At CES 2022 in early January this year, Intel released the 12th generation Core mobile processor. Not long ago, ASUS officially launched the 12th generation Intel Core H45 standard voltage processor with the thin and light book, the machine on the shelves has attracted the user's strong attention, many readers in the article message said, a 120Hz OLED screen Core standard pressure light and thin book was first issued less than 5000 yuan, Asus peerless is too fragrant!
The parameters of the machine are indeed very eye-catching, how about the actual experience? How does the 120Hz high brush OLED screen look and feel? What is the level of actual combat performance of the 12th generation standard pressure i5 12500H on the thin and light book? With these questions in mind, Uncle Niu brought asus's matchless real-machine test.
■ Screen: 15.6 inch 2880 × 1620 100% DCI-P3 color gamut 120Hz 10bit color depth OLED screen
■ Processor: Core i5 12500H (12/16, 3.3/4.5GHz)
■ Memory: Dual channel 16GB DDR4 3200MHz
■ Storage: 512GB PCIe4.0 TLC SSD
■ Graphics card: Ruiju Xe graphics card 80EU (up to 1.3GHz)
■ Wireless: AX211 WiFi 6e wireless + Bluetooth 5.2
■Left interface: USB2.0 port
■ Right interface: 2x Raiden 4 Type-C (40Gbps support PD charging and DP video output), USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-A (5Gbps), HDMI 2.0 (support 4K 60Hz), 3.5mm audio interface
■Weight: 1.85kg(fuselage with 70Wh battery) +0.37kg(90W power supply)
Starting price: 4999 yuan
Advantages: equipped with 2.8K 120Hz OLED screen, excellent display effect, the whole machine configuration is neat, the processor performance is strong, the interface is complete, the scalability is strong, and the memory can be upgraded
Unfortunate point: The keyboard is not backlit
The first 120Hz OLED screen of thin and lightening has the top performance within 5000 yuan
A major core attraction of ASUS is this very good quality screen, but also the first 120Hz high refresh rate OLED screen on the thin and light book, which is characterized by extremely high parameter specifications, whether it is resolution, color gamut or refresh rate, it is the top level within 5000 yuan. From the actual experience of Uncle Niu, the screen looks comfortable and the use of the feeling is quite good.
Compared with the LED+IPS solution of the traditional game book, the self-illuminating OLED panel is characterized by rapid response time, high contrast, high brightness, wide color gamut coverage, and all-round advantages.
Tips: Speaking of OLED panels, some students will worry about the problem of "burning screen" - in fact, from the launch of OLED screen notebooks, ASUS has simultaneously launched a series of screen protection measures, including the use of optimized E4 luminous materials, pixel-level compensation algorithms to offset brightness attenuation, and the addition of screen saver "ASUS OLED Care", such as pixel offset, pixel refresh, etc., which can effectively protect the service life of OLED screens.
In terms of actual experience, the resolution of asus peerless screen reached 2880×1620. Users who are familiar with electronic products know that for screens of the same size, the higher the resolution, the clearer the display effect. Compared with the common FHD resolution screen, ASUS peerless screen resolution increased to 2.8K, giving people the first feeling that the screen screen is obviously more delicate, in web browsing, picture processing, video playback and other different applications can provide excellent display effects, coupled with OLED panel characteristics, the overall visual experience of this screen to Uncle Niu is: looks very transparent, rich color levels.
When it comes to screen color display, Asus has excellent measured performance. This OLED screen uses Samsung E4 luminous material, with 10bit color depth, 100% DCI-P3 wide color gamut, vesa Display HDR 600 True Black certification, Pantone color certification, factory color calibration and other characteristics. Uncle Niu measured it with a color calibrator.
The color gamut coverage of the ASUS peerless screen is 100% sRGB (the software cap has been reached), 97% AdobeRGB, and 98% P3. Although the common high-gamut notebook screen can reach 100% sRGB color gamut, it can only reach about 80% AdobeRGB and 80% DCI-P3 color gamut. That is to say, asus's unparalleled OLED screen color gamut coverage is much wider than that of conventional notebook high color gamut screens. The P3 is a widely used color gamut standard in the professional film and television industry, which means that ASUS's peerless screen can be competent for professional-level video image creation, and picture post-processing is not a problem. As for the daily use experience, Uncle Niu's feeling as an amateur photography enthusiast is that it is a pleasant enjoyment to watch scenic blockbusters with this machine!
