Asus releases new 14-inch gaming laptop in the US with AMD Strix Halo

[Redaktion]

Asus has finally started selling its first AMD Strix Halo gaming laptop in the US. Equipped with a 165 Hz display, the new laptop also features a 73 Wh battery with 100 W charging via USB Type-C. Unfortunately, Asus has decided against offering a 64 GB RAM variant in the US, which would have allowed the TUF Gaming A14 FA401EA to assign up to 48 GB VRAM to its Radeon 8060S iGPU.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Asus-releases-new-14-inch-gaming-laptop-in-the-US-with-AMD-Strix-Halo.1246966.0.html

[AMDCenturyOfHumiliation]

Finally! About time. But $2199!?!?

They've got to be kidding you can get high end RTX 5060 laptops for $600 cheaper. Not even budget ones which are far cheaper. This isn't even AMDs usual B.S. of -$50 to -$100 of compared to competitor products from Nvidia.

steam machine is easily going to have no competition and sell well.

They could sell it at some obscene $999 price and it'll still be far better value than any of these halo or panther lake laptops.

I don't have much hope for n1x or X2 Elite laptop pricing just judging by how absurd the market is right now.

[opckieran]

This would have been killer at $1499. A real shot against Panther Lake. But $2199, with only 32GB of RAM? DOA.

[LupiN]

This would have been killer at $1499. A real shot against Panther Lake. But $2199, with only 32GB of RAM? DOA.

not a great deal though... just get a rtx 4060 laptop instead. They can be found even under 1000$, and performance wise still better. I got my zephyrus g16 year and a half ago with a 155h and rtx 4060 for around 1450$ and the quality of that laptop is top tier in every aspect. So unfortunately even 1499$ at this point is too high of a price for what you get. Certainly that powerhouse strix halo chip won't be more efficient than the 155h either. So not much advantage there.

[Onexfly Apex]

You can also get 48GB+395 for $1599 or 32GB+385 for $1399, Onexfly Apex.

Which I initially thought was a terrible deal but now looking at these laptop prices (both from AMD and intel).. it's looking more and more reasonable, considering the current climate and situation we're in. Few years later and paying $1000 or more is going to become the norm for consoles. God knows how much laptops will cost then.

I feel like there's going to be a surge in handheld sales. Nobody can afford any of these laptop prices.

Btw, this garbage uses realtek WiFi lol. Both apple and Asus are cutting corners. Atleast onexfly apex uses intel WiFi.

[Fordon]

Pricing is even more absurd than Galaxy Book6 and Xperia 1 VII..

[opckieran]

This would have been killer at $1499. A real shot against Panther Lake. But $2199, with only 32GB of RAM? DOA.

not a great deal though... just get a rtx 4060 laptop instead. They can be found even under 1000$, and performance wise still better. I got my zephyrus g16 year and a half ago with a 155h and rtx 4060 for around 1450$ and the quality of that laptop is top tier in every aspect. So unfortunately even 1499$ at this point is too high of a price for what you get. Certainly that powerhouse strix halo chip won't be more efficient than the 155h either. So not much advantage there.

Having the ability to allocate more VRAM to the GPU has several gaming and AI benefits. I own a quality R7 260 + 5060 laptop myself. Cheaper than $1499, sure, but limited nonetheless. You also don't have to deal with GPU switching headaches, and can feasibly fit a single SOC in a lighter chassis vs SOC + dGPU.

Btw, this garbage uses realtek WiFi lol. Both apple and Asus are cutting corners. Atleast onexfly apex uses intel WiFi.

And sadly it doesn't look like Intel is interested in opening up their WiFi 7 capabilities to AMD systems. For the time being, Intel's 6E is the best 6E you can run on an AMD platform. If you want to run 7 on AMD, you have to go Mediatek or Qualcomm.

[No RDNA4]

Strix Halo's iGPU is RDNA3.5 tho, and as such it can't do quality hardware upscaling, like NVIDIA's DLSS. Only AMD RDNA4 does that, but it's not available in iGPUs. On top of this, it doesn't look like AMD is going to officially allow INT8 based upscaling on RDNA3.5.
But INN8 based HW ML upscaling does worK: youtube.com/watch?v=VPMOjdvmHMk ("FSR4 on RDNA3 on Windows!!! How To Guide and Side by Sides Tested on RX 7800 XT")