Chris here with ASUS's new 2023 Vivo Book Pro 15 OLED this model here can be configured with
up to an RTX 4060 for its dedicated GPU and my model here has the RTX 3050 now the CPU
you can figure that up to a core I9 the 13900h but I have with this one the 13620h so it has a
max turbo 4.9 gigahertz and 10 cores with this model for Ram 16 gigabytes is my model and you
can also configure that up to 32 gigabytes and I have two terabytes of storage that is in raid 0.
now this model here only weighs about 1.8 kilos the 16 inch version is about 1.9 and it's got a
stunning OLED screen 600 nits 15.6 inches 16 by 9 aspect ratio and a resolution of 28.80 by 16
green tea on board it does have a 70 watt hour battery and Wi-Fi 6E
the VivoBook Pro 15 does weigh 1.76 kilos and if we add our power cable and the 150 watt power
supply brings up our total travel weight then to 2.26 kilos for a 15.6 inch laptop it's not too bad
so the lid here is made out of Alloys so we've got a metal lid that does yes pick up fingerprints
I've intentionally not wiped this down I've been using it now for about a week and this
is what it's going to end up like you can see the smudges everywhere so it's a laptop that you'll
be wiping it down quite frequently if you don't want it to look like this so they've got this
raised up little logo here something a little bit different and opening it up you can do it
one-handed yes there we go it is open and our keyboard now they do have their anti-microbial
guard they call it on the top here so it's going to kill almost all of the bacterias and I guess
it's a good thing to have so you're constantly typing and touching your keyboard aren't you so
it's good it's there touch pad nice and large and no issues with it at all it's a very good touch
pad and even finer movements it doesn't jump all around the cursor so sensitivity is good and I do
not find it annoying I don't need to plug in a mouse I'm happy to actually use it and I'm not
much of a touchpad person so number pad key here power button location hmm I would like to see this
up here I really like it when it's away from the keyboard but I haven't accidentally triggered it
it's a little harder to press and yes it does have a built-in fingerprint reader so you can
just log in using that if you wanted to instead of keying in your passwords and whatnot now typing on
this keyboard good there is very little Flex 1.4 millimeters of travel they have a slight inwards
curve to them these keycaps and overall very nice they are backlit Keys too and I'm not really doing
it justice at the moment it's got three different levels this is it in its maximum level and it does
light up and illuminate everything here so there is no RGB it's just this simple white light which
is fine because this is not a gaming laptop and then the underside we've got two feet at the front
rubber feet and a large one at the rear this is all our intake vent here so the fans inside I'm
gonna sucker in the cool air and then they blow that hot air from three places three vents so here
here and here now we do have our downwards frying Harman Kardon speakers I'll give you a sample of
them now 90 Hertz refresh rate 2.8 K resolution touch support and because it's a flip model you
can convert this from being a Windows 11 laptop into then a Windows 11 tablet getting access to
the internals is not too difficult so we have all these T5 torque screws around the outside
loosen and remove all of those and then you need to pry off this rear cover now I did start around
the top here I felt that was the easiest work your way around and just be really clear careful with
this this plastic Clips inside that could break and once you've done all of that then gently just
pry off this plastic back here and there we have our internals now my model here does come with 16
gigabytes of RAM now that's soldered onto the motherboard however we do have one ddr5 sodium
slot right here it's empty at the moment and I could put in then an additional 16 and that would
give me 32 in total that's that's the maximum upgrade ability there with it the other good news
is well we do have we have the two ssds now they are Intel ssds they are their 670ps one terabyte
so I've got two terabyte ones here and they are currently running in a raid zero so those ssds can
be swapped out you could just run there both of them pcie 4.0 starts you could change them and we
do have an upgradeable wireless card this is from mediatek this one right here and it's Wi-Fi 6E
so you could change that as well our battery this is 70 Watt hours and I typically see around about
seven and a half hours of just light use with the brightness set to 30 percent Chrome tabs things
like that nothing too strenuous and we do have the Dual copper transfer pipes here so that's our
cooling for in my version the RTX 3050 and then the core i7 13 650h the laptop is 19 millimeters
the thickness of it and on the left here you can see we've got a SD card slot now it's ultra high
speed two specs so it's about 312 megabytes per second maximum transfers 3.5 millimeter headphone
jack this is one of three x Advance here and here we do have a USB 3.2 Gen 2 that one or gen 1 I
think it is sorry and then on this side we've got our DC in to charge gigabit Lan HDMI 2.1 this is a
USB 3.2 gn2 a 3.2 gn2 type c Port Thunderbolt port and Status LEDs then our display it is absolutely
stunning so we have here an AMOLED that does have a 16x9 aspect ratio with the Vivo book 16 you get
the 16 by 10 aspect ratio but because I've got the 15.6 inch model it's 16x9 I don't mind it but
I would actually prefer the 16x10 now because we are running here 120hz it's everything is
super fluid now you can't see that really with my recording because I'm only recording at 30 frames
per second here but just let me tell you that it is real smooth especially when you come from 60
to 120 you really do notice this difference now the resolution is 2880 by 1620 and I am running
at the moment a 200 scaling now it's got 600 nits at the brightness so it is a super bright
screen and I have of course measured the color here that it's able to produce and being OLED
