Customer Ratings & Reviews

I've used this laptop for about 3 weeks now. I have not had a single issue with it so far. I was first worried about the fans, since it's a laptop; they tend to be rather noisy, but this one has a silent option that is, in fact, completely silent and does not get hot in this mode. There have been no issues with gaming or regular work at all. I had also thought that since the laptop was so thin it would affect good gaming performance but that was also not the case! Overall 10/10 laptop would recommend for others!

Its a pretty good machine overall, can handle anything I throw at it and is silent for light use and I was able to squeeze out 7 hours of battery using g-helper, only issue I had with it was the hinge, as it didn’t fully close on the left side which let dust get in while it was in my backpack. Gets a bit loud under load, but can handle any game I throw at it

my first oled and i gotta say this right here is peak. can also run games really well.

Great computer! Use it for work and gaming. Feels very sturdy and feels like quality!

Picked this up a week ago at BB. Performed a vbios flash. Great machine- the perfect blend of portability and performance. 7.2k furmark (125w average PD) and 16.5k timespy graphics (120w average PD with 130w spikes) But for 2630 bucks? Not worth it imo. Everything else is great.

Great laptop until it stopped working for no reason. I had used it to play some Valorent and turned it off and let it sit on the table for 2 days and when I came back no screen or lights would turn on and I tried every power options video and still nothing. Other then that it was great and you should take your chance with this one

nice lightweight laptop that’s perfect for both gaming and school work! The specs on it are great and can handle pretty much all my gaming needs or multiple browsers for intensive school work. Battery life is around 4-6 hrs on eco, but a 100w usb c charger works well maintaining battery for school or lighter tasks.

I wish Asus would make a 17" version of this laptop would be so perfect! Otherwise this is a great laptop that takes up the least amount of precious space in your backpack.

First gamer notebook I bought and it’s amazing the quality of the screen is insane the performance is amazing too, it is very lightweight I can use it for work gaming or anything I want .

Powerful laptop, stays quiet for school/work activities, much quieter under load than my 2020 model and doesn't get as hot. Only real issue I have is that the laptop will randomly shutoff the display leaving a black screen, but the laptop itself is still on. Once this happens I am unable to do anything until I hard reset the laptop and sign back in, of course then everything I was doing is closed and not saved. Pretty big issue that apparently a lot of people have encountered. Would not recommend until ASUS fixes OLED black screen problems and upgrades the hinges.

Open box. purchase less than 1800 dollars(plus tax) with excellent condition 5070ti G16. Also purchase through new Buy Credit Card first day 20% back and get 325 dollars reward back. Also used Rakuten and got 66 dollars back. Can’t beat this price for sure.

Best buy gave me the best option as their name implies. I got my workstation as expected.

The ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16 is a 16-inch laptop built for users who want strong performance in a compact, lightweight frame. At just 4.3 pounds and 0.53 inches thick, the Zephyrus G16 is impressively slim and lightweight for such a high-performance laptop. I'm a gamer, and I'm typically grounded when it comes to gaming, but I like having the ability to move around some without having to sacrifice power, which is usually how it goes. However, not much of that is happening with this piece of tech, and I'm thoroughly enjoying my experience with this laptop. Starting with externals, the keyboard is simple with useful shortcuts like operating mode and Armoury Crate, a control and customization application designed for ASUS devices. It features single-zone white backlighting only, and I'd label that as acceptable. The lid features slash lighting, a customizable light bar on the lid. While it looks sleek, it’s limited to a static white color—there’s no RGB here to be mesmerized by. Still, it does offer some utility: you can set it to stay active, even change to a specified animation with the lid closed to indicate notifications. Ultimately it adds a splash of personality without being too flashy, and I respect that. The hinge is labeled as a stealth hinge. Half of this rings true: the stealth hinge is integrated into the base, which has become standard for laptops. The other half of what I would consider stealthy, which is sound, doesn't quite meet the mark. It’s a little noisy when opening or closing, even slightly creaky. Just lifting the laptop sometimes will make it creak. While you shouldn't be lifting the laptop or opening or closing the lid while using the laptop, this certainly detracts from the premium feel this laptop otherwise provides. It's kind of a questionable move why there is no touch screen functionality, but I suppose the touchpad makes up for it. The extra-large touchpad takes up about half the palm rest area, which is a significant portion, making major use of the available real estate. And thankfully it can be quickly turned off with a shortcut if it's in the way of some mad keyboarding. Onto my favorite feature: the OLED display. The Zephyrus G16 sports a 16-inch 2560x1600 OLED panel with a 240Hz refresh rate. This combination results in some seriously stellar visuals. The OLED technology delivers perfect blacks, a wide color gamut, and incredibly vibrant colors that really pop. My gaming experience is greatly enhanced by all this. The display doesn't look as good when in direct sunlight as is common with these types of displays, but it works well while playing on my covered porch. I highly prefer OLED over any other display, so I find myself wanting to use the display this laptop has over any other. The audio system is one of the most pleasant surprises. Equipped with six speakers, including two woofers, the sound output is powerful, deep, and surprisingly immersive, especially for such a thin chassis. All frequencies come through clear and full, and there's actual bass here. It's not often you can say you don't need to use an external sound device, but for games and even music, I have no issue with sound output through the integrated system. Thermal management on the G16 is powerful but may not be so subtle. In silent mode or during light tasks, the laptop is completely silent. I can't tell if a fan is going. However, once performance or turbo mode hits, the fans are audible. For turbo, they're going full blast and can be distracting without a earbuds or a headset, something to cancel out the noise. You can expect the bottom of the laptop to get super hot in turbo and even performance. The keyboard and touchpad can get really warm, too, but I've experienced worse. If you intend to actually put the laptop on your lap, you may want to think twice on it. Battery life is decent given the power under the hood and how much of it is likely going to be used in most applications. Off the charger, I can manage to get 3-5 hours with a mid-lit display but you can get of course get this number higher by dimming the display further. This laptop is obviously designed to be plugged in most cases, so I can't say that the battery is poor—I don't have to endure long commutes, and there is an outlet within five feet of me in any spot in my house. Now with all this said, let's boil it down to a simple question: will the Zephyrus G16 do what I want it to do? I'm looking to play many of the latest games or resource-intensive games with the maximum settings applied (or close to it), and having those games look beautiful. For reference, I've recently been playing Final Fantasy XIV, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Final Fantasy XVI, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and Baldur's Gate 3. I want to be immersed. For me, this means high fidelity, quality effects, and smooth animation, even at the cost of something sounding like a jet and on the verge of pouring out lava. Mobility is also a big factor, as there are some days I want to sit outside, and some I want to sit in the study. Other times I want to spend 20-30 minutes winding down in bed, all without sacrificing that immersion I seek. This laptop meets those demands: the OLED display is incredibly captivating, and the Intel Core i9 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti work together to deliver gorgeous graphics and a solid gameplay experience. Many resource-heavy games are running at 55+ frames on maximum settings without using turbo (and I'd like to avoid that setting if possible), and I look for at least 60 frames. I've had other games running at 100+ frames, or even at 240. The ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16 is an excellent blend of performance and portability and pushes the limits. It truly punches well above its weight, offering outstanding visual experiences paired with high-end components. The hardware configuration makes this laptop an absolute performance beast. For me, it's near perfect. The only complaints I have would be the decision to go with the noisy hinge and loud fans. Not much to complain about!

Worth every penny, can almost say the best Windows laptop in the market.

Absolutely love this laptop and couldn't have asked for better service while purchasing it in store.

Bought it for Architecture homework and it works perfectly. I can render without any problems and programs like autocad, SKP, Revit, run like butter.

