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After reviewing several new Asustek slim books in 2023, the author found that this year's middle and high-end Asustek new products generally have a big upgrade: 120Hz OLED screen. 120Hz's OLED screen can not only bring a smoother and more comfortable experience in the office, but also bring fast response beyond the video game screen in the game. And our protagonist Asustek fearless 15i 2023 is a high-energy lightweight book with 2.8K 120Hz OLED Asus good screen + 13-generation standard pressure core.

CTOnews.com got the i5-13500H version of Asustek Intrepid 15i 2023, and brought you a detailed review of the picture and text.

The exterior design Asustek fearless 15i 2023 continues the cool design style of the fearless series, giving people a youthful feeling. It uses an all-metal frosted body with a weight of about 1.57kg and a body size of 359.3mm long, 229.4mm wide and high 16.9mm, which is the standard 15.6in lightweight book size. Asus Intrepid 15i 2023 has also passed more than 20 military grade quality tests, such as drop, vibration, high temperature, low temperature, high humidity, high altitude and so on.

The A face is the family design of the Asustek fearless series. On the flat silver A side, there is a raised Asustek logo, which also looks very technological.

Side B does not support one-handed opening and closing, but supports 180-degree deployment.

When opened, there is a 15.6inch 2880x1620 120Hz OLED screen, which is called "Asustek good screen" because of its excellent look and feel. We will test the performance of this screen in detail later.

Next to the FHD camera at the top of the screen is a stereo microphone, which supports 3DNR noise reduction and AI two-way voice noise reduction. The camera supports Windows Hello face unlocking and supports physical anti-peep pickers.

The C-side keyboard feels comfortable, and the orange ESC design in the upper left corner of the keyboard and the oblique texture of the enter key are quite stylish. The keypad on the right is also convenient for office use. The keyboard supports three backlight adjustments, but the keycap is opaque.

There are also Intel Evo platform certification stickers in the lower left corner, indicating that this is a high-energy lightweight book that has passed Intel's stringent certification.

The trackpad below has a special "Asustek antibacterial coating" with an bacteriostatic rate of more than 99%, which is very smooth and comfortable.

The foot mats on the D side are also designed in orange, which serves as the finishing touch, and the high foot mats can also make the heat dissipation effect of the fuselage better. There are two loudspeaker holes below to support Harman Catton sound effects.

The Asus Intrepid 15i 2023 has a full-speed lightning 4 interface (40Gbps supports PD fast charging and DP output), a USB-A 3.2Gen1 interface, a USB2.0 interface, a 3.5mm headphone port and a HDMI interface.

Lightning interface can be connected to the external graphics card dock, with the strong performance of i5-13500H, can meet more stringent games and work.

The measured OLED screen of Asustek good screen has the advantages of accurate color, high brightness and uniformity, high contrast and good compatibility with HDR, so it is very suitable for creative designers. But large-size OLED screens are also expensive, and in the past they were usually used in creative design books worth more than 10,000 yuan. But in the past two years, Asustek has popularized the OLED screen at all prices, and now Asustek has brought the good screen of 2.8k 120Hz to the price of 5000 yuan, which can be called historic progress.

Next, we will conduct a screen measurement. We set the screen to the highest 2880mm 1620 120Hz and manually set it to the highest brightness under SDR. Then the color gamut accuracy test is carried out with the color calibrator, and the measured color gamut covers 100% sRGB, 96.2% Adobe RGB and 99.5% P3 gamut. The color coverage is very comprehensive, but the sRGB will have some out-of-limit problems. The gamut volume reaches 170.9% of sRGB. If you are used to the LCD screen, you will feel too bright.

Gamut representation in ↑ default mode

But don't worry too much. Asus Intrepid 15i 2023 also integrates four professional color gamut switching functions in the system, which can switch between native, sRGB, DCI-P3 and DisPlay P3.

