The Zenbook Professional 16X is one among Asus’ flagships. The slim laptop computer shines with an virtually overloaded configuration of enter gadgets, a sturdy metallic chassis and intensely highly effective {hardware}. Asus installs the Intel Core i9-13905H and the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080. Anybody who assumes that each are throttled within the 18 mm slim 16-inch laptop computer is flawed. The GeForce RTX 4080 can eat as much as 140 watts and the Intel processor as much as 130 watts in increase and as much as 90 watts completely. Therefore, the CPU is above the TDP specified by Intel whereas the GPU is slightly below Nvidia’s most specification of 150 watts.
In contrast to many gaming laptops, the Zenbook’s temperatures don’t trigger us any discomfort in any way. Even in our stress check, the laptop computer remained cool. The AAS cooling is extraordinarily efficient and likewise stays at a nice quantity degree. Asus achieves this with a particular twist: when the laptop computer is opened, the keyboard additionally props up barely, permitting the Zenbook to blow air by the numerous cooling fins way more successfully.
In mild of its highly effective efficiency capabilities, the Zenbook has a variety of doable purposes. Along with basic gaming, all types of content material creator duties are additionally conceivable. In our evaluation, we check a variety of duties and record the corresponding benchmark outcomes.
The Zenbook solely fails to win us over by way of buy worth, which Asus units at slightly below US$2700 for the bottom configuration. This makes use of the Intel i9-13900H as an alternative of the Intel Core i9-13905H in our check unit, in addition to an RTX 4070 as an alternative of the RTX 4080.
From an early age I appreciated to completely study all types of gadgets to see how they labored, which additionally concerned taking my very own gadgets aside and subsequently not at all times to the delight of my mother and father. However, with my grandfather’s assist, I grew to become a pc and electronics tinkerer. With the household PC and Lego Mindstorms, my concerned about software program and programming took off, and I’m at present an engineering program pupil. I take pleasure in constructing all kinds of devices with Arduino and 3D printers, and I nonetheless wish to put digital gadgets by their paces. By becoming a member of the Notebookcheck editorial staff, I’ve been in a position to flip my passion right into a career.
Rising up in regional Australia, I first grew to become acquainted with computer systems in my early teenagers after a damaged leg from a soccer (soccer) match briefly condemned me to a predominately indoor life-style. Quickly afterwards I used to be constructing my very own techniques. Now I reside in Germany, having moved right here in 2014, the place I research philosophy and anthropology. I’m significantly fascinated by how laptop expertise has basically and dramatically reshaped human tradition, and the way it continues to take action.
