Preface
When it comes to thin and light laptops, ASUS's Vivobook series notebooks are inescapable of being avoided. As early as 2021, the ASUS Vivobook series notebooks used the OLED display as a breakthrough to launch the "ASUS Good Screen" strategy, which has gained a good reputation for its experience and appearance that far surpasses that of competing products.
The ASUS Vivobook Pro15 2024 notebook we reviewed this time continues the "ASUS Good Screen" strategy, using a 15.6-inch, 2.8K resolution, 120Hz high-brush OLED ASUS Good Screen is equipped with Intel's latest Core Ultra 5 125H processor, integrating a new AI acceleration engine NPU unit and ultra-low-power core LP E-Core, to meet users' needs for high-energy AI ultra-thin and light laptops with large screens, good screens, intelligence, and energy saving.
Specifications and configurations
处理器：Core Ultra5 125H，4P+8E+2LP 14核心18线程（up to 4.5GHz）
核显：锐炫Arc核显，112EU（up to 2.2GHz）
内存：32GB LPDDR5X-7467MHz
硬盘：1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD
Screen: 15.6-inch OLED display, 16:9 ratio, 2880 x 1620 resolution
100% P3 wide color gamut, 600 nits peak brightness, 0.2ms response time, 10bit color depth
支持DC调光、DisplayHDR True Black 500认证
Weight: Approx. 1.5kg, adapter 376g
Thickness: as thin as 1.39cm
Heat dissipation: Dual heat pipes and dual fans
Battery: 75Wh longevity large battery
Core Ultra5 125H is Intel's latest Meteor Lake architecture processor, using intel 4 manufacturing process, split modular design, new LP-Core, NPU and other designs, with 4 P-Cores, 8 E-Cores and 2 LP-E Cores, a total of 14 cores and 18 threads, the highest turbo frequency can reach 4.5GHz, L2 cache 14MB, L3 cache 18MB, standard power consumption 28W.
Intel Arc is Intel's latest Arc GPU, which uses the same Xe graphics architecture as ARC GPU, with 7 Xe units 112EU and a maximum dynamic frequency of 2.2GHz.
The ASUS Vivobook Pro 15 2024 notebook is 353×246×13.9mm, as thin as 1.39cm, weighs about 1.5kg, and also supports a 180-degree opening and closing angle.
The power adapter is a 90W USB-C port charger that charges through the Thunderbolt 4 port of the laptop and weighs about 376g.
Details
The ASUS Vivobook Pro 15 2024 features an ultra-thin metal body design with a matte matte surface that feels delicate and dry to the touch. The A side is in sea ice blue, with an etched logo of ASUS VIVOBOOK on the left side and a trapezoidal arc design at the bottom, which not only adds some rounded beauty to the notebook, but also avoids blocking the air outlet when the notebook is opened.
B-side is a 15.6-inch OLED ASUS good screen, support2.8K(2880 x 1620) resolution, 120Hz high brush, with native, sRGB, DCI-P3, Display P3 four professional color gamuts, it also supports DisplayHDR True Black 500, TÜV hardware-level low blue light eye protection certification, SGS Eye Care eye protection certification, and DC dimming, anti-flicker mode. The black edge at the bottom is slightly larger due to the proportion, and ASUS has specially designed a silver-white decorative band, which is consistent with the color of the C side to reduce the abruptness of the black edge.
The top of the display is equipped with an IR AI 1080P HD camera with a physical privacy protection mask and support for fourth-generation 3DNR video noise reduction. The red part is an auxiliary infrared light, which supports Windows Hello face recognition login system. The two small holes next to it are microphone arrays that support ASUS AI two-way voice noise cancellation.
The C-side features a full-size RGB ergonomic silent keyboard with 1.7mm long key travel and 19.05mm key pitch design, support for Windows dynamic lighting effects, and customize the light color and brightness. In addition to the regular FN multi-function key, there is also a Copilot button in the bottom right corner, which is fully prepared for future AI functions.
Below is a 7.1-inch ultra-large touch panel, with a sampling rate of up to 240Hz, and the 120Hz refresh rate of the display is just 2:1 ratio, which solves the problem of jamming and jitter caused by the mismatch between the sampling rate of the high brush screen and the touch panel in the past, and realizes a silky touch screen operation experience.
