PC World - USA (2020-05)

54 PCWorld MAY 2020

REVIEWS ASUS ROG ZEPHYRUS G14

Mordor, we see the standard RTX 2060 paired

with a Core i7-9750H a hair faster than the Asus.

Obviously, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q

and Ryzen 9 4900HS are just fine for

gaming, but one issue

thin-and-light laptops

can suffer from is

performance

degradation as heat

builds up inside the

chassis. To check for

it, we fired up

PlayerUnknown’s

Battlegrounds (PUBG)

and ran it for almost

two hours. We saw no

signs of trouble. For

the most part, the

GPU was reportedly running above

1,500MHz with the CPU at 4.1GHz or

higher. The laptop may still hit a wall at some

point, but its anecdotal behavior is quite

We checked for signs of throttling by running PUBG for 1:45 minutes.

Although the fans howled, we didn’t see GPU or CPU clocks appear to back

off in performance heavily.

We ran PUBG for more than an hour before taking this FLIR thermal image of the laptop deck. Although

the fan was busy, the keyboard wasn’t excessively hot.