ASUS ZenBook Pro14 2023: Comprehensive review and actual experience

As far as my personal needs are concerned (including creation, playing games, daily office coding, and frequent business trips and meetings), if the budget is more than 10,000 yuan, then I think ASUS Lingyao Pro142023 is undoubtedly the best choice in this year’s Windows camp. The most versatile and worth-buying laptop is by no means an exaggeration. Here are my reasons:

1) The metal body has a strong texture and feels good in the hand. , weighing about 1.6 kilograms, very portable;

2) The current 14-inch laptop has luxurious configurations that are unprecedented and unprecedented. The hardware is equipped with Intel's 13th generation Core standard voltage processor and RTX4060/4070 independent graphics card

3) Reserve enough heat dissipation space to ensure the stable operation of the hardware. The overall performance reaches an astonishing 125W, making it the most powerful performance and heat dissipation among 14-inch notebooks

4) High performance does not bring about battery life compromises. The 76Wh large-capacity battery can last for nearly 8 hours of office work; the 2.8 KOLED HDR screen with comprehensive look and feel and accuracy (after ASUS factory color correction) has excellent effects and attracted me quickly. I very much hope to Use it to create, and want to use this screen to re-watch various classic movies and TV series

As for its specific performance (including application fluency under high pressure, operation Stability, etc.), below I will release the actual measurement data and experience for reference by users who are interested in this product.

A very easy-to-use creative flagship notebook

Whether using a computer to play games or create, users’ first need is usually performance, followed by screen effects, battery life, and software and hardware optimization and human-computer interaction experience.

As a product officially defined as a "portable creative notebook", the first thing we pay most attention to must be one of its most beautiful selling points - performance.

In terms of parameter configuration, "13th generation i9-13900H standard pressure processor, RTX4060 independent graphics, 32GBDDR5 high-frequency memory", these hardware that originally only appeared on heavy gaming laptops, now appear on only The 14-inch small body weighing 1.6kg... will inevitably make people feel that ASUS is "overkill", and consumers may fall into the "high configuration, low energy" marketing cycle.

how do I say this? As we all know, for laptops equipped with the same model of hardware, the level of hardware power consumption and the cooling performance of the laptop determine to a large extent the actual performance of the computer.

How to strike a balance between thinness, performance, battery life and scalability is a headache for every PC manufacturer. How thin and heavy the laptop should be to ensure portability, how to design the heat dissipation layout to ensure that the keyboard is not hot, how to reserve more space for the heat dissipation system in a small space to ensure the performance of the hardware, and how to ensure that the computer can Stable use for a long time, etc. These details that are not well known to consumers require PC manufacturers to accumulate a lot of design experience and technology.

When 15-17-inch gaming notebooks cannot take into account both performance and thinness, Lingyao Pro142023 is like a "freak" in the minds of consumers

However, maximizing the user experience is exactly what Asus does best, and it is also the basis for Asus to be able to gain a foothold in the PC market. Opening the back cover of Lingyao Pro142023, the author couldn't help but exclaimed for a long time, "Wow, it's so exquisite!"

Densely arranged five-heat pipe dual-fan cooling system, as well as replaceable SSD hard disk and memory design , the 76Wh large-capacity battery is very cleverly arranged in the 14-inch body, and no inch of space is wasted.

Facts have proved that no matter how small and thin the body is, it cannot limit ASUS’s pursuit of high performance and strong heat dissipation. Judging from the actual baking machine test results of Aida64 Furmark, the performance release and heat dissipation level of Lingyao Pro142023 are top-notch among notebooks of the same size. The actual measured data of the baking machine in "full speed mode" is as follows:

CPU runs independently The power consumption is 80 watts

Single baked GPU power: 110 watts

Double baked CPU GPU: CPU25 W, GPU100W, the whole machine power consumption is 125 W

Through further testing, we found that the noise in standard mode is less than 40 decibels, and the maximum operating noise in full-speed mode is no more than 65 decibels, which is equivalent to the loudness of normal communication between two people. In addition, the computer performance scenes can be switched through the "FN F" performance mode, which are: quiet, standard, and efficient (105W performance release). It should be noted that the full speed mode (125W performance release) must be turned on in the ProArt Creator Center.

Let’s take a look at the actual performance of this Lingyao Pro142023.

The single-core score of CineBenchR23 (CPU rendering capability test) is 2032 points, and the multi-core score is 19263 points

Based on the Max-Q of NVIDIARTX4060 laptop graphics card Taking technology as an example, it can be seen that the power consumption of Lingyao Pro142023's 110WRTX4060 independent graphics is reduced by about 28% compared to the RTX4060 independent graphics of a full-power gaming notebook with a power consumption of 140W. However, the actual performance gap is less than 5%

##↑Lingyao Pro142023 (RTX4060) 3DMarkTimeSpy graphics card points 10432

This 5% performance gap It will not significantly affect the user's perception, and the 28% reduction in power consumption makes the notebook thinner and lighter enough for everyone to easily put it in a backpack. At the same time, it is also more power-saving, quieter and easier to use

There is no need to talk about the importance of independent graphics cards for gamers, but for creators, the importance of independent graphics cards Sex is also increasing day by day. NVIDIA GeForceRTX4060 adopts AdaLovelace architecture, third-generation RTCore, fourth-generation TensorCore, supports DLSS3 (super-resolution frame generation), adapts to NVIDIA Studio driver, and also supports independent display direct connection. The GPU sends graphics frames directly to the display without any performance loss. bottleneck.

