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The author has always had no resistance to the all-around frivolity with both frivolity and performance, while Asustek has always been the undisputed king of this track. When the new products are released every year, Asustek can bring us new performance small steel guns with creative industrial designs. And our protagonist Asustek intrepid Pro16 2023 flagship edition is a flagship all-around lightweight book that takes into account both large screen, lightweight and performance.

CTOnews.com also got the i9-13980HX + RTX 4070 version of the Asustek Dauntless Pro16 2023 flagship version. In this article, let's take a look at its performance.

The design of Asustek intrepid Pro16 2023 flagship version gives people the feeling of Asustek, with a full sense of quality and exquisite feeling. Although this is a 16-inch large-screen laptop, it is still as thin as 2CM and weighs only about 2kg, which is quite light and thin.

Side A uses embossed Logo design, which is also the new family design of Asustek fearless series. The edge of the all-metal fuselage is smooth without cutting hands and is not stained with fingerprints.

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 a stereo microphone at the top of the screen, and the camera has a physical anti-peep cover.

The numeric keypad is kept on the C-side keypad, and the keyboard supports white backlight, which should be praised. The orange ESC key in the upper left corner has the finishing touch. There are also "Harman Kardon" master sound effects engraved under the numeric keypad. The power key is located in the upper right corner, which makes a difference between the feel and other keys, so it will not be touched by mistake.

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. Just slide to the left and you can exhale an Asustek virtual knob. 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 D side also has a long orange foot pad, which makes the look younger and fashionable and increases the air intake at the bottom. As for the specific internal configuration, CTOnews.com will take a look at the back cover for you later.

In order to meet the needs of office and productivity groups, Asustek intrepid Pro16 2023 flagship version of the interface is also quite rich, on the left is a DC power port, a RJ45 wired network port, a USB-A 5Gbps interface, and a UHS-II speed SD card reader.

There are also two Lightning 4s on the right (support for PD charging and DP power output), a USB-A 5Gbps port, a HDMI 2.1FRL and 3.5mm headphone interface, which is as scalable as a game book, and there is no need to carry a dock when you go out.

The OLED screen measured on the screen has the advantages of bright color, uniform brightness, high contrast and good compatibility with HDR. With the promotion of the strategy of "Asustek good screen", the OLED screen has been gradually used in the middle and low-end thin products, while the screen quality of high-end products is also growing day by day. The OLED screen in our hand has a resolution of 3200mm 2000, or 3.2K, with extremely high definition. And has a high refresh rate of 120Hz, not only daily use is more smooth, but also has the attributes of the game e-sports.

We have adjusted the resolution to the highest 3200 x 2000 and the brightness to the highest manually. Then the color gamut color accuracy test is carried out with the color calibrator. In the measured standard mode, the color gamut covers 100% of the sRGB,94.5% Adobe RGB and 99.4% of the P3 color gamut, the appearance is very bright.

Gamut representation in ↑ default mode

If you don't like being too bright, like other notebooks with Asus good screen, Asus Intrepid Pro16 2023 Ultimate Edition 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 coverage will be reduced to 99.1% sRGB, and the gamut volume will be reduced to 102.2%. At this time, the look and feel will be quite accurate, and it will no longer be colorful, so it is more suitable for use in 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, this screen will adjust the color gamut coverage to 99.2% DCI-P3 color gamut, and adjust the color gamut volume to 103.4% DCI-P3, which is very suitable for creating wide color gamut content.

Gamut representation in ↑ DCI-P3 mode

The final DisPlay P3 mode is the most accurate mode. Each Asus screen has been checked out of the factory, the measured average Δ E is only 0.82 and the maximum Δ E is only 2.64, which is very suitable for professional color matching, graphic design and so on.

As we all know, 90Hz can greatly improve the fluency of web browsing compared to 60Hz, while 120Hz is not only more fluent, but also can meet the requirements of e-sports 's game level. Due to the characteristics of OLED screen, it supports the fast response of the fastest 0.2ms, which is much faster than the current mainstream IPS, TN or VA screens.

In order to show you the advantage of 0.2ms response time intuitively, the author chose another 120Hz LCD screen to run UFOTEST 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's Dreadnaught Pro16 2023 flagship version of the 0.2ms response OLED screen is much less, in the game can bring a better competitive state, every frame will be clear, but also to some extent avoid the occurrence of 3D vertigo.

↑ 120Hz OLED response Shadow Test

Internal hardware in order to give you a deeper understanding of the hardware design of this versatile lightweight book, we take it apart and introduce its internal structure at the same time. After opening the back cover, we found that its internal layout has really changed greatly, not only the heat dissipation performance has been greatly improved, but also the expansibility is still excellent. First of all, this all-around lightweight book uses double fans and five heat pipe heat dissipation modules, which is completely at the level of the game.

