Faisal Ghaffar 
Overview
The new Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 foregoes Nvidia and Intel in favour of an all-AMD design. Underneath a slew of design and feature changes is a Ryzen 6900HS CPU and Radeon RX 6700S / 6800S GPUs. The 16:9 screen ratio is also gone, replaced by a larger 2560 x 1600 QHD+ display, as well as a few ergonomic changes and an all-white aesthetic. With a starting price of $1,649.99, the new G14 maintains its upper mid-range stance while providing excellent efficiency under the hood. However, cramming such a powerful myriad of AMD elements into a 14-inch form factor has its drawbacks in terms of thermal performance.
Design
The G14’s main design features are here to stay, and it will be available in either Moonlight White or Eclipse Gray (our unit is the former). The punctured lid panel with an LED light show trying to run all across rear of your rig, the lifted hinge for keypad elevation and enhanced airflow, and the squat form factor that many have grown to expect are all still present. The move to a 16:9 aspect ratio here emphasises the square shape, even more, giving the entire deck a little more depth and enabling for a transparent glass touchpad all along the bottom of the main deck.
Except for the black bezels around the display, everything is encased white this time, giving the machine a crisp, smooth finish that few computers can match. This managed to significantly reduce the ‘gamer’ elegance – in an office setting, if the LEDs trying to run all along back are turned off, this might be any other laptop.
Features
The Asus ROG Zephyrus is available with either an AMD Radeon RX 6700S or a 6800S video card, but only the AMD Ryzen 6900HS central processing unit ( cpu. All configurations come with 1TB of SSD storage and either 16GB or 32GB of RAM. Moving to a full set of AMD specs may not be for everyone; as we’ll see from the efficiency section below, lowering Nvidia’s GPUs has its own set of downfalls. This isn’t the only significant change to the spec list.
Asus has stretched out the previous models’ 16:9 display to offer a taller 16:10 panel. Prefer a big screen, — particularly when playing games, and find that 16:9 is too small on a 13.3-inch screen.
The G14 also makes excellent use of the extra space, with a sharp QHD+ panel that accurately represents colors and keeps up with fast motion. Everything feels bright and snappy resulting in a high pixels per inch and 120Hz refresh rate, whether trudging through Red Dead Redemption 2’s snowy scenery or skimming webpages. However, darker colors were not well represented, beginning to fade slightly to grey.
Performance
The AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS system facilitates admirably in the G14. Everything here is extremely fast, booting and closing in a fraction of a second, zipping between demanding tasks without trying to break a sweat, and even carrying its nerve in stress postprocessing and modelling tests. Although not quite as effective as the i7-12700H found in the comparably priced Alienware x14, or the Ryzen 9 5900HX found in Razer Blade 14 models in the this price bracket, it performed admirably given the temperature pressure placed on it (more on that later).
