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There is a paradox in the field of creative notebook production. Creators often prefer thin notebooks and want large memory for heavy creative production. And large memory and thin often can not be taken into account. But this problem has recently been solved by Asustek. At the recent Asus Lingyao 2023 product launch, Asustek launched a new product-Lingyao X Ultra. In cooperation with Intel, Asus developed a new Asustek ultra-high-speed system module, which is stuffed with 32 gigabytes of 7467MHz high-speed memory in the ultra-thin body, as well as i9-13905H processor and RTX 4080 unique show, designed to meet the needs of professional creators.

CTOnews.com has received Lingyao X Ultra. In this article, let's take a look at the experience of this new laptop full of materials.

The design Lingyao X Ultra measures 35.5 x 25.1 x 1.69 cm and weighs 2.4kg. It is heavier than the general omnipotent Ben, but considering the internal configuration, it can be said to be very frivolous.

The design of side A continues to adopt the Asustek family concentric circle design, and the metal drawing style of side A highlights the newly designed small A logo, which makes it feel more young and smart. What's interesting is that this Logo also integrates the effects of RGB lights, and you can customize the color of the lights.

Open and close the B side with one hand, you can find the unique floating keyboard design, the keyboard area will rise with the cover, from the front, the main screen and the keyboard are integrated, greatly reducing the size of the chin and increasing the screen share in disguise.

At the same time, this design also makes the keyboard angle more suitable for ergonomics, which can be said to kill many birds with one stone.

It is worth mentioning that the keyboard also supports single-button WRGB backlighting, which can be controlled separately by software, and has a game-based gene. I believe that friends who know more about Asustek notebooks can also see that this keyboard, in line with the ROG Ice Blade series, can achieve both ergonomics, heat dissipation and visual perception.

In addition, because the keyboard is suspended, it can also use a unique fan design, direct air from under the keyboard, air from both sides, completely avoiding the embarrassment of hot air blowing screen. At the same time, it also exposes the core heat pipe to cold air as far as possible to further enhance the heat dissipation performance.

The main screen on the B side is a 16-inch, 3200 x 2000 resolution 120Hz OLED touch screen with a peak brightness of up to 550Nitt and a 100% P3 wide color range. It is DisplayHDR TrueBlack 500 certified, supports the Dolby horizon, and is a top Asus good screen, which we will test in detail later.

There is also an infrared IR camera at the top of the screen. This function can not only realize face recognition through Windows Hello, but also realize real-time background visualization in video conference or live broadcast.

There are also quite a lot of cool techs under the keyboard. First of all, there is this virtual digital keypad. As long as you click on the logo in the corner of the touchpad, you can call out a virtual digital keypad, which makes up for the regret that there is no physical digital keypad.

There is also a unique Asustek knob on the left side of the touchpad, which is slippery around and clickable in the middle, which is paired with matching software to greatly improve creative productivity.

As a flagship performance lightweight book, the side is also equipped with the necessary interface. On the right is a SD express 7.0card reader, a headphone hole, and a HDMI 2.1interface.

On the left, there are two full-speed lightning 4 40Gbps ports (support for PD charging), one USB-A 3.2 Gen2, and one DC power interface.

In addition to the computer body, the package also comes with some accessories, including an ASUS Pen 2.0 stylus and a USB-A to RJ45 cable interface.

Finally, a backpack is included in the package, and the workmanship is also very good. As a new flagship notebook, Lingyao X Ultra is full of internal materials and external accessories.

The OLED screen on the versatile large-screen notebook has the advantages of accurate color, uniform brightness, high contrast, good HDR compatibility and so on, so it is very suitable for creative designers. And this screen on Lingyao X Ultra is a good screen in Asustek's good screen.