So what is the heat dissipation capacity of this module? Can you hold down the i9-13980HX flagship CPU and RTX 4070, a high-end graphics card? We turn the fan on to full speed mode, and then bake the FPU for 15 minutes. The power consumption of the CPU package is stable at about 110W and the temperature is stable at 84 ℃. This performance release can be called a burst, which is completely at the level of the flagship game book. The performance of i9-13980HX, a top mobile processor, has been well released.

In terms of graphics cards, the RTX 4070 performance release of Asustek intrepid Pro16 2023 flagship version can reach 120W. Thanks to the new Ada architecture of the RTX 40 Series GPU, the energy efficiency ratio has been greatly improved, and 120W is enough to release most of the performance. And the core temperature is only 72.2 ℃ at this time, which is quite cool.

It is worth mentioning that the Asus Intrepid Pro16 2023 series have added a unique output function, which can greatly reduce the output delay, further improve the game performance, but also conducive to the performance release of GPU. However, if it is used for productivity scenarios, the author proposes to turn off the unique display output and let the nuclear display also participate in the work. When playing the game, turn on the unique display output to increase the number of frames.

Next, we tested the most stressful double baking for 15 minutes, CPU stabilized at 56W 74 ℃, GPU stabilized at 97W 73 ℃, and the total performance release could reach about 155W. Although the fuselage is light and thin, the performance release is not inferior to that of mainstream games. And the author believes that for RTX 40 series notebooks, a 100W power consumption of the graphics card is enough, and the rest of the power consumption is stuffed to CPU in order to maximize the performance. It is obvious that Asustek has made an effort to adjust.

The memory aspect deserves a big favor. Asustek intrepid Pro16 2023 flagship edition uses the dual-channel DDR5 memory design composed of 16GB+16GB, some creative workers have a rigid demand for memory size, this design is very considerate. 32GB is sufficient in most cases, and you can upgrade your own super-large memory if you have a large demand for memory.

The memory speed is measured as follows, all of which are excellent memory levels of DDR5 notebooks.

M.2 slot on the right side of the memory, the whole machine has only one hard disk slot, if the 1TB is not enough, you can also upgrade to the M.2 solid state with high 4TB.

The built-in 1TB hard drive comes from Samsung's flagship hard drive, the model is PM9A1, and its speed performance is very excellent, which is in line with the positioning of PCIe 4.0 4 SSD high-end products, as shown in the figure.

At the bottom is a 90Wh battery, which can be said to be quite large. Although the two high-performance cores consume a lot of power, it is believed that Asustek's Dauntless Pro16 2023 Ultimate Edition can still provide good battery life.

Performance test next let's take a look at its theoretical running score. Asus Dauntless Pro16 2023 Ultimate Edition directly uses the most powerful Intel mobile processor i9-13980HX. It has 8 performance cores + 16 energy efficiency cores, which is twice as high as that of the previous generation. Among them, 8 cores support hyper-threading technology, so there are 24 cores and 32 threads; the second-level cache capacity is significantly increased, and the third-level cache is as high as 36MB. The factory default TDP is 55W, but this is only a benchmark requirement, and the performance release of Asustek's fearless Pro16 2023 flagship version will obviously exceed this requirement.

The Cinebench R20 was used to measure the single core run score of 810 and the multi-core run score of 11444. Are currently at the top level.

R23 single core run score 2131, multi-core run score 30229. 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.

The CPU-Z runs as follows, which has even surpassed the previous generation of desktop i9-12900K, which will be particularly useful for creative producers who need a lot of multithreaded computing.

Next, let's take a look at the GPU performance score. In TimeSpy, the final graphics card score is 11627, which is very close to the desktop RTX 3060Ti, which means that it can not only run complex 3D modeling video effects smoothly, but also run some mainstream online games at 2K resolution.

Creative production since the flagship version of Asustek intrepid Pro16 2023 is positioned as the flagship omnipotent, let's mainly test some creative production software. Let's first take a look at the commonly used video editing software PR and special effects production software AE. If you have made special effects with AE, you will know that AE has a great demand for memory. Asustek Intrepid Pro16 2023 Ultimate Edition benefits from 32G high-speed DDR5 memory, which can produce special effects very smoothly in AE. The measured PugetBenchMark for Ae score is 1349, not to mention medium and large special effects.

In PR, thanks to the strong multicore performance of the 13th generation Core i9-13980HX, Xe kernel display acceleration and RTX 40 series NVENC encoders, even real-time playback of the 4K original does not require an agent, and the editing is very smooth. The score of the measured PugetBenchMark for Pr is 1041.

Such a powerful configuration, used for modeling, rendering and other work is absolutely no problem. We tested Blender and V-Ray. The test results of Blender are as follows, the modeling ability of RTX 40 series GPU has been greatly improved, and the rendering speed has also been significantly improved.