I am not surprised by these results that they are very good extremely good here so srgb 100 coverage
we've got ntsc 95 coverage there Adobe RGB 97 so that is excellent and then P3 color gamut
that's a hundred percent there so it's a screen that will not disappoint at all now there is no
glass in front of it so it's just the screen right here a glossy very reflective coating
yes but you get those super deep blacks the colors look really good and everyone I think is going to
love this display I mean I love OLED screens that much that I use one for my desktop and
I just cannot go back to IPS laptops anymore if it's my own personal laptop I've got to have OLED
so this VivoBook 15 Pro OLED does have here a webcam that is full HD now we've got this little
privacy shutter which is great so when you flick that to the left you'll see that we've got the red
here so that's covered that webcam completely it disables it too and we have three microphones here
so I'll give you a sample now what to expect out of this full HD webcam and those mics
it is a 1080p 30 frames per second webcam and it looks a little bit grainy and I've also noticed
that the audio is not quite in sync properly but the mics do sound good they're quite sensitive
now this avivobook Pro 15 that I've got does come in different configurations so my model
here has the core i7 the 13 620h and that can turbo up to 4.8 gigahertz and this particular
model that I've got has the RTX 3050 only yes but you can also get the RTX 4060 with its eight
gigabytes of RAM would be a lot better now under the device manager here just wanted to point out
just a couple of the things that you'll see here for our fingerprint reader that that is there
an egus Tech touch fingerprint sensor and our camera well it doesn't say anything else about
it but that's 1080p the disk drives listed as just simply raid of course because that's the
way it is configured but the two Intel drives as I showed you when we looked at the internals now
just how fast are they well here are the speeds um you know they're not that amazing because you
can get these kind of speeds just out of a single at very good and expensive pcie 4.0 SSD like say
a a Samsung 980 Pro you better get even better write speeds than this so it is good that we
do have raid and it's very fast and we have 1.8 gigabytes free on first boot don't get
me wrong but it could be faster just having a faster single bitter Drive okay than that Intel
there sensors on board while there's just a head sensor something else you know there's nothing
really that interesting uh the Wi-Fi card is this one so it is Wi-Fi 6E and it is the mt790 zero
two and the signal strength has been fine but I have noticed that it doesn't seem to be quite
as good as the Intel ax200 and 11 that I had with their other Zen book there so looking at
some benchmarks so just run through a couple of these I want to get too carried away here but
fire strike extreme does show us that the physics score is excellent for this chip really good and
the graphics no that's quite low if you're looking at this from a gaming laptop perspective you know
not wonderful I recommend at least getting the 3060 with eight gigabytes of RAM and try to get
a 4000 series like the 4050 4060 would be better I recommend going for that model the same with time
spy here so CPU score great graphic score yeah not so wonderful there and a geekbench 6 does show us
that it's a very potent chip indeed take a look at the single core score there just over 2200 that's
great and multi-core score also really good that is impressive and cinebench of course ran that
cinemage R23 same kind of result here very strong performance here from the chip the multi-core
score is excellent and in general everything runs really fast quick and snappy and video playback
so decoding 4K vp9 everything I've thrown at it it all works just fine there's no point me
showing that this is the built-in software so we do have McAfee that's down here that keeps nagging
me about buying it getting the full version so I would just uninstall that that is bloatware
to me but we do have this which is my azus now my Asus has a lot of different settings in here
that'll just quickly run through so battery care mode we can enable this so you limit the charging
to 80 that's great not all manufacturers do this it's hard to believe but they don't it's good to
see it's their fan mode now I've set the fan mode into performance so it will be a little bit louder
fan sample later on in the video but it increases the course to Performance which is what I want
here and this is another thing that is really good to see the mux switch so you can swap over
between the discrete gpus so in my case the RTX 3050 you get a little bit of performance doing so
having and disabling the iris XE Graphics that comes with this the integrated Graphics or you
can put it back to the MS hybrid so when it's in the hybrid motor course that's best for battery
saving when I do my battery tests I always put it into the hybrid mode because that's how you
get the maximum life out of the battery course now you've got AO noise microphone cancellation there
I really haven't touched too much of that I've got it off at the moment just for my testing our
speaker as well sound modes okay that's just an equalizer there you can tweak that volume
booster that's what I use I will use for the audio sample did use that before sorry and then this is
very important here I love to see this so they've got OLED Kieran here so pixel refresh pixel shift
automatic behind the taskbar and then they have the transparency with the taskbar effect too as
well now another one I recommend is screen saver set a screen saver for blank and put it at one
minute so as soon as you're not using the laptop after one minute the whole screen goes blank it's
really good on just stopping any possible burn-in when I've got a desktop screen that's an LG CX no
burning after two years I don't think it's going to be an issue depends on how you look
after it so flicker free dimming I've kept that at 100 I don't see any Flicker at all
banding and you have their Splendid color modes there and just going down a little further here