Next, we will conduct a screen measurement. We set the screen to the highest 3200mm 2000 120Hz and manually set it to the highest brightness under SDR. Then the color gamut accuracy test is carried out with the color calibrator. The measured color gamut covers 100% sRGB, 96.2% Adobe RGB and 99.3% P3 gamut in the default mode. The color coverage is very comprehensive, but there are some problems in sRGB. The gamut volume reaches 173.6% 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, like other notebooks with Asus screen, Lingyao X Ultra 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 color gamut will be reduced to very close to the standard 100% sRGB, and the color gamut volume will also be reduced to 102.7%. 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 99.6% DCI-P3 color gamut, and adjust the color gamut volume to 108.1% DCI-P3. At this time, it is accurate and elegant to create 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 0.74, and the maximum Δ E is only 2.19, which means that it can be directly used for professional color matching, graphic design and other work.

Finally, the screen is also a touch screen that supports a 0-level stylus pressure. With this Asus Pen 4096 included in the package, it is very convenient to write and draw.

Hardware analysis Lingyao X Ultra positioning flagship performance lightweight, so equipped with i9-13905H + RTX 4080 such a strong configuration, the most special is that it uses a board 32G 7467MHz of large capacity, ultra-high frequency LPDDR5X memory, which is rare in other notebooks. So what exactly is its internal hardware? Let's take a look at the machine next. Looking at the same, you can see that a heat plate covers all the heat sources. What's interesting is that the area of the soaking plate is not large this time. Why?

Asustek calls the unique core configuration of the Lingyao X Ultra "Asustek ultra-high-speed system module". According to reports, the Asustek ultra-high-speed system module combines Intel's 13th generation CPU chip and LPDDR5X memory together to form a complete package, reducing the PCB area from the original 50*60mm package to the current 42*44.7mm package. With the support of the packaging technology, CPU, memory particles and communication modules are highly integrated, which can reduce the core area of the motherboard by 38% and improve the overall heat dissipation efficiency of the system. In addition, compared with the traditional packaging technology Asustek ultra-high-speed system module to shorten the distance between CPU and memory, can run higher frequency memory.

In addition to memory, the hard disk is also full, the body comes with a Meguiar 3400 2TB solid state disk, PCIe4.0 speed, used to store video material is quite efficient.

More than half of the fuselage is full of batteries, the built-in battery actually has enough 96Wh, almost reached the maximum value of the notebook, battery performance can be expected.

So what is the performance release of Lingyao X Ultra? Let's next test its performance release. At room temperature 24 ℃, we first use AIDA64 for single-baking FPU,15 minutes, the CPU temperature stabilized at 90 ℃ and the power consumption reached 105W, this performance release is quite good, completely reached the level of mainstream games.

Graphics card Lingyao X Ultra graphics card also reached the level of high-end RTX 4080, which contains the Cuda core can provide a lot of help for creative production work. The measured roaster is stable between 155W and 160W in 15 minutes, and the core temperature is 87.8 ℃. This performance release does not seem to reach full power consumption, but it can actually retain about 96% of the full blood performance due to the excellent energy efficiency ratio of the RTX 40 series Ada architecture.

Finally, we run the two grill software at the same time to simulate the maximum pressure. After 15 minutes, the CPU stabilized at 28W CPU stabilized at 158W, and the total power consumption reached more than 185W. This performance release is almost the same as the game book, while the thickness of Lingyao X GPU is thinner than the traditional game book, which shows the high performance density.

Next, the theoretical performance test shows that the GPU running score of RTX 4080 in 3DMark Time Spy has reached 18328, which has surpassed that of the previous generation desktop RTX 3080, which shows the high energy efficiency of this generation of RTX 40 series notebook GPU.

In terms of CPU theoretical performance, i9-13905H scored 798 points for single thread and 7865 points for multi-thread in CineBench R20, an improvement of about 15% compared to the 12th generation Core and about 5% compared to i9-13900H.

The performance of R23 is also eye-catching, with a score of 2070 for a single core and 20201 for a multi-core. It is worth mentioning that the main improvement of the 13th generation core is not in the peak performance, but in the low load energy efficiency ratio, focusing on the improvement in battery life, which will also be tested at the end of the article.

