1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,120 Premium laptops have this problem that really annoys me. 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:06,640 They come with super high-end hardware, but then they put them in a form factor 3 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:10,760 that's thin and light, which, you know, that's cool. But it really kind of defeats the purpose 4 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:15,880 of having that super powerful hardware inside. That's why I really enjoy the ASUS ProArt lineup 5 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:20,640 because it really finds the right mix of premium feeling laptop, 6 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:23,840 premium looking laptop, and premium performance laptop, 7 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:28,800 which is why I'm excited Samsung Display sponsored this video so we can take a look at the ASUS ProArt 16, 8 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:34,360 which features their gorgeous new tandem OLED that Samsung claims will blow your typical LCD screens 9 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:38,480 out of the water. Oh man, even the chargers look cool on the ProArt stuff. 10 00:00:38,480 --> 00:00:44,280 They really go all out on the design front. In the box, we get a 240-watt charger 11 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:48,600 that's in a pretty reasonable form factor for 240 watts. 12 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:53,360 Unfortunately, it's a proprietary charger, but thankfully you can charge via the other USB-C ports 13 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:56,680 on here if you are in a pinch. This generation is a bit more minimal 14 00:00:56,680 --> 00:01:00,480 than previous ASUS ProArts. This ProArt kind of logo here used to make up 15 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:03,600 more of the back of the display, but now it is just relegated to a corner 16 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:06,880 and a tiny little modest ASUS ProArt logo. 17 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:11,880 It's pretty hefty. It's about one point time kilograms or 4.2 pounds, 18 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:15,240 but it feels very, very sturdy 19 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:19,720 with its metal construction and kind of a very fingerprinty lid, 20 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:24,760 but I'm also like a greasy, greasy green grinch. In terms of thickness, it's pretty reasonable. 21 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:28,240 It's not chungust like some sort of gaming laptop. Since we're looking at the side of it, 22 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:33,360 let's walk through the I-O. You have your DC-in, HDMI 2.1, 23 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:39,600 a USB-C 40 gigabit per second port, USB-A 10 gigabit combo audio jack, 24 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:44,240 it is a full-sized SD card reader that supports SD Express 7, 25 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:49,880 so it's wicked fast, a USB-A 10 gigabit per second, and a USB-C 10 gigabit per second. 26 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:53,520 Would've loved to see another 40 gigabit port on this side, 27 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:57,580 but that's just the way it is. But let's take a look inside now. 28 00:01:57,580 --> 00:02:01,820 Ooh, that looks pretty cool. On the inside, we have a 10-keyless laptop keyboard 29 00:02:01,820 --> 00:02:05,820 with slightly cramped arrow keys, but at least they didn't fill in these spots, 30 00:02:05,820 --> 00:02:09,060 so it could be worse. We get upward-firing speakers, 31 00:02:09,060 --> 00:02:13,060 which is gonna be really great for listening to any sort of music or audio while you're creating. 