Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 GA402R Gaming Laptop Review: AMD Times Two

[Redaktion]

The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 is aimed not just at mobile games but content creators alike. Despite its compact size this 14-inch notebook offers great performance and a variety of features. Time for us to take a closer look at the new GA402R version of this notebook.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Asus-ROG-Zephyrus-G14-GA402R-Gaming-Laptop-Review-AMD-Times-Two.608125.0.html

[Matthew L]

Your chart on the power profiles of the CPU seems to be wrong. We haven't been able to see an AMD powered laptop pull over 100W on the CPU. I think you have got your values mixed up with the GPU power.

According to other resources, the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS CPU in the G14 is able to pull a maximum of ~75W.

[CyclyingBill]

Do not Ignore the Integrated Graphics and do not ignore Blender 3D(3.0/Later editions) Cycles-X rendering on both the Integrated and discrete graphics at the same time. So once Blender 3.2 arrives and AMD gets its ROCm/HIP Ducks in order Please try that Cycles-X rendering out with the Ray Sample set high and all of the render passes Ray Traced.

Blender 3D's developers have dropped OpenCL API support for their Newer Cycles-X GPU rendering acceleration so please add that to your testing.

End Users spend the majority of time in their needed applications so more testing there for that instead of just gaming only tests and the other usual tests.

[Zulny R]

How about RDNA2 iGPU performance?

[Cooe]

Something is VERY wrong with your testing if you saw ZERO CPU performance improvement vs last gen... The R9 6900HS is UNQUESTIONABLY faster than the last-gen R9 5900HS... It's even faster than the R9 5980HS last-gen flagship for craps sake! (Check literally ANY OTHER REVIEW BUT YOURS! And here's one for you if you're just too damn lazy... 😑

pcworld.c0m/article/614944/amd-ryzen-9-6900hs-review-game-changing-performance-for-tiny-laptops.html ).

Is it a dramatic difference? No, but the multi-thread gains are VERY respectable! (Aka in the +≈15-25% range depending on the workload vs the R9 5980HS/5900HS).

What the hell happened to this site over the past year or so??? Article quality and accuracy has absolutely FALLEN OFF A FREAKING CLIFF!!!! 😑🤦‍♂️

[Ayoh]

Is there any power throttling on battery for the CPU? if so how much difference compared to plugged in? you guys should really make a performance test on battery a standard part of your reviews. Often some laptops have rubbish performance on battery power

[Kingsley]

You say most the body is plastic ? You serious ? Did you do any research before this publishing this  review? Much disappointed

[Florian Glaser]

You say most the body is plastic ? You serious ? Did you do any research before this publishing this  review? Much disappointed

Thanks for the notice and sorry for the mistake. It's corrected now.

@Cooe: There will be a dedicated performance review of the 6900HS. In turbo-mode some cpu-results are much higher as you will see.

@Ayoh: I can check that after the iGPU benchmarks are done, which will follow for a dedicated article or at least for the gpu page.

[ArsLoginName]

Agree with Matthew L and Cooe. Something isn't agreeing with other reviews (including ultrabookreview.com's review in which they also do repetitive CBR15 runs) and the power consumption values for the CPU (75 W or less) versus the GPU (<105 W)

[puremind]

Would be good to know the contrast of the FHD 144Hz option. 1000:1 contrast is just too low for a high end laptop.
Huawei and Lenovo put 1200:1 to 1500:1 contrast panels. Sorry Asus, this won't cut it!

[silefjnw]

Missing features with the Asus G14 2022:
- 16GB VRAM
- 1080p webcam with physical privacy shutter
- 135W+ USB C charging
- PD and DP out on all USB C ports
- USB 4.0 on all USB C and A ports
- Black keys on white chassis with larger fonts
- Larger rubber feet on bottom of display

Interesting alternative with better keyboard:
Lenovo ThinkPad P1/X1 Extreme Gen 5 (Intel i9-12950H, 64GB, 1x M.2280, RTX 3080 Ti, 16GB VRAM, 110W)

[Alaa]

How come that nearly all the gaming bench marks of this model out performing the 12gb 6800m in the rog g15 advantage ? was there a driver issue during your benchmarks on the rog g15 ?

[MartinE]

Waiting in excitement for the review of m16 and g15 2022 versions, any timeline for arrival of those reviews?

[Dżejkop]

Is it possible to order without AniMe Matrix LED? Does anyone have a link to such configuration?

[JamesuDew]

Great review. I looked at getting one and still not decided as I dont need a set yet but want something for the wife to use.