Asus ROG Strix G16 (2024) 16" Intel Core i7-13650HX 2.6GHz / Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop / 16GB RAM / 1TB SSD

The Asus ROG Strix G16 (2024) is classified as a gaming laptop and carries a weight of 2,500 g, with a footprint of 354 mm wide by 264 mm deep and a slim 22 mm thickness, resulting in a total volume of around 2,056 cm³. It features a backlit keyboard for use in low-light conditions, while active cooling is present as it does not use a fanless design. The chassis is not weather-sealed, so it offers no splash protection.

The laptop features a 16″ screen with a 1920×1200 pixel resolution at 97 ppi, delivering a slightly taller aspect ratio than standard 1080p panels. The display runs at a 165Hz refresh rate, which is well-suited for fast-paced gaming, and carries a typical brightness of 250 nits alongside an anti-reflection coating to help reduce glare. It does not support touch input, and the system is capable of driving up to four connected displays simultaneously.

The system is powered by a CPU running six cores at 2.6 GHz and eight cores at 1.9 GHz, with a turbo boost reaching up to 4.9 GHz across 20 threads, and multithreading is supported. It pairs with 16GB of DDR5 RAM at 4800 MHz across two memory slots, expandable to a maximum of 32GB, while storage is handled by a 1TB NVMe SSD using PCIe 4.0. On the graphics side, the GPU carries 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM, a base clock of 1545 MHz boosting to 2370 MHz, and delivers 14.56 TFLOPS of floating-point performance alongside a texture rate of 227.52 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 113.76 GPixel/s. The GPU supports DirectX 12 Ultimate and is built on a 5 nm process, though it does not include XeSS support. The platform is fully 64-bit compatible.

In CPU benchmarking, the laptop recorded a Geekbench 6 multi-core score of 14,077 and a single-core score of 2,524, reflecting the processor's threaded and per-core capabilities respectively. The overall PassMark result comes in at 30,674 with a single-thread score of 3,767, while the GPU-focused PassMark G3D result stands at 17,710, giving a concrete measure of the graphics subsystem's rendering throughput.

The laptop offers a well-stocked port selection, including one Thunderbolt 4 port that also functions as a USB 4 40Gbps connection, one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port, and two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports; there are no USB 3.2 Gen 1 or Thunderbolt 3 ports present. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port, while DisplayPort and mini DisplayPort outputs are absent, and there is no VGA connector. Wired networking is covered by one RJ45 port, and wireless connectivity spans Wi-Fi 6E, Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 5, and Wi-Fi 4 standards alongside Bluetooth 5.3. AirPlay is supported, but there is no external memory card slot on the machine.

The available battery-related specifications indicate that the laptop does not include sleep-and-charge USB ports, meaning connected devices cannot be charged while the system is powered off or in sleep mode, and it does not use a MagSafe power adapter for charging.

For audio, the laptop includes stereo speakers, a 3.5 mm headset jack, and a single built-in microphone, though it does not support Dolby Atmos or an S/PDIF output port. A front camera is present, but there is no fingerprint scanner, 3D facial recognition, or voice command functionality. On the gaming side, the machine supports both ray tracing and DLSS, adding to its credentials as a gaming-oriented device. Motion and location sensors are absent entirely — there is no gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, or GPS — and the laptop ships without a stylus or an optical disc drive.

The CPU is a laptop-class processor with a clock multiplier of 26, a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C, a 115W TDP, and an unlocked multiplier, while employing big.LITTLE technology and a 24 MB L3 cache; supported instruction sets include SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, AES, FMA3, F16C, and MMX, and the NX bit is present for hardware-level security. It also includes integrated UHD Graphics 710 with 16 execution units alongside the discrete GPU, which is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture and features 3,072 shading units, 96 texture mapping units, and 48 render output units, with GPU memory running at 2,000 MHz and an effective speed of 16,000 MHz across a 128-bit bus, yielding a maximum memory bandwidth of 256 GB/s. The system RAM runs across two channels at up to 4,800 MHz, ECC memory is supported, and Double Precision Floating Point is available. API support covers OpenCL 3 and OpenGL 4.6, stereoscopic 3D and multi-display output are both supported, and the PassMark DirectCompute result is 6,787. The GPU does not use LHR, and the chip contains 18,900 million transistors.