On January 25, 2022, ROG held a 2022 new product launch conference entitled "Chuang Xin Ji Jing" and announced the new notebooks of the ROG series. In addition to the standard updates of the Ice Blade Series, gun God Series, Magic Series, and Phantom Series, the newly unveiled ROG Phantom X and ROG Phantom 13 have brought a more perfect product layout and also made ROG's positioning break through the e-sports category.
With esports as the cornerstone
Founded in 2006, ROG (Republic of Gamers) Player Nation has long since grown into a truly high-end esports brand, and the product line has expanded from the original motherboard, graphics card, and laptop to almost all esports hardware categories such as desktop computers, gaming phones, monitors, network equipment, audio equipment, and esports peripherals.
As one of the most trusted brands for e-sports players and game lovers around the world, ROG's annual iteration of new products will attract widespread attention, and the ROG 2022 full-line notebook upgrade is no exception. The main products of the Gun God series and the Magic Lord series have been upgraded to the latest hardware platform, the ROG Gun God 6 series uses Intel 12th generation Core + Nvidia 30 series graphics, and the ROG Magic God 6 series is equipped with AMD Ryzen™ 6000 series processor + Nvidia 30 series graphics card. Representing the ultimate design and creativity of the thin and light flagship game Ben ROG Ice Blade 6 dual screen upgrade to the highest AMD Ryzen™ 9 6980HX Overclocking Edition processor and NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti mobile graphics card, it is still the benchmark of the peak experience.
The relatively young all-rounder fantasy series has also been upgraded, of which the ROG fantasy 13 and ROG fantasy 15 have been upgraded to AMD ryzen 6000 series processors + Nvidia optical video card, the ROG phantom 16 has been upgraded to an Intel 12th generation Core processor + the highest with Nvidia RTX 3080Ti mobile graphics, and the ROG phantom 14 has adopted the latest generation of AMD 3A platform for the first time, and adopts an upgraded version of the AniMe Matrix optical display matrix screen.
Fully upgraded performance specifications
With the upgrade of the core platform, the new ROG 2022 notebook products have been upgraded in terms of various performance specifications. Its new notebook series is equipped with DDR5 4800MHz memory, PCIe 4.0 high-speed SSD, ROG Gun god 6, ROG Magic 6 series with 150W full power RTX 3070 Ti and 140W full power RTX 3060 configuration, ROG Ice Blade 6 dual screen with 165W high power consumption RTX 3080 Ti configuration, which can give full play to the performance of the new platform.
The new ROG 2022 also supports "dual display and three-mode" graphics card switching, which can achieve both performance and battery life balance. "Dual display three modes" is the use of unique display and centralized display, to achieve unique output, mixed output and centralized output three modes. The unique display mode allows the solo display to output the image frame directly to the screen, giving full play to the performance of the high-performance solo display; the hybrid output mode can automatically balance the performance and battery life; the concentrated display mode is completely shielded from the unique display, which can greatly extend the battery life. The "dual display and three modes" technology can make high-performance games have longer battery life when necessary to meet the needs of mobile scenes.
As for the screen display effect that all users care about, the ROG has also been upgraded. The ROG Ice Blade 6 dual screen is equipped with the original ROG Nebula screen, using a Mini-LED backlight panel, with 512 zone dimming, which can reach 1100 nits peak brightness, and has 5400Hz high-frequency PWM dimming. It has a resolution of 2560×1600, a refresh rate of 165Hz, and is VESA DisplayHDR 1000 certified with a contrast ratio of 1000000:1 and supports Dolby Vision. At the same time, it has a built-in exclusive Nebula original picture screen special chip, which can reduce the halo effect by 25%, and the screen supports Adaptive Sync, which can eliminate the problem of screen tearing. ROG Phantom 14 and ROG Phantom 16 are equipped with ROG Nebula screens, resolution of 2560×1600, refresh rates of 120Hz/165Hz, with 3ms rapid response time, 500 nits brightness, while covering 100% DCI-P3 color gamut, through the German Rheinland T V no stroboscopic low blue light certification, support Adaptive Sync technology, passed pantone color certification and support Dolby Vision HDR.
"Pole" is a belief
In addition to the above relatively conventional upgrades, this time ROG also brought a new member: the strongest performance two-in-one thin and light ROG phantom X. ROG Phantom X is the most powerful 2-in-1 thin and light book at present, the highest equipped with Intel 12th generation Core i9-12900H processor and Nvidia RTX 3050 Ti graphics card, but also equipped with 1TB PCIe 4.0 high-speed SSD, 16GB LPDDR5 5200MHz memory, while the ROG Phantom X with a 13-inch screen still maintains a thin and light design, weighing only 1.2kg, and the thickness of the fuselage is about 12.9mm. In addition to the traditional laptop mode, the ROG Magic X with magnetic keyboard can also be transformed into a tablet for touch games, handwriting and other application scenarios, and can also perform more complex professional creations or high-performance games after lossless connection to the XG Mobile graphics docking station using RTX 3080 mobile graphics.
The innovative design of ROG Fantasy X has completely made the application scenario of ROG completely out of the circle. In fact, in the process of application promotion in recent years, the positioning of ROG player countries has long surpassed the traditional e-sports field, and realized the sublimation of "for e-sports" to "for the ultimate player". In the pursuit of the ultimate Ice Blade series, in the positioning of the "all-round book" of the phantom series, we have found the expansion of ROG user positioning, ice blade double screen series, 13-inch flip ROG phantom 13, two-in-one thin and light ROG phantom X is a further embodiment of this sublimation. In fact, from Asus's "rock solid" to ROG's "just to surpass", this itself is a brand strategy with user genes as the core. Perhaps our understanding of the ROG brand can be updated, from a simple esports brand to a brand with "pole" as the belief. For example, the theme of this conference, "Innovation Competition", is not advocating "creating new limits and the pursuit of innovation"?