Late last month, ASUS officially released the new "Peerless" series, ASUS Peerless belongs to the new high-performance thin and light book, equipped with the new 12th generation Intel Core i5-12500H, the processor adopts a new hybrid architecture, with 4 performance cores + 8 energy efficiency cores A total of 12 cores + 16 threads design, multi-core performance compared to the previous thin and light book equipped with 4 core processors greatly improved.
At the same time, it is said that it is also equipped with "ASUS Ice Front Heat Dissipation System", using 97 LCP material curved fan blades, with 6mm + 8mm heat pipe, with large wind pressure + large air volume heat dissipation performance, it is said that it can stably achieve 45W performance release. ASUS Peerless has Intel EVO platform certification, which supports ultra-fast wake-up, ultra-long battery life, intelligent experience and other features.
Of course, the "peerless" series also has a major selling point is "the world's first light and thin version equipped with a 120Hz high-brush OLED screen", but this "120Hz high brush" refers to the high-end version of the peerless, which as the starting price of 4899 the basic version is 90Hz high brush, and this time we tested this basic version, relatively speaking, it should be the most popular version of the "peerless" series, testing this is more instructive for purchase.
The detailed specifications of this asus matchless 14-inch, which debuted at 4899 yuan, are as follows:
Asus' unmatched 14-inch exterior design
The Peerless 14-inch belongs to asus' Fearless series family, and on the A side you can familiarly see a Vivobook logo, which is the English name of the Fearless series. The matchless 14-inch A-side is made of metal material, coupled with the overall simple design, the appearance value is still very high, and the business style exudes a little fashionable feeling.
After opening the peerless 14 inches, you can see a lot of highlights of its B side, first of all, the camera has a physical anti-peeping design, with a shield paddle, and the peerless 14 inches pay attention to the detail experience, the occlusion paddle has a distinct orange design, after dialing over to block the camera can give users clear feedback.
Another highlight of the B side is that the screen adopts a 16:10 ratio design, about the choice between the ratio of 16:10 and the ratio of 16:9, I believe that most users who have experienced these two screen ratios for a long time will choose the 16:10 scale design. After all, the screen size of the laptop is limited, and in most scenarios, it is difficult to open two windows side by side like a desktop, and the 16:10 scale design can make the same screen size see more content and experience better when the single window runs.
After booting up the screen, you will find more highlights of this screen.
The peerless 14-inch screen is made of OLED material, olED screen has many advantages over traditional LED screen, and surpasses the traditional notebook screen in terms of color, brightness, contrast and other parameters.
A qualitative change is that the OLED screen can be completely turned off when displaying black, so the display of dark content can greatly reduce power consumption, which is particularly useful for notebooks, based on this feature of olED screens, when used with Windows' dark mode, it can greatly improve battery life and extend screen life.
In addition, OLED screen is easier to achieve wide color gamut than traditional LED screen, peerless 14-inch measured in the default display mode DCI-P3 color gamut coverage of 100%, such a wide color gamut in its price range is no other traditional LED screen notebook products can do, better wide color gamut performance makes users in the viewing of pictures, videos, especially HDR format video, can get an extraordinary sense of realism, Especially because DCI-P3 is a widely used color gamut standard in the professional film and television industry, and it is about 33% larger than the general sRGB color gamut standard area, the color gamut coverage of DCI-P3 can significantly improve the color experience.
Screen testing
In addition to the color gamut, good color performance is inseparable from accurate color accuracy, and the peerless 14 inches have passed the Pantone color certification to ensure the accuracy of the color, which also has a Pantone color certification sticker on the left side of the trackpad. It is said that each matchless 14-inch notebook will undergo strict and accurate color calibration at the factory, and the color deviation Delta-E will reach the industry-leading level.
The peerless 14-inch notebook has built-in 4 color mode adjustments, namely native, Display P3, DCI-P3 and sRGB, the author tested the color accuracy in its Display P3 mode, and the result was the average ΔE 0.98 before correction, and the maximum ΔE was 2.41, which was very good.
Other aspects of the screen are also said here, in addition to 100% DCI-P3 color gamut coverage, the peerless 14-inch also has 100% sRGB color gamut coverage, 97.3% Adobe RGB coverage, color excellent is not said. The default color temperature is 6829K in the preset display mode, with a slight cool color cast.
In terms of the highest peak brightness, the author tested the peak brightness at sRGB, which is 382.2 nits, which means that it also has good visualization ability outdoors. In fact, strictly speaking, the peak brightness of the peerless 14 inches can be higher, with a peak brightness of more than 600 nits, which needs to be experienced when displaying HDR material with highlighted content in HDR mode, and the peerless 14-inch has also passed VESA's DisplayHDR 600 True Black certification.