32 00:02:13,060 --> 00:02:16,780 We also have this large trackpad, or as ASUS calls it, the dial pad. 33 00:02:16,780 --> 00:02:20,500 You'll see this little circle right here, which can act as like a jog wheel 34 00:02:20,500 --> 00:02:25,140 that you can assign different tasks in different pieces of software, and this is where I guess we turn it on and off. 35 00:02:25,140 --> 00:02:30,460 And of course, we get the co-pilot button. Everyone's favorite. Reinforcing the sturdiness of how built this thing is, 36 00:02:30,460 --> 00:02:34,620 there's like next to no keyboard flex. It is really great, 37 00:02:34,620 --> 00:02:39,220 and I think that the keyboard itself feels pretty good. 38 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:43,940 Before we turn this thing on, I just wanna remind you that it does come with a tandem OLED panel. 39 00:02:43,940 --> 00:02:47,180 That's right, tandem, meaning multiple emitting layers, 40 00:02:47,180 --> 00:02:51,260 in this case too. It might not mean a whole lot to you if you're just looking for the next spreadsheet workhorse 41 00:02:51,260 --> 00:02:54,780 to get you through the day, creators and professional users were certainly appreciated, 42 00:02:54,780 --> 00:02:58,220 and we'll talk more about that in just a little bit. But before we get into that, 43 00:02:58,220 --> 00:03:05,460 let's talk about the rest of what's inside this laptop. In here, we have an AMD Ryzen AI9 370HX. 44 00:03:05,460 --> 00:03:09,440 Wow, that's a lot of letters, and it's also a super powerful processor. 45 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:14,260 And to back that up, we have 64 gigabytes of LPDDR5X memory 46 00:03:14,260 --> 00:03:20,380 running at 7,500 megatransfers per second. We also have a two terabyte PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD. 47 00:03:20,380 --> 00:03:23,740 For storage in here, we have two two terabyte SSDs. 48 00:03:23,740 --> 00:03:27,260 Both are 2280, that's full sized M.2 SSDs. 49 00:03:27,260 --> 00:03:30,660 One caveat is that one of them is running at Gen4 by four, 50 00:03:30,660 --> 00:03:34,980 and one of them is running at Gen4 by two. So if you're doing like a really big transfer, 51 00:03:34,980 --> 00:03:38,860 you might see like a really small hit to performance, but it probably shouldn't be too noticeable 52 00:03:38,860 --> 00:03:43,200 most of the time. And for the GPU, we have an NVIDIA RTX 5090 laptop. 53 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,460 This is going to be a beast of a laptop. 54 00:03:46,620 --> 00:03:50,660 Look at the screen, it is very pretty. 55 00:03:50,660 --> 00:03:55,460 Now let's talk about this display. The 16 inch display on this is an actual 16 inch, 56 00:03:55,460 --> 00:03:59,220 it's not 15.9, and it is a 4K tandem OLED display. 57 00:03:59,220 --> 00:04:04,460 What does that mean? Basically it provides extra brightness without having to drive as much power through your display, 58 00:04:04,460 --> 00:04:09,860 so that reduces the risk of burn in over time, and also creates a very bright image. 59 00:04:09,860 --> 00:04:14,860 This thing has a peak brightness of 1600 nits in HDR. 60 00:04:15,820 --> 00:04:18,980 That's dumb. And it's also very bright in SDR. 61 00:04:18,980 --> 00:04:21,980 We'll talk a little bit more about the display testing in just a moment, 62 00:04:21,980 --> 00:04:26,500 but this thing we recorded 691 nits at SDR. 63 00:04:26,500 --> 00:04:30,260 That's super bright. You'll also get a 120 Hertz refresh rate 64 00:04:30,260 --> 00:04:33,580 and a speedy 0.2 millisecond gray to gray response time, 65 00:04:33,580 --> 00:04:37,940 making it great for gaming, movies and other fast paced tasks beyond content creation. 66 00:04:37,940 --> 00:04:42,580 Naturally, with this being a creator focused laptop, the display is going to have great color performance. 67 00:04:42,580 --> 00:04:47,500 It's very color accurate and has 100% coverage of the DCI-P3 color space. 68 00:04:47,500 --> 00:04:51,060 And it's certified VESA Display HDR True Black 1000, 69 00:04:51,060 --> 00:04:54,700 which is the highest certification level available from VESA. 70 00:04:54,700 --> 00:04:57,700 And the display is Pantone color validated. 