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give me a bit more time here this is the biggest on package GPU that I have ever seen in a PC here let me put this in context for you okay this is a kraken point a ryzen AI 300 processor that has eight CPU cores and eight rdna 3.5 GPU cores and all of the io integrated into that one D this whole thing is smaller than just the GPU and IOD die that's on that ryzen AI Max Plus 395 which by the way has a whopping 40 GPU cores in it and somehow Asus has this thing running it up to 80 watts in this tiny gaming tablet form factor I assume 80 watts is going to be kind of loud but who knows maybe they'll surprise me let's give it a shot shockingly they didn't put any restrictions on me in terms of what games we could play so obviously I chose black myth Wukong and they even let me dial in the settings myself so I'll show you guys what we're running at we've got the panel set to the native 2560 x600 then we've turned our rendering resolution to about 1080p but not 1080p low or medium I'm talking 1080p high and guys check this out I'm not allowed to have an FPS counter but what I can tell you guys is that this is well above 60 FPS on a device this slim using integrated Graphics to achieve this took some doing though the vapor chamber got changed from copper to stainless steel so it's the same effectiveness at moving the heat but less weight and less dissipation of that heat internally before it can be expelled outside now it's not the quietest thing in the world in fact I bet you can even hear it on the trade show floor but the fact that it's doing this at all pretty cool and using Armory crate which is conveniently accessible with this nice new button here we can actually change our performance profile on the fly so I'm running in Turbo right now which isn't even the maximum but I'm not going to turn it to Max yet first I actually want to try silent which is 28 watts and see what we can get here okay now we're looking at something that's probably closer to about 25 FPS but here let me pop into the menu again let's turn her down to medium where now that's more like a smooth 30 if I had to guess maybe 35 onboard Graphics okay let's try 80 Watts now to do that though the software is still early I've got to come out here I've got to go into manual I don't know turbo M nope that button doesn't work okay so let's just let's just crank it woo all right save and apply oh wow we are overclocked fing yes I understand the risk the risk is the one working machine in their Booth can die whoa that fans's going now boys oh did I even mention the RGB yet look at that so cute oh now she's smooth dude okay let's turn it back up very high perhaps W current settings exceed the recommended settings and may lead to Performance issues oh yeah well that's very stressful let's go back to high there we go okay bottom line this thing is sick but there's more to getting this kind of performance than just adding more GPU cores for the first time ever I just gamed on a laptop chip with a quad Channel lpddr 5x memory controller that means up to double the raw bandwidth compared to dual Channel which is especially important for high performance onboard graphics and gets even better this machine right here can be equipped with up to 128 gigs of RAM massive right get better than that 128 gigs of RAM that can be reallocated as needed so if you wanted to run large AI models or let's call them moderate sized AI models on device you can fire up Armory crate and then push your high-speed system memory over to the GPU what a time to be alive surely there must be a compromise right I don't know find having a hard time finding it the screen looks great 180 HZ th000 to1 contrast no HDR unfortunately but you do get USB 4 dual front-facing speakers stylus support and even the keyboard feels really good considering that it's a folio but all right Lon is fair enough onboard Graphics is still onboard Graphics show me the RTX 5000 gpus I will but first an industry lingo update as you may know every 50 Series laptop will have the GPU solder directly to the motherboard but not just any GPU can go on just any motherboard and the biggest factor that impacts this is whether the laptop design is made to accommodate board 1 or board 2 board 1 gpus include the mobile versions of the RTX 570 TI 580 and 590 while board 2 covers the 5070 and below so depending on which board a laptop chassis was designed for you might see high-end vapor chamber cooling or more basic heat pipes you might also see a difference in thickness to accommodate the greater thermal output of higher-end board one gpus confused yet great making matters more complicated there is no hard and fast rule for the power envelope of these new gpus so there will be a wide range in the real world performance of say a 5070 TI depending on how much cooling and how much power you can deliver to it so