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Last year, we tested Asustek's new product line, Lingyao Pro16. At that time, I was quite impressed by its world's first 16-inch 4K OLED screen and the world's first DialPad virtual knob, which was undoubtedly very attractive to creative production groups. So this year, Asustek won the pursuit, further optimized the motherboard design on the basis of inheriting the advantages of Lingyao Pro16 series, introduced additional memory and hard disk into Lingyao Pro16, and created a brand-new Lingyao Pro16 2022.

CTOnews.com also got the i7-12700H + RTX 3070Ti version of Lingyao Pro16 2022. In this article, let's take a look at this new "flagship performance slim book". The specific configuration is as follows:

Although the design Lingyao Pro16 2022 still belongs to the Lingyao Pro16 series, the mold has undergone great changes. As soon as you start, the sense of quality and refinement become more prominent. The edge of the all-metal fuselage is smooth without cutting hands, and the fresh green makes it more light and thin. Although this is a 16-inch large-screen notebook with a size of 35.54x24.85x1.99cm ~ 2.19cm, it weighs only 2.2kg and is not very heavy.

The A side has been changed from the embossed Logo design to the metal A-word Logo, which is also the new family design of the Asustek Lingyao series this year. The frosted porcelain cyan metal A looks very fresh.

Side B supports one-hand opening and closing, and the maximum opening and closing angle is about 130 °. After unfolding the B side, there is a large 16:10 OLED screen with a very high screen share, and the specific quality of this screen CTOnews.com will be tested in detail below. There is a camera and stereo microphone at the top of the screen, and the camera has a physical anti-peep pick.

The power key is located in the upper right corner and integrates the fingerprint identification function. The keyboard supports white backlight. The numeric keypad is kept on the C-plane keypad, which should be praised. There are also "Harman Kardon" master sound effects engraved under the numeric keypad.

The trackpad below is very large and feels excellent. But this trackpad is not that simple. There is a white dot in the upper right corner, and you can exhale a DialPad virtual knob by sliding inward. This is actually a productivity knob.

Adobe productivity software can quickly adjust the timeline, color, switch menus and other functions, in other software can quickly switch volume and brightness and other functions, is a very practical function for creative workers, friends who have cut the video should be able to understand.

Finally, let's take a look at side D. The design of the D side is regular, with only a long rubber mat and a set of loudspeaker openings on both sides of the bottom. Later on, CTOnews.com will open the back cover for you to take a look at it.

In order to meet the needs of office and productivity groups, Lingyao Pro16 2022 also has a wide range of interfaces, including a DC power interface, a 2.5G wired network port, a USB-A 5Gbps interface, and a MicroSD Express 7.1( 985MB/s) card reader on the left, and a lightning 4 and a full-function USB 3.2 Gen 2 interface on the right, supporting PD charging and DP power output. In addition, there is a USB-A 10Gbps port and a 3.5mm headphone port, which extends to the level of a game book, and there is no need to carry a dock when going out.

Lingyao Pro16 2022 comes with a 240w tripod DC charger, which is not portable in size. But this generation of C-port has added support for PD charging, so it is no longer necessary to carry a DC charger when going out.

The measured OLED screen has the advantages of accurate color, high brightness and uniformity, high contrast, good compatibility with HDR, and is very friendly to creative designers. Asustek is a master at playing OLED screens. With the accumulation of technology and product line layout in the past two years, the OLED screen has been rolled out in an all-round way from low price to high price. And our OLED screen is the flagship of Asustek notebooks. Its resolution is as high as 3200 to 2000, although it does not have 4K, but it is still very clear. This generation also introduces 120Hz's high refresh rate, making it both game-like.

We have adjusted the resolution to the highest 3200 x 2000 and the brightness to the highest manually. Then the color gamut accuracy test is carried out with the color calibrator. In the measured standard mode, the color gamut covers 100% Adobe RGB of sRGB,96.5% and 99.9% of P3 gamut.

The color accuracy performance is also amazing, the average color offset Δ E is only 0.34, and the maximum Δ E is only 1.59, which belongs to the professional color performance.

The excellent color correction comes from the factory school color, this computer has already preloaded the color correction file when it comes out, so the user does not need to calibrate the color manually and can use it right from hand.

High brightness is also a major feature of OLED. We turn on HDR mode and use DisplayHDR to test, the measured peak brightness can reach 541nit, this performance is very good, can meet the requirements of HDR500.