▲ On the right is Asus Peerless, as can be seen in the same desktop wallpaper, the peerless screen color is significantly richer, the color is more colorful, the upper left corner is more pure black, and the black part of the ThinkPad X13 on the left looks gray
Some students mentioned the color management problem of the wide color gamut screen under the Win system, don't worry - ASUS Peerless provides color gamut switching support (built-in application MyASUS setting), supporting native, Display P3, DCI-P3, sRGB four kinds of color gamut adjustment. From these points, you can see that the details of international first-line brands are quite in place, the software support is very comprehensive, and the strength is deep.
The lower the Delta E, the more accurate the color display on the screen. In the 48-color standard color sequence test in the following figure, we can see that the maximum value of Delta E of the ASUS peerless screen is only 2.11, the minimum value is 0.10, and the average value is only 0.88 - Delta E is within 2, the human eye basically cannot distinguish the difference in color, which is a professional-level display, while the Delta E average of the Asus peerless screen is only 0.88, and the maximum value is about 2, and the overall performance is very good. As mentioned earlier, the peerless screen has the factory color calibration one by one, which is reflected in the actual measurement.
In terms of brightness, the maximum brightness measured in SDR mode is about 400 nits, and the brightness of about 70% is maintained when used indoors to meet the needs of use. In addition, with HDR turned on, HDR content can be played up to a peak brightness of 600 nits.
Asus peerless screen supports 120Hz refresh rate, and due to the OLED panel features, its screen response time is 0.2ms, whether it is window dragging, web scrolling, or LOL and other e-sports games in daily use, it can ensure smooth and smooth without smearing.
▲ TestUFO can recognize the display refresh rate and match the corresponding fps, the left side is the ASUS peerless 120Hz OLED screen, and the right side is the 60Hz screen of the ordinary thin and light book. As can be seen from the real shot, the display effect of the 120Hz OLED screen is clearer and smoother, while there is obvious smearing under the 60Hz screen, and the Asus peerless screen is much brighter.
In view of the eye protection function valued by users, ASUS peerless on the one hand through the optimization of luminescent materials, greatly reduced harmful short-wave blue light, and passed the T V Rheinland hardware low blue light certification, on the other hand, more than 100 nits for DC dimming (HDR mode full brightness DC dimming), in the screen eye protection this piece is also done more thoroughly.
Combined with testing and actual use experience, in Uncle Niu's view, Asus's peerless screen is a proper first-class performance within 5,000 yuan.
By the way, a few days ago there were also students who left a message asking, looking at the quality of the screen, How to choose as a Matchbook 16+ with Asus and Lenovo Thinkbook 16+? ——The answer is that the same 4999 yuan of the set display version can be given priority to Asus Peerless, and its screen quality is stronger:
● ASUS peerless is a 2.8K resolution OLED screen, thinkbook 16+ is a 2.5K LCD screen, previously analyzed, OLED screen look and feel more transparent, brightness is generally higher, color gamut coverage is wider, and support color gamut display switching;
● ASUS Peerless is 120Hz refresh rate, thinkbook 16+ is 60Hz refresh rate (the machine unique display version is 120Hz screen, but the price comes to more than 6000 yuan), ASUS Peerless screen refresh rate is higher;
● ASUS Peerless is 16:9, in line with the traditional display ratio of some software design interfaces, thinkbook 16+ is 16:10, and the display range is wider on office software;
● Both are DC dimming + low blue light certification.
12-core 16-thread i5 12500H: 45W powerful output
ASUS is equipped with an i5 12500H processor, the basic power consumption is 45W, with 12 cores and 16 threads, the maximum acceleration frequency is 4.5GHz, and the L3 cache is 18MB, which is a typical high-performance standard voltage processor, which is very easy to deal with a variety of daily applications.
Room temperature of about 20 °C (recently the temperature explosion in Chongqing), the use of Aida64 pair of ASUS peerless single test processor (FPU) for half an hour: i5 12500H finally stabilized at about 45W, the temperature is about 93 °C, the large core frequency is between 2.7GHz ~ 3.3GHz, the small core frequency is between 2.3 ~ 2.7GHz, and the average frequency of the whole core is about 2.7GHz.
