Tuesday, January 10th 2023
ASUS ROG Gaming Notebooks at CES: "Zen 4" and "Raptor Lake" Choices
At the 2023 International CES, ASUS ROG announced several of its upcoming gaming notebooks across several form-factors. ASUS was one of the very few gaming PC brands to show off upcoming products based on an AMD Ryzen 7000 series processors besides those based on 13th Gen Intel Core processors. The star-attraction is the ROG Flow Z13 (GZ301-2023), an ultraportable gaming tablet that folds into a notebook—a very rare device. It packs a 13-inch 16:10 ROG Nebula display with 2560 x 1600 pixels resolution, 165 Hz, 3 ms response time, and NVIDIA G-SYNC. Under the hood, the ROG Flow Z13 rocks an Intel Core i9-13900H 6P+8E processor, GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU with Advanced Optimus. The device puts out a 170° kick stand, and a detachable full-size keyboard.
The 2023 ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 is the company's fastest gaming notebook to be powered by an AMD processor. The 14-inch conventional form-factor notebook packs a 2560 x 1600 pixels mini-LED display with 165 Hz refresh-rate, 3 ms response time, 100% DCI-P3 coverage, and G-SYNC. The main muscle is an AMD Ryzen 7000 series processor (very likely from the "Phoenix Point" Ryzen 7045 series), and a GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU. While not an AMD Advantage laptop, ASUS has given this its own in-house ROG Intelligent Cooling system that incorporates vapor-chamber base plates and liquid-metal TIM.
The 2023 ASUS ROG Strix Scar 16 leads the pack with an ASUS Nebula HDR 16-inch mini-LED display with 2560 x 1600 pixels resolution, 240 Hz refresh-rate, 3 ms response time, 100% DCI-P3, and NVIDIA G-SYNC. Processor options go all the way up to a 13th Gen Intel Core i9-13980HX 8P+16E flagship processor, and GPU options up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 with 175 W TGP. This one too incorporates the ROG Intelligent Cooling system with triple-fan ventilation, full-width heatsinks, and Conductonaut Extreme TIM on both the CPU and GPU.
The 2023 ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 is the company's fastest gaming notebook to be powered by an AMD processor. The 14-inch conventional form-factor notebook packs a 2560 x 1600 pixels mini-LED display with 165 Hz refresh-rate, 3 ms response time, 100% DCI-P3 coverage, and G-SYNC. The main muscle is an AMD Ryzen 7000 series processor (very likely from the "Phoenix Point" Ryzen 7045 series), and a GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU. While not an AMD Advantage laptop, ASUS has given this its own in-house ROG Intelligent Cooling system that incorporates vapor-chamber base plates and liquid-metal TIM.
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Edit: Googling around, it seems 7030 is Zen 3 and 7035 is Zen 3+. I would call those budget, instead of the 7040 series.
Nice tease, no pricing to knock your socks off :cool:
It seems that AMD is making older-gen processors for the budget market, that's why they're having Zen2, Zen3 & Zen4 in the whole 7000 series APUs. Some of them are rebadged and some are new silicon.
When Zen2 as the top range, AMD didn't have any Zen powered low power and budget CPUs, it wasn't until further in the life of Zen3 they introduced Zen1(+) as a budget architecture.
But, we're talking about this time, and in the months to come, 7040 will be a premium product, and maybe with Ryzen 8000/9000 APUs it will be rebadged as a lower tier APU.