Small size and high performance have always been a difficult thing to do, not only technically difficult and relatively narrow audience, but ASUS has not given up on exploring this field. In the past, ASUS's ROG Fantasy 14 was the benchmark for small screen game performance. Recently, ASUS launched a new 14-inch gaming performance thin and light creation book - Lingyao Pro14.
Lingyao Pro14 not only has a small and fresh appearance, but also has a game-level configuration, with a high-quality OLED screen, which is quite in line with the needs of the productivity group. IT House has received the Meteor White Color Lingyao Pro14 and brought you a graphic review.
appearance
Lingyao Pro14 Meteor White Color Scheme adopts a unique textured lacquer body material, which feels mild with some friction and feels quite like white rock, which makes it feel natural to hold in the hand. With a thickness of 16.9mm and a weight of about 1.45Kg, the fuselage is quite lightweight in this configuration.
Side A also has the first new bright fog laser logo design, which takes into account the personality while being low-key.
The B side is the top priority, which is a 14.0-inch 2880x 1800 90Hz OLED screen, ASUS in 2021 vigorously promoted OLED screen, and launched the concept of Asus good screen.
OLED screens have the advantages of accurate color, high brightness and uniformity, high contrast, good HDR compatibility, and are very friendly to creative designers. However, large OLED screens are also relatively expensive, so they are generally used in creative design books of more than 10,000 yuan. But this year, ASUS popularized OLED screens at various price points, which deserves praise.
We adjusted the screen to a maximum of 2880*1800 90Hz, and the brightness was also manually adjusted to a maximum of 400nits (HDR 600nits) under SDR. Then use the color adjuster for color gamut color accuracy test, the measured color gamut covers 100% sRGB, 95.2% Adobe RGB and 100% P3 color gamut, the performance is very good, called a professional-grade screen.
The color accuracy performance is even more amazing, the average color offset value ΔE is only 0.23, and the maximum ΔE is only 1.12, which is a professional level of color performance, no wonder it has passed the Pantone color certification.
There is a camera and stereo microphone at the top of the screen, and the camera supports physical peek masking.
The C-side keyboard features a very designed contrast design, with various control keys painted gray and ESC keys in red. The power button is located in the upper right corner and has integrated fingerprint recognition. The key range is decent, supports white backlighting, and retains the numeric keypad, which is also engraved with the sound of the "Harman Kardon" master.
There is a white dot in the upper right corner of the lower trackpad, as long as you swipe inward you can call out a DialPad virtual knob, in the Adobe productivity software can achieve rapid adjustment of the timeline, color grading, switch menus and other functions, in other software can quickly switch volume and brightness and other functions, is a very useful function for creative workers.
The design of the D-side is decent, but the foot pads are very thick, which can increase the air intake volume and bring better heat dissipation. There are two speaker openings below.
Lingyao Pro14 Meteor White machine has a total of 3 USB-A interfaces, two of which are USB 2.0 Type-A and one is USB 3.2 Type-A. On the right is the 90W DC power connector + USB 3.2 Type-C + HDMI + TF card reader + 3.5mm headphone jack, which can retain so many interfaces in a 14-inch thin and light book, which is indeed quite rare, and for creative workers, they no longer need to be chained to the docking station.
Heat dissipation runs
For the small size of the thin and light performance book, the configuration is not the most critical, heat dissipation and performance release is the decisive factor, which is also the most affecting the use experience. Then we will open the backplane and look at its heat dissipation module. As you can see, it is equipped with a dual heat pipe and dual fan heat dissipation module, and the hard disk network card is a detachable design that can be upgraded by itself. Memory is on-board 3200MHz dual channel.
So can this interior design hold down two cores? Let's start with AIDA64 single-baked FPUs. After 15 minutes, the CPU power consumption is stable at about 53W and the temperature is 89°C. This single roast performance is quite outstanding, even nearly 10W higher than some game books, which is quite surprising.
When a single baked graphics card, it can also stabilize the power consumption at about 50W, and the temperature is 72 °C, which is also good.
In the double roast, the CPU power consumption is stable at 25W, the GPU temperature is stable at 35W, and the power consumption of the whole machine is 60W. Interestingly, the CPU temperature is only 68°C and the graphics card temperature is only 70°C. It seems that this heat dissipation module still has considerable potential.
Next we look at its theoretical running score. The first is the AMD mobile game-based processor R7-5800H, which has 8 cores and 16 threads, a reference frequency of 3.2GHz, and a maximum acceleration frequency of 4.4GHz. Measured R15 30 round cycle highest running score 1970, the lowest also has 1858, this performance release no problem.