Surface temperature and noise analysis: The thermal imaging diagram of the C-side under the full load of ASUS is as follows: the heat is concentrated in the middle of the fuselage, the maximum temperature is about 42 ° C, the W and A button areas are near 40 ° C, and the wrist rest and trackpad position are lower. In general, there is basically no heat in the control area, and some slight heat can be felt in the middle.
In terms of noise, the user position is about 51 decibels when the actual test machine is measured, and the user experience is: you can hear more obvious noise, which is larger than the general low-voltage U light and thin book full load noise, but much weaker than the game book. Of course, this is the fan noise when the machine is fully loaded with 45W power in high efficiency mode, and if the daily use is switched to quiet or standard mode, then the fan noise is very weak.
▲ Internal design, single fan double heat pipe (6mm + 8mm diameter) pressed the i5 12500H may surprise many users, the battery capacity is 70Wh, there is a memory slot to replace and upgrade, support expansion 8GB (onboard) + maximum 32GB (slot), if there is a second M.2 hard disk bit expandability is perfect.
Next, take a look at the performance test data of the 45W i5 12500H:
From the data test point of view, the i5 12500H benchmark test data equipped with ASUS Peerless is very strong. In the familiar Cinebench series of tests, its R20 multi-core test score is 4406pts, and the R23 multi-core test reaches 11268pts - in general, to achieve a multi-core score of more than 4400pts, it is necessary to have an 8-core 16-thread standard pressure processor, but now, i5 12500H has reached! If it is a quad-core standard voltage processor, the score is generally around 2500pts, such as the previous generation of i7 11370H, combined with these two data, it can be seen that the benchmark score of i5 12500H is indeed strong.
In the less stressful CPU-Z multi-core test, asus's unmatched multi-threaded score was 5832, and in Uncle Niu's test database, the Ryzen 7 5800H and i7 11800H were also above and below this score. Of course, considering that the test takes a short time and is short of pressure, it is more representative of the performance of the i5 12500H at higher power. In other words, in the case of sufficient power consumption, the i5 12500H can be compared with the previous generation of 8-core 16-thread standard voltage processor pk.
In the long full-load test, Uncle Niu used Blender rendering and video transcoding to test Asus' unmatched sustained full-load performance.
▲Blender rendered as a single sample rendering test, the software version is 3.1, the test project is a longer Classroom scene, and finally the machine takes 9 minutes and 18 seconds to complete the rendering. That's a good result, even reaching the level of the mid-power i7 11800H, but with the addition of a software version update.
▲ Video transcoding, it can be seen that the i5 12500H real-time power consumption of ASUS peerless is about 43.3W, the processor temperature is about 90 ° C, the frequency of the large core in the test is about 3.3GHz, the small core is 2.5GHz, and the processor power output curve is smooth and stable, taking 11 minutes and 58 seconds to complete the test.
Processor Performance Release Test Review: Under the continuous performance release of the 12-core 16-thread i5 12500H+45W, Asus's unmatched processor performance is strong, and it has performed well in benchmark tests and full load tests, and the short-term burst has reached the level of the previous generation of 8-core standard voltage processors. Such performance is very easy for daily various office applications, and it is enough to switch to quiet or standard mode for daily use, and in efficient mode, some heavy applications can be done.
Gaming Entertainment Test: Competent for mild esports online games
ASUS Peerless is a nuclear display thin and light, equipped with i5 12500H built-in 80 unit Intel Iris Xe core display, the highest frequency of 1300MHz, the state of the single graphics card is about 16W/1296MHz, in the dual-channel memory, there is a certain light online game entertainment performance.
▲ In the familiar 3DMark Time Spy scene test, Asus' matchless graphics card score is 1206.
▲ Game combat, Uncle Niu selected several popular e-sports games to test the game entertainment performance of the machine. The first is that "League of Legends" in the screen native 2.8K resolution of the highest quality, the polar smash map in the game team wartime frame rate is about 70fps, playable but generally smooth. Switch the resolution to 1920×1080, the smoothness will be greatly improved, the average frame rate of the game can reach around 115fps, and the team battle can also maintain about 100fps, playing "League of Legends" smoothly at the highest picture quality of 1080P.
