WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.640 Premium laptops have this problem that really annoys me. They come with super 00:00:03.960 --> 00:00:09.160 high-end hardware, but then they put them in a form factor that's thin and 00:00:07.160 --> 00:00:12.760 light, which, you know, that's cool, but it really kind of defeats the purpose of 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:17.240 having that super powerful hardware inside. That's why I really enjoy the 00:00:14.520 --> 00:00:22.240 ASUS ProArt lineup because it really finds the right mix of premium feeling 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:25.840 laptop, premium looking laptop, and premium performance laptop, which is why 00:00:24.280 --> 00:00:31.680 I'm excited Samsung Display sponsored this video so we can take a look at the ASUS ProArt 16, which features their 00:00:29.400 --> 00:00:36.440 gorgeous new tandem OLED that Samsung claims will blow your typical LCD 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:39.840 screens out of the water. Oh, man, even the chargers look cool on the ProArt 00:00:38.160 --> 00:00:46.440 stuff. They really go all out on the design front. In the box, we get a 240-W 00:00:43.800 --> 00:00:50.880 charger that's in a pretty reasonable form factor for 240 W. Unfortunately, 00:00:49.040 --> 00:00:54.560 it's a proprietary charger, but thankfully, you can charge via the other 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:58.040 USB-C ports on here if you are in a pinch. This generation is a bit more 00:00:56.200 --> 00:01:02.200 minimal than previous ASUS ProArts. This ProArt kind of logo here used to make up 00:01:00.400 --> 00:01:06.800 more of the back of the display, but now it is just relegated to a corner and a 00:01:03.720 --> 00:01:08.400 tiny little modest ASUS ProArt logo. 00:01:06.800 --> 00:01:16.520 It's pretty hefty. It's about 1.9 >> 1.9 kg or 4.2 lb, but it feels very, 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:21.320 very sturdy with its metal construction and um kind of a very fingerprinty lid, 00:01:19.640 --> 00:01:25.320 but I'm also like a greasy a greasy green Grinch. In terms of thickness, 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:28.320 it's pretty reasonable. It's not chungus like some sort of gaming laptop. Since 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:34.840 we're looking at the side of it, let's walk through the IO. You have your DC 00:01:30.880 --> 00:01:38.600 in, HDMI 2.1, a USB-C 40 gigabit per 00:01:34.840 --> 00:01:40.480 second port, USB-A 10 gigabit, combo 00:01:38.600 --> 00:01:44.680 audio jack, and there's a full-size SD card reader 00:01:41.880 --> 00:01:49.400 that supports SD Express 7, so it's wicked fast, a USB-A 10 gigabit per 00:01:46.520 --> 00:01:54.000 second, and a USB-C at 10 gigabit per second. Would have loved to see another 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:58.680 40 gigabit port on this side, but that's just the way it is. But, let's take a 00:01:55.480 --> 00:02:00.760 look inside now. Ooh, that looks pretty 00:01:58.680 --> 00:02:04.880 cool. On the inside we have a 10-keyless laptop keyboard with slightly cramped 00:02:03.720 --> 00:02:09.000 arrow keys, but at least they didn't fill in these spots, so it could be 00:02:06.720 --> 00:02:12.000 worse. We get upward-firing speakers, which is going to be really great for 00:02:10.039 --> 00:02:16.040 listening to any sort of music or audio while you're creating. We also have this 00:02:13.560 --> 00:02:19.840 large trackpad, or as ASUS calls it, the dial pad. You'll see this little 00:02:18.160 --> 00:02:24.160 circle right here, which can act as like a jog wheel that you can assign different tasks in different pieces of 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:28.680 software. And this is where I guess where you turn it on and off. And of course we get the copilot button, 00:02:27.080 --> 00:02:33.040 everyone's favorite. Reinforcing the sturdiness of how built this thing is, 00:02:30.320 --> 00:02:38.200 there is like next to no keyboard flex. It is really great, and I think that the 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:41.280 keyboard itself feels pretty good. 00:02:40.200 --> 00:02:46.640 Before we turn this thing on, I just want to remind you that it does come with a tandem OLED panel. That's right, 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:49.720 tandem, meaning multiple emitting layers, in this case two. It might not 00:02:48.520 --> 00:02:53.600 mean a whole lot to you if you're just looking for the next spreadsheet workhorse to get you through the day, 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:56.920 but creators and professional users will certainly appreciate it. And we'll talk 00:02:55.320 --> 00:02:59.840 more about that in just a little bit. But before we get into that, let's talk 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:05.320 about the rest of what's inside this laptop. In here we have an AMD Ryzen AI 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:09.800 9 370HX. Wow, that's a lot of letters, and it's 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:13.760 also a super powerful processor. And to 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:16.800 back that up we have 64 GB of LPDDR5X 00:03:13.760 --> 00:03:20.280 memory running at 7,500 MT/s. 