ASUS ROG Strix G15 Advantage w/ AMD Radeon RX 6800M

1. Introducing ASUS ROG Strix G15 Advantage2. CPU Performance and Testing: 3D Mark and Blender3. CPU Performance and Testing: Cinebench4. Performance and Testing: Gaming5. Temperatures and Battery6. Closing Thoughts7. View All Pages

Since we made our video about the ASUS ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition G513QY, it has become clear we Brits are suffering significantly when it comes to pricing. In the US you can find the ROG Strix G15 Advantage for US$1,650 while here in the UK the price is £1,899 and while we initially thought that was very reasonable we now want to see it on sale at £1,499.

We have a couple of quibbles over the sample we were sent such as the choice of FHD screen panel when we would much prefer 1440p. Also, the SSD deserves to be bumped up to 1TB.

We were deeply unhappy about the lack of a webcam but it is clear from the comments below our video that a great many of you are perfectly happy with that situation. Fair enough, we acknowledge that is your view and while we disagree we must also recognise it is a move that is unlikely to hurt sales.

We should also address the point about the slow memory timings in AMD's choice of DDR4 memory and their impact on performance.  Many commenters have suggested this is a bad situation and that AMD has missed a trick. We take the opposite view as we feel it would be far worse if we tested a reviewer's special and then found the laptops on sale had an inferior specification. This laptop performs very well and yet it can be made to perform even better with a simple upgrade when supplies of DDR4 improve.

The ASUS ROG Strix G15 Advantage is a conventional laptop that has been built around an efficient CPU and GPU that can work in harmony to improve efficiency and performance to a higher level than you can hope with AMD/Nvidia or Intel/Nvidia. The result is greater than the sum of the parts and that makes us very happy. It also gives us hope that Intel might deliver something special when 12th Gen Alder Lake rolls down the road.

The ASUS ROG Strix G15 is the first AMD Advantage laptop we have seen and we look forward to other brands such as Lenovo and MSI delivering AMD Advantage soon.

You can order the ASUS ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition G513QY for £1,899 HERE.

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Pros:

• Screen looks good.
• 8 cores of AMD Ryzen 9 power.
• RDNA2 graphics.
• Very good battery life.

Cons:

• You don’t get a webcam.
• This review sample ships with a 1080p display, rather than the optional 1440p.
• Only 512GB SSD capacity and Gen 3 rather than Gen 4.
• MediaTek Wi-Fi 6 lags behind Intel’s AX200.
• The finish picks up fingerprints.

KitGuru says: ASUS ROG Strix G15 Advantage is an impressive showcase for AMD Mobile RDNA 2 graphics.

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