Customer Ratings & Reviews

Good laptop for the weight and performance. Only drawback is the Win 11 OS.

The Asus ROG Zephyrus 16 is a beautifully thin and capable laptop. This is a gaming machine stuffed into a portable, everyday use chassis that is easy to take with you and if you turn off the light strip on the back, it is easy to conceal the fact that it is a gaming monster. The Zephyrus that I have boasts an unbelievably good 16 inch screen with a 240 Hz refresh rate that makes just about anything you do on it look silky smooth. The graphics card is an RTX 5080 that just about handles anything the casual gamer could throw at it. It’s not going to give the frame rates that a 5090 card would on ultra levels, but I have been running everything on high and ultra high and haven’t noticed any stuttering or low frame rates in any of the first person shooters that I tend to play. One thing to mention though is that the Asus ROG Zephyrus uses a lower wattage on the 5080 than some of its competitors. This does affect performance some, but not much. The benefit seems to be longer battery life and less heat. Less heat translates into less fan noise. Which brings me to another point. I have seen people complaining about fan noise, but I have not experienced any excessive noise in the time I have used this laptop. I run this machine in performance mode all the time while plugged in and it automatically switched to silent mode on battery, but noise has not been an issue for me. It is much quieter than my Asus ROG Strix 18 from 2024. Maybe one reason I don’t notice the fans is the excellent sound quality and volume the Asus is able to reproduce. The speakers on this laptop are just fabulous with a rich, full sound from a small package. I find myself using it to stream music while I am working on other things around the house and have not been disappointed. Asus chose to use the Intel 285H CPU in this laptop. It tends to rule in single core processing, but does lag behind AMD when multi-core processing is tested. In real life, I don’t know that it makes much of a difference. This processor has run well in games and with Adobe products rendering videos and messing around with photos, just to see if I could make it stutter. I think this was the right choice for this laptop. It runs great, is fairly efficient and seems to not get to hot. The highest temperature I have seen is 60 degrees Celsius which is fine. I have not had issues with the top of the laptop getting extremely hot, however, it does get very warm when it is pushed hard for extended periods. Even though it is very warm, it is not so hot I can’t play. I will be using this laptop as a daily driver. Microsoft office, adobe and games. This laptop has the looks and the ability to do everything that I want it to do and I would certainly choose this computer again if I was in the market.

It is an absolute beast of a machine! I only wish that some Linux distros had better support for it’s hardware, but other than that it’s an easy 5 stares any day of the week.

Software kept freezing with playing games and it would freeze. It also did this with the strix edition in the zephyrus