The ASUS ROG Strix G16 (2024) is a 16-inch gaming laptop. It replaces the ASUS ROG Strix G16 from 2023 (model G614JU). This 2024 (G614JZR) model is available with an Intel Core i9 14900HX paired with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, RTX 4070 or RTX 4080 Laptop GPU. Memory and storage max out at 32GB and 2TB, respectively. It has 240Hz QHD+ and 165Hz FHD+ IPS display options with G-SYNC support, Wi-Fi 6E wireless connectivity, a 720p webcam, and a 90Wh battery. Ports comprise two USB-As, two USB-Cs (one with Thunderbolt 4 support), an HDMI 2.1, an Ethernet port, and a 3.5 mm headphone jack.
See our unit's specifications and the available configuration options in the Differences Between Variants section.
The ASUS ROG Strix G16 is decent for school use. It's quite heavy and bulky, so you'll want to treat it more as a desktop replacement than a portable option. That said, it offers exceptional performance with its high-end CPU and discrete GPU options, making it ideal for students in programs like engineering or 3D modeling. The user experience is also good overall. Its large 16-inch display means you can easily multitask, the touchpad is large and responsive, and the keyboard is spacious—although the layout takes a bit of getting used to. Unfortunately, the webcam is sub-par and won't be great if you need to use it for meetings with teachers or online classes. Finally, the battery life is quite short, and the laptop gets loud and hot under load, so it isn't ideal for use in quiet environments like a class or the library.
The ASUS ROG Strix G16 offers outstanding gaming performance. Its 14th Gen HX CPU and NVIDIA GeForce discrete GPUs deliver high frame rates, and its 240Hz QHD+ display has a fast response time, resulting in minimal ghosting in fast-moving scenes. There's also G-SYNC support to help minimize screen tearing. You also get Wi-Fi 6E wireless connectivity and an Ethernet port to ensure a fast, reliable internet connection when gaming online. RAM and storage are user-upgradeable, so you can upgrade or add more later. Thermal throttling is very minimal, so you won't notice it; however, the laptop gets hot and loud. Unfortunately, our unit crashes when switching between the iGPU and dGPU, forcing us to disable the iGPU in the BIOS.
The ASUS ROG Strix G16 is decent for multimedia consumption. Its large 16-inch display looks sharp and has a fast response time to deliver a clear image in fast-moving content. It also gets bright enough for most environments, unless you're outdoors in broad daylight or in direct sunlight. The screen is an IPS panel with a relatively low contrast ratio, so blacks will look gray in dim settings. The speakers get reasonably loud with minimal compression artifacts, but they have almost no bass and sound hollow. This laptop is bulky and heavy, and the battery life is poor, so it's not great for on-the-go use, like when traveling.
The ASUS ROG Strix G16 is outstanding as a workstation. It's available with high-performance CPUs and discrete GPUs that can handle even the most demanding workloads, like 3D modeling and simulations. The QHD+ display is suitable for color-critical work, as it offers full coverage of the DCI P3 and near-full coverage of the Adobe RGB color spaces. While you can only get the laptop with up to 32GB of RAM and 2TB of storage, these are both user-replaceable, so you can add more later on. There's almost no throttling under load, but the laptop does get hot and loud. Unfortunately, our unit crashes when switching between the iGPU and dGPU, forcing us to disable the iGPU in the BIOS in order to perform GPU-intensive tasks like 3D rendering.
The ASUS ROG Strix G16 is good for business use. It feels very well-built and provides a great user experience with its large display and spacious keyboard. Its Intel CPU and discrete GPU can easily handle productivity tasks like web browsing, text formatting, and spreadsheets. You can even edit photos and videos, which is great for small business owners needing to do a little bit of everything. It has a wide port selection for peripherals and external displays. Unfortunately, it's hard to carry because it's bulky and heavy, and its battery is poor.
We tested the ASUS ROG Strix G16 (model G614JZR-DS91-CA) with a QHD+ IPS display, an Intel Core i9 14900HX CPU, an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 GPU, 32GB of RAM, and 1TB of storage. Our review applies to all models beginning with G614JZR, G614JVR, and G614JIR. The display, GPU, RAM, and storage are configurable; the available options are in the table below:
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The ASUS ROG Strix G16 is a high-end gaming laptop. It offers exceptional performance, sporting an Intel Core i9 14900HX and NVIDIA RTX GPUs, up to a 4080. Despite this impressive hardware, our unit suffers from a bug causing the laptop to crash whenever switching between the iGPU and dGPU for tasks like gaming; the only remedy is to disable the iGPU in the BIOS. This is disappointing, as the laptop otherwise provides a fantastic user experience. Its bright QHD+ display is responsive, and the keyboard and touchpad are great overall. Finally, its bulky design and weight make it more suitable as a desktop replacement rather than a portable on-the-go gaming solution, and it gets very hot and loud under load.
