The slim Asus ROG Flow X16 laptop review: A powerful, 16-inch gaming workstation 2-in-1 with a touchscreen display

[Redaktion]

Last year, the thin ROG Flow X16 was our first gaming laptop which came with a mini-LED display. Visually, nothing much has changed with the 2-in-1. However, the internals are slumbering somewhat with an Intel Raptor Lake and Geforce RTX 4060. What do these new changes mean? Read on as we explain all.

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[S.Yu]

I think by now it makes sense to assume there's some sort of malignant design in the Ada generation's silicon, that the mobile parts have a performance cap, or an intentional bottleneck of some sort. Otherwise I can't think of any reason why the cards hardly improve at all from ~105W to 140W yet when put on a discrete card and given ~300W can improve another ~50% from that ~105W performance level. Of course the efficiency curve isn't linear but a plateau cannot reasonably be assumed to exist at 105-140W while somehow sparing a large part of 140-300W.

[LL]

22 sec in Blender Optix Classroom is a very good result.

But overall is too expensive. Asus needs to make a similar product without 2:1 and good quality IPS screen.

[Nare]

It's a 2-in-1, and you didn't bother taking one photo of it in tablet mode? That's the whole point of this laptop (also why it's so expensive), and you've missed it entirely. Good job Notebookcheck.