For creatives, the most basic function of RTX4060 independent graphics is to provide CUDA hardware acceleration support for software such as PR and PS, so that creative software can run more smoothly. For example, in common video editing work, playback and encoding and decoding generally require GPU acceleration and support. With the support of RTX4060, editing 4K60P video is stress-free. Encoding through H265 can also effectively reduce the waiting time for outputting works.

Nowadays, more and more video creators have switched to the embrace of AV1 codec. Compared with the previous generation RTX30 series, the RTX40 series has added support for AV1 codec, which can The creative process is accelerated through the GPU, thereby reducing waiting time. So compared to ordinary 14-inch core display notebooks, when you use Silhouette or Premiere Pro 2023 to create, Lingyao Pro 14 2023 can provide a qualitatively different creative experience.

#In terms of entertainment, we have to mention another big killer of the RTX40 series independent graphics - DLSS3. The newly added AI frame insertion can be said to be another technology that revolutionizes people's gaming experience, making high-resolution, ray-traced 3A games that were difficult to control on high-performance gaming laptops in the past extremely smooth. According to the author's actual measurement, "The Witcher 3" with 2K resolution, high image quality, ray tracing and DLSS3 functions turned on can run smoothly with an average frame rate of more than 60.

Rewritten as: The advantage of OLED screen lies in its excellent performance

A notebook with excellent performance but not perfect yet. Its screen is the key to displaying content, and the better the display effect. It is becoming more and more popular among notebook users

Lingyao Pro142023 still uses ASUS OLED good screen, the screen size is 14.5 inches, the resolution is 2.8K (2880×1800), perfect It meets the demand for delicate display and also has a high refresh rate of 120Hz, making the picture smooth as silk. The screen-to-body ratio reaches 90%, and it also supports 10-point touch and supports 4096-level pressure-sensitive stylus

In terms of screen quality, this product covers 100% of the P3 wide color gamut, and supports native, Switching between four professional color gamuts: sRGB, DCI-P3, and DisplayP3. With a contrast ratio of up to 1,000,000:1 and a peak brightness of 550 nits, it has obtained DisplayHDR TrueBlack500 certification and supports HDR viewing and creation

This screen not only has excellent game performance and image quality, but also has professional ease of use. Through various actual measurements, we found that this screen has undergone original factory color correction and is at the flagship level in the entire PC display industry. It is completely suitable for professional design using

SDR The maximum brightness is about 355 nits; the maximum brightness for HDR is about 606 nits

Color gamut volume: sRGB 170%, AdobeRGB 117%, DCI-P3 120%

sRGB mode color accuracy average ΔE is 1.02

P3 mode color accuracy average ΔE=1.03

The content that needs to be rewritten is: Emphasis on excellent human-computer interaction and software and hardware optimization

Lingyao Pro142023 adopts technological black color, the whole machine is made of aluminum alloy, metal matte design, delicate touch, machine The body size is 321.8×223.4mm×17.9mm (thin as thin as 17.9mm) and weighs about 1.6kg. The whole machine has passed more than 20 MIL-STD810H stringent quality tests, and its quality is on par with today's business notebooks that focus on manufacturing resistance.

Re-written: This product is equipped with a full-size ErgoSense ergonomic backlit keyboard with a key travel of 1.4mm and excellent tactile feel. The keyboard spacing is 19.05mm, and the keycaps adopt a 0.2mm concave arc design, so you won’t feel the feeling of hitting the steel plate when using it. Compared with MacBookPro14, the keyboard input experience is better. In addition, the keyboard also has three-level backlight adjustment and automatic backlight adjustment functions

It is worth mentioning that the ASUS virtual knob can support various creative software, such as in Photoshop Using it to perform regular operations such as timeline zooming and screen zooming in and out can improve efficiency.

Battery life must be a topic that everyone is very concerned about. If you occasionally need to work outside, the battery life of Lingyao Pro142023 can support about 4 hours, which can still be guaranteed for short-distance work. PCMark10 modern office battery life measurement result is 7 hours and 8 minutes, which is at the upper level among 14-inch high-performance notebooks.

Summary:

For me, 14 inches is the ideal laptop size. Compared with 11-13-inch products, it has larger internal space and can accommodate more powerful hardware configurations. Compared with 15-17-inch products, its body is lighter, allowing me to put it into my backpack at any time without increasing the burden on the trip

In recent years, including Apple PC manufacturers are committed to developing 14-inch laptops, but not many can achieve the ultimate in portability, configuration, performance, screen performance and stability like ASUS

Lingyao Pro 14 2023 is a 14-inch thin and light notebook, but its performance is not inferior to 15-17-inch large-sized high-performance notebooks. Its appearance makes me no longer have to worry about size when buying a notebook. Carrying this magazine-sized notebook, I can create and play AAA games easily and happily. This experience makes me feel extremely happy and happy

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