OLED screen has been widely used as a "value-added option" exclusive to high-end electronic products - the high price is often the main reason to discourage consumers.
But by 2021, an abnormal phenomenon occurred. Laptops equipped with OLED screens in mainstream prices appeared like "springing mushrooms after a rain". According to Omdia's report, the shipments of OLED notebooks in 2021 reached 5.58 million units, an increase of 389% during the same period. It has to be admitted that the notebook industry has begun a new wave of " internal volume ", among which the "Asus Good Screen" plan has made an indelible contribution. According to the DSCC report, by the first quarter of 2022, Asus has taken the lead in the field of OLED notebook PC displays with a share of 55%.
It has to be said that today's Asus laptops are quite competitive. Of course, it is not only because of its excellent screen display effect, but also because of its excellent workmanship, performance and other aspects, and product pricing often surprises users. For example, the Asus Fearless Pro152022 (hereinafter referred to as: Fearless Pro152022) we received today has been widely praised by users for its extremely high cost-effectiveness.
Fearless Pro152022 is defined by Asus as a "all-round thin and light notebook", which means that it has no obvious shortcomings in portability, performance and display effects, and can meet the needs of most users. So how is its actual experience? Can it become our main machine for many years to come? Let me share with you the latest user experience.
This fearless Pro152022 at hand is different from the past. The graphics card is upgraded to NVIDIARTX3060, which greatly improves the creative application efficiency compatible with CUDA acceleration; the CPU is equipped with the Ryzen 76800H with 6nm process, which provides a 140W high-performance release for the entire machine, comparable to a gaming laptop. Combined with the OLED screen, it can be used as a portable HDR content productivity tool.
Unlike gaming laptops, fearless Pro152022 has a simple design style and a lightweight body. From the appearance, the A-side of the metal improves the appearance and overall quality, and it also rarely maintains excellent portability - the weight of the whole machine is controlled at about 2kg, and the thickness at the thinnest part is 20mm.
Its low-key and restrained style enhances the audience breadth and can easily control relatively serious occasions such as the workplace. Although simple but not outdated, for young users, the body of the Fearless Pro152022 also has many "finishing touch" designs.
For example, the nameplate printed on the A-side relief is very eye-catching. It is a postmodern industrial style. It is a distinctive design of the Asus fearless series, which is in line with the aesthetics of some young people and is also very recognizable.
In order to highlight the keys in the functional area, the surface of the C-side keyboard has also been processed in different colors, and the ESC key is particularly eye-catching and made into orange, which looks very personal.
keyboard supports 3-speed adjustable backlighting, and your fingers will not be "lost" when typing at night.
Although the power button is not very eye-catching, it also adds a very practical function such as fingerprint recognition, which can be quickly turned on and unlocked through fingerprints. The body of
adopts a wedge-shaped design, and the areas that can be lightened should be as thin as possible. The edges and corners are also well handled, and they are smooth and untouched. The interface gives 1 USB4 (40Gbps interface bandwidth, supports PD charging and DP video output ), USB-C3.2, 2 USB-A3.2, 1 HDMI2.1, 1 SD7.1 card reader and 1 2.5GRJ45 network port, which is relatively comprehensive and can meet the large number of expanded business needs. The 2.8KOLED screen is covered with the
B surface. As for the width of the screen frame, I personally feel that it is acceptable. Since the body proportion is relatively "square", the screen adopts a 16:9 wide screen ratio, and the borders on both sides of the screen are narrower, so the "big chin" of the screen frame is more prominent, but in fact, the frame at the bottom of the screen is only one thumb wide.
The camera above the screen is a 1080P high-definition camera, which supports physical anti-peeping function and is also clear in dark light environments, which deserves good reviews.
Creative Tool that supports HDR
As an HDR productivity tool, the screen quality of fearless Pro152022 is very outstanding. The 2.8KOLED screen with Samsung E4 substrate supports a high refresh rate of 120Hz, a wide color gamut of 100% P3, and supports HDR requirements, which directly fills the "screen price ratio".
For different creative content, the color gamut mode can also be adjusted in the "Asus Butler" software. The default is the vivid color mode, which will be used to the widest low color gamut. In addition, it can also be adjusted to the sRGB color gamut suitable for web browsing, the DCI-P3 color gamut suitable for movie production standards, and the DisplayP3 color gamut commonly used by Apple devices.
creators have high color accuracy requirements for the screen. Fearless Pro152022 has undergone factory-precision color calibration and Pantone color certification. The actual color accuracy is average △E=0.18, and the color accuracy reaches professional level.
screen panel adopts 10bit color depth and 1.07 billion colors. Therefore, in the 10bit display mode, the transition between adjacent colors is more natural and delicate, greatly reducing the appearance of picture faults during the creation process.
