Premium laptops have this problem that really annoys me. They come with super
high-end hardware, but then they put them in a form factor that's thin and
light, which, you know, that's cool, but it really kind of defeats the purpose of
having that super powerful hardware inside. That's why I really enjoy the
ASUS ProArt lineup because it really finds the right mix of premium feeling
laptop, premium looking laptop, and premium performance laptop, which is why
I'm excited Samsung Display sponsored this video so we can take a look at the ASUS ProArt 16, which features their
gorgeous new tandem OLED that Samsung claims will blow your typical LCD
screens out of the water. Oh, man, even the chargers look cool on the ProArt
stuff. They really go all out on the design front. In the box, we get a 240-W
charger that's in a pretty reasonable form factor for 240 W. Unfortunately,
it's a proprietary charger, but thankfully, you can charge via the other
USB-C ports on here if you are in a pinch. This generation is a bit more
minimal than previous ASUS ProArts. This ProArt kind of logo here used to make up
more of the back of the display, but now it is just relegated to a corner and a
tiny little modest ASUS ProArt logo.
It's pretty hefty. It's about 1.9 >> 1.9 kg or 4.2 lb, but it feels very,
very sturdy with its metal construction and um kind of a very fingerprinty lid,
but I'm also like a greasy a greasy green Grinch. In terms of thickness,
it's pretty reasonable. It's not chungus like some sort of gaming laptop. Since
we're looking at the side of it, let's walk through the IO. You have your DC
in, HDMI 2.1, a USB-C 40 gigabit per
second port, USB-A 10 gigabit, combo
audio jack, and there's a full-size SD card reader
that supports SD Express 7, so it's wicked fast, a USB-A 10 gigabit per
second, and a USB-C at 10 gigabit per second. Would have loved to see another
40 gigabit port on this side, but that's just the way it is. But, let's take a
look inside now. Ooh, that looks pretty
cool. On the inside we have a 10-keyless laptop keyboard with slightly cramped
arrow keys, but at least they didn't fill in these spots, so it could be
worse. We get upward-firing speakers, which is going to be really great for
listening to any sort of music or audio while you're creating. We also have this
large trackpad, or as ASUS calls it, the dial pad. You'll see this little
circle right here, which can act as like a jog wheel that you can assign different tasks in different pieces of
software. And this is where I guess where you turn it on and off. And of course we get the copilot button,
everyone's favorite. Reinforcing the sturdiness of how built this thing is,
there is like next to no keyboard flex. It is really great, and I think that the
keyboard itself feels pretty good.
Before we turn this thing on, I just want to remind you that it does come with a tandem OLED panel. That's right,
tandem, meaning multiple emitting layers, in this case two. It might not
mean a whole lot to you if you're just looking for the next spreadsheet workhorse to get you through the day,
but creators and professional users will certainly appreciate it. And we'll talk
more about that in just a little bit. But before we get into that, let's talk
about the rest of what's inside this laptop. In here we have an AMD Ryzen AI
9 370HX. Wow, that's a lot of letters, and it's
also a super powerful processor. And to
back that up we have 64 GB of LPDDR5X
memory running at 7,500 MT/s.
We also have a 2 TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD.
For storage in here we have two 2 TB SSDs. Both are 2280, that's full-sized
M.2 SSDs. One caveat is that one of them is running at Gen4 by 4, and one of them
is running at Gen4 by 2. So, if you're doing like a really big transfer, you
might see like a really small hit to performance, but it probably shouldn't
be too noticeable most of the time. And for the GPU we have an NVIDIA RTX 5090
laptop. This is going to be a beast of a
laptop. And look at the screen. It is
very pretty. Now, let's talk about this display. The
16-in display on this is an actual 16-in, it's not 15.9, and it is a 4K
tandem OLED display. What does that mean? Basically, it provides extra
brightness without having to drive as much power through your display, so that
reduces the risk of burning over time, and also creates a very bright image.
