Hardware Overview

The most interesting aspect of any gaming laptop is, of form, the performance. While all G752VS models include a GeForce GTX 1070 GPU, there are many variants bachelor at unlike toll points. I've highlighted some of the primary models below:

  • Intel Cadre i7-6700HQ, sixteen GB of RAM, no SSD, i TB HDD, 1080p LCD - $1,999
  • Intel Core i7-6820HK, 32 GB of RAM, 256 GB SSD, 1 TB HDD, 1080p LCD - $2,499
  • Intel Core i7-6820HK, 64 GB of RAM, 512 GB SSD, one TB HDD, 1080p LCD - $2,999
  • Intel Cadre i7-6820HK, 64 GB of RAM, i TB SSD, 1 TB HDD, 1080p LCD - $three,299 – Reviewed

It should be noted that there are more options available at prices between $1,999 and $three,299, mostly varying the amount of storage and retentiveness included, so it'due south worth checking out stores like Newegg and Amazon to see what'south available. In that location should also be a 4K variant on the market place, however I couldn't detect one.

In this review I'll be more often than not discussing the model I received, which comes with the more powerful Core i7-6820HK CPU. This is a four core, eight thread Skylake part built on a 14nm process and featuring a 45W TDP. Intel has given this CPU a base frequency of 2.seven GHz with a three.6 GHz single-core boost clock, although Asus has manufactory overclocked this processor to 3.8 GHz.

The Core i7-6700HQ is clocked 100 MHz lower in both base and boost frequencies, and includes 6 MB of L3 cache rather than eight MB.

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 is a significant upgrade on the GTX 980 for Notebooks, Nvidia'southward final generation flagship mobile GPU. The GTX 1070, going on raw figures, is 28% faster than the GTX 980 and nearly twice equally fast as the GTX 980M, despite a TDP increase of just three% and 50%, respectively. And this isn't fifty-fifty the fastest mobile GPU in the GeForce 10 serial!

The GTX 1070 is an interesting chip because it's a slightly unlike bin of the Pascal GP104 GPU that Nvidia also used for the desktop GTX 1070. The mobile variant actually features more CUDA cores (2048 versus 1920), which helps commencement reduced clock speeds (1442/1645 MHz base/boost versus 1506/1683 MHz). In fact, the mobile variant of the GTX 1070 should be slightly faster than the desktop variant, with all other things equal. The retention subsystem is the aforementioned: viii GB of GDDR5 on a 256-bit charabanc, providing 256 GB/s of bandwidth.

Similar the CPU, Asus has factory overclocked the GPU by 50 MHz on both the base and boost clock, and given an actress 150 MHz to the retentiveness. This gives a maximum rated GPU boost clock of 1695 MHz, and a pregnant 8300 MHz on the memory. To achieve these overclocks, brand certain you lot enable the "Extreme" mode from within the ROG Gaming Middle; I've tested this laptop in Extreme mode considering I assume everyone will enable this while gaming.

My review unit of measurement includes a ridiculous 64 GB of DDR4 2400 MHz retention, which is way more any modern game would demand, and is even unnecessary for workloads like video editing. 32 GB is plenty, so you shouldn't make any purchasing decisions based on the amount of RAM.

The storage situation is typical for a modern gaming laptop, packing a slow 1TB 7,200 RPM drive for games archival, and a fast PCIe NVME solid country bulldoze for kick and games. In my top-spec review unit of measurement, the i TB SSD is actually a RAID 0 array of two 512 GB SSDs from Toshiba and Samsung, though in other models I suspect it will exist a unmarried 256 or 512 GB bulldoze, leaving the second Yard.two slot free.

For connectivity, there's Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac with 2x2 MIMO, and Bluetooth iv.one. Plus don't forget in that location's an Ethernet port and a USB Type-C port supporting Thunderbolt iii and USB iii.1 gen 2.