On the left side of the laptop are an HDMI 2.1 (TMDS) port, two full-featured Thunderbolt 4 ports, a MicroSD card reader, and a 3.5mm audio jack.
On the right side of the laptop are 2 USB-A 3.2 Gen 1 5Gbps ports and a power indicator.
Because the laptop is very thin, the heat dissipation outlet on the back adopts a special triangular shell concave oval hollow, which can increase the air output on the one hand, and maintain the beauty of the fuselage on the other hand.
The D side is a heat dissipation air intake, a more conventional long strip grille, and three non-slip mats, one long and two short.
ASUS Good Screen Test
The ASUS Vivobook Pro 15 2024 is equipped with a 15.6-inch 120Hz, 2.8K resolution OLED display, which can switch between native, sRGB, DCI-P3, and Display P3 professional color gamuts in MyASUS software to meet users' professional needs for display colors.
In response to users' doubts about OLED displays, ASUS has also launched OLED Care anti-burn-in screen technology, which includes four functions: pixel refresh, pixel shift, hidden taskbar, and taskbar translucency, effectively improving the service life of OLED displays.
At the same time, ASUS has also launched the "ASUS Good Screen, Worry-free Replacement" service, which provides free replacement of new screens for highlights within one month of purchase, and free replacement of new screens for afterimages during the standard warranty period.
ASUS Vivobook Pro 15 2024 uses Samsung's ATNA56AC01 OLED display, and we used a color calibrator to test the color gamut under the native color gamut, and the sRGB and DCI-P3 color gamut coverage have reached 100%, and Adobe RGB has also reached 97%, which is almost full. The volume of the three professional color gamuts of sRGB, Adobe RGB and DCI-P3 has also reached 179.6%, 123.7% and 127.2% respectively, and the color performance is very good.
In terms of color accuracy, we used the Spyder X calibrator to test the Display P3 standard, and the average value of Delta E was only 0.51, and the maximum value of Delta E was only 2.09. The smaller the Delta E, the more accurate the color, and the lower the Delta E score on this display, means that the color reproduction of this display is extremely accurate.
The ASUS Vivobook Pro 15 2024 also supports HDR technology and is certified for DisplayHDR True Black 500, which measures a maximum white point brightness of 424 cd/m² without HDR turned on and 636 cd/m² with HDR turned on, even exceeding the DisplayHDR True Black 500 certification standard.
Processor performance test
The Core Ultra5 125H scored 13,830 points in multi-core and 1,663 points in single-core tests in multiple rounds of Cinebench R23 testing.
In the CPU-Z Benchmark, it scored 6219 points in multi-core and 719 points in single-core.
The 3DMark CPU scored 6589 points in multi-core and 954 points in single-core. Overall, the performance of the Core Ultra5 125H is about the same as that of the i5-13500H, and it can benchmark the previous generation of 45W processors with a standard power consumption of 28W, which is still a pretty good improvement.
According to the Cinebench R20 10-cycle test, the peak power consumption of the Core Ultra5 125H can reach more than 60W, but the stable state is about 55W. The waveform of the first cycle test is due to the slow adjustment of the fan speed of the ASUS Vivobook Pro 15 2024 notebook, and the test began to reach a peak power consumption of 60W+, and then fell to the power consumption of the early 50W, and after the fan was adjusted, the power consumption was increased again. The advantage of this is that users can get a quieter experience in short periods of time and high loads. By the time of the second cycle test, the fan speed was raised, and the power consumption release could reach 50W+, and the next few times were the more normal instantaneous PL2+ stable state PL1 power consumption release, which was basically at the level of 50W+.
Comprehensive performance and endurance test
THE OVERALL PERFORMANCE WAS TESTED USING THE PCMARK 10 MODERN OFFICE WITH A TOTAL SCORE OF 6450. In terms of the three sub-scores, the ASUS Vivobook Pro 15 2024 scored quite well in the Common Features and Document Editing tests, reaching 10276 and 8223 points, respectively, which means that this thin and light laptop can smoothly cope with daily and office needs. Because this notebook does not have a separate display, its performance in digital content creation is relatively average, reaching 8618 points, but the performance of Ruixuan core graphics has improved a lot, and the results can still kill the previous generation of nuclear graphics thin and light books.
Thanks to the Core Ultra5 125H processor with the new LP E-Core ultra-low-power core, the ASUS Vivobook Pro 15 2024 achieved an ultra-long battery life of 12 hours and 49 minutes in the battery life test of PCMARK10 modern office, and there is no problem with 1-2 days on a full charge.
If you are more commonly used in laptops to watch dramas and videos, ASUS Vivobook Pro15 2024 can also provide a battery life of 12 hours and 6 minutes, which is not much different from the battery life of modern office.
The ASUS Vivobook Pro 15 2024 comes with a 90W USB-C port charger that can charge up to around 97W when the battery is used up and enters the fast charging state.
It takes about 1 hour and 22 minutes from battery exhaustion to full charge, and the actual measurement is about 1 hour and 10 minutes.
AI application testing
The Core Ultra5 125H is equipped with a dedicated AI acceleration unit NPU, which has received initial support in the latest Windows 11 23H2 system. Open the task manager to identify the NPU core and usage, and in the Windows studio effect, you can also use the NPU to perform a series of AI effects such as background blur, automatic framing, and eye contact.
AI needs to rely on the joint ecosystem of hardware and software, and localized deployment is no less important than the construction of AI hardware. The AIGC assistant demo version released by Intel does this very well, using the open source Baichuan2-7B-Chat model of Baichuan Intelligence by default, and then you can also change the model or expand the function by yourself, such as loading the LCM-Lora model of StableDiffusion, you can realize the Wensheng graph function. We asked the AIGC assistant to generate a feature introduction to the Core Ultra5 125H NPU, which only takes about half a minute to a minute to complete, which is very smooth.
We also tested Stable Diffusion, the most popular Wensheng diagram software at the moment, and used Arc Core to generate a 512 x 512 resolution image, iterating over 20 steps, and taking about 1 minute and 50 seconds.
In addition to the AI software we just tested, the ASUS Vivobook Pro 15 2024 notebook also comes pre-installed with ASUS lobby software in the system, which provides audio-visual software and office software, and it can also download a variety of practical AI software to help users achieve a smarter laptop experience.
Heat dissipation and disassembly
Disassembling the back panel, you can see that the ASUS Vivobook Pro15 2024 notebook adopts a heat dissipation structure with dual heat pipes and dual fans, the middle is covered by heat pipes with processor chips and LPDDR5 memory, the lower left corner is the M.2 hard drive bay, next to it is the intel AX211 wireless network card, and the bottom is a 75Wh super large battery.
固态硬盘是西数的SN560 PCIe 4.0固态，容量是1TB。
The read and write speeds are shown in the figure, and the sequential read and write speeds can reach 5008 MB/s and 3342 MB/s respectively.
In a room temperature of 26 degrees, the power consumption of the Core Ultra5 125H is stable at about 53W-54W, the core temperature is basically 99 degrees-100 degrees, and the performance core frequency fluctuates between 3.7GHz-4.1GHz.
summary
ASUS Vivobook Pro series notebooks have been positioned to strike a balance between performance and thinness, but this generation of Vivobook Pro 15 2024 high-energy AI ultra-thin and light laptop can be said to have both, the body is upgraded to an ultra-thin metal body, weighing only 1.5kg, as thin as 13.9mm, and the texture is also very outstanding, which can be said to be a model of thin and light laptops. In terms of performance, it is equipped with Intel's latest Core Ultra5 125H processor, on the one hand, the new NPU and LP E-Core design make the notebook smarter and have a longer battery life, which is ready for the future AI PC era, on the other hand, the performance of the processor is also quite good, plus the upgrade of the core graphics, which brings a full range of product power improvements to the notebook.
In terms of price, the ASUS Vivobook Pro 15 2024 notebook is priced at 5999 yuan, and it comes standard with a Core Ultra5 125H processor, as well as 32GB LPDDR5X RAM and a 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD.