The Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 starts at $2,899.99 in the US from Asus’ website, but for the variant with an OLED 240Hz screen and Nvidia RTX 4090 GPU, you need to pay $3,499.99, at least. You can go as low as $2,000 from Best Buy for the entry-level trim with an Nvidia RTX 4070 graphics, but do keep in mind that this one also misses out on the vapor chamber cooling kit.
Now, that’s not a small amount, and for anyone who obsesses over small differences in benchmark numbers and bumps in FPS count, this one would come out as an expensive indulgence. But it’s not an underwhelming machine by any stretch of the imagination. You get a beautiful piece of hardware that is plenty powerful to handle your 1440p gaming needs without crashing and burning. The OLED screen is amazing, battery life is not as abysmal as you would expect from an RGB-dripped thick gaming laptop, and the speakers are terrific, too. This one moonlights as a productivity beast, as well, thanks to its form factor, heft, and plenty of power under the chassis.
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Yes, heating comes as an inevitable trade-off for the loss in weight and girth, and buyers will rightfully feel like they can get a better price-to-performance deal owing to the low-wattage components here. It’s easy to look at the likes of Razer’s Blade 16, or even go all out and get the beefy ROG Strix Scar models.
But here’s the good part. The midpoint, and even the base configuration, of the ROG Zephyrus G16 is powerful enough to handle modern games at respectable frame rates, while also handling creative workflow software. All that, under the guise of an office laptop, and one that won’t break your back while lugging it around.
