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-watt charger
that's in a pretty reasonable form factor for 240 watts.
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 one point time kilograms or 4.2 pounds,
but it feels very, very sturdy
with its metal construction and kind of a very fingerprinty lid,
but I'm also like a greasy, greasy green grinch. In terms of thickness, it's pretty reasonable.
It's not chungust like some sort of gaming laptop. Since we're looking at the side of it,
let's walk through the I-O. You have your DC-in, HDMI 2.1,
a USB-C 40 gigabit per second port, USB-A 10 gigabit combo audio jack,
it is a full-sized SD card reader that supports SD Express 7,
so it's wicked fast, a USB-A 10 gigabit per second, and a USB-C 10 gigabit per second.
Would've 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 gonna 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 we turn it on and off.
And of course, we get the co-pilot button. Everyone's favorite. Reinforcing the sturdiness of how built this thing is,
there's 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 wanna remind you that it does come with a tandem OLED panel.
That's right, tandem, meaning multiple emitting layers,
in this case too. 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, creators and professional users were certainly appreciated,
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 AI9 370HX.
Wow, that's a lot of letters, and it's also a super powerful processor.
And to back that up, we have 64 gigabytes of LPDDR5X memory
running at 7,500 megatransfers per second. We also have a two terabyte PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD.
For storage in here, we have two two terabyte SSDs.
Both are 2280, that's full sized M.2 SSDs.
One caveat is that one of them is running at Gen4 by four,
and one of them is running at Gen4 by two. 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.
Look at the screen, it is very pretty.
Now let's talk about this display. The 16 inch display on this is an actual 16 inch,
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 burn in over time, and also creates a very bright image.
This thing has a peak brightness of 1600 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 Hertz refresh rate
and a speedy 0.2 millisecond 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 Display HDR 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 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 of 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
and there's a little bit of grain, but it's handling the brighter lights in the back
as well as the differential from my hands have pretty well. 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 these 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 this light is a 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 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 1590 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. We're running out of temps though.
97 on the CPU now. 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 1200p 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 F124 at 1200p 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 wanna get some gaming done, you're not gonna have too many problems
except for maybe some of those thermals. And that excellent performance transits 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 fricking 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. You know, it depends on the day.
And today I'm gonna be talking about editing on the ASUS ProArt P16.
So yeah, let's get into it. Okay, so we will set up a project I guess.
All right, we're gonna move this onto the internal drive.
I'm reading 263 megabytes per second. That's pretty fast actually.
And that's because it has a 985 megabyte per second
SD Express 7.0 card reader. So this SD card actually reads at 300 megabytes.
So we're almost getting the full 300 megabytes 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 megabytes
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? Is it a tandem 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 through the FPS. Okay, we're gonna open up Lumetri
and we're gonna actually put some color on this. We're just gonna 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. So 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, I don't see any crazy hue shift or anything.
My screen at home, it has a pretty big red shift. I've already tried to fix that,
but it's kind of tough without a color calibrator and stuff. So having something right out of the box
is actually really useful. It's definitely playing really well.
And there's no lag when I press the play button. It's pretty instantaneous.
I mean, these files aren't humongous, but just to preview the render here,
it's about a two 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.
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 per second
instead of 30 frames per second. But I mean, that's at full res.
I usually have to down sample. 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 1600 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 E 2000 average of less than one for their respective targets.
HDR measured an average Delta E ITP 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 could cram in the laptop, but it is pretty big
and it does allow the laptop to get seven hours and 40 minutes of video playback in our tests.
It's pretty good, but in heavier workloads, you're gonna wanna 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 gonna 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,
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