The R20 single-core score reached 559 points, the multi-core running score reached 4594 points, the R23 single-core scored 1441 points, and the multi-core score reached 11710 points, which is very good, 10% higher than some game books that are not very good at performance release.
The GPU is a 50W power RTX 3050, and in TimeSpy, the final score is 4555 points, which means that it can run some mainstream online games at 1080P resolution, and the Cuda acceleration of the N card can also provide some help in Adobe software.
The hard drive is Hynix's TLC hard drive, the speed is the limit of PCIe 3.0, and the performance is very good. Unfortunately, there is no room for expansion inside, and it is recommended for creative workers to buy a larger version.
Memory tests are as follows, this year's Ryzen notebooks are basically equipped with 3200MHz dual-channel memory.
productivity
As an all-rounder of productivity, let's first test benchmark some productivity software. The first is PCMark10, which stands for comprehensive office performance. With a score of 5841, it can easily handle almost all your daily office needs.
SPECviewperf 13 runs as follows: Most of the commonly used industrial modeling software can also run smoothly.
In the PugetBenchmark For PR and AE commonly used by creative workers, the AE score is 920 points, the PR score is 685 points, and they can run smoothly, and there is no problem in cutting videos and doing special effects every day. It is especially useful for groups that often need to run the set.
Another unique advantage of the Pro14 in this type of productivity software is the DialPad virtual knob. This is a knob for productivity, in adobe software can quickly adjust the timeline, color grading, switch menu and other functions, in other software can achieve rapid switching volume and brightness and other functions, is a very practical function for creative workers, friends who have cut the video should be able to understand.
Finally, IT Home also tested its battery life performance for everyone. We select pcmark8, turn on battery saver mode, and adjust the screen brightness to 200nits. Before the test, the author did not have much hope for battery life, because 14 inches + standard voltage processor + RTX unique display is doomed to not have an advantage in battery life. But it took 6 hours and 48 minutes, which is better than most 14-inch low-pressure thin and light books.
From the above productivity software test results, we can see that Lingyao Pro14 can cope with most productivity scenarios, whether it is clipping or 3D rendering can be competent, when going out can also bring a lasting experience, professional users can be satisfied.
Game testing
So can it play games outside of work? We've also tested several mainstream games. Since the machine's built-in driver is NVIDIA Studio, the optimization is more productive, and in order to show better game performance, we first manually upgraded to the Game Ready driver.
It is worth noting that the RTX 3050 graphics card positioning entry, the video memory is only 4G, so it is not suitable for running at native 2.8K resolution, the following tests we are testing at 1920 * 1200 resolution.
CS:GO runs BenchMark at 209 frames, which is a great experience with a 90Hz screen.
In League of Legends, the line can be maintained at around 170 frames at the highest quality, which is a perfect experience.
Rainbow Six: Siege has its own benchmark, which is measured to run to 158 frames at the highest quality, which is also very smooth.
Next, let's challenge the AAA masterpiece, first of all, the high-quality BenchMark of Tomb Raider: Shadow, the final average frame rate is 55 frames, this configuration may want to play the AAA masterpiece may still have to reduce the quality of a stop.
In the popular game Battlefield 2042, we turned on medium quality + quality DLSS, which can stabilize at around 60 frames in most occasions. This also shows the advantages of RTX graphics: the DLSS improvement is really big.
In the rush masterpiece "Call of Duty: Vanguard", the medium special effects + quality DLSS can reach about 100 frames, and running full 90Hz esports screen is not a problem.
Finally, we tested the light chase masterpiece "Control", the actual measurement of the picture quality off the light chase open DLSS can be maintained at about 70 frames, at this time smooth play is not a problem.
summary
ASUS's Lingyao series has always been a product line that wants to make differentiation and make a high-end sense, so there is a "game performance thin and light creation book" such as Lingyao Pro14 for specific groups of pain points. Creative workers can give it everything they need, and in addition to the original DialPad virtual knob, which greatly improves productivity when grading and adjusting the timeline, which other all-rounders can't give.
Overall, the Lingyao Pro14 product combines the advantages of the new 2021 ASUS mold: it has a rich interface, a brilliant OLED screen, excellent performance release under 14 inches, and a multiplying DialPad virtual knob, while the price is also maintained at a reasonable level. If you're an idea producer who needs to balance portability and productivity, it's the perfect choice for you. At present, Lingyao Pro14 has been listed, the preferential price is 6999 yuan, if you are interested, you can go to know about it.