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on paper at least the ASUS zephrus g15 g503 looks like everything a modern laptop can be it's crazy fast relatively lightweight and it's built with the finest materials available it even looks really good I mean is this finally it the zero compromises gaming laptop yeah eh maybe it's also possible that ASUS left too much performance on the table in the name of thinness and sex appeal I mean that would be a compromise wouldn't it especially if somebody else did it better the zephrus G5 g503 leaves an excellent first impression doesn't it it's got a reinforced magnesium chassis a massive glass top trackpad and instead of RGB ASUS has gone full classy with this sweet Prismatic film behind the 8,279 holes in the lid that just barely catches the light and Peaks through pure style can I just take a moment to say thank you like finally the industrial design of gaming laptops is getting the same kind of attention attention as The Thermals and the power delivery IO is overall solid but I do wish the HDMI port was the 2.1 variety and this being an AMD laptop you're getting two USB type-c 10 GB per second ports instead of Thunderbolt 3 that's a potentially deal-breaking downgrade if you have invested in the Thunderbolt ecosystem moving inside though we've already shown the ryzen 9 5900 HS shredding Intel's Flagship core I9 and that was in a much smaller design so unsurprisingly in this more robust enclosure the performance numbers it puts up are enough to make any more blue machine absolutely cower in fear which means that the more relevant comparison to ensure that ASUS hasn't compromised on performance is of course another AMD machine ah yes the Spectre that loomed before there we go ah much better while both of these machines are similarly equipped on paper there are some key differences the xmg neo5 here gets the 45 rather than the 35 watt ryzen 98 core and it gets the 135 watt version of the RTX 380 Mobile H probably the most beautiful thing about the xmg neo5 though is that after you buy it xmg doesn't seem to give too Hoots what you do with it so naturally we started by sliding every one of the dials all the way to the right for a generous 80 Watts on the CPU and 135 Watts on the GPU of course ASUS has some fun sliders too but the CPU only goes to 45 Watts Boo and the GPU tab turns every game you play into alt f4 simulator which is a good game I just wouldn't buy an entire machine for the express purpose of playing it truthfully though it's not the end of the world in our experience with both of the machines turned up to their Dyson performance profiles so named for the wonderful noises that they make the g15 GPU sat above 1,400 MHz with temps in the mid 70s super reasonable that's not bad so it's clear then that in the name of thinness ASUS is giving up somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 to as much as 30% of the performance this silicon could be capable of but here's another perspective even operating in its much quieter default profile which will cost you about 10 FPS across the board it easily beats the best of last gen even in their loudest possible profiles and like it looks like this doing it surprisingly it was actually the CPU bound games where the neo5 was able to pull ahead the most with the GPU in the zephrus punching well above the official specs of an 80 watt chip realistically then if you're looking to choose between these two laptops it comes down to what you plan on doing if you want to get real nerdy and do some memory overclocking and you know you need to do professional video editing or you can't stand the idea of losing 5 to 10 FPS get the Neo by the way we'll have a video going over this laptop more thoroughly on our ShortCircuit channel so make sure you subscribe to that for my money though I would choose the zephrus for its easier daily drivability and although we haven't been able to test it so I can't say this for sure I think that the RTX 3070 equipped version looks like The Sweet Spot since you could save a couple bucks likely have similar class performance and a cooler and overall quieter experience just like how you can be cooler by purchasing a t-shirt from LTT Store.com something that anyone looking at an RTX 3070 or 3080 equipped laptop needs to do is check the available display options the thing is at 1080p you're going to be wasting this GPU's power and 4K is still stupid at these screen sizes not offering any kind of meaningful benefit so I absolutely love that the industry has begun moving towards 1440p for this generation and the 1440p 165hz IPS panel on the zephrus is an absolute joy to game on it's got adaptive sync to eliminate tearing and smooth out stutter and it strikes an Ideal Balance of sharpness High High refresh rate and Rich color with 100% coverage of the DCI P3 color space if I had a complaint it would be that it's not particularly bright and that if you were a professional trying to do color accurate work on it the average Delta of 3.8 out of the box is going to require you to get it professionally calibrated before you can really trust it with that said it's definitely good enough for gaming right out of the box continuing with things that are great the trackpad for a gaming laptop it's freaking huge and the glass top makes using it a breeze also given we were able to get about 10 hours of Office work on battery the g15 is one of the first gaming laptops that you could whip out at the coffee shop or the Library without losing too much street cred with the Apple M1 MacBook crowd when you have to drag an extension cord out of your bag no no this is what you want yeah what the heck is that what do you mean what this moving up the keyboard is excellent with a Snappy but soft feel that allowed me to easily get up to full speed and ASUS also added this little bit of venting under the WD keys they claimed that this was to uh keep your gamer fingers nice and cool but I think they mostly had to do this to avoid the keyboard getting too hot during long gaming sessions for the typing feel though and overall layout this is an easy A+ in my book but I I would like to take a second to nitpick First although I respect that ASUS's designers have stuck with white lighting rather than RGB I do wish that they had done the light piping a little bit better and the function keys frankly don't make a ton of sense we've got plane mode sleep fan control and then Aura RGB software but this is on a laptop without RGB and then they didn't include pause and play I mean I don't know about you guys but I turn my music on and off way more often than I go onto a plane especially in the last year or so and being able to change the song quickly would also be appreciated speaking of things that suck to say that the webcam is unexceptional would be an understatement because it hasn't got one and no webcam also means no facial recognition when questioned asusa said they don't bother including webcams because Gamers don't need them but then this is weird they dedicate this huge chunk of the product page to the fancy trode microphone not only does the AI noise cancelling suck but who is using the integrated microphone on their laptop but not using the webcam if you're a gamer you got a headset and if you're not a gamer then you need a webcam for your for your Skype calls at least ASUS managed to include the second best way to unlock a laptop hidden in the power button is a fingerprint reader that caches your fingerprint with when you press it then hands it over to Windows at the login screen for a super seamless login experience opening it up we get a look at the 90w hour battery and the two subs on either side that offer decent base even if it's not quite at the same level as a Macbook or an xps15 and we also find two m.2 slots for easy storage upgradeability and a single sodm slot for what I would describe as somewhat easy RAM upgradeability I use the word somewhat because one half is soldered directly to the board while the other half is on a stick above that is the exceptionally complicated looking cooling system with six heat pipes snaking their way across the chassis along with these very slim but very wide heat SNS so the zephrus g15 g503 is really an excellent laptop the RTX 370 model that we lean toward is going to set you back a casual $1,800 which is a lot of money but for what you're getting it really doesn't look too bad you just have to hope that ASUS made enough of these that you can actually buy one but hey at least our sponsor Squarespace lets you buy their products Squarespace gives you the tools you need to build and grow your online presence they've got tons of templates spanning a large variety of categories so whether you need a website for your blog or your wedding or your business Squarespace has you covered you can get a domain quickly through Squarespace if you need one or P it over an existing domain that you already own and you don't have to take my word for any of this you can 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