The Asus ROG Strix G18 (2024) is classified as a gaming laptop and carries a weight of 3000 g, with a physical footprint of 399 mm wide, 294 mm deep, and 23 mm thick, giving it a total volume of 2698.038 cm³. It features a backlit keyboard and relies on an active cooling system rather than a fanless design. The chassis is not weather-sealed, so it offers no splash resistance.
The laptop features an 18-inch IPS panel with a 2560 x 1600 resolution and a pixel density of 167 ppi, delivering a reasonably sharp image across its large screen area. It runs at a 240Hz refresh rate, making it well-suited for fast-paced content, and includes an anti-reflection coating to help reduce glare. The display does not support touch input, and the system can drive up to four screens simultaneously.
The system is equipped with 32GB of DDR5 RAM running at 5600 MHz across two memory slots, with 2048GB of NVMe flash storage connected via PCIe 4.0. The CPU operates at a base configuration of 8 cores at 2.2 GHz and 16 cores at 1.6 GHz, spanning 32 threads with multithreading enabled and a turbo clock of 5.8 GHz, and is built on a 4 nm semiconductor process. On the graphics side, the GPU carries 8GB of GDDR6X VRAM and runs at a base clock of 1230 MHz with a turbo of 2175 MHz, delivering 20.04 TFLOPS of floating-point performance, a texture rate of 313.2 GTexels/s, and a pixel rate of 104.4 GPixel/s, with support for DirectX 12 Ultimate and 64-bit operation; XeSS (XMX) is not supported.
In CPU benchmarking, the laptop scores 15655 in Geekbench 6 multi-core and 2680 in the single-core test, while the overall PassMark result sits at 45332 with a single-core PassMark score of 4245. On the graphics side, the PassMark G3D benchmark returns a score of 19574, reflecting the GPU's measured rendering throughput under that test.
The laptop offers a varied port selection, including one Thunderbolt 4 port, one USB 4 40Gbps port, 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, Thunderbolt 3, DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, or VGA outputs. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port, and there is no external memory card slot. Wired networking is covered by one RJ45 port, while wireless connectivity includes Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) with backwards compatibility down to Wi-Fi 4, alongside Bluetooth 5.3. AirPlay is also supported.
The laptop houses a 90 Wh battery and includes sleep-and-charge USB ports, allowing connected devices to be charged even when the system is powered off or in sleep mode. It does not use a MagSafe power adapter.
Audio is handled by stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos support, a 3.5 mm headset jack, and two built-in microphones, while a front camera is present for video calls. On the graphics feature side, the laptop supports both ray tracing and DLSS, adding to its gaming-oriented capability set. It does not include a fingerprint scanner, 3D facial recognition, voice commands, gyroscope, GPS, accelerometer, compass, S/PDIF output, optical disc drive, or a stylus.
The CPU is a laptop-class processor with a 115W TDP, a clock multiplier of 22, a 36 MB L3 cache, and a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C; it employs big.LITTLE technology, supports the NX bit for hardware-level security, and carries an unlocked multiplier that is not enabled. It supports a range of instruction sets including MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, along with Double Precision Floating Point (DPFP), and integrates graphics with 32 execution units. The discrete GPU is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture and contains 22,900 million transistors, with 4608 shading units, 144 texture mapping units, 48 ROPs, a 128-bit memory bus, a GPU memory speed of 2000 MHz, and an effective memory speed of 16,000 MHz yielding a maximum bandwidth of 256 GB/s; it does not feature LHR. Memory runs across two channels with a maximum speed of 5600 MHz, and ECC memory is supported. The system also supports multi-display output, stereoscopic 3D, OpenCL 3, OpenGL 4.6, and achieves a PassMark DirectCompute score of 8162.