If we switch to sRGB mode, the gamut will be reduced to very close to the standard 100% sRGB. At this time, the impression is quite moderate and peaceful, which is a very suitable mode to be used under Windows.

Gamut representation in ↑ sRGB mode

If you need to create or appreciate the content of DCI-P3 wide color gamut, you can turn on DCI-P3 mode. After turning on DCI-P3 mode, Asustek Intrepid 15i 2023 screen will adjust the color gamut coverage to 99.6% DCI-P3 gamut and the color gamut volume to 104%. At this time, the DCI-P3 content will be displayed more accurately.

Gamut representation in ↑ DCI-P3 mode

Every Asus screen has been checked out of the factory, and the Asus Intrepid 15i 2023 is no exception. Its color accuracy is also amazing, with an average Δ E of 0.95 and a maximum of 2.6, which can be used for professional-level content creation such as graphic design or video color blending.

Thanks to the good support of the OLED screen for HDR, the Asus Intrepid 15i 2023 also has a significantly better look and feel when viewing HDR content than the traditional IPS screen. As can be seen from the picture below, the Asus Intrepid 15i 2023 on the right is brighter and darker, retaining a lot of dark details, making it real and shocking.

Another major upgrade lies in the high refresh rate of 120Hz. In the daily office, 120Hz can make the user experience more smooth, while in the game, 120Hz can meet the requirements of e-sports 's game level. Due to the characteristics of the OLED screen, it supports the fast response of the fastest 0.2ms, which is several times faster than the regular LCD screen of 165Hz.

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, Asustek Intrepid 15i 2023 0.2ms response OLED screen drag is much less, can always maintain clear dynamic vision, can bring better competitive state in the game, but also can avoid 3D vertigo to a certain extent.

↑ Asus Intrepid 15i 2023 120Hz OLED response Shadow Test

These are the advantages of OLED screens, but it is well known that an inherent problem with OLED screens is screen burning, and it cannot be eradicated, which is a reason why many users do not choose OLED laptops. However, Asustek has used some software and hardware technologies to greatly alleviate the screen burning problem, such as:

1. Windows dark mode is adopted by default.

two。 By default, the screen dims after being idle for 5 minutes and the screen saver is activated.

3. Samsung OLED aging optimization technology intelligently detects aging pixels and enhances the current through those pixels. This allows degraded pixels to display brighter colors, thus showing accurate color perception.

Hardware parsing next let's go to the dismantling part and take a look at its hardware. After opening the back cover, it can be seen that the whole machine adopts a single fan and double heat pipe heat dissipation system, which is not unique, but a solitary pad is reserved, and a unique version may be launched later. The processor is the standard pressure processor of H45. Below the heat pipe is the on-board memory with its own 16GB 4800MHz LPDDR5 memory.

Covered under this heat dissipation module is intel's new i5-13500H processor, which still has 4 performance cores and 8 energy-efficient cores, with a total of 12 cores and 16 threads, with the highest frequency up to 4.7GHz. It is worth mentioning that this 13-generation mobile standard pressure Core has a lot of optimization in terms of range, which you will see in our range test later.

It is measured that the 15-minute baking FPU CPU in efficient mode can stabilize at about 50W and 90 ℃. This performance release is quite radical and can meet the high power consumption requirements of the H45 processor. At this time, the fan sound is quiet and can be used in the office.

The whole machine has only one hard disk slot, so it will be troublesome to upgrade, but it can be removed and replaced. The hard drive is Samsung's PCIe4.0 hard drive, the model is PM9B1,TLC particles, the fever is very low.

At the bottom is a 75Wh battery, due to the 13-generation core's battery life has been greatly improved, coupled with the OLED screen compared to save power, I believe there will be a surprise in the follow-up battery test.

