Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 (2022): This Laptop Punches Above Its Weight Class

Fast, tiny, and eye-catching.

- By Gordon Ung

The original Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 (fave.co/3ugiMr2) turned the laptop world on its head with an unheard-of performance-to-weight ratio for its day. Two years later, Asus is back with a redesigned ROG Zephyrus G14 that again challenges your notion of just how much performance you can jam into a tiny gaming laptop.

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Much of this comes from its all-AMD design. Asus blends AMD's ultra-efficient new Ryzen 9 6900HS processor and Radeon RX 6800S graphics (fave.co/3BEfkK2) into the revamped ROG Zephyrus G14. Because both CPU and GPU come from the same parent, they're far more likely to shift power back and forth intelligently than, say, an Intel CPU and an Nvidia GPU.

Asus helps this partnership by using a vapor chamber cooling design rather than conventional heat pipes. Vapor chambers share a larger surface cooling area between the Radeon and Ryzen than a traditional heat pipe system, and benefit CPUs and GPUs that closely share power and cooling.

Besides the new internals, Asus moves from the wide and squat 16:9 aspect ratio panel to the new hotness with a 16:10 aspect ratio screen with a resolution of 2560x1600. The panel is rated at 500 nits, 120Hz and 100 percent DCI-P3 color space.

More important, Asus finally gets a chance to fix the one feature that has always been a deal breaker on the original G14 laptop: It now has a webcam!

SPECS

CPU: AMD 8-core Ryzen 9 6900HS

GPU: AMD Radeon RX6800S