This thing has a peak brightness of 1,600
nits in HDR. That's dumb. And it's also very bright
in SDR. We'll talk a little bit more about the display testing in just a
moment, but this thing we recorded 691
nits at SDR. That's super bright. You'll also get a 120 Hz
refresh rate and a speedy 0.2 ms gray-to-gray response time, making it
great for gaming, movies, and other fast-paced tasks beyond content
creation. Naturally, with this being a creator-focused laptop, the display is
going to have great color performance. It's very color accurate and has 100%
coverage of the DCI-P3 color space, and it's certified VESA
DisplayHDR True Black 1000, which is the
highest certification level available from VESA. And the display is Pantone
color validated. So, if you're somebody who's doing design or working in across
different mediums, you can trust that like what you see on this laptop will
reflect what you're going to see IRL. And what I'm seeing IRL is the webcam on
the top here, and Windows Hello, love to
see it, and let's take a look at the webcam right now. The webcam on here is
full HD, and it's pretty serviceable. I might be a little
bit washed out in this lighting, um, and there's a little bit of grain,
but it's handling the, uh, brighter lights in the back as
well as the differential from my hand stuff pretty well. I would, um,
I would have no complaints to use this as just any sort of laptop webcam. It's pretty
okay. I don't know how the mic sound, I guess you will be able to hear that, and
let us know in the comments. Speaking of how it sounds, let's listen to the speakers.
This is 100% volume.
It's okay. They're pretty good. I've been so impressed by everything else on this laptop that I'm like the slightest
bit disappointed by the speakers, but for laptop speakers, they're still
easily on the upper half of the ones I've heard. Like they're they're good.
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
we're running at full 4K resolution and this 5090 laptop, one, it's making the
fans scream. It is loud here right now,
but it's also managing like 40 to 60 FPS depending on the scene and the HDR in
the game looks so good. Like look at that guy. Damn.
Now, this thing is a top-of-the-line laptop packed to the brim with top-of-the-line hardware, but
high-quality OLED panels aren't just in these high-end laptops. Talk a little
bit more about that later. In the intro, I was talking about how premium form
factors often make some sort of compromise. There is no ventilation on
the top side of the laptop. Oftentimes, manufacturers will put ventilation like
kind of right here along the screen. It feels like there is nothing.
All of the intake is here, outtake is down here. It's a lot of heat that it
has to manage with just a little bit of space. But
man, look at it. What are you running at for temps,
though? 97 on the CPU now. That's um
That's pretty toasty and it's pretty loud. It would be worth considering getting a dock. Let's take a look at
some of the games that Labs tested. In Cyberpunk at 1,200 p medium settings,
we're seeing the 5090 pulling a whopping 120 FPS average with 96 in the lows.
When we up the resolution, we're seeing closer to 100 to 86, but still quite
impressive performance on a laptop. In F1 24 at 1,200 p high, this thing is
screaming at 173 average FPS and it stays screaming even at a higher
resolution. Honestly, across the board, this is a powerful laptop and if you
want to get some gaming done, you're not going to have too many problems except
for maybe some of those thermals. And that excellent performance translates into our Puget Bench Suite of creative
workloads like Photoshop, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve. All great performance
from this laptop. In summary, this laptop is freaking powerful. But, I'm
not really the target demographic. Let's get a perspective from somebody who
actually does a lot of creative work, like one of our editors.
My name is Peter and I'm an editor here at ShortCircuit. Sometimes. Sometimes
I'm also an editor on LTT. Uh you know, it depends on the day. And today I'm
going to be talking about editing on the ASUS ProArt P16. So, uh yeah, let's get
into it. Okay, so we will set up a project, I guess. All right, we're going
to move this onto the internal drive.
I'm reading 263 MB per second. That's pretty fast, actually. And that's
because it has a 985 MB per second SD
Express 7.0 card reader. So, this SD card actually reads at 300 MB. So, we're
almost getting the full 300 MB on this SD card. Most SD card like dongles, USB
dongles, or at least the ones I have, they actually only read up to like 90 MB
per second sometimes. So, that's actually really fast and really nice to
offload footage. The screen's actually really nice, too. Is it OLED? It is.