▲ "DOTA" is set to 1920× 1080 resolution medium quality, the average frame rate of the line stage is 87fps, and the fierce team battle is about sixty or seventyfps.
▲"CS:GO" is set to 1920× 1080 resolution medium image quality, benchmark average frame rate of 93fps, smooth.
In general, as a nuclear display thin and light book, ASUS Peerless can get e-sports online games under 1080P, coupled with 120Hz high-brush OLED, which further enhances the game experience, and users can also relax in the office.
Custom metal top cover, adapter small and easy to carry
After talking about the screen and performance that everyone cares about most, let's take a look at asus's unique design. Uncle Niu's evaluation version is a black appearance model, the overall appearance is calm and solemn, the shell is a custom metal top cover, adding CNC relief engraving LOGO, quite exquisite, high recognition.
▲A-side CNC relief engraving LOGO, enhance the sense of the whole machine grade
▲The black model has a calm and solemn appearance, and can be used for various occasions
The screen surface is designed with a narrow border, the value is good, the camera is retained above, there is a physical bezel, and it supports 180 ° opening and closing.
The keys on the C side are relatively large, the keyboard keycaps and key ranges reach 1.4mm, there is a 0.2mm concave arc surface design, the numeric keypad is not missing, and the small regret is that it is not backlit with the keyboard. Pay attention to the trackpad, the large control area of 5.9 inches, smooth movement, precise positioning. In addition, ASUS's unparalleled keycaps, palm rests, and trackpads have a full-coverage antibacterial design, which is a detail selling point of icing on the cake. ESC is a separate orange color, and the Enter key has a twill decoration, and these small places are also very careful.
The overall weight of the ASUS Peerless 15.6-inch model is about 1.85kg, which is the common weight of large-screen nuclear display models. Its adapter is a small size square design, although its power reaches 90W, but the weight is only about 370g, small and easy to carry.
Memory upgradeable, loud speaker volume, double thunderbolt 4 connectors
In terms of details, ASUS Peerless is also an EVO certified model, which means that the various configurations of the machine are quite neat, the standard SSD is PCIe 4.0 specifications, and the test continuous read reaches 3700MB/s, and the continuous write is 3300MB/s. It is worth mentioning that the memory of the machine is an on-board 8GB + slot 8GB combination, if you have large capacity needs, its maximum support upgrade to 32GB + 8GB a total of 40GB capacity, completely enough to cope with the application of heavy memory.
Asus's matchless speakers are a combination of 2×2W, with loud sound and Harman Kardon certification, to meet the daily needs of users watching videos and listening to music. Its battery capacity is 70Wh, measured at 70% screen brightness 120Hz refresh rate, 70% volume setting, play local video battery life of about 10 hours, considering the higher specifications of the screen and speakers, and the machine is also an H45 standard pressure processor model, this performance is not bad.
Asus's peerless interface specifications are very high, there are two Thunderbolt 4, support 90W PD charging, the scalability is very strong, but also retains a good ease of use, standard with two USB ports (the left is USB2.0, for connecting the mouse) and an HDMI video expansion port.
In other aspects, the machine supports AI intelligent noise reduction function, which can filter the ambient noise of the other party through the AI noise reduction algorithm to ensure that the video call and game black voice are clear; the machine also has the Link to MyASUS function - to achieve cross-screen collaboration between mobile devices and notebooks, which can turn mobile devices into the second screen of the computer, for collaborative work, file transfer and other applications, which is also a featured intelligent application of ASUS light and thin book.
epilogue
From the use of Uncle Niu and test data, ASUS's unparalleled 120Hz OLED screen and 45W i5 12500H performance performance are its two most outstanding points, with a full range of storage configurations, in the daily human-computer interaction, application fluency can bring users an excellent experience. In addition, the interface specifications of the machine are high, and the memory upgrade is supported, which further extends the service life of the notebook and broadens the scope of application. A small pity is that there is no keyboard backlight.
Finally, let's talk about the purchase suggestion: If you have very high requirements for the screen perception and processor performance release of the notebook, and hope that the memory can be upgraded later, then in the mainstream price budget of 5,000 yuan, ASUS Peerless is a reliable choice.