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:22.720 We also have a 2 TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD. 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:28.640 For storage in here we have two 2 TB SSDs. Both are 2280, that's full-sized 00:03:25.920 --> 00:03:33.800 M.2 SSDs. One caveat is that one of them is running at Gen4 by 4, and one of them 00:03:30.959 --> 00:03:36.760 is running at Gen4 by 2. So, if you're doing like a really big transfer, you 00:03:34.959 --> 00:03:40.000 might see like a really small hit to performance, but it probably shouldn't 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:45.920 be too noticeable most of the time. And for the GPU we have an NVIDIA RTX 5090 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:49.440 laptop. This is going to be a beast of a 00:03:45.920 --> 00:03:50.600 laptop. And look at the screen. It is 00:03:49.440 --> 00:03:54.840 very pretty. Now, let's talk about this display. The 00:03:52.600 --> 00:03:59.600 16-in display on this is an actual 16-in, it's not 15.9, and it is a 4K 00:03:57.880 --> 00:04:02.480 tandem OLED display. What does that mean? Basically, it provides extra 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:07.160 brightness without having to drive as much power through your display, so that 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:11.760 reduces the risk of burning over time, and also creates a very bright image. 00:04:09.760 --> 00:04:15.800 This thing has a peak brightness of 1,600 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:19.720 nits in HDR. That's dumb. And it's also very bright 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:25.240 in SDR. We'll talk a little bit more about the display testing in just a 00:04:21.280 --> 00:04:27.320 moment, but this thing we recorded 691 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:32.080 nits at SDR. That's super bright. You'll also get a 120 Hz 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:35.560 refresh rate and a speedy 0.2 ms gray-to-gray response time, making it 00:04:33.840 --> 00:04:38.760 great for gaming, movies, and other fast-paced tasks beyond content 00:04:37.160 --> 00:04:42.520 creation. Naturally, with this being a creator-focused laptop, the display is 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:46.480 going to have great color performance. It's very color accurate and has 100% 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:51.720 coverage of the DCI-P3 color space, and it's certified VESA 00:04:48.520 --> 00:04:53.840 DisplayHDR True Black 1000, which is the 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:58.120 highest certification level available from VESA. And the display is Pantone 00:04:56.160 --> 00:05:01.520 color validated. So, if you're somebody who's doing design or working in across 00:05:00.200 --> 00:05:05.840 different mediums, you can trust that like what you see on this laptop will 00:05:03.760 --> 00:05:11.400 reflect what you're going to see IRL. And what I'm seeing IRL is the webcam on 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:12.560 the top here, and Windows Hello, love to 00:05:11.400 --> 00:05:17.680 see it, and let's take a look at the webcam right now. The webcam on here is 00:05:14.880 --> 00:05:21.600 full HD, and it's pretty serviceable. I might be a little 00:05:19.240 --> 00:05:24.360 bit washed out in this lighting, um, and there's a little bit of grain, 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:28.800 but it's handling the, uh, brighter lights in the back as 00:05:27.080 --> 00:05:32.640 well as the differential from my hand stuff pretty well. I would, um, 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:37.280 I would have no complaints to use this as just any sort of laptop webcam. It's pretty 00:05:35.840 --> 00:05:40.880 okay. I don't know how the mic sound, I guess you will be able to hear that, and 00:05:39.240 --> 00:05:47.320 let us know in the comments. Speaking of how it sounds, let's listen to the speakers. 00:05:44.040 --> 00:05:47.320 This is 100% volume. 00:05:55.160 --> 00:06:01.560 It's okay. They're pretty good. I've been so impressed by everything else on this laptop that I'm like the slightest 00:05:59.280 --> 00:06:04.520 bit disappointed by the speakers, but for laptop speakers, they're still 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:07.160 easily on the upper half of the ones I've heard. Like they're they're good. 00:06:06.040 --> 00:06:12.040 Want to play a game or something? Yeah, I'd love to play a game. I'd love to play a game. We're in Cyberpunk and 00:06:09.440 --> 00:06:18.120 we're running at full 4K resolution and this 5090 laptop, one, it's making the 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:20.880 fans scream. It is loud here right now, 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:26.160 but it's also managing like 40 to 60 FPS depending on the scene and the HDR in 00:06:23.960 --> 00:06:30.360 the game looks so good. Like look at that guy. Damn. 00:06:28.919 --> 00:06:35.400 Now, this thing is a top-of-the-line laptop packed to the brim with top-of-the-line hardware, but 00:06:33.080 --> 00:06:38.520 high-quality OLED panels aren't just in these high-end laptops. Talk a little 00:06:36.960 --> 00:06:42.080 bit more about that later. In the intro, I was talking about how premium form 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:47.560 factors often make some sort of compromise. There is no ventilation on 00:06:44.960 --> 00:06:50.160 the top side of the laptop. Oftentimes, manufacturers will put ventilation like 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:55.000 kind of right here along the screen. It feels like there is nothing. 