Everyone agrees with the color performance of OLED, but many consumers may worry about the two stubborn diseases that OLED may have-eye injuries and screen burning. In order to solve the problem of eye injury, Lingyao Pro16 2022 provides OLED low brightness anti-flicker function, and HDR mode supports full brightness DC dimming, so there is no worry of strobe injury in use.

Screen burning is an objective problem in OLED. In order to reduce the impact of this part, Asustek has designed some software methods to avoid it, such as default black theme, automatic pixel offset and screen saver, while daily use suggests opening the taskbar to hide automatically.

This generation of Lingyao Pro16 2022 also has a unique feature-120Hz high refresh rate. As we all know, compared with 60Hz, 90Hz can greatly improve the fluency of web browsing, while 120Hz is not only more fluent, but also can meet the requirements of e-sports 's game level. Due to the characteristics of the OLED screen, it supports the rapid response of the fastest 0.2ms, which can take the lead in playing e-sports games like CSGO.

In order to show you the advantage of 0.2ms response time intuitively, the author chose another 120Hz LCD screen to run UFO TEST at the same time as a comparison, set the shutter speed to the same, and then took a picture. As can be seen from the picture below, the relatively slow response LCD screen is easy to produce residual images around moving objects.

↑ LCD response Shadow Test

In contrast, Lingyao Pro16 2022, a 0.2ms-responsive OLED screen, has much less shadow, which can bring better competitive state in the game and avoid 3D vertigo to a certain extent.

↑ 120Hz OLED response Shadow Test

Hardware design in order to let everyone have a more in-depth understanding of the hardware of this notebook, we directly take it apart and introduce it at the same time. After opening it, the author found that the internal arrangement is really a big change, not only greatly enhanced heat dissipation, but also achieved a leap in expansion. First of all, there is this game's double-fan six-heat pipe heat dissipation module.

So what is the heat dissipation capacity of this module? Can you hold down the two big heat radiators, i7-12700H + RTX 3070Ti? We turn on the "efficient mode" single-bake FPU for 15 minutes, and the power consumption is stable at about 80W and the temperature is stable at the highest 93 ℃. This performance release is quite positive, almost the same level as the game.

In terms of graphics cards, this generation of RTX 3070Ti has added a unique output function, which can greatly reduce the output delay, further improve game performance, and is also conducive to the performance release of GPU.

It is measured that the power consumption of FurMark single-baked graphics card is stable at 110W and the temperature is 71 ℃. Although it can not be compared with the game book of 140-150W, it is enough.

After 15 minutes of double baking, CPU is stable at 32W 77 ℃ and GPU at 107W 73 ℃. It can be seen that its adjustment scheme is inclined to graphics card, and the total performance release can reach about 140W.

The memory aspect deserves a big favor. Lingyao Pro16 2022 adopts the scheme of on-board 16G + pluggable 16G to form 32G DDR5 dual channel, which not only achieves high performance, but also takes into account expandability. Some creative workers have a rigid need for memory size, and this design is very thoughtful.

The one we have is equipped with Intel AX211 wireless network card, supports Wi-Fi 6e protocol, and has a very good performance.

M.2 slot on the right side of the memory, last year's version of the whole machine has only one hard disk slot, upgrading will be more troublesome. This year, it has been upgraded to two M.2 hard drive slots, which is very easy to expand. The 1T hard drive comes from magnesium light, which is an OEM product, and its speed performance is still good, which is in line with the positioning of PCIe*4.0 SS high-end products, as shown in the figure.

At the bottom is a 90Wh battery, this battery can be said to be quite large, although the power consumption of the two cores is very high, but I believe it can still provide good battery performance.

Performance test next let's take a look at its theoretical running score and practical experience. The first is the intel mobile high-end standard pressure processor i7-12700H, which has 14 cores and 20 threads, the reference frequency is 2.69GHz, and the maximum Rui frequency can reach 4.7GHz. The running scores of single core and multi-core of R20 were 691and 7053 respectively.

R23 single core run score 1800, multi-core run score 18368. It can be seen that these running points are the flagship level of the mobile end, and the performance release is also in place, reaching the level of the game.

Next, let's take a look at the GPU performance score, and in TimeSpy, the final score is 10345, which means it can not only run complex 3D modeling video effects smoothly, but also run some mainstream online games at 2K resolution.