It's an OLED. Tandem OLED. Wow. I mean, even just Premiere looks so nice. I
mean, I've never seen these grays so gray. I mean, playback's really good.
This is just 4K footage, 30 FPS. Okay, we're going to open up Lumetri and we're
going to actually put some color on this. We're just going to slap the Alexa
LUT on there. That's not what we do for our videos. I mean, the colors on this
look great. This is half quality and it's looking pretty good. It's a little blue. I think
that's just from the LUT. Cuz the LUT is just a table and it just changes all the
colors. But, for a preview, this is pretty good. Like, from what I can see,
like, I don't see any crazy like hue shift or anything. My screen at home, it
has a pretty big like red shift. I've already tried to like fix that, but it's
kind of tough without like a color calibrator and stuff. So, having something right out of the box is
actually really useful. It's definitely playing really well, like and there's no
lag when I press the play button. Like it's pretty instantaneous. Um I mean,
these files aren't humongous, but just to preview the render here, it's like
about a 2-minute clip and it's rendering like
full res previews at like I guess it'll take about 30 seconds here is what it
looks like. It's pretty good. Uh so, here it is in After Effects. So, After
Effects actually renders it like out frame by frame when you press play. So,
it's pretty good. I mean, that's not real-time as you can see in this top
right. It's about 16 frames uh per second instead of 30 frames per second,
but I mean, that's at full res. I
usually have to downsample. Even at half quality, it's like 20 FPS, which is
still pretty good. Also, totally random thought, but the keyboard was actually
really nice. Like there's actually a lot of travel. So, I'm going to try it out really quick.
It's pretty quiet. It doesn't click that much. It actually has a fair bit of
travel and honestly, I don't know. I'm trying to roto something. It is just
it's gone crazy. I haven't even been paying attention. I've just been pressing buttons. But I think it looks
good. So, what does Labs say? When it comes to display performance, the Labs
tested almost 700 nits peak in SDR and
over 1,600 nits peak in HDR up to a 10%
window size. Genuinely impressive. As for color accuracy, SDR is great in both
sRGB, DCI-P3, and display P3 modes with
a Delta E2000 average of less than one for their respective targets. HDR
measured an average Delta EITP of 27 and
a max of almost 33 with the display brightness set to 100% and setting the
HDR content slider to 100. However, if you turn your display brightness down
just a bit to 90% reducing the display brightness overall by less than 20 nits,
this thing got way better measuring Delta E ITP average of just over 10 and
a max of almost 16 thanks to the slightly better EOTF tracking. Not too
shabby. Anyways, back to you, Adam. Thank you, editor,
and sorry in advance. Let's talk about battery life now. This thing, very
powerful, but also has a large 90 watt hour battery. It's not the biggest
battery you can cram in a laptop, but it is pretty big, and it does allow the
laptop to get 7 hours and 40 minutes of video playback in our tests. It's pretty
good, but in heavier workloads, you're going to want to have this thing plugged
in still. With all that in mind, what is there to say about the ASUS ProArt?
Well, it is a high-end premium laptop
that's built really nicely, performs
crazy well, and being a high-end premium product, it has a high-end price. The
5090 variant that we're looking at costs a whopping $4,499,
which, if this is something that you need to make money, could make a ton of
sense for you. But, if maybe you don't need all of that power, you could
consider the 5070 variant that comes in at $3,000 instead, which is a big price
difference, and remember, you get all of the other awesome features of this. You
still get the dial pad, the great display, a great CPU. Something to
consider. Thanks to Samsung Display for sponsoring this video. They've been
expanding their OLED lineup to make sure that everybody is going to get a chance
to experience the amazing OLED technology at a variety of different
price points. For example, you might have seen some benchmarks of the P16
against an ASUS VivoBook S16 earlier. That's because we were sent one of
those, too. Just to show an example that even in a more affordable model, this
one isn't available anymore, but it went for around 1,200 USD, you can still get
the OLED advantage of blacker blacks and higher color coverage. For more
information about OLED technology, check out the links in the description, and
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