Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 (2024) GA605 review

The ROG Zephyrus G16 is a lovely thing. A 16-inch laptop with an aluminium chassis, vibrant OLED screen and genuinely decent speaker system—it's easy to see why it's coveted by so many. Though we've reviewed this laptop before and come to much the same conclusion, before me sits a new model. This is the G16 GA605, and it comes with a new AMD Ryzen AI HX 370 processor inside it.

I've run through what's new in AMD's Ryzen AI 300-series in greater detail in my recent story all about testing AMD's Strix Point chip. But let me quickly break it down for you here: 

Got all that? A great deal of new silicon stuffed inside one monolithic mobile processor, that's for sure, and it shows when it comes to the benchmarks as we'll get to shortly.

But let's look at the Zephyrus G16 itself. It offers a thin chassis for a 16-inch laptop, which even at its thickest point including the rubber feet, by my own measurements, is just 2 cm thick. It tapers down to a thickness much thinner than that, though. It also weighs just 1.8 kg, which is great considering its 16-inch size.

CPU: AMD Ryzen AI HX 370
GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 (105 W)
Memory: 32 GB LPDDR5X 7467 RAM
Storage: 2 TB NVMe SSD
Screen size: 16-inch ROG Nebula OLED
Resolution: 2560 x 1600
Refresh rate: 240 Hz
Battery: 90 Whr
Dimensions: 35.4 x 24.6 x 1.49 ~ 1.74 cm
Weight: 1.95kg (4.29 lbs)
Price: $2,300 | £2,400

The G16 is slim and light enough to slip into my backpack without much of a second thought. I've taken it to and from the office and once found myself checking I hadn't been robbed on the bus because my backpack felt suspiciously light. Not to worry, it was still there—I managed to avoid a very awkward conversation with Asus—though this laptop was light enough to make me second guess myself. For a regular traveller that lightweight frame is awfully appealing.

The chassis is made possible through the use of LPDDR5X memory. This is a type of RAM we more often expect to find in office thin-and-light laptops, though increasingly it