Asus ROG Strix G16 (2024) 16" Intel Core i9-14900HX 2.2GHz / Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop / 32GB RAM / 2TB SSD

The Asus ROG Strix G16 (2024) is a gaming laptop with a footprint of 354 mm wide by 264 mm tall and a thickness of just 22 mm, resulting in a total volume of 2056.032 cm³. It weighs 2500 g, which is typical for a machine in this category given its active cooling setup — the design does not use a fanless configuration. A backlit keyboard is included, adding usability in low-light conditions, while the chassis carries no weather-sealing or splashproof rating.

The laptop features a 16-inch IPS panel with a resolution of 2560 x 1600 px, translating to a pixel density of 188 ppi for a reasonably sharp image across the screen. Its 240Hz refresh rate makes it well-suited to fast-moving content, and the system supports up to four displays simultaneously. The panel does not include a touch screen or an anti-reflection coating, and no anti-glare treatment is listed among its attributes.

The processor runs across 24 cores — eight at 2.2 GHz and sixteen at 1.6 GHz — with a turbo clock of 5.8 GHz, 32 threads, and multithreading support, all built on a 5 nm process node. The system ships with 32GB of DDR5 RAM at 5600 MHz across two memory slots, which is also the maximum supported capacity, paired with a 2048GB NVMe SSD using PCIe 4.0 and flash storage. On the graphics side, the GPU operates at a base clock of 1545 MHz with a boost up to 2370 MHz, backed by 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM, delivering 14.56 TFLOPS of floating-point performance, a texture rate of 227.52 GTexels/s, and a pixel rate of 113.76 GPixel/s, with DirectX 12 Ultimate support and 64-bit compatibility; XeSS (XMX) is not supported.

In Geekbench 6, the system scores 2680 in the single-core test and 15655 in the multi-core test, reflecting the processor's throughput across its full core count. The overall PassMark result comes in at 45332, with a single-thread PassMark score of 4245, while the GPU-focused PassMark G3D benchmark registers 17710.

The port selection includes one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port, two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, one USB 4 40Gbps port, and one Thunderbolt 4 port, while USB 3.2 Gen 1 and USB 4 20Gbps ports are absent. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port, with no DisplayPort or mini DisplayPort outputs available, 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 alongside Bluetooth 5.3. AirPlay is supported, but there is no external memory slot on this machine.

The laptop is equipped with a 90 Wh battery, providing a substantial energy reserve for a machine in this category. It supports sleep-and-charge via USB, allowing connected devices to be charged even when the laptop is not in active use. A MagSafe power adapter is not included or supported.

On the audio side, the laptop includes stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos support, a 3.5 mm headset jack, and a single built-in microphone, while an S/PDIF output is not present. A front camera is included, though the system does not offer a fingerprint scanner, 3D facial recognition, or voice command functionality. Graphics features include ray tracing and DLSS support, catering to rendering and frame-rate use cases. No stylus is bundled, and the device lacks an optical disc drive, GPS, gyroscope, accelerometer, and compass.

The CPU is a laptop-class processor using big.LITTLE technology with a clock multiplier of 22, a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C, a TDP of 115W, and a 36 MB L3 cache, supporting a broad instruction set that includes MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, along with NX bit and Double Precision Floating Point (DPFP); the multiplier is not unlocked. The GPU is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture with 3072 shading units, 96 texture mapping units, 48 ROPs, and 32 execution units, running GPU memory at 2000 MHz with an effective speed of 16000 MHz across a 128-bit bus, yielding a maximum memory bandwidth of 256 GB/s; it supports multi-display output, stereoscopic 3D, OpenCL 3, OpenGL 4.6, and ECC memory, and does not have LHR. The system also features integrated graphics alongside the discrete GPU, with RAM supported across two memory channels up to 5600 MHz, and the PassMark DirectCompute result stands at 6787, while the total transistor count reaches 18900 million.