Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 (2025) GU605 16" (Ultra 9 285H / RTX 5060 Laptop / 32GB RAM / 2TB)

The Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 (2025) is a gaming laptop with a compact footprint measuring 354 mm wide, 246 mm deep, and just 14 mm thick, with an overall volume of 1,219.176 cm³. It weighs 1,950 g, keeping it reasonably manageable for a machine in its category. The chassis includes a backlit keyboard and relies on an active cooling system rather than a fanless design. It does not carry a weather-sealed or rugged build, so it is intended for standard indoor use.

The laptop features a 16″ OLED/AMOLED panel with a resolution of 2560 x 1600 px and a pixel density of 188 ppi, delivering a sharp and detailed image across the screen. It runs at a 240Hz refresh rate, which benefits fast-paced content and smooth motion rendering. The display does not include a touchscreen or an anti-reflection coating, and the system supports up to four simultaneous external displays in total.

The system is powered by a CPU with 16 threads, running at speeds of 6 x 2.9 GHz and 8 x 2.7 GHz with a turbo clock reaching 5.4GHz, built on a 5 nm semiconductor process and supporting multithreading and 64-bit operation. It is paired with 32GB of DDR5 RAM at 7,467 MHz, which is also the maximum supported memory amount, housed in a soldered configuration with no upgradeable slots. Storage is handled by a 2,048GB NVMe SSD using PCIe 4.0 flash storage. On the graphics side, the GPU runs at a base clock of 952 MHz with a turbo of 1,455 MHz, backed by 8GB of GDDR7 VRAM, delivering 9.684 TFLOPS of floating-point performance, a texture rate of 151.3 GTexels/s, and a pixel rate of 46.56 GPixel/s, with support for DirectX 12 Ultimate but no XeSS capability.

In benchmark testing, the CPU scores 17,173 in Geekbench 6 multi-core and 2,897 in the single-core test, reflecting its multi-threaded capability alongside its per-core output. The PassMark result stands at 33,969 overall, with a single-thread score of 4,472, providing a broader measure of general processing throughput across both parallel and sequential workloads.

The laptop offers a well-rounded port selection, including one Thunderbolt 4 port, one USB 4 at 40Gbps, one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C, and two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, while older standards such as USB 2.0, USB 3.2 Gen 1, and Thunderbolt 3 are absent. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port, with no DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, or VGA connector present. Wireless connectivity covers Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) along with backward-compatible Wi-Fi 6E, 6, 5, and 4 standards, complemented by Bluetooth 5.4. There is no RJ45 ethernet port, but the machine does include an external memory slot and supports AirPlay.

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 for charging.

Audio is handled by stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos support and a 3.5 mm headset jack, while three built-in microphones cover voice input needs, though voice commands as a feature are not supported. On the graphics side, the laptop supports both ray tracing and DLSS, enabling more advanced rendering capabilities in compatible applications. For user authentication, it uses 3D facial recognition via a front-facing camera, with no fingerprint scanner available. A stylus is not included, and the machine lacks an S/PDIF output, optical disc drive, and motion or location sensors such as a gyroscope, accelerometer, GPS, or compass.

The CPU is a laptop-type processor mounted on a BGA 2049 socket, operating with a clock multiplier of 29, a TDP of 45W, and a maximum supported temperature of 110°C, with a 24 MB L3 cache and support for big.LITTLE technology, the NX bit, ECC memory, and instruction sets including MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, though the multiplier is locked. It includes integrated graphics alongside the discrete GPU, and RAM speeds can reach up to 8,400 MHz across two memory channels. The discrete GPU is based on the Blackwell architecture and carries the Arc 140T name, featuring 3,328 shading units, 104 texture mapping units, 32 ROPs, and 128 execution units, built from 21,900 million transistors, with a 128-bit memory bus, a GPU memory speed of 1,750 MHz, an effective memory speed of 28,000 MHz, and a maximum memory bandwidth of 448 GB/s. It supports OpenCL 3, OpenGL 4.6, stereoscopic 3D, multi-display output, Double Precision Floating Point, and Intel Resizable BAR, and achieves a PassMark overclocked score of 34,411, while LHR is not present.