Asus Zephyrus G15 Review (2021): All laptops game you need

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Asus we are absolutely nourished with Zephyrus G14 last year. It was slim, lightweight and one of the most powerful laptops we had ever seen, thanks to the AMD Ryzen 4000 processor. But, given the pure madness of 2020, I never had the chance to check his greatest brother, the G15. He essentially took the bulk of what I liked about the G14 and put it in a 15-inch more traditional laptop. It looks like a winning winner, right? Now, after testing the 2021 edition of Zephyrus G15, it is clearer than ever that ASUS has practically controlled the art of making laptops game.

It was not always in this way for Asus. Its original Zephyrus laptop has been one of the first slim and slight stuff in Nvidia’s GTX 1080 GPU, but it was terribly expensive and had a terrible life of the battery. Over the years, Asus has refined its designs to be much more practical. The Zephyrus G14 was particularly impressive because it weighed only 3.5 pounds, but it succeeded in integrating into an RTX 2060 GPU, a shocking AMD CPU and a decent battery performance.

Naturally, the G15 is not so light, but at 4.2 pounds, it is always a little easier to carry than the razor blade of 4.5 pounds and most other 15-inch laptops. It is also impressive as the G14 design, with a robust magnesium aluminum case and a single matrix pattern on the lid. ASUS has filled these tiny holes with a unique prismatic material in our revision unit, but on some models, they will have tiny LEDs to display pixelized graphics.

Under the hood, the G15 has AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS, NVIDIA RTX 30 Series GPU and an optional 1 440P (Quad HD) display operating at 165Hz with G-Sync / FreeSync support. This is one of the first portable game computers of Rock AMD’s new hardware, and this makes it a convincing purchase. We are still waiting for Intel to publish its H-Gen H-Series series fries. So, if you want something a little more future, a Ryzen 5000 laptop just makes sense.

Our revision unit included NVIDIA RTX 3080 and the 1,440P screen, which felt like a perfect pair. As I wrote in our stealth exam MSI GS66, this resolution is a beautiful upgrade greater than 1080p, without being as demanding as a 4K screens. By mowing the wicked in fate 2, or hopping through several tricks of overleaf, the G15 looked silky air. And when I was able to take a breath, it was easy to see how much the edges and other details seemed a little clearer than on a 1080p screens.

While Zephyrus G15 is powerful enough to deliver more than 100fps in 1,440P with graphics on both games, which has more for me, that’s how much the screen has held with all the action. And boy, he delivered. I felt like I had an added benefit during frantic fires, because the screen was able to easily follow my twitchy mouse movements, and it was also useful when I had to slow down and align a sniper. Having a high refresh rate and a screen that can synchronize automatically with your current frame rate, is the equivalent of game to hear a symphony in perfect harmony.

The G15 does not have the fastest screen of 1 440p around – Msi’s GS66 can reach up to 240Hz – but faster options are also much more expensive. And unless you are a grass electronic player, you will probably have a hard time seeing the difference beyond 120hz.