rely on a light meter, instead of a Windows brightness setting percentage, in order to level the playing field on brightness output.
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What's happening thermally inside the system when loaded up is a bit of different story. Both the CPU and GPU will hover in the high 90°C range at their hottest points, but that is within the spec limits of the chips.
While idling, the ASUS ROG Strix G15 AMD Advantage Edition makes very little noise. Its fans don't run constantly, but at low loads they are not audible and remain very quiet. Putting the machine under a heavy load, however, results in significantly higher fan speeds. Under load, the system output over 55dBa, which is relatively loud, but in the same ballpark as many other high-end gaming notebooks. The pitch of the notebook's fans isn't particularly offensive either. If you're familiar with the noise output of a typical gaming notebook, the ASUS ROG Strix G15 AMD Advantage Edition would be nothing to be concerned about.
AMD Radeon RX 6000M For Gaming Laptops: The Verdict
The Radeon RX 6800M propels AMD back into the high-end gaming laptop market in the same way the company's Radeon RX 6000 series desktop GPUs did late last year. Throughout all of our tests, the all-AMD powered ASUS ROG Strix G15 AMD Advantage Edition performed exceptionally well. In the system level benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900HX and Radeon RX 6800M combo pushed the ASUS ROG Strix G15 AMD Advantage Edition to the top of charts. This machine put up the best PCMark 10 score from a laptop that we have seen to date and it's Speedometer results were among the strongest as well.
In the gaming and graphics-related benchmarks, the Ryzen and Radeon-powered ASUS ROG Strix G15 also performed very well. In a number of tests, the system put up chart-topping numbers that led the pack, and in the rest in remained competitive throughout. With such potent hardware under the hood, battery life while gaming wasn't stellar, but that's par for the course with most gaming notebooks. Conversely, in our light-duty custom video playback test, battery life was actually quite good.Overall, we're impressed. ASUS has done a nice job with the ASUS ROG Strix G15. Unlike some other, more understated systems, there's no mistaking the ROG Strix G15 for anything other than a gaming notebook, but it is still aesthetically appealing in our opinion and it's well behaved in most scenarios. It's only while gaming that its fans spin up and make any noise. In terms of the platform's capabilities, AMD's clearly got the goods.
AMD's Ryzen 5000 and Radeon RX 6000M series combo for laptops will offer strong performance all around. Intel's got some advantages in terms of IO and single-threaded performance with its latest Tiger Lake-based platforms, but those aren't enough to overshadow what AMD has done here for gaming machines. The Radeon RX 6800M and ASUS ROG Strix G15 AMD Advantage Edition are killer products, and perhaps best of all, they should be priced competitively. The configuration we've tested here is slated to hit BestBuy in June with an expected MSRP of $1649. That's a highly competitive, aggressive price point for a system of this caliber, especially considering its strong performance.
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