71 00:04:57,700 --> 00:05:00,820 So if you're somebody who's doing design or working across different mediums, 72 00:05:00,820 --> 00:05:05,940 you can trust that like what you see on this laptop will reflect what you're going to see IRL. 73 00:05:05,940 --> 00:05:08,940 And what I'm seeing IRL is the webcam on the top of here 74 00:05:08,940 --> 00:05:12,020 and Windows Hello. Love to see it. 75 00:05:12,020 --> 00:05:15,740 And let's take a look at the webcam right now. The webcam on here is full HD 76 00:05:15,740 --> 00:05:21,300 and it's pretty serviceable. I might be a little bit washed out in this lighting 77 00:05:21,300 --> 00:05:26,940 and there's a little bit of grain, but it's handling the brighter lights in the back 78 00:05:26,940 --> 00:05:32,700 as well as the differential from my hands have pretty well. I would have no complaints to use this 79 00:05:32,700 --> 00:05:36,300 as just any sort of laptop webcam. It's pretty okay. 80 00:05:36,300 --> 00:05:40,580 I don't know how the mic sound. I guess you will be able to hear that and let us know in the comments. 81 00:05:40,580 --> 00:05:45,580 Speaking of how it sounds, let's listen to these speakers. This is 100% volume. 82 00:05:45,580 --> 00:05:46,580 It's okay. 83 00:05:56,020 --> 00:05:59,900 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 84 00:05:59,900 --> 00:06:04,900 by the speakers, but for laptop speakers, they're still easily on the upper half of the ones I've heard. 85 00:06:04,900 --> 00:06:07,980 Like they're good. Want to play a game or something? Yeah, I'd love to play a game. 86 00:06:07,980 --> 00:06:13,580 I'd love to play a game. We're in cyberpunk and we're running at full 4K resolution and this 1590 laptop, 87 00:06:13,580 --> 00:06:18,260 one, it's making the fans scream. It is loud here right now, 88 00:06:18,260 --> 00:06:22,060 but it's also managing like 40 to 60 FPS depending on the scene. 89 00:06:22,060 --> 00:06:27,060 And the HDR in the game looks so good. 90 00:06:27,420 --> 00:06:31,020 Like look at that guy, damn. Now this thing is a top of the line laptop 91 00:06:31,020 --> 00:06:34,540 packed to the brim with top of the line hardware, but high quality OLED panels 92 00:06:34,540 --> 00:06:38,100 aren't just in these high end laptops. Talk a little bit more about that later. 93 00:06:38,100 --> 00:06:43,100 In the intro, I was talking about how premium form factors often make some sort of compromise. 94 00:06:43,100 --> 00:06:46,700 There is no ventilation on the top side of the laptop. 95 00:06:46,700 --> 00:06:50,140 Oftentimes manufacturers will put ventilation like kind of right here along the screen. 96 00:06:50,140 --> 00:06:55,780 It feels like there is nothing. All of the intake is here, outtake is down here. 97 00:06:55,780 --> 00:07:00,420 It's a lot of heat that it has to manage with just a little bit of space. 98 00:07:00,420 --> 00:07:03,980 But man, look at it. We're running out of temps though. 99 00:07:03,980 --> 00:07:09,540 97 on the CPU now. That's pretty toasty and it's pretty loud. 100 00:07:09,540 --> 00:07:13,940 It would be worth considering getting a dock. Let's take a look at some of the games that Labs tested. 101 00:07:13,940 --> 00:07:19,780 In Cyberpunk at 1200p medium settings, we're seeing the 5090 pulling a whopping 120 FPS average 102 00:07:19,780 --> 00:07:22,820 with 96 in the lows. When we up the resolution, 103 00:07:22,820 --> 00:07:27,900 we're seeing closer to 100 to 86, but still quite impressive performance on a laptop. 104 00:07:27,900 --> 00:07:33,540 In F124 at 1200p high, this thing is screaming at 173 average FPS 105 00:07:33,540 --> 00:07:38,780 and it stays screaming even at a higher resolution. Honestly, across the board, this is a powerful laptop 106 00:07:38,780 --> 00:07:42,780 and if you wanna get some gaming done, you're not gonna have too many problems 107 00:07:42,780 --> 00:07:48,380 except for maybe some of those thermals. And that excellent performance transits into our Puget Bench suite of creative workloads 108 00:07:48,380 --> 00:07:52,900 like Photoshop, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve. All great performance from this laptop. 109 00:07:52,900 --> 00:07:56,480 In summary, this laptop is fricking powerful. 110 00:07:56,480 --> 00:08:00,860 But I'm not really the target demographic. Let's get a perspective from somebody 111 00:08:00,860 --> 00:08:04,360 who actually does a lot of creative work, like one of our editors. 