It should also be said that the peerless 14-inch screen supports 180 ° flip, and the user does not have to worry about 180 ° flip on the table will scratch the edge of the A side of the screen, where there is rubber to protect.
C-side, the peerless 14-inch also has several very detail-oriented designs, first of all, the ESC key adopts a striking orange-yellow design, for notebook computers, due to the different use modes of the FN key, it needs to be switched by the FN+ ESC key, so the ESC key for notebook users is higher than on the desktop, and the ESC key uses a striking orange-yellow design to increase the use experience. There is also a similar Enter key, which also uses a unique pattern to increase recognition.
The matchless 14-inch power button is integrated into the keyboard in terms of visualization, but its trigger force and button feel are significantly different from other keys, which can play a good anti-false touch effect. And I like the matchless 14-inch Del key design, which is designed in the upper right corner of the entire keyboard area, which can increase the efficiency of blind press.
There are also F9 and F10, which can turn off the microphone and camera hotkeys, the peerless 14-inch set the LED indicator for these two keys, when the microphone and camera are turned off, the LED lights of these two buttons will become orange-yellow long-on state, giving clear feedback. In terms of keyboard, the only thing I am not used to is the design of the half-high arrow keys.
In terms of trackpad, the area of the peerless 14-inch is quite large, the size is 130 * 50mm, which is very good for a 14-inch notebook, and the use experience is also very good, and the silkiness and accuracy are excellent.
To set a general tone for the peerless 14 inches, the author feels that its overall design style is very business-oriented, especially when the notebook is opened, the B and C sides give people a very business feeling, and when closed, only look at the A side can actually have some fashion sense outside of this. And the origin of this business style is believed to be inseparable from many of the details mentioned earlier, there is a unique 14 inches is far smaller than the 14 inches it sounds, as for the reason, in addition to the narrow border, presumably the 16: 10 ratio of the screen is also one of the important reasons, this 16: 10 ratio of 14 inches can be roughly considered to be 13.3 inches 16: 9 notebook the same length, so it feels as if you are getting a 13.3-inch notebook, very small.
Fuselage interface
In terms of interfaces, there is a USB 2.0 port on the left side of the notebook; a USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A port on the right, two Thunderbolt 4 USB-C ports, an HDMI port, and a 3.5mm 2-in-1 headphone/microphone port.
Peerless 14 inches can not see the dedicated power interface, but the use of Thunderbolt 4 USB-C port for power input, the default power adapter is 90W, relatively small and portable, the entire adapter cable length is also long enough, easy to use in various environments.
Performance test The performance of the whole machine is measured
The author has examined the performance of the ASUS Peerless 14-inch machine through a number of tests, first of all, the PCMark 10 machine performance test, the test will be ASUS Peerless 14-inch access to the external power supply, the fan mode switch to the high efficiency mode, and the status bar battery mode is set to the best performance, the others are set by default settings, the test results are as follows:
PCMark 10 machine performance test
For general PC usage scenarios that cover a variety of simple tasks, the official recommendation for the PCMark 10 test program is to achieve a common basic function score of 4100 or higher; for typical office work and light media content work, the official recommendation is to achieve a productivity score of 4500 or higher; and then for editing photos, videos, or other digital content processing, the official recommendation is to achieve a digital content creation score of 3450 or higher. From the test results, you can see that the ASUS Matchless 14 Inches have more than recommended scores in these areas, which is enough to perfectly cope with the above application environment. As for the game test, it can be clearly seen that the overall game performance is limited due to the lack of high-end unique display, but the matchless 14-inch configuration tested was not originally used to play the game.
PCMark 10 application testing
PCMark 10 application test by actually running Microsoft Office three-piece set and Edge browser to examine the office experience of the computer, through the test results, the score results are also very high, has a good daily office experience.
CPU performance
This ASUS incomparable 14-inch is equipped with a Core i5-12500H processor, Intel 7 process process, using a new size core design, with 4 performance cores and 8 energy efficiency cores for a total of 12 cores, of which 4 performance cores and all support Hyper-Threading Technology, so there are a total of 16 threads. Through the test, it can be seen that its performance is very strong regardless of single-core or multi-core, 7-zip software multi-threaded decompression can reach a very high speed of 780225KB/s, and the test scores of CINEBench R20 and CINEBench R23 are also very high.
Moreover, through the CINEBench R20 multi-threaded 10-minute cycle and the CINEBench R23 multi-threaded 10-minute cycle, we can also see that its performance under long-term high load operation is very low compared to the peak, indicating that its thermal performance is also good, so that the whole machine can maintain a long period of extremely high performance release.