One of the best looking and working laptop, You need to update the drivers to make sure it runs smoothly, but laptop is great and worth the money

Asus’s ROG Zephyrus G16 gaming laptop, driven by an Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti laptop GPU, is one of the best-balanced mobile devices I’ve ever used. It hits the mark in just about every dimension: thin enough to be portable while powerful enough to serve as a desktop replacement in many cases. It’s not perfect, but I don’t know that there is anything really quite like it: this is probably as much hardware as you can (reasonably) fit into a chassis like this. Anything that can allow for higher TDP parts won’t be as thin or as portable, and I think the 5070 Ti hits the spot well for this design, especially as it’s the lowest TDP Nvidia part this generation that has more than 8GB of RAM. The chassis is very similar to previous ROG 16” designs: the gray aluminum metal color scheme offset by the configurable slash lighting (on the back of the lid) and backlit keyboard. Two USB-C ports (one of them serving as aThunderbolt port as well) along with 2 USB-A 3.2 ports give connectivity, along with an HDMI 2.1 port for video and a microSD card reader. The backlit keyboard is nice and gets a little warm but not uncomfortably so (the hot spot is definitely above the keyboard, near the power button). There’s no number pad here, and the keyboard is flanked on both sides by speakers. Below the keyboard lies a very large trackpad that is quite responsive. Power is supplied via a proprietary connector from a 240W brick. The 240 Hz OLED screen is 2560x1600, a 16:10 ratio that is a good compromise between media consumption and media creation. Like all OLEDs, the contrast and response time is superb, and while the 500 nit brightness doesn’t reach the searing levels of some LCDs, it remains plenty bright enough. Under the hood, the laptop is driven by an Intel Core Ultra 9 285H CPU. It’s one of the faster mobile parts Intel makes, exceeded only by some models with higher TDPs, and it provides 16 cores. These are configured as 6 performance cores, 8 efficient cores, and 2 low-power efficient cores. These in turn can process 16 total threads–no hyperthreading here–and the P-cores are capable of boosting up to 5.4GHz. The 285H also has a fairly competent iGPU built-in as well, which is good if saving battery with the dGPU disabled. There’s an NPU along as well for AI-task acceleration, providing 13 TOPS, which isn’t very high at all, considering Microsoft requires 40 TOPS for Copilot+ certification, so on device AI usage will probably need to be GPU-driven somehow. That said, for everyday use, you’ll be fine with this CPU for a variety of tasks, including keeping the 5070 Ti fed for gaming. The CPU is given ample bandwidth via the 32GB of fast LPDDR5X RAM running at 7467MHz, but alas, you cannot upgrade it–it’s soldered. But whereas I’d be upset with having only 16GB of soldered RAM, with 32GB I’m not worried: it should suffice for just about every use for this PC. Storage I found to be just adequate. A 1TB SSD sounds like a lot until you look at the state of modern AAA games: 100GB installs are de rigueur at this point. Unlike the RAM, however, the storage can be upgraded, with an open M.2 slot available if you remove the back panel. (Not hard, just keep track of the screws!) The included SSD, a Western Digital SN5000S, is fast enough: it’s rated for 6,000MB/s read/5,400MB/s write, and this indeed what I found in testing: 6,340MB/s read and 5,423MB/s write. Those with expansive gaming libraries, or large projects, may well find themselves availing use of that 2nd M.2 slot. The real question, however, is about gaming performance. And I found myself quite pleased with this. While I’ll dig into some numbers in a moment, the bottom line is this: you can play just about any game at the screen’s native resolution with details turned up, if not maximized (and typically with ray tracing effects), and get a very acceptable frame rate. Doing so may well involve DLSS, but the new DLSS 4 is really quite excellent with regards to picture quality, and you do get the benefit of the 5000-series’ multi-frame generation capabilities. I use frame generation sparingly, and the key really is to ensure that the base frame rate (before frame generation) is adequate because while additional frames can be generated, the game’s input and latency is tied to the frames actually being rendered, not the AI-generated ones. But when it works, it’s really almost magical. Hooked up to an external 4K display, there are plenty of games that are playable at this resolution as well–this is where having 12GB of VRAM really helps. The details: I tested the following games, plugged in, with power settings set to Turbo and the latest Nvidia Game Ready drivers: -Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered: native resolution, maximum quality settings, DLSS Quality: 88fps -Doom: The Dark Ages: native resolution, Ultra quality, DLSS Quality, no path tracing: 75fps -Forza Motorsport: native resolution, Ultra quality, all ray tracing enabled, DLSS Q: 68fps -GTA V Enhanced: native resolution, Maximum Ray Tracing preset, DLSS Q: varied, typically 70-90fps -Cyberpunk 2077: native resolution, RT Ultra preset (DLSS sets to Auto): 54fps/90fps (with 2x frame generation) I also tested some games that don’t have benchmark utilities like the above, such as the enhanced Witcher 3, Hogwarts Legacy, and Indiana Jones and The Great Circle, and found similarly agreeable performance. Again, it all reinforces my general point: this machine’s CPU/GPU are adequate to drive games at the panel’s native resolution with fluid frame rates and high details. Turning down the details could allow you to avail yourself of the 240Hz display, or if you play older, less demanding games. All of these tests were performed with the Turbo power preset in Asus Armoury Crate. This is the highest preset power setting, with the loudest fans. And you will indeed hear the fans. This won’t be an issue if you game with a headset, or if you’re not particularly bothered by fan noise. Dropping down to the Performance power preset, which is more balanced, might cost you a little in games, but perhaps not enough to fundamentally change the experience while providing a quieter experience. (Or you could try DLSS Balanced or Performance mode instead of Quality, or a slight drop in quality settings, to compensate.) To put this in perspective: this system has a 240W power brick. I have a gaming desktop that I built, centered around an i9-12900KF and an RTX 3080 10GB. The 3080 itself draws up to 400W, yet this laptop can often keep up with the beefy desktop GPU, running typically somewhat behind in rasterization, but close (even or sometimes ahead) with ray tracing. (Again, 12GB VRAM helps here.) And of course I can turn on frame generation with this, which the 3080 cannot do. That’s seriously impressive performance within this power/thermal envelope. I wish it had more storage out of the box, but storage is pretty cheap now and adding it isn’t difficult. The fans can get loud at maximum power, but physics remains undefeated: that heat has to go somewhere, and this chassis is thin. But really, you get so much with this: a nice big OLED screen, a fast CPU, plenty of RAM, and just about as much GPU as you can reasonably put into such a laptop without throttling it constantly. This is a really good, well-balanced laptop, both for gaming and productivity, and I have no difficulty in recommending it to anyone.