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:57.960 All of the intake is here, outtake is down here. It's a lot of heat that it 00:06:56.440 --> 00:07:02.360 has to manage with just a little bit of space. But 00:07:00.400 --> 00:07:07.640 man, look at it. What are you running at for temps, 00:07:03.400 --> 00:07:08.800 though? 97 on the CPU now. That's um 00:07:07.640 --> 00:07:14.080 That's pretty toasty and it's pretty loud. It would be worth considering getting a dock. Let's take a look at 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:17.960 some of the games that Labs tested. In Cyberpunk at 1,200 p medium settings, 00:07:15.919 --> 00:07:23.120 we're seeing the 5090 pulling a whopping 120 FPS average with 96 in the lows. 00:07:21.400 --> 00:07:27.919 When we up the resolution, we're seeing closer to 100 to 86, but still quite 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:33.720 impressive performance on a laptop. In F1 24 at 1,200 p high, this thing is 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:37.040 screaming at 173 average FPS and it stays screaming even at a higher 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:40.800 resolution. Honestly, across the board, this is a powerful laptop and if you 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:44.440 want to get some gaming done, you're not going to have too many problems except 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:49.840 for maybe some of those thermals. And that excellent performance translates into our Puget Bench Suite of creative 00:07:47.960 --> 00:07:53.600 workloads like Photoshop, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve. All great performance 00:07:52.040 --> 00:07:59.240 from this laptop. In summary, this laptop is freaking powerful. But, I'm 00:07:57.400 --> 00:08:03.160 not really the target demographic. Let's get a perspective from somebody who 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:07.600 actually does a lot of creative work, like one of our editors. 00:08:05.760 --> 00:08:12.040 My name is Peter and I'm an editor here at ShortCircuit. Sometimes. Sometimes 00:08:09.960 --> 00:08:15.280 I'm also an editor on LTT. Uh you know, it depends on the day. And today I'm 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:20.760 going to be talking about editing on the ASUS ProArt P16. So, uh yeah, let's get 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:26.000 into it. Okay, so we will set up a project, I guess. All right, we're going 00:08:22.200 --> 00:08:28.960 to move this onto the internal drive. 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:35.440 I'm reading 263 MB per second. That's pretty fast, actually. And that's 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:37.280 because it has a 985 MB per second SD 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:41.719 Express 7.0 card reader. So, this SD card actually reads at 300 MB. So, we're 00:08:39.680 --> 00:08:45.960 almost getting the full 300 MB on this SD card. Most SD card like dongles, USB 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:50.839 dongles, or at least the ones I have, they actually only read up to like 90 MB 00:08:49.480 --> 00:08:54.640 per second sometimes. So, that's actually really fast and really nice to 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:59.400 offload footage. The screen's actually really nice, too. Is it OLED? It is. 00:08:56.520 --> 00:09:02.839 It's an OLED. Tandem OLED. Wow. I mean, even just Premiere looks so nice. I 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:07.920 mean, I've never seen these grays so gray. I mean, playback's really good. 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:11.000 This is just 4K footage, 30 FPS. Okay, we're going to open up Lumetri and we're 00:09:09.640 --> 00:09:15.080 going to actually put some color on this. We're just going to slap the Alexa 00:09:13.160 --> 00:09:18.400 LUT on there. That's not what we do for our videos. I mean, the colors on this 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:23.720 look great. This is half quality and it's looking pretty good. It's a little blue. I think 00:09:22.040 --> 00:09:27.800 that's just from the LUT. Cuz the LUT is just a table and it just changes all the 00:09:26.160 --> 00:09:32.160 colors. But, for a preview, this is pretty good. Like, from what I can see, 00:09:29.800 --> 00:09:36.400 like, I don't see any crazy like hue shift or anything. My screen at home, it 00:09:34.760 --> 00:09:40.120 has a pretty big like red shift. I've already tried to like fix that, but it's 00:09:38.840 --> 00:09:43.960 kind of tough without like a color calibrator and stuff. So, having something right out of the box is 00:09:42.320 --> 00:09:47.360 actually really useful. It's definitely playing really well, like and there's no 00:09:45.960 --> 00:09:51.680 lag when I press the play button. Like it's pretty instantaneous. Um I mean, 00:09:49.400 --> 00:09:55.080 these files aren't humongous, but just to preview the render here, it's like 00:09:53.440 --> 00:10:00.840 about a 2-minute clip