For friends who want to start with thin and light books this year, I will first recommend you to buy a notebook equipped with an OLED screen. Some friends may say that such a good screen price will certainly be very expensive, in fact, it is not, such as the Asus Fearless Pro14 Ryzen edition notebook that we will introduce in this article, which is equipped with a Ryzen 7 5800H standard voltage processor, 16GB memory and 512GB SSD, and the important thing is that it is also equipped with a 2.8K, 90Hz OLED screen, and the price is only in the early five thousand, which is definitely beyond the expectations of many people, but the fact is so, the NOTEBOOK of the OLED screen, You can have it now.
So, what kind of experience does having an OLED screen mean? First of all, it should be noted that compared with the previous traditional 1080P resolution, low color gamut, and low brightness screen, the current OLED screen not only has higher brightness and contrast, but also reaches 1.07 billion colors, and the degree of reduction of picture quality is higher, which is very suitable for design, creation and other work. Comparing the various technical parameters, it can be said that it is not at one level at all.
At the ASUS autumn new product launch, asus products are equipped with OLED screens, and put forward the concept of "ASUS good screen", opening the first year of OLED popularization, bringing users more realistic picture quality enjoyment, more fluent picture quality output, with the technical support of Asus good screen, ordinary users can also enjoy professional-grade image screens, and empower daily creation. And the advantages of OLED screens, there are more, then start with the Asus Fearless Pro14 Ryzen Edition.
Next, let's start with the exterior design of the Asus Fearless Pro14 Ryzen Edition to see how this notebook behaves.
Portable and burdenless, the high-value appearance is very eye-catching
We reviewed this ASUS Fearless Pro14 Ryzen Edition appearance color matching for Star Silver, and many other product designs are different, Fearless Pro14 Ryzen Edition in the A-side design spent some careful thought, not simply put a LOGO, but the use of CNC process of embossed logo, not only with differentiation, but also more recognizable, highlighting the fashion and young charm.
The metal body plays a very good sturdiness, but also conducive to heat dissipation, the surface of the delicate spraying process is not easy to stain fingerprints. The whole machine in the high performance at the same time, but also to achieve a slim enough design, thin to 17.9mm, light about 1.4kg, whether you are a daily commute, or business travel, portable and unburdened, easy to improve work efficiency.
Asus good screen, starting with OLED
Asus Fearless Pro14 Ryzen Edition is equipped with an OLED screen with 1.07 billion colors, a 14-inch screen, a three-sided narrow border design, a 16:10 golden ratio, a larger vertical display ratio, and more content displayed, bringing a more immersive visual experience. The resolution of this screen has reached 2880×1800, the total number of pixels is more than 5 million, which is 2.5 times that of FHD 1080P, and the detail display has reached the standard of retina level, which can help users see extremely small details. In addition, this OLED screen has a 100% DCI-P3 ultra-wide color gamut, has a peak brightness of up to 600nits, a contrast ratio of up to 1,000,000:1, and has also passed pantone color certification, which is enough to be competent for professional-grade video image creation.
It is worth mentioning that this screen also supports a high refresh rate of 90Hz, which can not only be smoother and more stutter-free when dragging longer web pages and longer document scroll bars, but also will not miss any details when playing sports games. In addition, the Intrepid Pro14 Ryzen Edition also retains a high-definition webcam in the upper bezel and presets a physical switch bezel, which can completely avoid personal privacy leakage with a single swipe after ending the network video.
Efficient and comfortable typing experience
The biggest advantage of notebooks becoming an important productivity tool is that typing input is more efficient. The ASUS Fearless Pro14 Ryzen Edition keyboard has a 1.4mm long key range for clear press feedback and easier typing. The large keycaps and full-size spacing keep fingers from crowding and avoid accidental touch when typing quickly. The keycap adopts a concave curved surface design, which is more suitable for the finger abdomen, and it will not feel tired after a long time of typing. What's more intimate is that the keyboard is equipped with a backlight, supports three levels of brightness adjustment, and does not get lost typing at night.
The Enter key on the keyboard is spray-painted with twill decoration, which is very personal and recognizable, and it looks very artistic, and bloggers who often shoot videos are certainly not strangers.
