ASUS TUF Gaming F15 Laptop computer Assessment

The ASUS TUF Gaming lineup of laptops have all the time included good mid-range parts for gaming on the go, and this yr’s mannequin improves on the system with much more highly effective graphics parts. The TUF Gaming F15 laptop computer refresh of 2021 now comes with the newest eleventh gen Intel core CPUs, armed with an Nvidia Geforce RTX 3060 that ought to be greater than sufficient to energy its 1080p display screen with a excessive refresh price. The brand new laptop computer additionally will get an replace to its design and chassis, all of which helps in distinguishing itself from gaming laptops of the previous.

ASUS TUF Gaming F15 Specs

The TUF Gaming F15 contains the next parts:

• CPU: As much as Intel eleventh Gen Tiger Lake-H45 or i9-11900H/ i7- 11800H/ i5-11400H
• GPU: Nvidia Geforce RTX 3060 (8 GB GDDR6)
• Show: 1080p, As much as 240Hz IPS, 100% sRGB
• Battery: 90WH
• RAM: 16GB As much as 3200Mhz DDR4
• Storage: As much as 2 SSD Slots (1 for enlargement solely)
• I/O: 1 x Audio combo jack, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 2x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Kind A, 1x Kind-C with Thunderbolt 4 (DisplayPort 1.4a, G-Sync), 1x RJ45 LAN, 1xDC_in jack
• Expanded I/O: 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Kind A, 1x Kensington lock

Design, Show and Construct High quality

The TUF F15 shakes up its design with a brand new fashion that leaves behind the extra gamer-centric aesthetics that plagued your complete gaming laptop computer panorama previously few years. The laptop computer is well-balanced, with its keyboard being snug to sort on. It’s nothing that compares to that in my Macbook Air (early 2020), however I used to be completely happy sufficient to write down greater than half of this evaluate on it so far as gaming laptops go. The trackpad can also be fairly serviceable, though the shortage of capacitive contact did throw me in for a loop, because it as an alternative makes use of two bodily buttons on the backside. As such, dragging and dropping objects utilizing simply the touchpad didn’t work half of the time.

The laptop computer’s 1080p show is well-suited to the internals powering it, with our panel’s 144Hz refresh price compensating for the shortage of color depth. The show can also be a tad bit too “clean” trying to my eyes, with colors trying flat, particularly when watching films. It additionally by no means bought vibrant sufficient for snug use, even with the wall adapter plugged through which does assist a little bit bit.. That’s the place the I/O ports can come in useful, with HDMI and even Thunderbolt 4.0 to develop your display screen property.

ASUS’ claims of the laptop computer’s audio answer together with buzzwords like ‘DTS:X Extremely’ and ‘Superior Two-Means AI Noise Cancelation’ reads nicely on paper, however their implementation may use some extra nice tuning. That is to not say that the laptop computer audio system aren’t good, they’re nice, however they did not sound like royalty to my ears. The cooling system is one that may want weeks of testing to confirm its claims, though in my time with the unit I used to be completely impressed with how quiet the followers have been, even when gaming at most energy. There are distinct efficiency profiles that may routinely swap primarily based on the facility load on the laptop computer, and testing on the ‘Turbo’ mode stored fan noise at a minimal to the purpose the place I did not really feel the necessity to plug in headphones.

ASUS TUF F15 Gaming Efficiency

Our ASUS TUF F15 got here with an 8 core/16 thread Intel Core i9-11900H, 16GB of RAM and an Nvidia Geforce RTX 3060, all of that are highly effective sufficient for the 144Hz 1080p show.

For testing efficiency we selected quite a lot of recreation titles equivalent to Horizon Zero Daybreak, Murderer’s Creed Valhalla, Watch Canines Legion, Cyberpunk 2077 and Shadow of The Tomb Raider. Right here’s how the {hardware} fared in opposition to them at 1080p:

Sport	FPS (Benchmark on Highest Settings)
Shadow of The Tomb Raider	64
Horizon Zero Daybreak	81
Murderer’s Creed Valhalla	59
Watch Canines Legion	67
Cyberpunk 2077	48

With a lot of the title supporting both ray tracing, DLSS or each, our baseline checks have been accomplished with each options turned off. Right here’s how the video games ran with ray tracing and DLSS turned on:

• Watch Canines Legion – Ray Tracing (Medium): 39fps
• Watch Canines Legion – Ray Tracing (Medium), DLSS On: 52fps
• Shadow of The Tomb Raider – Ray Tracing (On): 38fps
• Shadow of The Tomb Raider – Ray Tracing (On), DLSS On: 41fps
• Cyberpunk 2077 – Ray Tracing (On): 21
• Cyberpunk 2077 – Ray Tracing (On), DLSS On: 32
• Cyberpunk 2077 – Ray Tracing (Off), DLSS On: 55

DLSS appears to not be working in addition to I anticipated it to, with the efficiency uplift being a lot lesser than it most likely ought to be. In sure instances, DLSS wouldn’t work in any respect, particularly with ray tracing turned off. We reached out to ASUS to verify our findings, with the corporate confirming that the problem could lie with developer optimisations.

Watch Canines Legion’s benchmarks truly identified the odd DLSS efficiency right down to “low CPU efficiency”, which doesn’t sound correct. However, our unbiased CPU efficiency testing reveals that Intel’s cell core i9 processor can maintain its personal in opposition to my very own private Ryzen 7 3700X on the desktop, which is nearly three years previous at this level. This is how the cell processor held up in opposition to my desktop PC which makes use of a 240mm radiator AIO for cooling:

Cinebench R23 CPU Efficiency Testing

	ASUS TUF F15 (Intel Core i9-11900H)	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (Desktop)
Single Core	1504	1257
Multi Core	11801	11881

That is fairly spectacular contemplating the CPU is certain by the laptop computer’s chassis, with cooling being comparatively hampered in comparison with what you may get on a desktop configuration. The Core i9-11900H is rated with a max turbo frequency of 4.9 GHz, and in our single core testing we noticed it nearly attain that quantity. Talking of multi-core frequencies, the CPU can go as much as 3.6 GHz on all cores, which is loads for its 8 cores in gaming.

The ASUS TUF F15 will fulfill players trying to get a laptop computer with ample energy to get them by way of their day of gaming, though it’d require some nice tuning on the consumer’s finish first. The primary of those could be to eliminate the bloatware that the laptop computer comes pre-installed with, which we actually can do with out.

Maybe the most important purpose to get a laptop computer of this stature proper now’s that you just get GPU at an honest worth, and with the F15’s highly effective processor and upgradeable storage protecting it firm, you actually cannot go flawed with the laptop computer.

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