PC World - USA (2020-05)

56 PCWorld MAY 2020

REVIEWS ASUS ROG ZEPHYRUS G14

Asus ROG Zephyrus G14

PROS

• Blistering 8 cores of Ryzen performance and RTX
  2060 Max-Q too!


• Reasonably priced.
  CONS


• No web cam? Really?


• Keyboard backlight is weak.
  BOTTOM LINE
  The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 is the first laptop with
  AMD’s Ryzen 4000 mobile CPU, and it sets a new
  standard for the performance you can expect from a
  thin and light laptop.
  $1,450

BOTTOM LINE

To close this out, we really think you need to

understand the context of the Asus ROG

The 3.5-pound Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 weighs

about as much as a quad-core Surface Laptop 3,

but can hang in CPU performance with laptops

that weight 10 pounds.

Approximate laptop

weight compared

Grams

HuawX Pro 14ei MateBook

Core i7-8565U

Lenovo C740Core i7-1065G7

Razer Blade Stealth 13

Core i7-1065G7

Huaw 14 ei MateBook

Core i7-8565U

MLaptop 3icrosoft Surface

Ryzen 7 3780U

Asus ROG Zephyrus G14

Ryzen 9 4900HS

Dell XPS 15 7590Core i7-9980HK

M95DSI GS65 Stealth

Core i7-9750H

Apple MPro 16 acBook

Core i9-9880

Acer Predator Triton 500

Core i7-8750H

MCore i9-9880HSI GE65 Raider

Alienw51m R1are Area

Core i9-9900K

Acer Predator Helios 700

Core i9-9980HK

454 GR AMS = 1 LB

1,33 0

1,542

1,478

1,995

1,3 47

1, 587

1,49 0

1,995

2,000

2,131

2,268

4,036

4,772

Zephyrus G14—that being, it’s a 3.5-pound

laptop with real performance chops.

In the chart below we record the weight

of various laptops we’ve tested, from the

lightest to the heaviest. We also report the

hardware inside. As you can see, the Asus

ROG Zephyrus G14 weighs a little more than

a Microsoft Surface Laptop 3, which features a

quad-core CPU and no discrete graphics.

While its weight puts it with mostly “U-class”

laptops, it performs in line with much faster

“H-class” laptops. Just to remind you, here’s the

Cinebench R15 chart from earlier in the review,

where you can see it actually outperforming a

mob of larger and heavier laptops.

Is the ROG Zephyrus G14 without flaws?

Certainly not (like that webcam move). But for

someone who actually needs this kind of

performance in as light a laptop as possible,

we can think of no other laptop around that

can touch it today.