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The ASUS ROG Strix G16 (2024) and the Dell Alienware m16 R2 (2024) are both high-end 16-inch gaming laptops. In terms of raw performance, the ASUS takes the crown as its 14th Gen Core i9 14900HX CPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 laptop GPU option are much faster than the Dell's Meteor Lake CPUs and RTX 4070 option. That said, the ASUS laptop will crash when switching from iGPU to its dGPU, and its performance, while faster overall, isn't quite as consistent as the Dell. The Dell also provides a slightly better user experience with a superior mechanical keyboard and much better-sounding speakers.
The ASUS ROG Strix G16 (2024) and the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16 (2024) GU605 are both high-end gaming laptops. Both offer excellent performance and have complementary features. The Strix has a faster CPU, which means it's better for workstation applications, while the Zephyrus has a better user experience overall with a superior OLED display, keyboard, and touchpad. Unfortunately, both models suffer from different hardware bugs. The Strix crashes to the desktop whenever switching from the iGPU to dGPU for graphically intensive applications, while the Zephyrus is unable to fully utilize its GPU even though it's never CPU-limited.
The ASUS ROG Strix G16 (2024) and the Apple MacBook Air 15 (2024) are vastly different laptops. The ASUS is a 16-inch gaming laptop that's bulky and heavy, while the Apple is a 15-inch ultraportable. As such, the ASUS offers much better performance for intensive workloads like gaming or workstation applications like 3D modeling, while the Apple is better suited for general productivity tasks. Nevertheless, the Apple takes the cake in terms of user experience, as it offers a much better touchpad, speakers, and webcam.
The ASUS ROG Strix G16 (2024) and the Apple MacBook Pro 16 (M3, 2023) are both high-end 16-inch laptops, although they're intended for different use cases. The ASUS is a gaming laptop, while the Apple is a mobile workstation. However, the ASUS can also handle professional workloads, as it has a good amount of processing power, and its GPU and CPU performance exceeds the MacBook Pro's M3 Max SoC. Apple's M3 SoC is far more efficient, though; the MacBook Pro's battery will last around 13 hours in light uses compared to the ASUS laptop's six hours. Finally, the Apple laptop provides a much better user experience overall with a superior touchpad, keyboard, speakers, and webcam.
The ASUS ROG Strix G16 is only available in Eclipse Gray. There's a light bar along the perimeter of the laptop's lower deck. You can customize the lighting via the ASUS Armoury Crate app. See the bottom of the laptop.
The ASUS ROG Strix G16 2024's build quality is outstanding. Its chassis is mostly plastic, while the lid and back use some aluminum. Despite the mostly plastic construction, the laptop feels sturdy and premium, exhibiting little to no flex on the lid or keyboard deck. There's also very little twist when manipulating the display. The finish is fairly scratch-resistant, but it does pick up fingerprints and smudges. The feet feel solid and stick firmly to the bottom.
Accessing the internals is relatively straightforward but will require some organization. You need to remove 10 Philips head screws; the front screws are shorter than the middle and back screws. The bottom panel needs a prying tool to release and requires some effort. Both storage slots support M.2 2280 PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSDs.
You can get the user manual from ASUS' website.
The ASUS ROG Strix G16 2024 is available with the following displays:
The QHD+ display looks very sharp and is more than adequate for gaming, general productivity, and content creation. The 16:10 aspect ratio is great for productivity, as it gives you slightly more vertical space than a standard 16:9 screen, allowing you to see more information at once when reading a document or website. The FHD+ resolution will still be reasonably sharp on a 16-inch display. Thanks to the display's matte coating, you can't see individual pixels up close. Nevertheless, for this class of laptop, an FHD+ display is a bit lackluster.
The ASUS ROG Strix G16 2024's QHD+ display has a high refresh rate and a fast response time, resulting in minimal ghosting in fast-moving scenes. The FHD+ panel will still perform well, but it won't be as responsive or clear, as it has a lower refresh rate and more than double the advertised response time at 7 ms. Both panels use G-SYNC for VRR.
