Last year we tested the new product line of Asus - Lingyao Pro16. At that time, it was the world's first 16-inch 4K OLED screen and the world's first DialPad virtual knob that impressed me quite deeply. This combination was undoubtedly very attractive to the creative production group. Therefore, this year, Asus took advantage of the victory and further optimized the motherboard design on the basis of inheriting the advantages of the Lingyao Pro16 series, introduced additional memory and hard disk into Lingyao Pro16, creating a brand new Lingyao Pro16 2022.
IT Home also obtained the i7-12700H + RTX 3070Ti version of Lingyao Pro16 2022. In this article, let’s take a look at this new "flagship performance thin and light notebook". The specific configuration is as follows:
Appearance design
Lingyao Pro16 2022 Although it still belongs to the Lingyao Pro16 series, the mold has undergone very big changes. The quality and exquisiteness that you give yourself is even more prominent when you start. The edges of the all-metal body are smooth and do not cut off. The fresh green makes it look thinner. Although this is a 16-inch large-screen notebook with a size of 35.54 x 24.85 x 1.99 ~ 2.19 cm, it weighs only 2.2kg, which is not very heavy.
A surface has been changed from a relief logo design to a metal A-shaped logo, which is also the new family design of Asus's Lingyao series this year. The frosted porcelain cyan metal A-side looks very fresh.
B surface supports one-hand opening and closing, with a maximum opening and closing angle of about 130°. After expanding the B-side, there is a 16:10 OLED large screen with a very high screen-to-body ratio. The specific quality of this screen will be tested in detail below. There is a camera and a stereo microphone above the screen, and the camera has a physical pry-snap paddle.
power button is located in the upper right corner and integrates fingerprint recognition function. The keyboard supports white backlighting. The C-side keyboard retains the numeric keypad, which is worthy of praise. There is also engraving of the master sound effect of "Harman Kardon" under the numeric keypad. The trackpad below
is very large and has a great feel. But this trackpad is not that simple. There is a white dot in the upper right corner. Just slide inward to exhale a DialPad virtual knob. This is actually a productivity knob.
In the Adobe productivity software, it can quickly adjust the timeline, color adjustment, and switch menus. It can quickly switch volume and brightness in other software. It is a very practical function for creative workers. Friends who have cut videos should be able to understand it.
Finally, let’s take a look at the D side. The D-side design is average, with only one long rubber foot pad and a set of speaker openings on both sides of the bottom. Later, IT Home will take apart the back cover for you to see what happened.
In order to meet the needs of office and productivity groups, Lingyao Pro16 2022 has a very rich interface. On the left is an DC power supply interface, an .5G wired network port, a USB-A 5Gbps interface, and an MicroSD Express 7.1 (985MB/s) card reader . On the right is an , a Thunderbolt 4 and a full-featured USB 3.2 Gen 2 interface, which supports PD charging and DP power output. In addition, there is an USB-A 10Gbps interface and a 3.5mm headphone interface. The expansion is at the level of a gaming laptop. You don’t need to carry a dock when going out. The charger included in
Lingyao Pro16 2022 is a three-pin DC charger with 240w, which is not portable in size. However, this generation of C port has added support for PD charging, and you no longer need to carry a DC charger when going out.
screen test
OLED screen has accurate color, high brightness and uniformity, high contrast, good HDR compatibility, and is very friendly to creative designers. Asus is a master of playing OLED screens. With the past two years of technical accumulation and product line layout, OLED screens have been fully launched from low prices to high prices. Our OLED screen is the flagship of Asus laptops. Its resolution is as high as 3200*2000, and although it does not have 4K, it is still very clear. This generation also introduced a high refresh rate of 120Hz, making it both the attributes of the game.
We adjusted the resolution to the highest 3200 x 2000, and the brightness was manually adjusted to the highest.Then the color gamut color accuracy test was performed with a color calibrator. In the actual test standard mode, the color gamut covered 100% of sRGB, 96.5% of Adobe RGB and 99.9% of P3 color gamut, which performed very well.
color accuracy performance is also amazing. The average color offset value ΔE is only 0.34, and the maximum ΔE is only 1.59, which is a professional-level color expression.