Storage is Meguiar 3400 2T hard drive, excellent performance, is currently one of the high-end PCIe 4.0 solid-state drive. In addition, it also uses a replaceable hard drive design, if there is a large file need, you can manually upgrade the 4T solid state drive.

Memory is worth focusing on, Lingyao X Ultra uses the rare 7467MHz on-board LPDDR5X memory on the market at present. Due to the use of the latest Asustek ultra-high-speed system module, it can take into account both the large capacity of slot memory and the high speed of on-board memory. The measured running points are as follows, and the performance is about the same as the high-frequency DDR5 memory of desktop computers above 6000Mhz, which is very helpful for modeling and rendering with large memory and later special effects.

Creative work since the positioning of Lingyao X Ultra is the flagship performance slim book, then we will mainly test 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. Lingyao X Ultra benefits from 32G high-speed memory and can produce special effects very smoothly in AE. The measured PugetBenchMark for Ae score is 1347, not to mention medium and large special effects.

In PR, thanks to the 13-generation Core i9-13905H's strong multicore performance, Xe kernel display acceleration and N-card NVENC encoder, 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 942.

In the commonly used color blending and editing software Davinci, we also use PugetBench For Davinci for testing, and the measured score reaches an amazing 1830 points, which can fully meet the color blending needs of large-scale video clips.

With such a powerful configuration, it must be easy to do some modeling, rendering and other work. So we also tested the commonly used modeling software Blender and the commonly used renderer V-Ray. The measured Blender results are as follows. The modeling ability of RTX 40 series GPU has been greatly improved, and the rendering speed has 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, Lingyao X Ultra has shown a good level, not to mention in PCMark10 and CrossMark, which represent comprehensive office performance. The measured PCMark10 score of Lingyao X Ultra is 8203, which is an excellent performance.

In another CrossMark that reflects comprehensive office performance, it has a comprehensive score of 2206, has the same excellent response speed, and will be very efficient in dealing with daily office work.

As we mentioned earlier, the 13-generation Core has made a big improvement in low-load energy efficiency, coupled with 96Wh'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 has a range of 9 hours and 42 minutes, which is almost enough for a day's work. If there is no power when you go out, you can use the PD charger to replenish energy at any time.

Although the positioning of the Lingyao X Ultra is the flagship light book, it is equipped with a strong CPU+GPU and even provides a unique direct connection switch, so we can still look 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 434 frames, which can run all over the 120Hz screen. 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.

On the side of "PUBG", it is measured that it can run to an average of 226frame under the highest picture quality, which can satisfy the high-frame play of the highest picture quality.

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, the past DLSS2 is to improve the image quality and the number of frames by rendering a low-resolution image, and then AI zooms in to a 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. The default state is only an average of 31 frames, so you can't play smoothly. Even if you turn on DLSS 2, you can reach an average of 66 frames. When the DLSS3 option is fully on, the number of frames can be increased by more than 3 times, and the average frame can be increased to about 100 frames, which can meet the requirement of 2.5 K 100 frames. It seems that DLSS3 technology is really 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.

Judging from the frame count test, it is very difficult for Lingyao X Ultra to chase all Open Wizards 3. Without DLSS, there is only an average of 40 frames. On the other hand, under the DLSS 2 balance, you can play at an average of 71 frames, but you can't play smoothly. But if you turn on DLSS3, you can achieve an average of nearly 105 frames, and the game experience of 100 frames is still very good.

Summary as a new product, the author is no stranger to Lingyao X Ultra. It has some elements of Asustek's flagship game book, with a unique floating keyboard, strong heat dissipation and cool WRGB. In addition, Lingyao X Ultra has made a lot of optimizations for creators. For example, the unique Asustek ultra-high speed system module, easy to use touch screen and stylus, and unique Asustek knob.

If you are a professional in the field of creative production, or if you want an omnipotent book that combines low profile and performance, consider Lingyao X Ultra's unique new product. Lingyao X Ultra has been released. If you are interested, you can buy it from various platforms.

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