Review: Asus ROG Zephyrus G14
Review: Asus ROG Zephyrus G14:- This gaming laptop combines the display of your rich friend’s TV and the chassis of a Mac-book Air with a powerful graphics card and a beefy battery.
A BEEFY GRAPHICS
Review: Asus ROG Zephyrus G14: A BEEFY GRAPHICS card paired with the lovely 14-inch screen size at an affordable price? That’s the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14, and when you add extras like and OLED display and battery life impressive for a gaming laptop, it’s hard for me to not fall in love with this thing.
The G14 is the smallest model in the Zephyrus line, so it’s extremely portable. You can outfit it with an Nvidia RTX 4060 or 4070 graphics card. Depending on whether you want to save some cash or max it out. It feels as comfortable to use as the Mac book Air M1 (2020) that I use for work, but it comes with Luxury features that make playing games and even watching movies a top tier experience.
Work-Life Balance
Review: Asus ROG Zephyrus G14: The Zephyrus G14 isn’t built to be a powerhouse consider a laptop like the Asus ROG
Strix Scar 18 for that but what power it does have is well allocated. The Zephyrus is powered by AMD’s Ryzen R9 8945HS,
a powerful processor, paired with the RTX 4060 laptop graphics card it tackles most games with ease and can even run
some of the heaviest AAA titles reasonably well.
Both Stanfield and Cyberpunk 2077 managed to maintain a respectable 50 to 60 frames per second on medium graphics settings
at the laptop’s full 2880 x 1800 resolution. Stanfield dipped to around 40 fps in areas like New Atlantis that have famously struggled
to get very high frame rates. But this is still reasonably high given that star field capped at 30 fps on the Xbox.
Review: Asus ROG Zephyrus G14: When adjusting the display to 1,080p, I could crank the graphics setting in cyberpunk and
star field up to high while maintaining roughly the same 50 to 60 fps. By staying on medium, I got over 60 fps in both games.
I prefer the latter approach since smoother gameplay feels better for me than extra foliage detail, but there’s flexibility here to
tailor the experience to your desires.
Asus ROG Zephyrus G14
Like most gaming laptops, you won’t spend much time playing on this machine away from a charger. However, the G14 still impressed
by getting nearly two hours of gamey while running games like Cyberpunk. Over watch 2 lasted closer to an hour and a half, which makes
sense given that in faster paced competitive games I tend to lean on getting at least 90 fps for a smooth experience.
When using the laptop for more typical work or casual use, I got closer to 11 hours of battery life, impressive among any Windows laptop.
I could easily use the Zephyrus G14 as my daily driver and feel comfortable getting an entire day’s worth of work done on a single charge.
In terms of ports, the G14 feels designed to fit in both at the desk and on the go. It has a USB-a and USB-C port on each side,
offering flexibility on where and how to plug in your peripherals. On the right, there’s a built in Micro SD card reader. On the
left, there’s a full size HDMI out port, a 3.5-mm headphone jack, and a proprietary charging port. but the included laptop
charger delivers more and is necessary if you want to play power hungry games while plugged in.
OLED Superiority
Review: Asus ROG Zephyrus G14: I could look at the screen on this screen on this laptop for ages. It supports Dolby Vision,
and HDR content looks almost unnervingly realistic and vivid. OLED displays are among some of the most beautiful panels,
owing largely to the fact that, unlike most other display types, OLEDs don’t need backlighting. Every pixel lights up individually,
so black levels in an image are wonderfully dark.
The OLED panel in the G14 reaches a peak of up to 500 nits, which can be searingly bright in dark rooms, but easy to see in
bright rooms. I only started to struggle to see what I was doing when I sat outside in direct sunlight, and even then the screen
was still visible.
The OLED panel clocks in a 120 Hz refresh rate, which is more than enough for most games although with higher end, AAA games,
the G14 often struggled to reach even that. As mentioned above, even while playing fast paced games on medium settings, the laptop
peaked at around 90 fps.
Futuristic Feel
The ROG Zephyrus G14 comes in matte black and chrome white. I tested the latter, and it looks slick. I almost wanted to change the
RGB backlighting on the keyboard to pure white, just to emphasize the stylish, monochrome vibe of the laptop’s design, but I’m a
sucker for color.
