- (laughs) it's crazy.
360 Hertz is like something else.
I love it, when manufacturers listen to me.
And I've been saying for years
that 4K panels make absolutely no sense in 15 inch laptops,
because the pixel density is so high
that all you're doing is pushing more pixels,
which is harder on your GPU,
and potentially harder on your battery
without the actual benefit of a sharper image.
Because 1440p at that screen size, is plenty.
And check this out.
In front of me, I have an assortment
of engineering sample laptops from Asus,
that incorporate a bunch of really good display ideas.
Which one do you wanna see first?
Should we see all up to the G14?
Well, that's only the followup to the G14
'cause this one actually contains old G14 hardware,
except for the panel.
You guys might remember this one.
It's got a Ryzen 4800H processor,
RTX, I believe it's a 2060.
This is it right here, ladies and gentlemen,
1440p, 144 Hertz.
1440p is such a freaking sweet spot.
Like if you've got eagle eyes,
you can absolutely read the text 'cause it's sharp enough
that it's not like pixelated and aliased, but not wasteful.
Sharpness compared to a 1080p panel, fantastic.
And yeah, 4K would be sharper.
I mean, it's 8 million plus pixels
instead of just about three and a half.
But it's so much more demanding to run.
And from my point of view, 'cause remember guys,
there's resolution in terms of pixel count.
But there's also resolution in terms of motion clarity.
Like resolution just means,
how your eyes can,
how clearly your eyes can resolve an image.
So, would I rather have a sharper image
with a ton of jutter because I'm running at low frame rates,
or would I rather have a slightly less sharp image,
although it still looks really good at this screen size,
but have much better motion clarity?
Well, for me, the answer's obvious.
Let's go ahead and fire up a game though.
I'm actually very excited about this development.
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All right, now we're at 150 FPS.
Oh, that's feeling fine.
And I don't even have to try to feel like,
"Oh yeah, you know, maybe this is noticeable."
Even with anti-aliasing off,
I might get a little bit of kind of shimmering
or stair-stepping in very distant objects
with diagonal lines like these stairs right here.
I can see a little bit of aliasing nonsense.
But, at 1440p,
like this has similar pixel density to something like
so a 27 inch 5K display.
Like it's really dense, so it's really fine.
So even when you're sitting really close like this,
it just looks great.
And being able to have the best of both worlds
where you've got high refresh rate and this pixel density is
it's freaking awesome.
A gaming laptop from six years ago
just looks like garbage by today's standards.
This is what we're gonna have, IPS.
If this is the exact panel
that's gonna be on the production model,
I'd be thrilled with it.
I mean, I'm not looking at a UFO test
or like doing a proper pursuit camera set up
or anything like that, but
in terms of pixel response times, it looks really good.
And this isn't even the best one that I've got here today.
I have a 360 Hertz display
that we're gonna be checking out on a laptop.
Oh, hold on a second.
No, we're not gonna go straight to the 360 Hertz.
We've got a WQHD, so that's a 1440p model that is 165.
Again, this is running older hardware on the inside.
So we're gonna,
wait, this is not it.
Wait a second.
They're doing an ROG Zephyrus, that's 4K 120?
Now that that's interesting.
Okay, let's have a look at this panel.
This thing is so freaking insane.
Got your secondary display that lifts up.
Got your twitch chat, touchscreen.
It's kinda creepy because you don't see this very often.
It almost feels like Asus is listening to customers.
So Brandon, you wanna know something?
Not only did we just get a 1440p 165 Hertz display
in a gaming laptop,
both of these displays and that one are matte.
Matt displays are back, Brandon!
Consumers, for years have been saying,
"Hey, so I have lights in my house.
It would be great if they wouldn't reflect into my eyes
off my screen."
I was trying to put my finger on, I was like,
"Yeah, this looks like so clean.
This looks so good."
Oh my God, Asus.
If this thing isn't final yet, fix this shift key.
That is a no.
Bad engineer!
