i can see the product development meeting now
no one's buying AMD laptops because they're slow
but everyone likes AMD ryzen desktops
with lots of processing cores
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with its black back panel and red accent lighting the ASUS
zcc looks mean but not in an
over-the-top gamery way and opening it up immediately reveals the stars of the
show a ryzen 7 CPU and Radeon graphics
processor that make this the first all
AMD gaming notebook that we've seen in
many years or not i think of it ever
and it's no slouch the ryzen 7 1700
eight core 16 thread processor boosts to up to 3.7 gigahertz the rx 580 is a very
competent GPU for 1080p gaming the 16
gigs of RAM out of the box and the ample
i o that comes with the territory of a large and in charge 17-inch machine like
this one make the gl 702 zc on paper one
of the most compelling gaming slash workstation pcs that we've ever seen but
i'm sure what everyone is wondering right now is
can they keep all of that cool and the answer is hell yeah
for a while 3.2 gigahertz under synthetic load the
temps well they just kept on rising
at five minutes we hit 80 degrees celsius after 10 we were above 90 and
then after 20 minutes it seemed to level off but at 95 degrees and while still
remaining super quiet for some reason maybe ASUS needs to do some fan curve
tuning here once my CPU is over 90 degrees i don't care if it sounds like a
typhoon it needs some tlc
tender love and cooling and remember our testing was done in a climate controlled
room all of that being said we were impressed
to see any laptop maintain 3.2 gigahertz
on 8 cores so to find out how this kind of grunt
compares to a more traditional Intel 4 core laptop we put it up against the
ASUS g503 vm a similarly priced
15-incher that packs an Intel core i7 7700 hq and an NVIDIA gtx 1060.
firing up cinebench we wow oh wow just wow that's some savage
destruction of i mean not just our comparison laptop
all laptops by a lot even beasts like ASUS's 6 000
water cooled gx 800 and the acer
predator 21x are no match for the
multi-threaded prowess of the gl702 zcc
and the theme continues in other CPU focused tests like 7zip and blender
it's not all amazing though in rendering tasks that can take advantage of the GPU
the gap narrows somewhat with the gl702 zcc still taking a convincing lead
though and then when we move from compute to graphics the rx 580 just
can't quite keep up with the gtx 1060 no
matter how hard it tries which judging by the sound of the fans
while gaming was pretty hard
in 3dmark it loses out by a bit to the 1060 and then in actual games the gl702
zc consistently loses although not by much to its smaller green and blue
brother not that those couple of frames will probably be noticeable in actual
gameplay but there's more to life than FPS anyway
if you run out and buy a gl702cc today that's our AMD version here it's
both heavier and thicker than the Intel NVIDIA version and honestly the 702
didn't light any exciting fires for us at this price in general the keyboard is
not amazing it does have a numpad if you're into that and after typing for a
bit getting up to speed accurately won't be a big challenge but it's a bit mushy
feeling and pretty much the same can be said for the trackpad it's serviceable
but uninteresting and the same goes for the screen it is ips so viewing angles
brightness and colors were all suitably adequate
and freesync is a boon for improved gaming smoothness at low frame rates but
60 hertz screens are better suited for laptops that don't have to go up against
120 hertz models at a similar price in
esports titles this amounts to a big difference in the gaming experience
moving on to the webcam it's not bad by laptop standards but it's unexceptional
especially in low light and you might want the light low since you'll be doing
everything you can to conserve the battery like
there's bad and then there's one hour and 22 minutes until all the
electrons have escaped bad to be clear the performance while it's
doing it is good but this still puts the 702 zc on the
worst battery life we've ever seen in pc
mark's test podium okay so that last bit was a bit of a
downer there's more good stuff though opening
up the gl702 zcc you are greeted with surprising upgradeability there's an
empty RAM slot non-soldered solid-state storage and a
two and a half inch bay and and a mother freaking full-sized desktop am4
socket now we can't guarantee that ASUS will
provide BIOS updates but AMD has confirmed am4 support until 2020 so it's
possible pretty unlikely but possible
that you could have top-tier AMD CPU performance for years to come
with all that being said we're not that into buying this thing as a gaming
laptop it's competent at gaming but if that's what you plan on doing there are
better options right now with that said we see the gl702 zcc with its
unprecedented multi-threaded performance as more of a
powerhouse-on-a-budget mobile workstation
that can also game on the side and in time we're really excited to see what
other ryzen 7 designs make their way to the market i mean maybe with a more
powerful NVIDIA GPU or mobile vega
gmd we could see the ultimate streaming
laptop only time will tell
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