Grabbed this as an open box "fair" condition laptop bit seems to be in mint condition, so far so good. Amazing laptop

Very disappointing experience. After only 3 weeks of use, this laptop shows serious issues despite being advertised as a high-performance, efficient laptop with good battery life, real-world usage tells a different story. After just three weeks, I am experiencing system instability, error screens, and performance throttling during normal workloads (AutoCAD and Office only—no heavy rendering or gaming). Battery life is especially poor. With Wi-Fi on and screen brightness at 60%, the battery lasts only 3–4 hours under normal productivity use, which is far below expectations for a premium laptop which was indicated 10 hours battery life. As well as throttling appears frequently, impacting both performance and reliability. Even during very light tasks such as viewing PDFs or working on basic AutoCAD drawings, I experience frequent freezing, lag, and a noticeably slow or unresponsive cursor. This is especially frustrating because my previous laptop—equipped with an Intel i7 processor and an integrated (on-board) GPU—showed the same behavior. Experiencing the same level of responsiveness on a newer, higher-spec system raises serious concerns about the price I paid and the stability required for my studies. Overall, this laptop fails to deliver consistent performance, acceptable battery life especially system stability. For a premium device with these specifications, the experience has been frustrating and unreliable. Therefore, if I had the option to return it, I would prefer to choose a cheaper model with an integrated GPU instead.