If the increasing use of screen time is the fate that our generations cannot escape, then giving ourselves a few good screens is the best way to improve the happiness of life. Not long ago, ASUS launched the Fearless Pro14 Ryzen Edition of such a notebook, at a price of early 5,000s, it actually has a very good quality 2.8k oled screen, which makes many small partners, especially people with higher correlation between work, life and creative fields, very excited. At everyone's urging, we also hurried to complete the Dreadnought pro14 Ryzen Edition, and then we will share with you its performance in actual use.
Exquisite simplicity, light and atmospheric
Let's start with the look of this product. The overall design of the Fearless pro14 Ryzen edition belongs to a relatively simple style, about 1.46kg of weight makes it very lightweight, exquisite design but makes its temperament appear very atmospheric, portable at the same time to take out more face.
The A-side of the Intrepid Pro14 Ryzen Edition has no superfluous elements, only the CNC-embossed logo as the finishing touch.
The high-quality screen on the b-side is one of its main highlights, which is why we will talk about it separately below. The point here is that the Intrepid pro14 Ryzen Edition has designed a physical mask for the camera, which can eliminate malicious candid shooting with a light swipe. The orange mask is so eye-catching that we can easily tell where the camera is currently in without having to look at it repeatedly.
Not only that, the two function keys f9 and f10 on the keyboard also support one-click off the microphone and camera, and are designed with indicator lights, which is very intimate.
The C-side of the Intrepid Pro14 Ryzen Edition is well worth a closer look. First of all, the keyboard supports three levels of brightness adjustment, which makes the use experience at night or in other low-light environments a lot improved. The 1.4mm long course gives the keyboard a certain sense of passage in daily typing, and the large keycap and full-size spacing make it not as crowded as the fingers of other thin and light books.
If you look closely, you will find that the power supply in the upper right corner of the keyboard seems to be flatter than other keys, in fact, it is integrated with fingerprint recognition function, which can make our unlocking more convenient while ensuring security.
The keyboard's enter key adds a twill texture decoration, which can be regarded as a small Easter egg on the details.
A little further down is the "huge" trackpad of the Fearless Pro14 Ryzen Edition, which has a diagonal area of 5.9 inches, an increase of 50% compared to the previous generation, and will not be as cramped as other thin and light trackpads, and can be more convenient to operate.
The interface of the Intrepid Pro14 Ryzen Edition is concentrated on the left and right sides, the left side is the indicator light and two usb-a 2.0 ports for easy-to-plug accessories, and the right side has a power connector, USB-a 3.2 gen1, HDMI interface, USB-C interface, micro SD card slot and headset interface.
The d side of the notebook relies on the long foot pad behind to provide more space for heat dissipation, in fact, in addition to the obvious opening of the d side, the shaft of the notebook also has a relatively hidden heat dissipation hole, so its heat dissipation ability is also expected.
The speaker opening of the Intrepid pro14 Ryzen Edition, like most notebook products, is designed on both sides of the D-side. Here it is equipped with 2w high-power stereo speakers, with HARMAN Kardon sound certification, can give us a more immersive audio experience, sound reproduction is more realistic.
What exactly is the level of ceiling screen?
At the beginning, we mentioned that the Fearless pro14 Ryzen Edition has a very good screen, because we don't want to sell Guanzi, and then we will give you a detailed analysis. In fact, ASUS launched a new strategy this year - "ASUS Good Screen", which aims to provide users with industry-leading display effects and use experiences, and comprehensively surpass the display experience of traditional notebook screens in terms of color, brightness, contrast and so on. We can see from the following figure that the "Asus Good Screen" notebook is to create a new hexagonal warrior in the screen field, and it is not like the mainstream notebook screen, which has a jagged performance in different aspects.
Specific to this product, this oled screen has a resolution of 2800 ×1800, and the ppi is as high as 242, which can show more delicate picture details. The golden ratio of 16:10 gives it a larger vertical space, allowing us to harvest more display content in use scenarios such as office, browsing the web, and cutting videos, thereby improving the efficiency of work. The oled screen also has a brightness and contrast that is difficult to reach on the LCD material screen, which allows us to harvest deeper night skies or more dazzling sunlight. The 90hz refresh rate and 0.2ms response speed have actually surpassed the smoothness of the gaming LCD screen, which can help you completely get rid of the vertigo caused by phenomena such as smearing. In addition, since the Blu-ray peak of the Asus Fearless Pro14 screen is longer than the wavelength of the traditional LCD screen, it can also achieve hardware-level anti-blue light and more eye protection.