↑8 bits on the left, 10 bits on the right (no obvious color faults)
Thanks to the advantages of 0.2ms ultra-low response time and 120Hz high refresh rate, in scenes where the screen changes significantly, such as sliding web pages and playing games, Wuwei Pro152022 has almost no picture-sweeping phenomenon, which is very clear.
measured daily screen brightness reaches about 383 nits, while the peak brightness can reach 600 nits in HDR mode. Because the OLED screen is self-luminous backlight, when performing pure black pictures, the screen backlight can be completely turned off, infinitely close to 0 nits . Compared with the IPS screen, the OLED screen has no light leakage at all, so the picture feel is more "transparent"
↑ IPS on the left, and OLED
on the right combined with 600 nits of peak brightness, Fearless Pro152022 can better display high dynamic range content. Therefore, Fearless Pro152022 has also obtained the certification of VESADisplayHDRTrueBlack600.
↑Traditional SDR display
↑Open HDR display
↑Traditional SDR display
↑Open HDR display
After turning on HDR function, HDR content is presented to us dynamically with higher picture dynamics, and the color and brightness are significantly improved, just like changing from an ordinary theater to a laser theater. The screen of Asus Fearless Pro152022 can also be used as an HDR content monitor to help creators complete the creation of HDR content.
gaming base performance performance
Thanks to the dual strong core combination of Ryzen 76800H and RTX3060, as well as the new Asus Glacier Pro cooling architecture, Fearless Pro152022 has performance comparable to gaming laptops.
CPU adopts the 6nm process Zen3+ architecture Ryzen 76800H, with 8 cores and 16 threads, with a maximum frequency of 4.7GHz. 70W peak performance release, 55W continuous performance release.
CinebenchR23 is a widely used and has reference value CPU performance testing tool. The actual test score of the machine's multi-core score reached 13372 points and the single-core score reached 1470 points.
GPU uses GeForceRTX3060 independent GPU, 3840 CUDA cores, supports NVENC hardware acceleration, and advanced technologies such as NVIDIADLSS, ray tracing, and releases 120W performance.
DMark can test GPU performance, and the actual test 3DMarkFireStrike graphics card score is 20801, and the TimeSpy score is 8240, which performs well.
Thanks to the CUDA acceleration capability of GeForceRTX3060 independent graphics card, we can enable the GPU hardware acceleration function in creative tools such as Premiere to improve work efficiency during editing and rendering, and realize the workflow of multi-track 4K real-time preview editing.
In actual measurement, after turning on GPU acceleration, 1 four-minute 4K video is played back in a 1/2 preview. The playback process is smooth and there is no frame drop.
and 2 minutes of edited 4K videos were encoded through GPU acceleration, which took only 154 seconds, and as a comparison, pure CPU acceleration took 565 seconds. After GPU acceleration, the work efficiency has been significantly improved.
↑GPU acceleration encoding
↑Pure CPU acceleration encoding
And I found that if you rely solely on CPU in the video encoding stage, the CPU occupancy rate will reach 100%. At this time, the system response speed will decrease and we will not be able to perform other operations. After turning on GPU acceleration, the GPU can share the burden on part of the CPU, so the system response speed will not become very slow - other tasks can still be performed during encoding (browsing the web page, writing Office, etc.), which is also a "benefit" of using NVIDIAGPU acceleration.
↑ After turning on GPU acceleration, it can release some CPU load
gaming capabilities. In terms of game capabilities, I have tested two popular 3A games, both of which can run smoothly at 1080P resolution with high picture quality.
↑ "Forza Horizon 5" is super high picture quality, with an average frame rate of 60
↑ "Tomb Raider" is high picture quality, with an average frame rate of 93
By dismantling the machine, you can see that the Asus Glacier Pro cooling architecture consists of dual fans + six heat pipes + four air outlets, which is the cooling specifications of the gamebook level. It is worth mentioning that the machine has a memory slot that can be replaced and two M.2 hard disk slots that can be replaced, which supports later configuration upgrades. The original machine is equipped with 512GSSD solid-state hard drive and 16GB DDR5 memory on board. In terms of heat dissipation, after AIDA64+Furmark test, the machine can run at high power consumption for a long time. The specific situation of roaster is as follows:
Single roast CPU: 55W
Single roast GPU: 120W
Dual roast: CPU=40W, GPU=100W (total 140W)
Battery performance is also good in thin and light notebooks with unique graphics. PCMark10 modern office has achieved a 7-hour battery life, which can meet the office without plug-in after afternoon tea.
Summary:
ASUS Fearless Pro152022 is an all-round product. It has outstanding display effects due to the OLED screen, and there are no obvious shortcomings in hardware performance, expansion capabilities, etc. Compared with the previous generation, the focus of this product upgrade is CPU and GPU. The combination of RTX3060+R76800H improves the creation and gaming performance of the product. For those who need high performance, it is undoubtedly a very cost-effective choice at present.
