Asus TUF Gaming A14 (2025) FA401 14"

The Asus TUF Gaming A14 (2025) FA401 is classified as a gaming laptop with a notably slim profile, measuring 16 mm thick, 311 mm wide, and 227 mm deep, resulting in a total volume of 1,129.552 cm³. At 1,460 g, it sits on the lighter end for its category, making it reasonably portable for a gaming-focused machine. The chassis is not fanless, meaning it uses active cooling, and it does not carry weather-sealed or rugged construction. It does, however, include a backlit keyboard, adding convenience for use in low-light environments.

The Asus TUF Gaming A14 (2025) FA401 features a 14-inch IPS LCD panel with LED backlighting, delivering a 2560 x 1600 px resolution at a pixel density of 215 ppi for a reasonably sharp image. The display runs at a 165 Hz refresh rate, which benefits fast-paced content, and includes an anti-reflection coating to help reduce glare in brighter environments. Touch input is not supported, but the system can drive up to four displays simultaneously, making it capable of handling expanded multi-monitor setups.

The FA401 is built around a 5 nm processor with 8 cores, 16 threads, a base clock of 2 GHz across all cores, and a turbo clock of 5 GHz, with multithreading and 64-bit support enabled. It comes with 32 GB of LPDDR5 RAM running at 7,500 MHz — the maximum supported amount — soldered without user-accessible memory slots. Storage is handled by a 2 TB NVMe SSD over PCIe 4, using flash technology for fast read and write access. On the graphics side, the GPU runs at a base clock of 952 MHz and boosts up to 1,455 MHz, backed by 8 GB 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 DirectX 12 support; XeSS via XMX units is not available on this configuration.

In standardized CPU benchmarks, the Asus TUF Gaming A14 (2025) FA401 scores 11,247 in Geekbench 6 multi-core and 2,467 in the single-core test, reflecting the processor's threading capability alongside its per-core output. PassMark results follow a similar pattern, with an overall score of 34,459 and a single-thread score of 3,878, providing a broader picture of the system's computational throughput across both parallel and sequential workloads.

The FA401 offers a practical spread of wired and wireless connectivity options. On the port side, it includes one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port, two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, and one USB 4 40Gbps port, while Thunderbolt 3 and 4, DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, VGA, and RJ45 are all absent. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port, and an external memory slot is available for additional storage expansion. Wireless connectivity covers Wi-Fi 6E alongside backwards-compatible Wi-Fi 6, 5, and 4 standards, paired with Bluetooth 5.3, and AirPlay is also supported.

The Asus TUF Gaming A14 (2025) FA401 is equipped with a 73 Wh battery, providing a reasonably sized capacity for a 14-inch gaming laptop. The device does not include sleep-and-charge USB ports, so connected devices cannot be charged while the laptop is powered off, and there is no MagSafe power adapter — charging is handled through standard means.

The FA401 includes stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos support and a 3.5 mm headset jack for audio output, while a dual-microphone setup handles voice input alongside voice command functionality. For gaming, the system supports ray tracing and DLSS, adding hardware-accelerated lighting and upscaling capabilities to compatible titles. A front camera is present, and login security is handled through 3D facial recognition rather than a fingerprint scanner, which is not included. There is no stylus, S/PDIF output, optical disc drive, or motion sensors such as a gyroscope, accelerometer, or compass, and GPS is also absent.

The FA401 is powered by a CPU with a 45W TDP, a clock multiplier of 20, a maximum operating temperature of 100°C, and big.LITTLE architecture for mixed core workloads; the multiplier is locked, and the processor supports a broad instruction set including MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, along with NX bit and ECC memory support. It carries 16 MB of L3 cache and 8 MB of L2 cache, uses dual memory channels with a maximum RAM speed of 8,000 MHz, and benefits from Intel Resizable BAR for improved GPU data throughput. The discrete GPU is the Radeon 860M, based on the Blackwell architecture, featuring 3,328 shading units, 104 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and 8 execution units, running on a 128-bit memory bus with an effective memory speed of 28,000 MHz and a maximum memory bandwidth of 448 GB/s; it supports multi-display output, stereoscopic 3D, double precision floating point, OpenCL 3, OpenGL 4.6, and logs a PassMark overclocked score of 24,477, while LHR is not present. Integrated graphics are also available alongside the discrete GPU, and the chip is rated for both laptop and desktop deployment with 21,900 million transistors on die.