112 00:08:05,820 --> 00:08:09,620 My name is Peter and I'm an editor here at ShortCircuit, sometimes. 113 00:08:09,620 --> 00:08:13,100 Sometimes I'm also an editor on LTT. You know, it depends on the day. 114 00:08:13,100 --> 00:08:17,100 And today I'm gonna be talking about editing on the ASUS ProArt P16. 115 00:08:17,100 --> 00:08:21,900 So yeah, let's get into it. Okay, so we will set up a project I guess. 116 00:08:21,900 --> 00:08:26,100 All right, we're gonna move this onto the internal drive. 117 00:08:26,100 --> 00:08:30,480 I'm reading 263 megabytes per second. That's pretty fast actually. 118 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:34,980 And that's because it has a 985 megabyte per second 119 00:08:35,260 --> 00:08:39,460 SD Express 7.0 card reader. So this SD card actually reads at 300 megabytes. 120 00:08:39,460 --> 00:08:45,020 So we're almost getting the full 300 megabytes on this SD card. Most SD card like dongles, USB dongles, 121 00:08:45,020 --> 00:08:49,620 or at least the ones I have, they actually only read up to like 90 megabytes 122 00:08:49,620 --> 00:08:54,060 per second sometimes. So that's actually really fast and really nice to offload footage. 123 00:08:54,060 --> 00:08:57,300 The screen's actually really nice too. Is it OLED? Is it a tandem OLED? 124 00:08:57,300 --> 00:09:01,020 Tandem OLED. Wow. I mean, even just Premiere looks so nice. 125 00:09:01,020 --> 00:09:05,020 I mean, I've never seen these grays so gray. I mean, playback's really good. 126 00:09:05,020 --> 00:09:09,500 This is just 4K footage through the FPS. Okay, we're gonna open up Lumetri 127 00:09:09,500 --> 00:09:14,260 and we're gonna actually put some color on this. We're just gonna slap the Alexa LUT on there. 128 00:09:14,260 --> 00:09:18,460 That's not what we do for our videos. I mean, the colors on this look great. 129 00:09:18,460 --> 00:09:21,980 This is half quality and it's looking pretty good. It's a little blue. 130 00:09:21,980 --> 00:09:24,980 I think that's just from the LUT. So the LUT is just a table 131 00:09:24,980 --> 00:09:28,660 and it just changes all the colors. But for a preview, this is pretty good. 132 00:09:28,660 --> 00:09:33,540 Like from what I can see, I don't see any crazy hue shift or anything. 133 00:09:33,540 --> 00:09:38,060 My screen at home, it has a pretty big red shift. I've already tried to fix that, 134 00:09:38,060 --> 00:09:42,300 but it's kind of tough without a color calibrator and stuff. So having something right out of the box 135 00:09:42,300 --> 00:09:45,660 is actually really useful. It's definitely playing really well. 136 00:09:45,660 --> 00:09:49,260 And there's no lag when I press the play button. It's pretty instantaneous. 137 00:09:49,260 --> 00:09:53,220 I mean, these files aren't humongous, but just to preview the render here, 138 00:09:53,220 --> 00:09:56,660 it's about a two minute clip 139 00:09:56,660 --> 00:10:00,620 and it's rendering like full res previews at like, 140 00:10:00,620 --> 00:10:03,780 I guess it'll take about 30 seconds here is what it looks like. It's pretty good. 141 00:10:03,780 --> 00:10:07,300 So here it is in After Effects. So After Effects actually renders it like out frame by frame 142 00:10:07,300 --> 00:10:11,340 when you press play. So it's pretty good. I mean, that's not real time. 143 00:10:11,340 --> 00:10:15,340 As you can see in this top right, it's about 16 frames per second 144 00:10:15,340 --> 00:10:19,960 instead of 30 frames per second. But I mean, that's at full res. 145 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:24,980 I usually have to down sample. Even at half quality, it's like 20 FPS, 146 00:10:24,980 --> 00:10:29,180 which is still pretty good. Also totally random thought, but the keyboard was actually really nice. 147 00:10:29,180 --> 00:10:32,060 Like there's actually a lot of travel. So I'm going to try it out really quick. 148 00:10:36,580 --> 00:10:40,980 It's pretty quiet. It doesn't click that much. It actually has a fair bit of travel and honestly, 149 00:10:40,980 --> 00:10:43,980 I don't know, I'm trying to roto something. It is just, it's gone crazy. 