Strong graphics card combined with the beautiful 14-inch screen size at an affordable price? It’s the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14, and when you add extras like an OLED display and impressive battery life for a gaming laptopit’s hard for me not to fall in love with this stuff.
The G14 is the smallest model of the the Zéphyrus line, so it’s extremely portable. You can equip it with an Nvidia RTX 4060 or 4070 graphics card, depending on whether you want to save money or maximize it. It is as comfortable to use as the MacBook Air M1 (2020) that I use for work, but it’s packed with luxury features that make playing games, and even watching movies, a premium experience.
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The Zephyrus G14 isn’t designed to be a powerhouse: think of a laptop like the Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 for this – but the power he has is well distributed. The Zephyrus is powered by AMD’s Ryzen R9 8945HS, a powerful processor, paired with the RTX 4060 laptop graphics card. It tackles most games with ease and can even run some of the more popular AAA titles quite well. heavy.
Both Star Field And Cyberpunk 2077 managed to maintain a respectable 50-60fps on medium graphics settings at the laptop’s full 2880×1800 resolution. Star Field dropped to around 40fps in areas like New Atlantis which have we know he had trouble to achieve very high frame rates. But this is still reasonably high given that Star Field is capped at 30fps on the Xbox.
Photography: Éric Ravenscraft
When setting the display to 1080p, I was able to enable graphics settings in Cyberpunk And Star Field up to high while maintaining roughly the same 50-60 fps. Staying on medium mode, I got over 60 fps in both games. I prefer the latter approach, as smoother gameplay suits me better than additional foliage detail, but there is flexibility here to tailor the experience to your desires.
Like most gaming laptops, you won’t spend much time gaming on this machine without a charger. However, the G14 still impresses by getting almost two hours of gameplay while running games like Cyberpunk. Monitoring 2 lasted over an hour and a half, which makes sense, given that in faster-paced competitive games I tend to rely on at least 90fps for a smooth experience.
When using the laptop for more typical work or casual use, I get closer to 11 hours of battery life, which is impressive among all the others. Windows Laptop. I could easily use the Zephyrus G14 as a daily driver and feel comfortable getting through a full day of work on a single charge.