Excellent color accuracy comes from factory color calibration. This computer has preloaded the color calibration file when it appears, so users do not need to manually color calibration, and can be ready to use.
High brightness is also a major feature of OLED. We turn on HDR mode and use DisplayHDR for testing. The actual peak brightness can reach 541nit. This performance is very good and can meet the requirements of HDR500. Everyone recognizes the color performance of
OLED, but many consumers may be worried about the two possible problems of OLED - eye damage and screen burning. In order to solve the problem of eye damage, the Lingyao Pro16 2022 screen provides OLED low-brightness anti-flashing function, and the HDR mode supports full-brightness DC dimming, so there will be no worries about strobe damage to the eye when used.
screen burning is an objective problem of OLED. In order to reduce the impact of this part, Asus designed some software methods to avoid it, such as default black theme, automatic pixel offset, and screen saver. At the same time, it is recommended to open the taskbar to hide automatically when using it in daily use.
This generation of Lingyao Pro16 2022 also has a unique feature - 120Hz high refresh rate. As we all know, 90Hz can greatly improve the smoothness of browsing web pages compared to 60Hz, while 120Hz is not only smoother, but also meets the requirements of e-sports game level. Due to the characteristics of the OLED screen, it supports fast response of up to 0.2ms, and can gain the advantage when playing CSGO games.
In order to show everyone the advantage of 0.2ms response time intuitively, the author chose another 120Hz LCD screen to run UFO TEST at the same time as comparison, and the shutter speed of the mobile phone was adjusted to the same, and then took a photo respectively. As can be seen from the figure below, LCD screens with relatively slow response speeds are prone to produce afterimages around moving objects.
↑ LCD response drag test
In comparison, Lingyao Pro16 2022 has much less OLED screen drag, which can bring a better competitive state in the game and can also avoid the occurrence of 3D vertigo to a certain extent.
↑ 120Hz OLED response drag test
hardware design
In order to give everyone a deeper understanding of the hardware of this laptop, we will directly disassemble it and introduce it while disassembling. After opening it, the author found that the internal layout has really changed a lot, not only has the heat dissipation greatly enhanced, but the expansion has also achieved a leap in its expansion. First of all, the dual fan six-heat pipe heat dissipation module at this gamebook level,
So what is the heat dissipation ability of this module? Can we suppress the two major heat dissipation players i7-12700H + RTX 3070Ti? We turned on "Efficiency Mode" to bake FPU for 15 minutes, the power consumption is stable at around 80W and the temperature is stable at a maximum of 93℃. This performance release is quite positive, almost the same level as a gaming laptop. In terms of
graphics cards, this generation of RTX 3070Ti has added the function of independent graphics output, which can greatly reduce output latency and further improve gaming performance. It is also conducive to the performance release of GPU.
measured power consumption when baking a single graphics card is stable at 110W and the temperature is 71℃. Although it cannot be compared with the gaming laptops that are often 140-150W, it is already enough.
double baking for 15 minutes, the CPU is stable at 32W 77℃, and the GPU is stable at 107W 73℃. It can be seen that its adjustment scheme is inclined to graphics cards, and the total performance release can reach about 140W.
memory deserves a big thumbs up. Lingyao Pro16 2022 adopts an on-board 16G+ plug-in and unplugged 16G solution to form a 32G DDR5 dual channel, which not only achieves high performance but also takes into account expansion. Some creative workers have a necessity for memory size, and this design is very considerate.
This one in our hands is equipped with an Intel AX211 wireless network card, supports Wi-Fi 6E protocol, and has very good performance.
is the M.2 slot on the right side of the memory of
. Last year's version only had one hard disk slot in the entire machine, so it would be more troublesome to upgrade. This year, it has been upgraded to two M.2 hard drive slots, which is very simple to expand. The built-in 1T hard drive comes from Mg , which is an OEM product, and its speed performance is still good. It is in line with the positioning of PCIe*4.0 SS high-end products. The specific running scores are shown in the figure. At the bottom of
is a 90Wh battery. This battery can be said to be quite large. Although the power consumption of the two cores is very large, I believe it can still provide good battery life.
