Asus ROG Zephyrus G14

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As the name implies, the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 is a 14-inch laptop, emphasizing the importance the company has placed.

On the device’s portability (and indirectly justifies some hardware choices).

Attractive design

The Zephyrus G14 is available in Eclipse Gray or Moonlight White:

As you can see in our pictures, the latter has its white lid and silver keyboard layout.
Which houses a surprisingly easy-to-see 14-inch small screen.
That screen is a 120Hz 1080p or 60Hz WQHD IPS screen, depending on which model you choose.
And thanks to Asus’ game visual modes, you can switch between several different viewing scenes, including FPS, RTS / RPG, sRGB, Racing, Cinema, and Scenery.
Those modes make the IPS panel even more customizable.
The Zephyrus G14 has a subtly backlit keyboard that glows pleasantly a shade of white when you want it to, but it doesn’t quite get to be fully RGB capable like the Scar III.

Points of reference 3DMark: TimeSpy, TimeSpy Extreme, Port Royal, Firestrike Ultra, DLSS:

Despite its size, the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 is not far behind when it comes to gaming.
With the RTX 2060 Max-Q version, we were able to get decent performance.
The RTX GPU options mean that you can take advantage of Nvidia’s Ray Tracing technology in various games, including Minecraft with RTX.
The combination of an AMD Ryzen CPU, decent RAM, a fast NVMe disk.
And an Nvidia ace graphics processor means you can play well on most modern titles.
A 1080p screen isn’t demanding, of course, but it’s nice to see games like Far Cry New Dawn running at around 80fps when it’s on the highest graphics settings.
We raced the G14 at its pace, playing some of our favourite games.
And were surprised by its performance, given its size.
On most gaming laptops of this site, we’re usually left wanting and hit sore eyes after a short while.
But somehow, the G14 doesn’t disappoint.
We’re pretty sure the game’s visual options had a lot to do with this.
Along with a lovely IPS panel design that features AMD FreeSync technology.
If you find that you want to connect an external display, you can.
The G14 is designed to be portable and flexible.
It works as a compact laptop that you can play on and one that you can take to work.

However, there are some frustrations. The area, in particular, is connectivity:

First of all, there is no Ethernet connection here, so don’t expect to connect for a solid wired network connection. The second minor annoyance comes in the port settings.
Here are two standard USB Type-A connections on this device, and they are both on the right.
Thus if you plug in a mouse and a headset, you’ve suddenly filled most of the usable ports and blocked part of your gaming area as well.
For example, we found that we had to give the laptop a good amount of space to use the mouse effectively without getting caught in the cables with wired mice.
The problem could be reduced with a wireless gaming mouse, but it is still a complaint. The third frustration is the graphics output.
This laptop consumes HDMI and DisplayPort, but the latter is only available with an additional USB-C adapter.
We required to test the HTC Vive Cosmos Elite on this laptop, but we had to delay for a USB-C to DisplayPort converter to arrive first.
Most of the other gaming laptops we’ve tested used Mini DisplayPort connections instead.
Though, with the adapter finally in place, we could use this laptop for VR gaming, proving its powerhouse credentials.

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