You think about what you've done, geez.
Okay, hold on a second.
I wanna check something first though.
I wanna check something.
I wanna see if this one also runs at high refresh rate.
I doubt it, there's no way.
No, it's 60 Hertz only, okay.
It feels like I'm going so fast because of the like
ultra mega wide aspect ratio here.
Asus, am I doing it right?
This is a perfect example
of why I've always been so against 4K displays on laptops.
This is a 2080 class card,
we're running "DOOM Eternal"
which is a very well optimized game.
And we can't even take advantage of the 120 Hertz display
because we're only getting anywhere from 60 to 70 FPS.
And get this,
we're not getting enough FPS
'cause it's a freaking mega pixels,
instead of three and a half.
So, definitely good progress.
And what's nice about a 4K display
is that you can set it to a lower resolution.
As long as you're not looking at text,
it'll still look reasonably sharp, especially at this size.
You're not gonna really notice that interpolation
like you would way back in the day
when we were talking about like,
you know, 1280 by 1024 displays
and tryna run them in anything other than native.
In fact, we could try that really quick.
2560 by 1440, right?
You're really not giving up much.
Obviously you're not getting the full benefit
of your 4K display but,
if my argument is that there's really
no noticeable benefit to it at the screen size anyway,
then I guess it doesn't matter.
It just means that you can't run at 144 Hertz or,
for that matter, 165.
Which one of these other models can do.
That's right, 165 Hertz here, ladies and gentlemen.
So this is the Zephyrus S15
with a 1440p, 165 Hertz display.
So smooth!
So smooth.
Excuse me, so smooth I lost control of my bowel there.
I need some new underwear.
Yeah, this thing's freaking,
it's going, boys.
Okay, these are early units.
I would say that the black levels on this one
compared to either the other two I've seen so far
are not as impressive.
I'm just, I'm not that blown away
with the image on this one,
but the smoothness, is something else.
Is this TN?
No, it doesn't seem to be.
Definitely not as impressed with this panel,
at least in its early form here.
But that's okay, this wasn't the one
that I was expecting to blow me away anyway.
And I'm just excited that the G14
has a really nice looking display on it.
All right, I think I've seen enough of this.
Let's go 360 Hertz.
(laughs) it's crazy!
360 Hertz is like something else.
Not to mention that even ripping this around,
like, yeah, it's not sharp.
But it is dangerously close to looking sharp, that text.
360 FPS, 1080.
That's right, you're stuck with 1080 on this one, but,
it's only, there's only so much display port bandwidth guys.
Good black levels on this one for sure.
It's, so, smooth.
It's like, turn that motion off.
Get that frame rate way up.
Yeah, 1080 is a little low for this size like,
you know, in the foliage of the trees and stuff like that,
you can see like kind of shimmery,
kinda stair-steppy aliasing.
But, man,
if what you're after is something that just looks, fluid,
Oh, wow.
Just like the 4K 120 Hertz model,
like, we're going to legitimately need
next generation hardware,
which is what we will get, of course,
in order to take advantage of this laptop.
I'm only running at 1080p high,
which, again, this is "DOOM Eternal," guys.
The thing runs on a well optimized toaster,
and I'm getting 220 to 250 frames per second.
Let's drop it down.
It doesn't look great at lower than high.
Try medium.
And, it looks like it's running on an Xbox One S.
Yeah, it's still kept, it seems like a CPU bottleneck.
I actually don't know
what the specs of this model are gonna be
once we finally see the true production version of it.
But, I sure hope it has a Ryzen 5000 processor in it.
I mean, we're getting all 250 of those frames per second
displayed on a screen, which is nice, super smooth.
Just like, my segue to ending this video.
Thanks, Asus, for sending over these pre-production laptops
for us to check out.
It's really exciting for me to see feedback
that I've given many times over the years
implemented in a real product.
I am, stoked with the results
and I'm looking forward to checking out the real ones
with next generation hardware inside.
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