just a couple other bits task first for the connectivity and finally I just scroll down
right to the end here we've got some options there for our back lit keyboard and function
key lock so very handy built-in software and under customer support there you can find your
live updates bias updates I've already had two of them and just a recent one a couple of days
ago and let's run through now the thermal so you can see that it did thermal throttle it
got up to 94 degrees the chipset and what about our GPU scroll down here and take a look so the
GPU also gets a little warm but it's not too bad oh thermal Limit Oh no hang on Hotspot getting
up to 79 and 72 the GPU so that's okay and a pull 65 Watts that's it it's not a super powerful part
there the RTX 3050. now the fan you've probably been hearing that in the background you might
have thought that oh Chris has got really bad audio quality this time around what's
going on here it's a bit of fan noise coming from the laptop and I'll give you a sample now
what it sounds like under full load so this is gaming or cinebench when it will sound like this
now this is where you do notice the dedicated graphics especially if you've got the RTX 4060
with eight gigabytes of RAM so video editing even though I've just got the base model or the GPU
really for this crtx 3050 you do notice that the playback is very very smooth here and that's the
Cuda cores they are certainly helping out so if I set the playback resolution here to full I am not
noticing any dropped frames editing 4K video by the way with Adobe Premiere Pro here this is the
latest version latest update so what I will do now is export this and see how long it's going to take
it should be a little bit faster than just simply integrated Graphics but because I've got it in the
mux mode I believe that the integrated Graphics is disabled so I might not have access to that quick
sync it will be interesting now I do use this YouTube preset as what I've always been using
for years now and a lot of people say hey it's not the most efficient that you can do it even
quicker but that's what I've been using all this time so that's why I do this for the comparison
so I will time it of course and just going to hit export so it is one minute there of footage
and the timer has started okay this is wow really just ripping through this this is going to be
faster than the Zenbook Flip 14 OLED that I've just reviewed too a lot faster look at this this
is going to complete it in well under 20 seconds maybe yes so you could say that was probably about
15 seconds really quick that is impressive now the RTX 3050 might not be high-end in fact it is very
low end and it's only got the six gigabytes of RAM but here it's okay handling cyberpunk 2077 60
frames per second 1080p medium settings and look at all these pedestrians about there's a lot to
render a lot going on and it's okay so it can do a better 1080p gaming on the side but if you do
intend to game a lot and you want higher visual settings you want to use like Ray tracing and
things like that this is where I recommend you go for the RTX 4060 model definitely that's the one
you would go with and I would personally pick that one over this model but that's what I got sent
GTA 5 now and I've got it set to the native screen resolution so 2880 by 1620 and I've load
the settings down a little bit with GTA 5 and I'm still not able to get 120 frames per second which
of course is The Sweet Spot that's what you want with all gaming really because of the OLED screen
it's 120 hertz now this is still looking very good really quite playable I just need to lower down a
few settings and then of course I will be able to game at 120 frames per second with GTA 5. I roll
this is an excellent laptop it takes many boxes the screen's the big one for me having it OLED
fantastic now a bit of a tip here to increase the longevity of the screen to help get rid of
any screen burn I'm using a desktop LG CX since its release and I have no screen burn but what I
do is the screensaver set it to one minute blank okay so if you step away from your computer it's
just going to turn on blank screen okay and then as soon as you come back got bang it's up again
so you know you lose no time really and it's going to help things the performance from the GPU side
of things well a little disappointing because I've got the low end model here the RTX 3050
as I mentioned probably about three times in the video if you intend to do like heavy 3D work your
CAD work or even video exporting but very heavy stuff and you intend to game a little bit I would
go for the 40 60 RTX 4060 with its eight gigabytes of RAM is going to be a lot more potent and better
for future proofing too in your investment here now the model that I've got with the core A7 with
the 13 628 very good performance from that 10 core chip you could go to the 12 core chip you
could go with the of course the 13900h model if you need that extra performance but honestly I
don't I don't really think most people are going to be needing that and battery life from the 70
watt hour battery okay uh only about seven and a half hours that's the screen brightness I set to
30 Chrome tabs YouTube a lot of YouTube that kind of stuff you should make it through a full day
just which isn't bad at all and I like the fact that it's got Thunderbolt 4 on here that's great
to have of course we've got the uh SD card reader another positive webcam has the shutter another
great thing too good backup keyboard good touchpad all around everything is excellent there's just
one minor complaint from me and well two one is the fan noise uh you do definitely hear it when
you're pushing the system you're going to hit that fan noise if you're in the performance
mode which you really do need to be in if you're going to be encoding video gaming anything really
demanding the other is the SSD speed for RAID 0 is a little disappointing we've got pcie 4.0
ssds they get those kind of figures with a single drive not even in a RAID 0 configuration that's
a minor little nitpick there but it's great to have the almost two terabytes of storage this
model does have so thank you so much for watching my review here of the Asus Zen Book Pro 15 OLED