Overkill or inspired? Asus TUF Gaming A18 review

[Redaktion]

With the TUF Gaming A18, Asus offers a relatively affordable XXL laptop whose expansive display is ideal not only for films but also for gaming. We tested a configuration featuring the Ryzen 7 260 and GeForce RTX 5060 and compared it with the latest 18-inch rivals.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Overkill-or-inspired-Asus-TUF-Gaming-A18-review.1341611.0.html

[could be worse]

In our CPU benchmark suite, the 4 nm chip delivered very consistent performance and reached roughly the same overall level as the newer Ryzen AI 7 350.

This is because the 350, while not a rename, acts like one, because Zen 5 doesn't improve much over Zen 4 in gaming. The actual renames are: Ryzen 7 260 = 8845HS = 7840HS, which is fine, as it keeps the laptop's price down / its price-to-performance up.

Pixel response times of 1/0.0062=true 161 Hz and 1/0.0083=true 120 Hz show that the claim of 144 Hz is correct. This is kinda rare for IPS, usually they measure much slower, especially for TUF, not ROG, kind of products, as in this case.

Wish the display was a bit brighter and cover Display P3, which became a standard since 2015.

The only issue is that it's 1300 bucks for 8 GB of VRAM, but on the other hand the display is 18" and fast. Make sure 325 nits are enough for your use-cases.

For a similar price one could get a desktop PC with a 5060 Ti 16 GB VRAM. That GPU is also 27%, next-tier, faster:
3dmark.com/search Time Spy:
5060 Ti 16G: 15094
(this) / 5060 Laptop: (11961) / 11822.