RYZEN 4000 IS AMAZING – 4900H – Asus G14 Review

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Finally I have my hands on a Ryzen 4000 series laptop – the G14 from Asus – and wow it’s amazing. It’s a powerhouse, it’s cool (by comparison anyway), and absolutely demolishes both last gen Ryzen, and Intel’s mobile offerings. Seriously impressive. So lets take a look and see what it’s all about, but first if you haven’t already, consider subscribing for more videos like this one every Monday, Wednesday and Friday!

So this is the Asus Zephyrus G14 – a stunning 14” notebook that’s impressively thin and offers a number of 4th gen Ryzen mobile CPUs, including this one, the 4900H. That’s an 8 core, 16 thread chip that in this laptop anyway, can all core boost to 3.7GHz, draws only around 54W while doing that, and peaked at 89°c, which while that sounds hot, most Intel laptops I test peak at 99-100°c. 

Horsepower is not something this chip lacks. While I had it, I benchmarked the MSI Alpha 15 which had AMD’s last gen 3750H with both Cinebench and Blender. I also threw in an older MSI laptop rocking an i7 8750H, which while not quite current gen, is very close. Here’s Blender, and as you can see, it’s a blowout. It smashes last gen, at nearly 3 times as fast, and still over twice as fast as the 8750H – but you know what’s really impressive? I threw in a desktop chip result here, the 9700KF. It’s faster than a desktop 8 core. A desktop 8 core that draws 138W, mind you! It’s obviously not quite as fast as it’s desktop counterpart, the 3700X, but not by all that much.

Cinebench is the same story, with the really impressive part being the single threaded performance up at 479 points, which is only a few points off the desktop chips – and of course multithreaded is excellent here too. Really impressive.

When it comes to gaming, I can’t test the CPUs head to head here, since the Zephyrus uses the “Max-Q” version of the RTX 2060, since it’s such a thin and light chassis, but lets just say the results are mighty impressive anyway.

	AVG FPS	1% Low FPS
BFV	70.19	32.09
PUBG	87.98	62.78
Fortnite	94.98	69.94

Oh, and while we are at it, power draw for the respective chips is pretty insane. Like I mentioned, peak power draw on the 4900H is 54W. The 8750H? 70W. Now that does come down pretty fast to around 50W as well, but still. And of course the desktop chips use a lot more, while actually not providing all that much extra performance.

So, you’ve heard about how amazing the CPU is, what about the rest of the laptop? Well that’s pretty good too. The display I have is the 1080p 120Hz model, although you can get it with a 1440p panel instead if you prefer. The 120Hz is such a great pairing for this machine, and makes it a pleasure to game on. It’s input lag wasn’t fantastic at between 50 and 60ms – from mouse click to gun firing in game, but the panel is remarkably responsive as from black to white it’s response time was between 5 and 8ms which is pretty decent for this – although the white to black time was a lot longer, more like 15 to 20ms which isn’t great. Ghosting is kept to a minimum though, so thumbs up there.

Colours wise, it covers 93% of the sRGB spectrum, so decent for on the go content creation, but not the best, although remarkably it came almost perfectly calibrated out of the box – something that’s pretty rare to see especially on gaming laptops.

The keyboard is nice – it’s a non-ISO layout which is a little annoying for me as a brit, but the key feel is good and I could get used to it pretty quick. Same for the track pad actually. It’s got a really nice feel to it, has the usual gestures and the likes, and is just great to use. 

I/O is a little sparse, with DC In, 2 Type C ports, 2 Type As, HDMI and a 4 pole headphone jack and that’s your lot. Would have been nice to see an SD card reader there, but otherwise ok. 

A look inside reveals the single M.2 SSD, along with a single stick of DDR4 3200MHz RAM, and a pretty decent cooling solution that can get a little noisy at times, but only while gaming and it’s mostly just wind noise rather than the fans themselves. You’ll also see the 76Whr battery, which thanks to this 4000 series Ryzen chip, even at full brightness lasts for over 5 hours of web browsing use, and even more on more sensible settings. 

It’s also priced pretty reasonably too. While it depends on the model and your region, it’s not any more expensive than similar Intel/Nvidia options, while getting significantly better battery life, and CPU horsepower. Overall I really like the G14. Not just for it’s CPU, although that is great, but it’s real quality feel, great gaming and general usage experience, and great portability too, really makes for an impressive little machine I’d be more than happy to take with me to events as my main on the go gaming and editing machine.