Well, if your answer is neither

and you wanna go on the PC Master Race side of things,

then this is absolutely something to consider.

And by something to consider I mean,

it's my new favorite thing.

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Inside the ROG Zephyrus G14,

is nearly the exact same processor

as you'll find in the next generation of consoles

including the Xbox Series X as well as the PS5.

Now last month, before all the world ending stuff,

I took a trip out to AMD's headquarters in Austin, Texas

where I got a deep dive

on the brand new Ryzen Mobile 4000 series.

There is a lot of cool stuff here

and I'll probably cover more in future videos

on all these new laptops that are coming out with Ryzen

but the gist of it is this.

You're getting the same Zen 2 core from the desktop,

on mobile as well as

of course, in that next generation console.

And the cool thing is,

you're getting the same level of performance too

as we have that full eight-core design in a Ryzen laptop

for the first time.

Now yes, we hear desktop processor

and tiny, thin and light laptop

that might not gel.

This is a 35 watt chip with a serious

amount of power behind it.

Now let me be clear,

we're not looking at some cut-down version

of Ryzen for mobile.

Yes, there's certainly some small differences.

When it comes to the actual CPU,

this is the full eight-core, 16-thread design

and inside the G14,

it's able to boost it 3.7 gigahertz

under sustained 100% load

aka, slightly faster than the processors

that you'll get inside the Xbox Series X and the PS5.

I mentioned how thin this laptop is?

Can we all take a second here and just recognize

the fact that for years and years,

Intel has dominated laptops right?

And especially when you're getting gaming laptops,

there were pretty much were no AMD options up until last year

and yet, here we are at the beginning of 2020

and we have a thin and light laptop, 14-inch laptop

with more power than pretty much any Intel processor

in a laptop that you can get

and at lower power.

This is a 35 watt chip as opposed to the 45 watt chips

that Intel usually use.

Now while, yes 10th Gen Intel stuff

is probably right around the corner

and we'll see how close it gets

but it is incredibly impressive to see AMD

not only taking over on the desktop side,

not only obviously dominating the consoles

but now, significantly moving into laptops

and considering there's a lower wattage version

of this chip with the full eight-core design available

in Ultrabooks soon,

I mean, it's a good time to be Team Red.

You know I could load you up with benchmarks,

showing just how fast this is but Anandtech exists.

So instead, let's actually take a look to see

what it really is capable of.

So this is powered by that Ryzen 9 4900HS

and is backed up with an RTX 2060 Max-Q,

16 gigs of RAM, one terabyte SSD.

There's a lot to like here

and especially when you consider that,

this is all in a 14-inch thin and light package.

Well okay, let me be specific.

A 17.9 millimeter thin package

but still quite small for a full gaming laptop.

There's a lot to like here.

What I like about this is that,

as a 14-inch laptop,

it is much closer to the size

of something I would actually want to daily.

It's not too far off of something

like a Razer Blade Stealth

but with much much more power.

Now speaking of power,

not only do we have the ASUS ErgoLift hinge

which means that, you get a little bit

of a better typing angle as well as more airflow.

This guy is rocking a 14-inch 1080p 120 Hertz display.

It is, spoiler alert, excellent.

Like seriously.

Color is great, brightness is great

and of course having that super high 120 Hertz refresh rate

is much appreciated on a laptop

which again is fairly thin, fairly light,

fairly, I was gonna say gamery

but actually, this is one

of the most subdued ROG designs I've ever seen.

So inside the G14,

we have woah, a lot of stuff.

So first of all, we have access to our DDR4 memory

although it looks like only one DIMM

is actually available.

So you can upgrade this theoretically to 24 gigs I think.

We also have our M.2 slot which is available

if I wanted to unscrew it.

So this has the one terabyte drive

so not really gonna touch that.

What we see here, is a very interesting heat pipe situation.

So we have two fans and we have,

one, two, three,

seven individual heat pipes.

And it does have a decent-sized 76 watt hour battery.

So something that I haven't spent a ton of time with

is actually doing battery life testing during gaming.

But for light use, I've easily been able to get

eight to nine hours to this guy, no problem.

Okay so this is really stupid,

no one should ever care about this.

I really dig the way this looks on the inside.

The red PCB with all the black components.

This thing looks great.