and it's rendering like 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:03.840 full res previews at like I guess it'll take about 30 seconds here is what it 00:10:02.040 --> 00:10:06.560 looks like. It's pretty good. Uh so, here it is in After Effects. So, After 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:10.560 Effects actually renders it like out frame by frame when you press play. So, 00:10:08.920 --> 00:10:14.520 it's pretty good. I mean, that's not real-time as you can see in this top 00:10:12.120 --> 00:10:19.960 right. It's about 16 frames uh per second instead of 30 frames per second, 00:10:16.880 --> 00:10:22.000 but I mean, that's at full res. I 00:10:19.960 --> 00:10:27.000 usually have to downsample. Even at half quality, it's like 20 FPS, which is 00:10:25.080 --> 00:10:29.920 still pretty good. Also, totally random thought, but the keyboard was actually 00:10:28.640 --> 00:10:33.480 really nice. Like there's actually a lot of travel. So, I'm going to try it out really quick. 00:10:36.520 --> 00:10:41.520 It's pretty quiet. It doesn't click that much. It actually has a fair bit of 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:44.520 travel and honestly, I don't know. I'm trying to roto something. It is just 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:48.880 it's gone crazy. I haven't even been paying attention. I've just been pressing buttons. But I think it looks 00:10:46.920 --> 00:10:54.360 good. So, what does Labs say? When it comes to display performance, the Labs 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:57.760 tested almost 700 nits peak in SDR and 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:59.839 over 1,600 nits peak in HDR up to a 10% 00:10:57.760 --> 00:11:06.360 window size. Genuinely impressive. As for color accuracy, SDR is great in both 00:11:02.560 --> 00:11:09.080 sRGB, DCI-P3, and display P3 modes with 00:11:06.360 --> 00:11:14.520 a Delta E2000 average of less than one for their respective targets. HDR 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:17.160 measured an average Delta EITP of 27 and 00:11:14.520 --> 00:11:22.520 a max of almost 33 with the display brightness set to 100% and setting the 00:11:19.800 --> 00:11:27.000 HDR content slider to 100. However, if you turn your display brightness down 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:33.040 just a bit to 90% reducing the display brightness overall by less than 20 nits, 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:38.880 this thing got way better measuring Delta E ITP average of just over 10 and 00:11:36.440 --> 00:11:44.600 a max of almost 16 thanks to the slightly better EOTF tracking. Not too 00:11:42.680 --> 00:11:48.560 shabby. Anyways, back to you, Adam. Thank you, editor, 00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:53.360 and sorry in advance. Let's talk about battery life now. This thing, very 00:11:50.440 --> 00:11:56.840 powerful, but also has a large 90 watt hour battery. It's not the biggest 00:11:55.080 --> 00:12:01.440 battery you can cram in a laptop, but it is pretty big, and it does allow the 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:05.680 laptop to get 7 hours and 40 minutes of video playback in our tests. It's pretty 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:09.040 good, but in heavier workloads, you're going to want to have this thing plugged 00:12:07.160 --> 00:12:13.880 in still. With all that in mind, what is there to say about the ASUS ProArt? 00:12:10.800 --> 00:12:16.920 Well, it is a high-end premium laptop 00:12:13.880 --> 00:12:19.480 that's built really nicely, performs 00:12:16.920 --> 00:12:24.440 crazy well, and being a high-end premium product, it has a high-end price. The 00:12:22.680 --> 00:12:29.680 5090 variant that we're looking at costs a whopping $4,499, 00:12:27.960 --> 00:12:33.800 which, if this is something that you need to make money, could make a ton of 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:37.120 sense for you. But, if maybe you don't need all of that power, you could 00:12:35.160 --> 00:12:42.640 consider the 5070 variant that comes in at $3,000 instead, which is a big price 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:46.080 difference, and remember, you get all of the other awesome features of this. You 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:50.240 still get the dial pad, the great display, a great CPU. Something to 00:12:48.560 --> 00:12:53.600 consider. Thanks to Samsung Display for sponsoring this video. They've been 00:12:51.880 --> 00:12:57.040 expanding their OLED lineup to make sure that everybody is going to get a chance 00:12:55.160 --> 00:13:00.200 to experience the amazing OLED technology at a variety of different 00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:04.480 price points. For example, you might have seen some benchmarks of the P16 00:13:02.280 --> 00:13:06.800 against an ASUS VivoBook S16 earlier. That's because we were sent one of 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:10.240 those, too. Just to show an example that even in a more affordable model, this 00:13:08.440 --> 00:13:15.200 one isn't available anymore, but it went for around 1,200 USD, you can still get 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:18.960 the OLED advantage of blacker blacks and higher color coverage. 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