- Hey guys this is Austin,
and welcome to CES 2020,
where the madness has truly and officially begun.
Our friends over at Asus ROG,
well they like to bring out the special toys,
the things which are a little bit...
Okay, look, this is a monitor
that's running at 360 frames per second right now.
And I'm going to now proceed
to spend the next three minutes of this video
trying to explain to you what it looks like
because you're watching a video at 24 frames per second.
So this is the ROG Swift,
and what really separates it
from pretty much every other display out there
is the fact that it runs at a full 360 hertz.
Yes, we've gone past 60, past 144, past 240
all the way to 360 frames per second.
Now can you tell a difference?
It depends.
Are you good at games?
If not...
So this is very much aimed to be an eSports monitor.
It's not really meant for Ken to play Red Dead.
So compared to something like a 120 frames per second,
what I can see with my naked eye,
which I don't know why I would look at it with anything else
is the fact that while the 120 and the 360 look very smooth
but the main difference in the actual clarity of the image.
So if you try to look at, say,
like the text on this DOTA demo,
it's very blurry running at like 120 or 144,
or even up to 240.
Whereas at 360 it is razor sharp.
Now there are certainly downsides to this display.
So it only runs at 1080p,
it is very much not meant
to have like a ton of crazy high end like HDR specs.
The main idea here is that this is an eSports display,
it is meant to be the fastest display
that you could pretty much possibly get your hands on.
And if you're a Ninja,
this is going to be great.
And if you're everyone else who wants to be as good as him
be good first and then the display will be helpful.
JJ, in one sentence or less,
can you please describe why you love the monitor
that's right in front of us right now?
- I don't even need one sentence, man.
- That was your whole sentence.
- Okay, maybe I need two words.
1152 zones, 1400 nits.
- That's a lot of brightness.
Thank you very much, sir.
This is the ROG Swift PG32UQX.
And essentially...
That's all I actually need to talk about,
he already hit it.
1400 nits of brightness.
This thing is obscene.
So especially when you look at this,
so you can see that there a-
Well actually, you might not be able to see
because again all of the things that we're looking at today
are, you know, incredibly high brightness and contrast
and high frame rates that you can't really see
on a YouTube video.
But trust me when I say
this thing looks incredibly bright.
So especially when you look at the contrast
between some of the darker areas here in this fire.
I mean it is like eye searingly bright.
It is so bright.
And the cool part about this
is that you have a ton of other capabilities with the fact
that it runs at 144 hertz,
that you do have a full 4K resolution,
it's a full 32 inch display.
But when you're sitting right in front of it,
not even counting any of the other stuff,
just purely looking at the HDR implementation
it is absolutely incredible
how much dynamic range you're getting.
Now if you want to go even bigger,
there's the 43 inch display
which not only has a full 4K resolution.
What I really like is it will run
at a full 144 frames per second
with a single DisplayPort cable.
So there's no chroma sub-sampling,
it's still running at a full 10 bit.
And what you're getting here is a display
which well only runs at 1000 nits,
unlike the 1400 nits over there,
but it's still an incredibly good looking display
which is really nice and large.
However I have been very helpfully informed by JJ
that I forgot to mention that this has a remote
which would be perfect for, say, oh, I don't know,
a next generation console.
Now if we're being real
what I might be most excited for here
is the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14
with built-in This Is branding.
How do you feel about that, Matt?
- I feel great.
Subscribe to This Is.
- So obviously the most exciting feature right off the bat
is the AniMe Matrix display.
I'm definitely saying that wrong,
I don't actually know if that's the final name.
But essentially, this is an LED panel
that is on the back of the Zephyrus
which you can completely customize.
Which we have very thankfully from our friends at Asus
done with This Is branding.
But you can turn it off, you can put whatever you want,
it'll animate with like a GIF or whatever you'd like to do.
But while that's really the showy thing,
what I'm excited for is what's inside this guy.
Because this is one of the every first laptops
to ship with the brand new Ryzen 4000 series mobile chips,
aka laptops are about to get
a whole lot more exciting this year.
So inside you have a couple of options
going from Ryzen 5, which has a six core design,
or Ryzen 7 which this is rocking
with a full eight cores.
Now I am incredibly, incredibly excited
to get my hands on this and play around with it.
Although unfortunately this one is heavily locked down,
so I can't so much as say the word Geekbench out loud
without it wanting to close itself down.
But what we're getting here is some serious boost,
I believe it's over 4 gigahertz on this model
and Asus is actually using their own,
I guess I wanna say custom version of Ryzen.
But they do have the HS model,
which is going to be running at 35 watts,
but give you the power roughly of the 45 watt model.
So essentially what you get here
is an incredibly powerful laptop processor with eight cores
in an AMD system.
Which is very exciting.
For real though,
this is an incredibly exciting moment
because laptops especially
have been very, very much dominated by Intel,
even on the gaming side but especially on the portable side.
However with Zen 2 hitting with the Ryzen 4000 series,
going up to eight cores on a laptop,
which let me just sort of make clear
is actually very portable.
So this is a 14 inch laptop
with an RTX 2060 and an eight core Ryzen processor
and yet it's not that much bigger than most Ultrabooks.
So it starts with Ryzen 5 and a 1660Ti,
but if you go all the way to Ryzen 7 and RTX 2060
we should still only be looking at about $2000.
Which for this level of power,
especially if Ryzen 4000 series is as good as I hope it is
is super, super, exciting.
It also has a really small 180 watt power brick,
which I say really small, but considering it's 180 watts
it is pretty small.
But the other cool thing
is it also supports USB-C power delivery
which means that as long as you're not gaming,
you could actually use a standard power brick up to 65 watts
and it will charge the laptop.
I should also probably mention
that it has a 120 hertz panel at 1080p,
or if you want a high resolution go up to 1440p at 60 hertz.
Now beyond that there are a couple of other things.
So of course it does have not only the Ergolift design,
but you have a pretty solid variety of ports
including a couple of USB-A,
a couple of USB-C as well as HDMI.
And one of the coolest parts about this,
is the fact that it actually looks very
I don't want to say gamer-y because it doesn't,
but it looks nice.
I will say that the Zephyrus definitely kind of
this generation I think is, it looks grown up.
Especially in this gray.
There's also a white model,
but it doesn't look super show off-y
which is nice because this is very thin laptop,
it's a very powerful laptop,
but it doesn't really look
like some huge bulky gaming laptop.
And for me, that's really what I'm looking for.
I am incredibly excited for this laptop
and it comes out in two to three months
depending on where you are
and depending on how quickly they build them.
So that, my friends, is a look at what Asus has to offer
here at CES 2020.
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for lots more CES coverage this year.
As well as you can check out some of the other videos here,
and please wish me luck
because I have many, many more videos to make.
Or everything else I see is lame
and I'm gonna go hang out in Vegas for a couple days.
It's win-win, I don't know.