Graphics performance
We use 3DMark as a graphics card benchmark performance test, and the test items include Fire Strike, Fire Strike Extreme, Fire Strike Ultra, Time Spy, and Time Spy Extreme. Among them, Fire Strike, Fire Strike Extreme, and Fire Strike Ultra test the performance index of the graphics card in DX11 games at 1080p resolution, 2K resolution and 4K resolution, and the time Spy and Time Spy Extreme projects are the performance index of graphics cards in DX12 games at 2K resolution and 4K resolution, and the specific results are shown in the following table. The grades listed in the table are all scores for the 3DMark graphics card category.
In terms of graphics cards, the ASUS Peerless 14-inch is equipped with the Core i5-12500H processor internally integrated Xe core graphics card, which is not surprising for the low performance of the game, or the previously mentioned configuration without a unique display is an office book, and is not suitable for users who want to play games.
Storage performance
In terms of hard disks, this Asus Peerless 14-inch is equipped with a Micron 2450 PCIe4.0 high-speed solid-state drive, with a maximum continuous read speed of 3748MB/s measured by CrystalDiskMark, while the maximum continuous write speed is 3377MB/s, 4K random read up to 209K IOPS, and 4K random write up to 153K IOPS.
According to the actual performance test of CrystalDiskMark, the continuous read speed is 2204MB/s, the continuous write speed is 2698MB/s, the 4K random read can reach 16K IOPS, the 4K random write can reach 48K IOPS, the latency aspect is 4K random read delay is 59μs, and the 4K random write delay is 20μs.
In addition, the results measured with AS SSD are 2941MB/s continuous read, 1578MB/s continuous write, 64MB/s random read, 258MB/s random write, 4K random read delay of 21μs in terms of latency, and 132μs delay in 4K random write. The final total score was 3059.
In the PCMark 10 disk performance test, the total bandwidth reached 309.65MB/s, with an average access latency of 89μs, and in the 3DMark storage benchmark, the total bandwidth reached 292.11MB/s, and the average access latency was 109μs.
Thermal test
The AIDA 64 FPU single roast is used here for CPU single roast test, and HWinfo is used to record the data, and the room temperature is 25.2 °C during the test. The test results are as follows:
The measured AIDA 64 FPU roaster has a peak power consumption of 67W during the process, and finally stabilized at 45W. In terms of temperature, the average temperature of the 12 cores is as high as 86 degrees Celsius, and the subsequent basic stability is basically stable at an average of 81 degrees Celsius; the CPU package temperature is as high as 93 degrees Celsius, and the subsequent runout is roughly maintained between 84 and 89 degrees Celsius, and the highest core temperature peak is over 93 degrees Celsius, and the subsequent peak is basically maintained between 84 and 89 degrees Celsius.
The author observed the record file and noticed that the performance core of the Core i5-12500H in the AIDA 64 FPU roasting machine can reach the effective frequency of 3.6GHz for the full core, and the energy efficiency core can reach the effective frequency of the full core 2.8GHz.
Thermal imaging as shown in the figure, the hottest spot is 52.5 degrees Celsius, located in the upper right corner of the keyboard behind the heat dissipation outlet, not on the C side, indicating that the heat is very good to be evacuated, on the whole, the C side of the C side only has a sense of warmth, the use experience is good, the palm rest and trackpad area is very cool.
Endurance test
During the endurance test, the battery power does not support the fan mode in the efficient mode, the fan is the default standard mode during this test, the CPU performance release in this state is designed to be the highest power consumption of 35W, while the brightness and sound are adjusted to the highest during the test, the screen refresh rate is 60Hz, and finally get a battery life score of 6 hours and 42 minutes, and the performance score is 5887, which is generally very good.
summary
The overall test down the unparalleled 14 inches left me with a lot of impressive highlights, OLED screen and performance is of course the two largest plates, of which olED screen in addition to the olED material itself brought by the high color performance, but also in its 16: 10 than the 16: 9 screen better office experience, 2880 x 1800 high resolution also makes the display and its delicate, 90Hz high refresh rate for daily operation of the smooth sense of also improved.
In addition to the high performance of the i5-12500H itself, the highlight of the performance is that it ensures the long-term high performance of this processor, which can run at a power consumption of 45W for a long time in the case of external power supply, which is rare for a 14-inch notebook measured only 1.624 kg.
In other aspects, the unparalleled 14-inch also impressed me a lot, such as the compactness of similar 13.3-inch products, the sharp feedback of the camera and microphone status, the design of the upper right corner of the Del key, and the configuration of two Thunderbolt 4 USB-C ports.
In terms of disadvantages, the author can think of not much, no keyboard backlight is certainly a short board, for blind users who are not skilled may bring inconvenience in the dark environment, and USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A port if you can distinguish with USB 2.0 port in different colors should also bring better user experience.
Overall, the matchless 14-inch is a great choice for notebooks that want a good screen, high performance, portability, and enough battery life for everyday office use.