In fact, the Dreadnought Pro14 Ryzen Edition also has excellent color performance. First of all, in terms of color gamut, it has 100% dci-p3 ultra-wide color gamut range, and under the guarantee of more professional color gamut standards, it can be competent for more professional-level video image creation.
The Intrepid pro14 Ryzen Edition is Pantone color certified, so it's also very reassuring in terms of color accuracy. In our actual measurements, its delta e average is only 0.96, which is a rare high-color quasi-screen on similar products.
In addition, this oled screen also supports 10-bit color depth, which means that it can display 1.07 billion colors, far more than the 16.77 million colors that can be displayed by the 8-bit color depth on the general notebook, and 8bit can only display 256 gray levels, and in 10bit, this number is 1024.
It is hard to imagine that such an excellent screen will appear on the thin and light book of 5,000 yuan. In fact, from the screen quality point of view, the fearless pro14 Ryzen version of this screen is said to be the ceiling of notebook products is not too much, here is especially recommended to have creative needs of the small partners to pay attention to it, the same file really can not find a better screen.
With a large 5800h guarantee, this performance is a surprise
If the notebook does not have enough performance as a support, even if it has a good screen, it is difficult for everyone to use it as their own productivity tool and creative tool. In order to live up to this screen, the Intrepid Pro14 Ryzen Edition directly uses the amd ryzen 7 5800h processor, and the addition of the Ryzen standard voltage processor also makes us look forward to its performance.
amd ryzen 7 5800h This processor adopts 7nm process technology, 8 cores 16 thread design, the highest turbo frequency of 4.4ghz, tdp is 45w, is the standard of many game books today.
In the performance test of CPU-Z, the processor of the Intrepid Pro14 Ryzen Edition does show a hard power comparable to the gamebook, especially the multi-threaded scoring performance is very eye-catching.
On the superpi that calculates pi by the single-core Gosler Jeande algorithm, calculating the time after the decimal point of 1 million digits, the processor has a performance of 8.103 seconds, and the fast running into 8 seconds is indeed difficult to achieve with many thin and light costs.
In the chess test, the processor has a single-threaded score of 3950 thousand steps per second and a multi-core score of 32465 thousand steps per second. This achievement can already outperform many desktop processors, which is a bit of a killing madness.
Tested using the well-known decompression software 7-zip, this processor has a single-threaded score of 7428 mips and a multi-threaded score of 71206 mips. This achievement means that the efficiency of our daily office will be greatly improved because of its excellent performance, and it still maintains a strong competitive advantage in terms of multi-core performance compared to similar competitors.
Considering that many small partners will definitely consider using this screen to create, we also ran some tests related to creation. The first is the Cinebench Family Barrel, where the Cinebench r15 test result is a single-core score of 237, a multi-core score of 2045; the cinebench r20 test result is a single-core score of 561, a multi-core score of 4707; the cinebench r23 test result is a single-core score of 1440, and a multi-core score of 11816. The game's performance, which rivals the game's, allows the Intrepid Pro14 Ryzen Edition to render faster, which may allow you to get work done earlier instead of waiting anxiously in front of your computer.
x264 and x265 video encoding is a video encoding format that we often come into contact with, and many small partners who have edited videos should be very familiar with it. For re-encoding of x264 and x265 video formats, the average processing speed of this processor is 55.74fps and 36.14fps. This result means that the Intrepid pro14 Ryzen Edition can not only complete the video encoding work that is relatively heavy for thin and light books, but also be much faster than we expected.
Although the Intrepid Pro14 Ryzen Edition does not have a unique display, it still has the graphics processing power worth looking forward to, mainly because the 5800h vega8 core display already has the ability to break the wrist with some unique displays.
Regarding the theoretical performance test of graphics processing, according to the convention, we still use the two classic series of 3dmark "fire strike" and "time spy" to run points. From the final results, we can see that the graphics processing power of the Intrepid Pro14 Ryzen Edition has reached the level of geforce mx350 discrete graphics card.
In addition, the Intrepid Pro14 Ryzen Edition also features 16GB DDR4 3200 dual-channel memory and 512GB NVME SSD. Through the test of the crystaldiskmark, we also got the read and write scores of the original SSD, and the sequential read and write speeds of 3.6gb/s and 3gb/s really proved that its material was conscientious enough.