150 00:10:43,980 --> 00:10:47,180 I haven't even been paying attention. I've just been pressing buttons. But I think it looks good. 151 00:10:47,180 --> 00:10:50,620 So what does Labs say? When it comes to display performance, 152 00:10:50,620 --> 00:10:54,220 the Labs tested almost 700 nits peak in SDR 153 00:10:54,220 --> 00:10:59,660 and over 1600 nits peak in HDR, up to a 10% window size, genuinely impressive. 154 00:10:59,660 --> 00:11:06,100 As for color accuracy, SDR is great in both sRGB, DCI P3 and display P3 modes, 155 00:11:06,220 --> 00:11:10,780 with a Delta E 2000 average of less than one for their respective targets. 156 00:11:10,780 --> 00:11:14,500 HDR measured an average Delta E ITP of 27 157 00:11:14,500 --> 00:11:19,100 and a max of almost 33 with the display brightness set to 100% 158 00:11:19,100 --> 00:11:24,140 and setting the HDR content slider to 100. However, if you turn your display brightness down, 159 00:11:24,140 --> 00:11:28,260 just a bit to 90%, reducing the display brightness overall 160 00:11:28,260 --> 00:11:32,620 by less than 20 nits, this thing got way better. 161 00:11:32,620 --> 00:11:36,220 Measuring Delta E ITP average of just over 10 162 00:11:36,220 --> 00:11:43,460 and a max of almost 16, thanks to the slightly better EOTF tracking, not too shabby. 163 00:11:43,460 --> 00:11:48,180 Anyways, back to you Adam. Thank you editor and sorry in advance. 164 00:11:48,180 --> 00:11:51,220 Let's talk about battery life now. This thing, very powerful, 165 00:11:51,220 --> 00:11:54,420 but also has a large 90 watt hour battery. 166 00:11:54,420 --> 00:11:58,140 It's not the biggest battery you could cram in the laptop, but it is pretty big 167 00:11:58,140 --> 00:12:03,180 and it does allow the laptop to get seven hours and 40 minutes of video playback in our tests. 168 00:12:03,180 --> 00:12:08,220 It's pretty good, but in heavier workloads, you're gonna wanna have this thing plugged in still. 169 00:12:08,220 --> 00:12:13,980 With all that in mind, what is there to say about the ASUS ProArt? Well, it is a high-end premium laptop 170 00:12:13,980 --> 00:12:18,220 that's built really nicely, performs crazy well 171 00:12:18,220 --> 00:12:22,740 and being a high-end premium product, it has a high-end price. 172 00:12:22,740 --> 00:12:28,020 The 5090 variant that we're looking at costs a whopping $4,499, 173 00:12:28,020 --> 00:12:31,060 which if this is something that you need to make money, 174 00:12:31,060 --> 00:12:34,860 could make a ton of sense for you. But if maybe you don't need all of that power, 175 00:12:34,860 --> 00:12:39,560 you could consider the 5070 variant that comes in at $3,000 instead, 176 00:12:39,560 --> 00:12:44,520 which is a big price difference. And remember, you get all of the other awesome features of this. 177 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:49,260 You still get the dial pad, the great display, a great CPU, something to consider. 178 00:12:49,260 --> 00:12:53,420 Thanks to Samsung Display for sponsoring this video. They've been expanding their OLED lineup 179 00:12:53,420 --> 00:12:58,060 to make sure that everybody is gonna get a chance to experience the amazing OLED technology 180 00:12:58,060 --> 00:13:01,340 at a variety of different price points. For example, you might have seen some benchmarks 181 00:13:01,340 --> 00:13:04,660 of the P16 against an ASUS VivoBook S16 earlier. 182 00:13:04,660 --> 00:13:08,380 That's because we were sent one of those too, just to show an example that even in a more affordable model, 183 00:13:08,380 --> 00:13:12,400 this one isn't available anymore, but it went for around 1,200 USD, 184 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:17,100 you can still get the OLED advantage of blacker blacks and higher color coverage. 185 00:13:17,100 --> 00:13:20,620 For more information about OLED technology, check out the links in the description, 186 00:13:20,620 --> 00:13:24,300 and one more thank you to you for watching. 187 00:13:24,300 --> 00:13:27,340 If you like this ShortCircuit, why don't you watch another ShortCircuit? Subscribe to them. 188 00:13:27,340 --> 00:13:30,940 You'll get limitless numbers of short circuits, potentially. 189 00:13:30,940 --> 00:13:34,460 Why did you make that promise? 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