Asus ZenBook Pro 15 UX580GE (i9-8950HK, GTX 1050 Ti, 4K UHD) Laptop Review

[Redaktion]

Seeing double. Asus wants to one-up Apple's Touch Bar with an even crazier idea of turning the traditional touchpad into a full-fledged 1080p secondary display. Surprisingly enough, it's actually quite useful and more than just a novelty. We can see the unique feature becoming a mainstay in Asus' flagship series in another generation or so when all the wrinkles and drawbacks can be ironed out.

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[Xh]

What about the normal touchpad with screen disabled? Does it work just as a normal touchpad? Is the tactile feel different, is it less precise? What about clicking? Are there integrated buttons?

[powerslave12r]

Also how is the battery life with the touchpad used just as a normal touchpad, without turning on the backlight?

Thanks for the excellent review.

It's a very interesting product and as long as turning off the touchpad display makes it behave like a normal touchpad, I see no reason why all machines shouldn't come with these. (cost notwithstanding)

There can be so many killer use cases for a second display such as this.

Would also love to hear if anyone installs linux on this, does the touchpad display come up as any other display in the setup?

[Ednumero]

You should praise this in your review for being an ASUS Zenbook with a true RGB matrix high res display! The UX501VW used an RG/BW (not true 4K) display, the UX550VE 4K model evaded review somehow, and now we have confirmation here for the UX580GE. This display is actually about as good as the Zenbook NX500 Quantum Dot display, in terms of its stats. This is all great information to talk about.

Great that you included and continue to include the subpixel matrix photos. These are important. Keep this up. But why not go further and show us that you see the significance, and help others understand it too.

[danwat1234]

Why did power consumption steadily decrease once the Prime95 test began?

The i9 in this laptop... Is ridiculous. I was looking forward to seeing heavy thermal throttling being harped on in this review but sadly I am going to have to wait...
The cooling system in this laptop is not up to the task of keeping this CPU turboboosted under heavy load, even probably with 2 cores idle.
Tricking the customer..

[Ko Min Chuang]

If not for gaming, does the cooling issue still there? I use laptop for photo edit(Use Adobe lightroom), so I'm not always make the cpu on fully loaded, I know the Specs on the laptop meet my need, but I don't know does this cooling system is enough for photo edit or not? Can I buy this laptop for photo edit? Thank you

[law]

If not for gaming, does the cooling issue still there? I use laptop for photo edit(Use Adobe lightroom), so I'm not always make the cpu on fully loaded, I know the Specs on the laptop meet my need, but I don't know does this cooling system is enough for photo edit or not? Can I buy this laptop for photo edit? Thank you

Should be good for photo and video editing, but it's just not up to the i9's maximum potential. If you really need an i9 to do your task better look elsewhere.

[danwat1234]

Hey, running Prime95 with all cores at 3GHZ isn't bad compared to the Macbook Pro! Wonder how much an undervolt may help.

1040 score with Cinebench multicore is better than the ~950 I've seen after the software 'digital key' fix for the Macbook Pro i9.

Still, with a beefy Asus laptop, can see 1400 stock but that is many times the weight.


Now to compare this with the Dell XPS 9570 i9.

[danwat1234]

"Unlike traditional laptops, GPU resources on the UX580 must be split between the main display and screenpad and so performance will be slightly slower than most other notebooks with the same GPU."
It's just a secondary screen. I didn't know that connecting a second screen to your PC would reduce FPS, even if that screen just had a blank desktop on it?

[JohnnyMnemonic]

I tested a bit this notebook for performance and found such results for Cinebench 15:
Single thread: first try 194 second 194 third 193
Multiple thread: first 1204 second 1195 third 1195
Core i9 was able to show a good performance.
Even more than in this review.