Then we test the theoretical performance. In the BenchMark that comes with CPU-Z, the single-core score is 765 points, and the multi-core score is 6462 points. The performance of the 13th generation i5 is similar to that of the 12th generation i7, and the multi-core is almost the same as the 13th generation table i5. It seems that the performance improvement of the 13th generation core is also very significant.

In CineBench R20, which represents the theoretical performance of CPU, it has a single core score of 690 and a multi-core score of 5092, which can meet the needs of most games and creative work.

On this side of R23, there are 1789 points for single core and 13408 points for multi-core. This performance is quite excellent, I believe that in the productivity link can also have a good performance.

Its built-in kernel is 80EU's Xe, which has not made any progress in recent years, probably equivalent to the level of MX450 alone, can play some mainstream online games, can also be used for video codec acceleration.

Thanks to the addition of dual-channel DDR5 memory, the read and write speed is still very good, and it is also helpful to the performance of kernel display.

The hard drive is Samsung's PM9B1, which takes the route of PCIe4.0, and its performance is very close to that of the flagship PCIe 3.0. it is characterized by very low fever and strong stability.

Creative production as a "high-energy lightweight book" with standard pressure processor, we still give priority to testing some test software that represents creative production work to see if it can run smoothly. First of all, we tested PCMark10, which represents the comprehensive office performance, and finally got a high score of 5960, which can run all the integrated office software smoothly.

In CROSSMARK, another software that tests comprehensive office performance, Asustek scored 1857 in Intrepid 15i 2023. As long as it is a notebook certified by Intel Evo platform, its performance in this software will not be too bad.

Strong CPU + good screen, this combination will certainly be favored by some creative design groups. So we tested the PugetBench For PR with a score of 546 and a smooth preview of the 4K timeline. It seems that the video codec ability of Xe is really powerful, and it can provide good video codec ability.

At the same time, due to the excellent single-core and multi-core performance of i5-13500H, it is no problem to do slightly more complex AE special effects. We tested the PugetBench For AE and got a score of 1040, which is higher than some unique display devices.

As we mentioned earlier, the battery life of the 13th generation core has been greatly improved, and it is also true in practice. Its PCMark10 theoretical office life has reached an amazing 13 hours and 34 minutes, which is enough for one day. The author believes that the 13-generation core optimization + OLED screen power saving + 75Wh large battery these three elements jointly contributed to this progress.

Online games test in the office, Asustek fearless 15i 2023 can play mainstream online games? With the blessing of the 120Hz OLED screen, the look and feel of playing competitive games is very clear and sharp, so we will test the following games at 2.8K native resolution and 1080p low image quality to see if they can meet 2.8k 60 frames or 1080p 120 frames.

We first run "CS:GO" BenchMark, the measured 1080p resolution can run at an average of 133 frames, can run all over the 120Hz screen.

After switching to the native resolution of 2.8K, it can still maintain an average of 62 frames. It can be said that Asustek fearless 15i 2023 can play "CS:GO".

In League of Legends, Asus Intrepid 15i 2023 can run at an average resolution of about 170p at a resolution of 1080p.

Even if it is opened to 2.8K native resolution, it can reach an average of 155 frames, the game experience is very smooth.

A large online game like "PUBG" can run smoothly at an average of more than 60 frames if it is opened to a very low picture quality + 70% rendering, but if you want to play a more stressful game, consider the scheme of Thunder 4 graphics card expansion + a mid-range independent graphics card.

Summing up in today's test of CTOnews.com, we found that Asustek Intrepid 15i 2023 has made a great improvement in the important aspects of screen, performance and battery life, while the upgrades of the 13th generation Core + OLED Asustek good screen + 75Wh large battery all point to the pain point of the thin book. For young office workers or creative producers who need a good screen performance, Asustek Intrepid 15i 2023 is undoubtedly a good choice.

At present, Asustek Intrepid 15i 2023 has been put on sale, the first price is 5699 yuan, you can also enjoy three periods of interest-free and evaluation back 100 yuan E card, if you are interested, you can find out.

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