The QHD+ display has decent contrast that's in line with most IPS panels. However, it's still relatively low compared to other panel technologies like VA and OLED. This contrast level makes blacks look gray in dim settings. The FHD+ will have a similar contrast ratio and characteristics.
The QHD+ display gets bright enough for use in most indoor settings. It works in some outdoor settings as well, but you may have trouble seeing some content in direct sunlight. It's very dim at the lowest brightness setting, which is great for dark room viewing as it causes less eye strain. ASUS doesn't advertise peak brightness measurements for the FHD+ screen, so we can't be sure how it performs.
The display's reflection handling is satisfactory. The matte coating diffuses light across the screen. For the most part, reflections aren't an issue when viewing bright-color content with the screen at maximum brightness; however, they make dark-color scenes much harder to see. The FHD+ display is advertised with the same coating and will perform similarly.
The QHD+ display's horizontal viewing angle is okay. The image dims and washes out quickly as you move to the side, so you need to be more or less directly in front of the screen to get perfect accuracy. The FHD+ will perform similarly.
The QHD+ display's vertical viewing angle is decent. Like the horizontal viewing angle, the image dims and washes when viewing from above and below, so you need to look at the screen more or less straight on to see an accurate image. This can be challenging in tight places with little room to tilt the screen, like on a bus or airplane. The FHD+ will perform similarly, as it uses the same panel technology.
The display's accuracy is decent out of the box. The white balance inaccuracies are fairly minor. By contrast, some colors are visibly off due to oversaturation. Some people may like this punchy, oversaturated look; just know it isn't accurate. The gamma follows the curve well at mid-brightness; however, dark and very bright scenes scenes are a slightly too dark overall.
The display's color gamut is superb. It has full coverage of the sRGB and DCI P3 color spaces and near-full coverage of the Adobe RGB color space, making it suitable for a wide range of uses, including media consumption, professional photo editing, and HDR video production. The FHD+ panel only offers full coverage of the sRGB color space, so its use cases are limited to media consumption of SDR content.
The ASUS ROG Strix G16 2024 has an excellent keyboard. The keys have a good amount of travel, require little force to actuate, and provide clear tactile feedback. Most keys are very stable, with the exception of the power button, which wobbles more than the others. While the keyboard feels spacious, the layout is the one pain point. The right shift key is much smaller than expected and leads to many wrong inputs while you are getting used to it. Also, because the keyboard is so large, it can be fatiguing to use for long periods. The keyboard offers per-key RGB customization that you can change using the ASUS Armoury Crate software. The RGB lighting is clear, and the keycaps allow for the LEDs to shine through clearly.
While the keyboard doesn't have a numpad, you can disable the touchpad and use it as a numpad. It works well, but having to disable the touchpad is not ideal.
The ASUS ROG Strix G16 2024 has an excellent touchpad. It's a great size for a 16-inch laptop, and it tracks all gestures and movements well. Palm rejection works as intended, and there are no issues performing actions like dragging and dropping or zooming in and out of images. Since this is a diving board touchpad, you can only click on the bottom half of the keyboard. The buttons provide decent feedback, but they feel a bit mushy and are rather quiet; depending on your preferences, this more muted feedback may be a positive.
The ASUS ROG Strix G16 2024's speakers get fairly loud but don't sound great. There's little to no audible bass, and the treble tends towards sounding very tinny. Overall, the speakers sound hollow and lack impact.
The webcam is poor on this laptop. There's a noticeably blue tint that makes the image appear very cool and colors look inaccurate. The webcam also does a poor job resolving fine details like strands of hair. This makes it difficult to perceive small differences between objects in frame, resulting in a grainy and at times blurry image. By contrast, the microphone is great. Voices sound loud, crisp, and clear, and there's no audible static or white noise.
The ASUS ROG Strix G16 2024 has an outstanding port selection. Both USB-As support USB 3.2 Gen 2 data transfer speed of up to 10 Gbps. The two USB-Cs are different in specifications; the one closest to the 3.5 mm jack supports USB 3.2 Gen 2 transfer speeds, while the other supports Thunderbolt 4 (up to 40 Gbps data transfer speed). Both USB-Cs support DisplayPort 1.4 and Power Delivery, though the USB-C Gen 3.2 Gen 2 port also has support for G-SYNC.