V-Ray 's running score is shown in the figure below, which has a significant performance improvement compared with the previous generation, so it is very suitable to be used as a creative workstation.

In the above high-load scenarios, Asustek Dauntless Pro16 2023 flagship version performed well, not to mention in CrossMark, which represents comprehensive office performance. The measured PCMark10 score of the flagship version of Asustek's intrepid Pro16 2023 is 2272, which is at the top of all the notebooks we have tested.

As we mentioned earlier, the 13-generation Core has made a big improvement in low-load energy efficiency, coupled with 90Wh's oversized battery, which makes us look forward to its battery life. We turn on the power-saving mode at 50% brightness, and the measured PCMark10 modern office test life has reached 6 hours and 28 minutes. If there is no power when you go out, you can also use the PD charger to replenish energy at any time.

The author believes that the Asustek intrepid Pro16 2023 flagship version is actually very suitable for playing games, because it is equipped with a strong CPU+GPU, and even provides a unique direct connection switch, so I am still looking forward to its game performance. All of the following games will be tested in 2.5K resolution + highest image quality + single display output mode, and if there is DLSS, we will drive to balanced DLSS. With DLSS 3, the number of frames of the switch DLSS 3 will be tested separately.

First of all, e-sports game, we selected "CS:GO", "PUBG" two mainstream e-sports games for testing. Measured in "CS:GO", running BenchMark can reach an average of 315 frames, which can run all over the 120Hz screen.

On the side of "PUBG", it is measured that it can run to an average of 155frames under the highest picture quality, which can meet the high-frame play of the highest picture quality. It is worth mentioning that because the response speed of the OLED screen is extremely fast, it has a special advantage in the shooting game that counts against the clock.

Of course, the most attractive thing about the RTX 40 series is its DLSS 3 technology. The so-called DLSS 3 is a performance multiplier technology driven by AI, driven by a new fourth generation Tensor Core and a new optical flow accelerator, is the latest version of NVIDIA's highly acclaimed deep learning supersampling technology, and has a groundbreaking optical multi-frame generation function, which will open a new era of NVIDIA RTX neural network rendering games and applications.

To put it simply, in the past, DLSS 2 improved the image quality and the number of frames by rendering a low-resolution image, and then AI zoomed in to high resolution. While the new DLSS 3 is compatible with DLSS 2, it also adds a frame generation function, which can insert a new frame calculated by AI between two real frames to double the number of frames. Combined with the super-resolution function of DLSS 2, AI can reconstruct up to 7/8 display pixels, and the game performance can be up to four times better than without DLSS!

Let's first take a look at the most stressful cyber punk 2077, which ran its own BenchMark under 2.5K superlight and got the following data. By default, it averages only 21 frames, so you can't play smoothly. After turning on DLSS 2, it can reach an average of 47 frames, and the play experience is not very smooth. When the DLSS 3 option is fully on, the number of frames can be increased by more than 3 times, increasing the average frame to about 67 frames, satisfying 2.5K playful light pursuit. It seems that DLSS 3 technology is indeed outstanding.

Legendary 3A masterpiece "Wizard 3" has also recently updated the next-generation version, with greatly improved configuration requirements, but also provides support for DLSS 3 technology, which is good news for the RTX 40 series laptops.

From the frame count test, the performance of Wizard 3 is similar to that of cyberpunk, with an average of 18 frames without DLSS. On the other hand, the average frame of the DLSS 2 balanced gear is only 41 frames, which makes it impossible to play smoothly. But if you turn on DLSS 3, you can achieve an average of nearly 64 frames, and the game experience is still very good.

Overall, Asustek Intrepid Pro16 2023 Ultimate Edition can also meet the running requirements of popular games. In e-sports 's game, it is enough to run all over the 3.2K 120Hz screen, both fineness and fluency are satisfactory. In the 3A masterpiece, with the blessing of DLSS 3 technology, it can also play the mainstream light-chasing 3A masterpiece in the market at 2.5K resolution.

To sum up, in my opinion, Asustek fearless Pro16 2023 Ultimate Edition is a product that is quite suitable for young people engaged in creative production. It uses top-notch CPU and powerful GPU, and is compatible with both large memory and large hard disk extensions. Coupled with the unique Asustek OLED Asus screen and Asustek virtual knob, it is absolutely attractive to young people in the creative production industry. At the same time, as long as the driver is updated to the Game Ready driver, it can be transformed into a thin game book, strong enough to play any 3A masterpiece at 2.5K resolution.

Generally speaking, if you are a creative worker with a demand for performance and want to play games in your spare time, then Asustek fearless Pro16 2023 flagship is a lightweight and versatile bucket machine. Friends with the above needs might as well pay attention to it.

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