ROG Armoury Crate unifies system and lighting controls to put essential settings at your fingertips in a single utility. You can easily define and customize Scenario Profiles that automatically make adjustments when you launch your favorite titles. Show off your signature style in Moonlight White or Eclipse Gray. The reinforced metal lid is precision cut with a dot matrix design that adds a subtle shimmering effect from prismatic film beneath. Stay versatile with thoughtful conveniences like a 180 ErgoLift hinge for more flexible viewing and a wide touchpad for easy navigation. For the most part, the results are similar between the two configurations. However, certain CPU-heavy loads benefit from the dual memory setup.

This is a slight step up from the 165Hz panel offered on past models, with a higher refresh and faster response times. Paired with the included MUX and higher-power dGPU, this model-year G15 is now a more competent gamer than before. Our review model is a higher-specced configuration of the ASUS ROG Flow X16, code name GV601RM, built on an AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS processor, 32 GB of DDR5-4800 memory in dual channel, 1 TB of fast SSD storage, and dual graphics: the Nvidia RTX 3060 dGPU with 6 GB of vRAM and the Radeon 680M iGPU integrated within the AMD processor. USB-A 3.2 gen2, 2x USB-C gen2 with video, data, and charging, HDMI 2.0b, microSD card reader, LAN, headphone&mic Spec-wise, the 2022 ASUS ROG Flow X16 series is built on the latest AMD Ryzen HS and Nvidia RTX hardware available to date. The Ryzen 9 6900HS is an AMD Rembrandt 6000 processor, with 8 Cores and 16 Threads. It’s the more efficient bin of the standard Ryzen 9 6900HX found on full-size laptops, with almost the same capabilities as long as provided with enough power. It’s also a revision of the Ryzen 9 5900HS from last year, built on the updated Zen3+ 6 nm technology, with improvements in design, IPC, and efficiency.At the same time, the 2022 6900HS ends up about 5% faster than the 5900HS in the previous-generation Zephyrus G15. Power meets portability in the versatile ROG Zephyrus G15, which puts an incredible gaming in an ultra-slim chassis. Performance is fast and smooth with powerful CPU and GPU. A high-resolution gaming panel balances speed with rich detail to draw you deep into the action. Lush Dolby Atmos audio from six speakers immerses you in surround sound to enrich every entertainment experience. With all these high-performance profiles out of the way, if you’re looking for quieter noise levels when running games without mingling with the manual settings, your options are either the Performance or the Silent default modes.

With these out of the way, let’s go over some performance and temperature logs, which are going to better explain some of our findings above. So, if you’re on a tighter budget but still want a capable multi-purpose laptop with some excellent gaming abilities, the Zephyrus G15 should definitely be on your list this year. Just make sure you understand and accept the noise/thermals particularities, and the fact that you’d better keep this mostly indoors, otherwise that sub-350-nits display might not do for you. Now, in all fairness, there are better thin-and-light laptops out there, with faster processors, better cooling, a superior IO design, and better displays. The ROG Flow X16 comes to mind, with its quite tri-fan cooling and miniLED display– but that’s hundreds of dollars more expensive. Blaze through gaming, content creation, and more with powerful CPU and GPU. Spend more time doing and less time loading with NVMe PCIe SSD. Dual M.2 slots connect directly to the CPU for maximum performance, and they're loaded with enough of storage for your growing games library and creative portfolio.

There’s only one screen option available for the 2022 Zephyrus G15 series, a QHD 16:9 matte panel with 240Hz refresh and 100% DCI-P3 color coverage. This is the same panel that Asus offer on the 2022 ROG Scar 15 series. However, what makes this especially interesting at the time of this review, mid-August 2022, is the fact that this is one of the most affordable RTX 3070Ti portable laptops available on the market now. This thermal module does a fair job keeping handling the components inside this thin-and-light design. Both the CPU and the GPU run in the 80s in sustained loads, which are high temperatures, but understandable for this class.