in summary four fact impact gaming performance in these 50 Series Laptops the board it's designed for the GPU die that is soldered to that package the power delivery that's built into the motherboard and the thermal design all need to be optimized to get the most possible FPS with that in mind then let's throw to one that seems to be quite optimized was I not holding a mic the whole time check these out we've got the strix scar 16 and strix Scar 18 both are equipped with up to a core ultr 9 275x up to 64 gigs of user upgradable ddr5 and a panone certified 2560 x600 nebula HDR mini LED display at 240 HZ with up to 1200 nits Peak brightness dang I mean even the back of these things looks good check this out meanwhile Apple can't even manage to bring back the glowing logo pathetic both of these machines can be configured with up to an RTX 59 Mobile in its maximum power configuration of 175 WTS game on it yeah we asked NVIDIA is not letting anyone do that but here's what we can do we can all imagine together you guys imagining right now good because realistically with mobile 590 starting at $28.99 USD which I promise you this one will cost more than that that might be all most of us are going to do has a bunch more cool stuff though sick keyboard giant trackpad all around RGB lighting with woo dual Thunderbolt five ports and a redesigned thermal solution that intakes air all across the bottom of the machine and then blasts it out of this gigantic heat exchanger at the back maybe we can at least open it and show you here before anyone stops me let me just take out my Precision screwdriver set from LTT Store.com no way I don't even need it a toolless bottom latch on a laptop it's that fast check this out 90w hour battery dual Gen 5 SSD slots and there it is those upgradeable sodium slots we focused on the 16 because the 18 is almost the same bigger display obviously and a number pad and a bit more space for the speaker drivers so it ends up sounding a bit better that's about it now it's time to check out the redheaded stepchild of this generation strix G I mean the Intel version looks pretty sick but the AMD version has AMD's new fire range mobile processors which look nuts with up to 16 full fat Zen 5 cores add up to 55 Watts there's even a 3D vcash variant that should be the fastest mobile gaming CPU on the planet which makes it all the more disappointing that the GPU maxes out at a 570 TI I mean look I know this is sponsored or whatever Asus but what the heck those of you listening closely will know that the 57 ETI is board one so a 5090 would be pined compatible with the motherboard why not make that available ah well those of you who were listening even closer will know that power delivery and thermal design also play a major role in GPU compatibility and this motherboard wasn't built with enough for the bigger chips it also has a non-HDR display smaller trackpad Etc which is a shame because I'd like to see fire range get the proper high-end laptop treatments maybe in the future finally it's time for the machine I'm probably most excited about see I've been really enjoying my Snapdragon X Elite you know great battery life and all that but I'm hungry for something with some gaming oomph and the zephrus G14 looking kind of sick this generation it's the same great chassis we know and love but now with a strix point CPU and a slightly more betterer chassis to love even more see there's a board 2 version that is going to be able to support up to a 5070 and a board one version that is a little thicker than before like a millimeter plus that'll do up to a 5080 I'll be it at just 110 Watts it also launches alongside a new XG mobile that is both very exciting and also a bit of a kick in the teeth to the customers who previous ly bought into the XG mobile ecosystem on the one hand Thunderbolt 5 looks like it is going to fuel a Reawakening for external gpus according to Asus only about 60 gbits of the 80 gbits is directly available for GPU data transfer which is actually lower than the previous XG mobile which is PCI direct but on the other hand being Thunderbolt means better hot swap support and broader compatibility including backwards compatibility it's just that ditching the old standard leaves anyone who bought an old zephrus or a first gen Ally high and dry for ausa's part there is still something they can do I've already seen some Community efforts to reverse engineer the XG mobile connector but a step further would be to just open source the bloody thing and give these folks an upgrade path it would be a great PR move and it would go a long way towards showing that you really care about your customers in the long term just like I care about you guys watching some more of our CES coverage this year I'd strongly recommend starting with our summary of AMD's keynote which has some more information on their incredible ryzen AI Max and fire range CPUs"}