Pcmark's tests provide a comprehensive picture of how the PC console actually performs in terms of everyday basic functionality, productivity, and digital content creation, and we take it as our overall consideration for this laptop. We see that the Intrepid pro14 Ryzen Edition gets a total score of 5850. Among them, the children commonly used basic operations 9460 points, productivity 9053 points, digital content creation 6345 points. We can see that even in the photo editing, rendering and visualization, and video editing work that was originally relatively difficult for thin and light books, there can be nearly 9,000 or more points of achievement, which means that it has no problem as a productivity tool to use.
The heat dissipation and power consumption of the Fearless pro14 Ryzen Edition are also the focus of our attention, first of all, in the case of daily standby and no heavy task execution, the CPU power consumption of the Dreadnought Pro14 Ryzen Edition is about 3w, and the power consumption is not large.
Baking for half an hour in a 19 °C environment, the power consumption of the CPU is close to 65w at the highest, and the average is about 52w in the end. In addition, the average temperature of the CPU in the whole process is 76.8 °C, and the peak is only 87.4 °C, which proves that the Fearless Pro14 Ryzen Edition relies on good heat dissipation ability to properly stabilize the standard pressure processor, and the temperature control is quite good.
Let's look at the surface temperature again. Tested with a thermal imager, the Intrepid pro14 Ryzen Edition reached a surface temperature of up to 35.2°C after a single bake. Heat is concentrated in the lower part of the keyboard and where the screen connects to the keyboard, which is the main cooling area. In fact, in terms of touch, because the surface temperature of the keyboard is similar to the body temperature, in fact, there is no feeling of heat, and the extreme environment can still ensure a good touch, which is still to be praised.
What I didn't expect was that on the basis of strong performance, the Fearless Pro14 Ryzen Edition can also surprise us in terms of endurance. Endurance testing was conducted by pcmark 8 for the Intrepid Pro14 Ryzen Edition, and the test result was 9h7min. Put into practical use, it will be much better than the results of this theoretical test, so it is absolutely no problem to hold you through the whole working day. However, considering that the performance of the Fearless Pro14 Ryzen Edition can be fully released under the condition of plugging in, the author still recommends friends with higher performance needs to take the adapter out.
More exclusive features to create the perfect experience
After a period of use, we found that the Fearless pro14 Ryzen Edition actually has a lot of exclusive features, as well as some intimate optimizations for the use experience. Such a delicate mind, and the daily competition with hardware, more rugged notebook market is really a bit contrary.
First of all, in the myasus software, we can quickly implement the setting changes, upgrades and other operations we want, including the selection of the battery charging mode, the adjustment of the fan mode, and the customization of audio and vision.
With link to myasus, we can also achieve cross-screen collaboration between computers and mobile phones. The cross-screen collaboration here includes not only the rapid transfer of files, the control of the computer to the mobile phone image, but also the expansion of the mobile phone as the second screen of the computer. In addition to a more comprehensive experience, it does not restrict the branding of the phone, which is too user-friendly.
After the epidemic, the frequency of online communication has increased visibly, in order to ensure a better online communication experience, the Fearless pro14 Ryzen edition also supports ai intelligent noise reduction function. After turning on the AI intelligent noise reduction function in the myasus software, it can also effectively reduce the noise of both sides. This means that when you are speaking, your voice will be conveyed or recorded more clearly, and the other party's voice will be filtered out most of even if there is noise, and it can be transmitted more clearly, and online meetings and games can be more enjoyable.
summary
The Intrepid Pro14 Ryzen Edition has a high-quality screen that is rare in the same file, and with the blessing of the amd ryzen 7 5800h processor, it also has a surprising performance, which is where it left the deepest impression on us during the entire review process. Other aspects that affect the experience, the Fearless pro14 Ryzen Edition also performs well, such as it is thin and portable, the battery life is durable enough, and there are many intimate features rarely seen on other brand products at the software level. Overall, the Intrepid pro14 Ryzen Edition is well worth buying, whether as a productivity tool or a creative tool, it can give you an experience that transcends this price point. Again, this screen is really difficult to find an opponent in 5000 files, so it is especially recommended to start with friends who have a relatively high demand for screen quality.