The wireless adapter is an Intel AX211. Wi-Fi 6E gives you access to the 6GHz band, providing faster speeds, lower latency, and less signal interference than previous wireless standards; however, you need a router that supports Wi-Fi 6E to benefit from these features.
The ASUS ROG Strix G16 is only available with the Intel Core i9 14900HX (24 cores/32 threads, up to 5.8GHz, 36MB Cache). This is one of Intel's highest-end mobile CPUs found in gaming and workstation laptops. It belongs to the 14th Gen Raptor Lake refresh, which uses a hybrid architecture comprising performance and efficiency cores. Unlike the new Meteor Lake CPUs found in ASUS' other recent gaming laptops like the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16 (2024), they don't have any low-power E-cores to further improve battery life or a Neural Processing Unit (NPU) to speed up AI tasks.
You can see more information about Intel's 14th Gen HX CPUs from their product brief.
The ASUS ROG Strix G16 2024 is available with the following GPUs:
The available GPUs range from lower-end (RTX 4060) to the high-end RTX 4080. All three offer support for the latest gaming features including DLSS 3 (upscaling and frame generation), ray tracing, and NVIDIA Reflex, so you aren't losing any features if you get a lower-end model. If you plan on gaming at the display's native QHD+ resolution, getting an RTX 4080 is best, as the RTX 4060 and 4070's 8GB VRAM is limiting at the QHD resolution. You can even experience performance issues like stutters and graphical pop-ins with 8GB of VRAM at 1080p, depending on the game. The RTX 4060 and 4070 are still fine choices, just know that the latest graphically demanding games may cause issues using the highest settings. For more information about NVIDIA's 40-series laptop GPUs, check out the comparison table on NVIDIA's website.
You can get the ASUS ROG Strix G16 2024 with 16GB or 32GB of RAM. The memory is user-replaceable.
You can get the ASUS ROG Strix G16 2024 with 1TB or 2TB of storage. The storage is user-replaceable.
The ASUS ROG Strix G16's overall score in Geekbench 5 is outstanding. Its Intel Core i9 14900HX is ideal for heavy multitasking and highly demanding workloads. All three available GPUs are suitable for heavy GPU computing; the higher-end options will simply complete tasks faster and provide a smoother experience.
This laptop's NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU scores exceptionally well in the Basemark GPU benchmark. As mentioned in the GPU section, the RTX 4060 and 4070 can handle gaming at 1080p and 1440p; however, you'll have to dial down the graphical settings a bit when playing at 1440p to get high, consistent frame rates, and their 8GB of VRAM can be limiting even at 1080p.
Note: All gaming benchmarks were run using the laptops Turbo & Ultimate settings for maximum GPU and CPU performance, respectively.
Unfortunately, our unit crashes whenever switching from the iGPU to the dGPU. The crashes were triggered by opening applications like games or any graphically intensive software. This behavior persists regardless of the NVIDIA driver version that is installed. To remedy the issue, we had to disable the iGPU in the BIOS. Let us know in the comments below if you've experienced similar issues!
The ASUS ROG Strix G16 2024 performs exceptionally in Borderlands 3. The RTX 4060 and 4070 will still achieve high frame rates at 1080p.
If you want to game using the display's native QHD+ resolution and are curious how the laptop performs, here are some benchmarks using Borderlands 3 and other demanding titles:
Every configuration of the ASUS ROG Strix G16 2024 can run Civilization VI and other similarly demanding strategy games smoothly at 1080p or 1440p. Here are the results using the display's QHD+ resolution:
You can achieve very high frame rates on every configuration of this laptop while playing Counter-Strike 2 and other competitive FPS games. There are some stutters; they aren't particularly frequent but are severe enough to be annoying when trying to play a competitive FPS game. Here are the results using the display's QHD+ resolution:
Shadow of the Tomb Raider runs well in every configuration. The large frame spikes are scene changes and aren't representative of the performance. That said, like with Counter-Strike 2, there are some frame-pacing issues resulting in larger-than-desirable variations in frame times. Here are the results at the display's native QHD+ resolution:
The keyboard deck gets pretty hot under load; however, the hot spot is closer to the top, away from where most people rest their hands, so it's still comfortable to use. The fans are relatively quiet at full speed and aren't overly bothersome. You can adjust the power and fan profiles in the ASUS Armoury Crate application. Switching to the Turbo profile increases the fan noise to 47.5 dBA, though the temperature remains similar at 47 °C (116.6 °F)
The ASUS ROG Strix G16 2024 has a few pre-installed applications, including: