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Your mileage may vary, of course, but our dual ASUS AX3000 routers were up to the challenge. The laptop has a 2x2 MIMO antenna configuration and we had no problem maxing out a 500 Mbps Internet connection downloading our gaming benchmarks to the system via Steam and Ubisoft Connect.
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Wireless connectivity comes from Intel's AX211 Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2 combo chip. First off, the system's wired Ethernet port has a Realtek 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet controller behind it. The boosted graphics power most likely accounts for the slight increase in weight, something we'll investigate in our teardown.Īlong with everything else, the networking features of the ROG Zephyrus M16 are cutting edge. If you remember last year's Zephyrus M16, that system only had a 60 Watt GPU, so this is a big step up. What we do know however, is that the RTX 3070 Ti here has a 120-Watt TGP with Dynamic Boost to pull even more power if the CPU isn't maxed out. For whatever reason, NVIDIA doesn't divulge the number of Tensor or RT cores on its specs page, but there's plenty to drive both DLSS and our ray tracing tests. As with all Ampere GPUs, there's support for hardware-accelerated ray tracing and NVIDIA's AI-focused Tensor cores are aboard as well.
This Ampere GPU has 5,888 CUDA cores and 8 GB of 12 GT/s GDDR6 memory to chew through gaming workloads. Speaking of Steam, gamers will appreciate the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GPU built into the Zephyrus M16.
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Folks with big Steam libraries can rejoice, as you don't have to upgrade storage right out of the box. All versions of the M16 include a PCI-Express 4.0 NVMe SSD, and ours has a whopping 2 TB included. There are 16 GB models of the M16, but note that those come with 8 GB soldered and an 8 GB SO-DIMM. Half of that is soldered to the motherboard, but the other half is a standard DDR5 SO-DIMM, which can be upgraded with a 32 GB module for a total of 48 GB. To back up the cutting edge CPU, ASUS has endowed the ROG Zephyrus M16 with 32 GB of DDR5-4800 memory. All told, this thing should rip through any workload with ease. The only real difference between this CPU and the 12900HK in the updated MSI GE76 Raider is the maximum boost clock, which is still a very high 5GHz here, for a single core.
In this case, it's six P cores with Hyper Threading and eight E cores with no SMT, which adds up to a grand total of 20 threads spread across 14 cores.
Like other 12th Generation Core processors, this one has a mix of performance and efficiency cores. It all starts with one of Intel's latest Alder Lake-H CPUs, the Core i9-12900H.
Let's not get too into the weeds in the lead-in, though first let's meet the new 2022 ASUS ROG Zephyrus M16 in Dave's quick tour YouTube video review, and then we'll pore through its specs.
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This year's model, however, is a different beast entirely with double the memory, faster storage, and (impressively) enough thermal budget for a powerful NVIDIA GeForce RTX-30 series GPU. Last year's Zephyrus M16 was pretty impressive and delivered good performance for its price point. Enter an upgraded version of one of last year's slimmer and lighter gaming laptops, the ASUS ROG Zephyrus M16. The first notebooks we looked at, an updated MSI GE76 Raider and an Alienware x17 R2, were both suitably impressive, but their large footprints and hefty weights aren't for everybody. From class-leading desktop performance to outstanding mobile prowess, the blue team's Alder Lake family has shown strong gains in workloads of all kinds. By most accounts, Intel's 12th Gen Core processors based on the hybrid Alder Lake mobile architecture have been a smashing success for gaming laptops.