I mean seriously, look at that.

That's like a work of art

especially when you consider that the outside

is so nice and clean.

This is gonna be one of those rare situations

where I have no criticisms, not really.

And honestly, in my testing,

this thermal solution has been more than adequate right?

CPU is able to boost,

GPU is able to keep a good frequency.

I'm very impressed.

So let's put this to the test

with a game of Gears 5

which coincidentally is one of the only games

I've actually played on the real Xbox Series X.

Now a couple of caveats.

First of all, while the processor is very similar

to what we get in the next gen consoles,

we are taking advantage of only RTX 2060 graphics

which just aren't as powerful

but one of the things we do know is that,

they're working on a 120 FPS mode

for Gears 5 on the console

so why don't we see what it takes to get

that running on laptop,

considering it's got a 120 Hertz display?

So right now, we are playing on medium settings

pretty much across the board at 1080P,

and why don't we see what we can do?

We're 91, 90 frames per second or so.

That's actually really not bad.

And you can see that our CPU is significantly faster.

It is definitely being bottleneck by the RTX 2060.

And honestly, if we wanted to really cap it at 120 FPS

we could easily crank it down to say, 1080P low.

So we end up getting 90 FPS but the CPU frame rate was 202

so if we had more powerful graphics,

we could very easily have hit a super capped 120 FPS.

That's actually really impressive.

Look, this is so much power for a laptop right.

This is so much power not just for a thin and light laptop,

this is so much power for a laptop full stop.

As I wait to join the game,

I am encouraged with 215 frames per second

with maxed settings at 1080P.

So obviously for the video,

you can't really see the difference

but I can say right now,

I'm seeing somewhere between 150 and 200 frames per second

and it is incredibly smooth.

I feel like if I had this,

I would never lose in Broke versus Pro ever again.

I feel like we're actually gonna win this.

Look at that.

Look how great the Zephyrus is at not dying.

I wanna play another game.

That's not so easy to play.

All right so for our next game, we have F1 2019.

Now this is the game I've been playing a lot lately

although certainly not with a controller

and dude, this is absolutely no problem.

1080P high settings,

we're over a 140-150 frames per second on this thing.

If I have my wheel, I'd feel much better.

Oh no, oh no no no no no!

(laughing)

I'm legitimately impressed

with what kind of performance you're getting.

Yeah sure, we could certainly use like a 2070 or something

but a 1080P, 120 FPS,

it's not that hard to get

a really nice locked experience here.

The ROG Zephyrus G14 has plenty

of power for gaming but you know what it doesn't have?

I don't know.

That's pretty much everything as far as I'm concerned.

So obviously the G14 has the performance

but there's a lot more to this laptop that I really do like.

Now first of all, there's the design.

Yes, it's thin.

Yes, it's a smaller laptop.

But the fact is this,

when you look at it in the white color, is so clean.

Now this is the non AniMe Matrix design.

I said it right, I almost said something else.

But you can see that, it has these little tiny dimples.

However, we took a look at the one

with the full LED panel at CES and it is really cool.

You can put up GIFs and whatnot there

but we all know the real reason why that laptop exists,

because DJs and people like Ken who pretend to be DJs

wanna have a cool flashy laptop for their sweet DJ sessions.

If you're not Ken,

the standard model really is the one to get.

As if you wanna get the AniMe Matrix display,

you have to go for the QHD panel which is 60 Hertz.

I much prefer the 1080P, 120 Hertz option.

Now beyond just the screen and the specs,

I really have to give them props.

This might be my favorite ROG design yet.

Now look, nothing against black and red gaming laptops,

like all of these

but the white, the silver,

the very clean lines, this honestly is something

that I would have no problem dailying on a regular basis.

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So the speaker setup

is actually really impressive on the G14

as we have four speakers.

So you have two tweeters that are upward firing

and then on the bottom,

you have two much beefier speakers on the bottom

and because we have that ErgoLift design,

it actually has a little bit of echo underneath.

Honestly, while it's not as good as something

like the 16-inch MacBook,

for a smaller gaming laptop, two huge thumbs up

and the praise keeps going.

This keyboard is rock-solid.

We've got nearly two millimeters of travel.

It feels great.

It's a good layout.

They actually have some really thoughtful keys