We’ve talked elsewhere about how AMD’s Ryzen 4000 mobile processors could transform gaming laptops, and the Asus TUF A15 is a great example of this, with eight cores and 16 threads bringing a level of power we’d expect to see in much more expensive laptops. This is paired with an Nvidia RTX 2060 GPU. Again, it's not a flagship GPU, but it's a brilliant 1080p performer, making it a great choice for this kind of gaming laptop. It’s one of Nvidia’s more affordable GPUs, but still offers very good performance, including modern ray tracing support, and with 6GB of GDDR6 memory this is a smart choice for a laptop in which costs need to be kept down.

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With Adaptive-Sync, the display’s refresh rate synchronises with the GPU’s frame rate to reduce lag, minimise stuttering, and eliminate visual tearing for ultra-smooth and immersive gameplay. Level up your multitasking abilities by connecting a second monitor via the USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C™, which is G-SYNC® enabled and supports DisplayPort™ 1.4. Play 4K Ultra HD movies, videos, and games on big-screen TVs with HDMI 2.0b. With that in mind, though, here’s what we got on our review unit, with the screen’s brightness set at around 120 nits (~70 brightness).With Adaptive-Sync, the display’s refresh rate synchronizes with the GPU’s frame rate to reduce lag, minimize stuttering, and eliminate visual tearing for ultra-smooth and immersive gameplay. Level up your multitasking abilities by connecting a second monitor via the USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C™, which is G-SYNC® enabled and supports DisplayPort™ 1.4. Play 4K Ultra HD movies, videos, and games on big-screen TVs with HDMI 2.0b.

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We’ve spent the last few weeks with a pre-production version of the Asus TUF Gaming FA506IV variant, built on an AMD Ryzen 7 4800H processor and Nvidia RTX 2060 graphics, and gathered all our thoughts down below, with the solid parts and the quirks. However, based on our expectations and the guidelines provided for us by AMD and Asus, we’re confident that our findings are mostly in line with what you will get on the final models available in stores. The Ports selection here is quite basic and has nothing special going for it but at the same time, it has all the essential ports that 95 percent of people need. Of course, AMD’s Ryzen 4000 H hardware is a major step-up from the Ryzen 3000 H in the previous generation, with an impact on both performance and efficiency, as you’ll see down below. However, the FA506 generation also improves on exterior design and ergonomics, as well as adds features and configuration options not available before on TUFs, while remaining competitively priced. Next, we ran some of our combined CPU+GPU stress tests on this notebook. 3DMark stress runs the same test for 20 times in a loop and looks for performance variation and degradation over time, and this unit passed it with flying colors. Luxmark 3.1, on the other hand, fully loads both the CPU and GPU at the same time. The GPU constantly runs at 90W, however, the CPU is not properly recognized by this test.

The TUF FA506IV gets a fairly complex thermal module, with two large fans (with dust exhaust channels) and several heatpipes. This is a slight redesign of the thermal module on the FX505VD with the same sort of GPU, but keep in mind the intake has been revamped as well, and the Zen2 architecture is more efficient than the previous AMD platform. The TUF FA506 is the first TUF Gaming series to get a 144 Hz FHD IPS display, similar to what Asus has been using on their ROG lineups in the past. Specification: Asus TUF Gaming A15 FA506IC-DS71-CA (15.6 Inch 144Hz FHD/AMD Ryzen 7 4800H/Nvidia RTX 3050 4GB Graphics/16GB RAM/512GB SSD/Windows 11)