ASUS ROG Gaming Notebooks at CES: “Zen 4” and “Raptor Lake” Choices

At the 2023 International CES, ASUS ROG announced several of its upcoming gaming notebooks across several form-factors. ASUS was one of the very few gaming PC brands to show off upcoming products based on an AMD Ryzen 7000 series processors besides those based on 13th Gen Intel Core processors. The star-attraction is the ROG Flow Z13 (GZ301-2023), an ultraportable gaming tablet that folds into a notebook—a very rare device. It packs a 13-inch 16:10 ROG Nebula display with 2560 x 1600 pixels resolution, 165 Hz, 3 ms response time, and NVIDIA G-SYNC. Under the hood, the ROG Flow Z13 rocks an Intel Core i9-13900H 6P+8E processor, GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU with Advanced Optimus. The device puts out a 170° kick stand, and a detachable full-size keyboard.

The 2023 ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 is the company’s fastest gaming notebook to be powered by an AMD processor. The 14-inch conventional form-factor notebook packs a 2560 x 1600 pixels mini-LED display with 165 Hz refresh-rate, 3 ms response time, 100% DCI-P3 coverage, and G-SYNC. The main muscle is an AMD Ryzen 7000 series processor (very likely from the “Phoenix Point” Ryzen 7045 series), and a GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU. While not an AMD Advantage laptop, ASUS has given this its own in-house ROG Intelligent Cooling system that incorporates vapor-chamber base plates and liquid-metal TIM.

The 2023 ASUS ROG Strix Scar 16 leads the pack with an ASUS Nebula HDR 16-inch mini-LED display with 2560 x 1600 pixels resolution, 240 Hz refresh-rate, 3 ms response time, 100% DCI-P3, and NVIDIA G-SYNC. Processor options go all the way up to a 13th Gen Intel Core i9-13980HX 8P+16E flagship processor, and GPU options up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 with 175 W TGP. This one too incorporates the ROG Intelligent Cooling system with triple-fan ventilation, full-width heatsinks, and Conductonaut Extreme TIM on both the CPU and GPU.