Creative production as the main productivity of the omnipotent, Lingyao Pro16 2022 has also passed the NVIDIA RTX Studio certification. Its factory-built-in driver is the NVIDIA Studio driver, and now there are more than 75 creative devices that support NVIDIA Studio. Most of these applications can use AI computing power to greatly improve work efficiency.

In modeling and rendering software, RTX 3070Ti can use CUDA to provide hardware acceleration for work. In the commonly used modeling tool V-Ray, you can use RTX accelerated ray tracing to achieve high-performance final frame rendering. With the noise reduction feature of AI, GPU can further speed up interactive rendering. If GPU Cuda acceleration is enabled, the score reaches 1220, which can already meet most of the modeling needs.

In another rendering software, KeyShot, it can achieve fast interactive rendering through ray tracing accelerated by RTX and noise reduction by OptiX with AI. We run both CPU and GPU cores, and the CPU score is 2.44 and the GPU score is 46.56. The acceleration effect is obvious.

In the later part of the video, CTOnews.com tested PugetBench For Adobe Pr and Ae for everyone. Pr is the most common video editing software, using RTX GPU's own NVENC encoder can speed up the export of video and make clips smoother. In the test, the score can reach 780 points under the CUDA acceleration of RTX 3070Ti, the editing of 4K video will not stutter, and there is no need to open an agent for real-time playback of 4K video.

With the help of NVIDIA CUDA technology, the special effects software Ae can finish rendering faster for key special effects accelerated by GPU. With a score of 1280, you can do some more complex video effects, and 32 gigabytes of memory can also bring more space to creators.

Finally, Leonardo da Vinci, an integrated software for editing and color blending, also provides full support for Cuda acceleration in the latest version of Davinci 18. The measured Pugetbench for Davinci score reached 1337, the performance is very good, multi-level real-time color blending can also play smoothly.

All the above difficult software can be taken down, not to mention the daily office work. We tested CrossMark and PCMark10, which represent comprehensive office performance. In CrossMark, Lingyao Pro16 2022 got a score of 2000, which is fully satisfied with all daily office work.

On the PCMark10 side, it can reach 7905 points, which is not as productive as usual.

Battery life is also a point of great concern to the productivity community. Lingyao Pro16 2022 is equipped with a large battery of 90Wh, and the graphics card mode is switched to mixed output mode, which can achieve longer battery life. The measured 150 nit brightness turns on the power saving mode, and the continuous office battery life can reach 5 hours and 46 minutes. If it is not enough, you can also use PD to charge back and forth blood.

The performance of the game so can it play games after work? We have also tested several mainstream games. It should be noted that because the built-in driver of the machine is the NVIDIA Studio driver, the optimization is more productive, and the number of game frames will be reduced to a certain extent, so let's switch to the latest Game Ready driver before the game. The measured "PUBG" can run at an average of 165frames at 2K resolution, experiencing a smooth experience, and can run all over the high brush screen of 120Hz.

Next, let's challenge the 3A masterpiece, we run the highest quality BenchMark of Tomb Raider: shadow at a 2K resolution of 2560 to 1600, and the final average frame rate is 84 frames, so we can play most 3A masterpieces downstream of medium and high image quality.

In "Ares 4", we can drive to DLSS balance gear to achieve the highest 2K picture quality of about 80 frames to play smoothly, the experience is very smooth.

"Wild Dart 2" is similar, even the highest quality of 2K can be easily won by DLSS technology. The actual running BenchMark reaches 76 frames, and the game experience is smooth.

RTX 3070Ti is a high-end light-tracking video card on the notebook. Can you play RTX games with it? We tested two RTX games. In the "Control" under the highest picture quality can reach 67 frames, playing 2K light chase is not a problem.

The pressure of "Cyberpunk 2077" is very great. 2K super light chase only has more than 40 frames. If you drive to 2K low light chase + performance file DLSS, the number of frames can reach 68 frames, satisfying smooth play.

To sum up, when I evaluated Lingyao Pro16 last year, I had some complaints about not supporting storage expansion, PD charging and the lack of high screen refresh. Now we are pleasantly surprised to see that these problems have been solved on Lingyao Pro16 2022. Not only the performance is more powerful, but also greatly improves the expansibility. At the same time, the introduction of 120Hz OLED high-brush large screen also makes it have the attribute of taking into account the game.

If you are a creative worker with a demand for performance and want to play games in your spare time, then Lingyao Pro16 2022 is an all-powerful bucket machine. Friends with the above needs can pay attention to it.

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