The huge trackpad is 50% larger than the previous generation, the surface has been specially processed, the feel is delicate and smooth, and with Windows' rich multi-touch gestures, it can work efficiently without a mouse. Hidden left and right buttons, crisp and powerful, can be quickly positioned or copied, selected and so on.
Rich interfaces to meet daily connectivity needs
In terms of interface, the left side of the fuselage is equipped with 2 USB-A interfaces, which can connect keyboard and mouse and other peripherals that are compatible with earlier, in addition to the status indicator of the whole machine.
More interfaces are mainly concentrated on the right side of the fuselage, in addition to still retaining the circular power jack, there is also a USB-A 3.2 Gen2 interface, a standard HDMI interface, a USB-C interface, in addition to a Micro SD card reader and a 2-in-1 audio interface. In addition, when it comes to connectivity, this Intrepid 14 Ryzen Edition also supports Wi-Fi 6 2×2 and Bluetooth 5.0.
The appearance of the design is introduced here, although there is the blessing of the OLED screen, but the border is not covered with full glass, which inevitably reduces the grade. In addition, in terms of interface, if you can replace USB 2.0 with Type-C interface, or upgrade to USB 3.2, its applicability will be better.
Next, we will enter the hardware review to see what excellent performance this notebook equipped with the Ryzen™ 5000 standard voltage processor has in terms of performance release.
Hardware performance reviews
The ASUS Intrepid Pro14 Ryzen Edition notebook we reviewed features an AMD Ryzen 7 5800H processor, integrated AMD Radeon 8 Graphics (Renoir) graphics, 16GB DDR4 3200MHz onboard memory, and 512GB NVMe SSD. Factory pre-installed Microsoft Windows 10 Home Edition operating system, the currently available version has supported upgrading to the latest generation of Windows 11 system.
During the test, the notebook was 100% fully charged, the battery best performance mode, MyASUS set the fan to high efficiency mode, the room temperature was 20°C, the system version number was 20H2 (19042.1266), bioS version M3401QA.303 (08/06/2021).
CPU
AMD Ryzen™ 7 5800H processor is manufactured on Zen3 architecture, 7nm process, 8 cores, 16 threads, base frequency 3.2GHz, single core maximum frequency 4.4GHz, L3 cache 16MB, TDP PL1 45W, and integrated AMD Radeon 8 Graphics (Renoir) graphics. Compared with the previous generation of Ryzen™ 7 4800H, the same 8-core 16-thread design, the frequency is slightly increased, but L3 doubled, the overall performance is still greatly improved. After the Ryzen 7 5800H was launched this year, it was mainly applied to the game book, and the game performance and content creation it brought had excellent performance.
In addition to displaying the basic information parameters of the CPU, CPU-Z can also test the performance of the CPU single-core and multi-core, although the test time is short, but it still has certain reference value when verifying the CPU performance. The Ryzen™ 7 5800H has a single-core score of 583.2 and a multi-core score of 5587.3 on the ASUS Fearless Pro14 Ryzen Edition notebook, which is a significant improvement over the Core i9-9900KF in the list.
CINEBENCH test
Cinebench mainly evaluates the CPU's computing power in graphics rendering, in the Cinebench R15 test, single-core score 234cb, multi-core score 2012cb; R20 test, single-core score 561pts, multi-core score 4646pts.
The AMD Ryzen™ 7 5800H also integrates AMD Radeon 8 Graphics (Renoir) graphics with a 512-stream processor. The ASUS Fearless Pro14 Ryzen Edition notebook itself is positioned in learning and office, so it does not have a unique display with stronger performance. But Vega 8's graphics processing, as well as its performance in online gaming, are definitely comparable to the uniqueness of the MX series.
3DMark testing
In the test of 3DMark Time Spy, the graphics card score was 1189, the CPU score was 7048, and the estimated frame rate in the Apex Hero game could reach 30+ FPS, which could run normally, so the performance of the Ryzen™ 7 5800H processor itself was still very powerful.
In the Fire Strike test, the graphics card scored 3752, the physics scored 23474, and the battlefield 5 game with 1080P resolution could also reach 30+FPS.
Thanks to the integrated graphics card, we also tested the Night Raid project, which scored 15987 and CPU scored 12233.
Better performance release, certainly indispensable excellent heat dissipation design. Compared with the traditional thin and light books equipped with 15W low-voltage processors in the past, the CPU multi-core performance of the ASUS Fearless Pro14 Ryzen Edition can be improved by a staggering 85%, close to the mainstream game level. In terms of heat dissipation, ASUS Fearless Pro14 Ryzen Edition adopts a more efficient dual fan, double heat pipe heat dissipation design, not only has higher heat dissipation efficiency, noise control is also quite good, even if the efficient fan mode is turned on, the noise of the fan can hardly be heard.
We used AIDA64 to stress test the CPU, room temperature 20 °C, continuous operation for 25 minutes, CPU temperature of about 80 °C, power consumption can always be stable at 50W, such a performance release, whether it is gaming or rendering, can easily cope. However, you can't take the Dreadnought Pro14 Ryzen Edition as the main workhorse of the game.
memory
The performance of the laptop is also reflected in the performance of the memory and the hard disk, but now the thin and light notebooks are also equipped with 16GB of memory. Equipped with DDR4 3200MHz high-frequency memory, this DREADNOUGHT Pro14 Ryzen Edition has a read speed of 44475MB/s, a write speed of 35979MB/s, a delay of 74.3ns, and a timing of 22-22-22-52 CR1, with high-end performance at the mid-to-high-end level.
Hard disk storage
Whether it is a notebook or a desktop, the SSD is currently used as the system hard disk, which greatly improves the speed of the system or COPY file, and with the decline in the cost of the SSD, the larger capacity SSD has also been popularized. This Huawei Intrepid Pro14 Ryzen Edition comes with a 512GB NVMe SSD from the skhynix brand, TLC flash pellets.
Using the CrystalDiskMark test, the sequential read speed of the SSD is 3612.81MB/s, the write speed is 2954.68/s, even dozens of GIGabytes of files, can be transmitted in seconds. However, because there is only one hard disk bit, if you want to upgrade the larger capacity, you can only plug in the external mobile hard disk.
PCMARK 10 productivity
In terms of overall performance, we tested it using the modern office model of pcMark 10. With a score of 9729 for common basic functions, 8777 for productivity, and 6449 for digital content creation, the performance is relatively balanced.
Battery life
For users who are now often mobile, notebook battery life must be part of an important consideration. The ASUS Intrepid Pro14 Ryzen Edition has a large 63Wh battery built in and comes with a 90W portable quick adapter to meet the power needs of daily travel offices.
Before the endurance test, charge to 100%, the fan is set to balanced mode, the keyboard backlight is turned off, the screen brightness is 40% for normal viewing, the system performance is longer, using the modern office battery test of PCMark 10, finally getting 10 hours and 19 minutes of battery life, the remaining 2% of the system automatically shuts down. Such results mean that even in the higher use mode, you can still support more than 6 hours of battery life under 100% power, watch videos, browse the web, work and study, etc., and can easily cope with a day of use.
Write at the end
Asus Fearless Pro14 Ryzen Edition reviews end here, through the evaluation can be seen, Ryzen™ 7 5800H processor played a strong performance advantage, although previously mainly used in the game book, now look, after the optimization and improvement of the mold, in the light and thin book is also handy.
Of course, as the biggest highlight of the new notebook, the blessing of the OLED screen, there is no doubt that it has become a plus point for the Fearless Pro14 Ryzen Edition, while providing users with a clearer and more realistic picture quality, but also allowing OLED to land on high-priced products, and can be quickly popularized, including Asus's many other products, this year are equipped with OLED screens, it can be seen that Asus's technical advantages in products have been very leading.
Finally, this new ASUS Fearless Pro14 Ryzen Edition notebook has been sold in the asus Jingdong Jingdong self-operated official flagship store in Jingdong Mall, the price of more than 5,000 is quite close to the people, and friends who want to start ultra-cost-effective OLED HD, high-performance and thin books in the near future may wish to pay attention to.