Performance Test
Next, let’s take a look at its theoretical running score and actual experience. First of all, this high-end standard voltage processor i7-12700H on the intel mobile terminal, which has 14 cores and 20 threads, a reference frequency of 2.69GHz, and a maximum turbo frequency of 4.7GHz. R20 single-core running score is 691 points, and multi-core running score is 7053 points.
R23 Single-core running score 1800 points, multi-core running score 18368 points. It can be seen that these running scores are all flagship-level on the mobile terminal, and the performance release is also done well, reaching the level of a gaming laptop.
Next, let's do some GPU performance score. In TimeSpy, the final score is 10345 points, which means that it can not only smoothly run complex three-dimensional modeling video effects, but also run some mainstream online games at 2K resolution.
Creative production
As an all-round book focusing on productivity, Lingyao Pro16 2022 has also passed the certification of NVIDIA RTX Studio. Its factory-owned driver is the NVIDIA Studio driver, and now more than 75 creative applications provide support for NVIDIA Studio. Most of these applications can call AI computing power to greatly improve work efficiency.
In modeling and rendering software, RTX 3070Ti can use CUDA to provide hardware acceleration for work. In the commonly used modeling tool V-Ray, RTX accelerated ray tracing can be used to achieve high-performance final frame rendering. With the help of AI-equipped noise reduction, the GPU can further accelerate interactive rendering. If GPU Cuda acceleration is enabled, the score reaches 1220 points, which can meet most modeling needs.
In another rendering software KeyShot, it can achieve fast interactive rendering through RTX-accelerated ray tracing and AI-equipped OptiX noise reduction. We run both CPU and GPU cores, with a CPU score of 2.44 and a GPU score of 46.56. The GPU acceleration effect is obvious.
In the late video, IT Home tested PugetBench For Adobe Pr and Ae for everyone. Pr is the most common video editing software. Using the NVENC encoder that comes with RTX GPU can accelerate the export of videos and make the editing smoother. After testing, the score can reach 780 points under the CUDA acceleration of the RTX 3070Ti, and the editing of 4K videos will not be stuttered, and there is no need to turn on the proxy when playing 4K videos in real time.
special effects software Ae, with the help of NVIDIA CUDA technology, can render key special effects accelerated by GPUs faster. The score reached 1,280 points, and some more complex video effects can be made. The large memory of 32G can also bring more space to creators.
Finally, it is the software Da Vinci, which integrates editing and color tuning. In the latest version of Davinci 18, it also provides complete support for Cuda acceleration. The actual test score of Pugetbench for Davinci reached 1337 points, which performed very well, and the multi-level real-time color tuning can also be played smoothly.
or above can be obtained, and daily office work is no problem. We tested CrossMark and PCMark10 representing integrated office performance. In CrossMark, Lingyao Pro16 scored 2000 points in 2022, which can fully meet all daily office work.
PCMark10 can reach 7905 points, and this productivity is not ordinary high.
Battery life is also a very important thing for productivity groups. Lingyao Pro16 2022 is equipped with a large 90Wh battery and switches the graphics card mode to the hybrid output mode, which can achieve longer battery life. The actual measurement is that the power saving mode is turned on at 150 nit brightness, and the continuous office battery life can reach 5 hours and 46 minutes. If it is not enough, you can also use PD charging to return blood.
Game performance
So, can it play games after work? We also conducted tests on several mainstream games. It should be noted that since the built-in driver of the machine is NVIDIA Studio driver, the optimization is more productive and the game frame count will be reduced. Therefore, before the game, we first switch to the latest Game Ready driver. The actual test results " PUBG " can run at an average of 165 frames with extremely high resolution and image quality, and the experience is smooth and can run at a high refresh screen of 120Hz.
Next, let's challenge the 3A masterpiece. We run the highest quality BenchMark of Tomb Raider at 2560*1600 at 2K resolution. The final average frame rate is 84 frames, so we can play most 3A masterpieces in medium and high quality.
In " God of War 4", we can open to the DLSS balanced file to achieve a smooth play of 2K maximum image quality of about 80 frames, and the experience is very smooth.
"Red Dead Redemption 2" is similar. Even the highest quality of 2K can be easily won through DLSS technology. The actual test runs BenchMark to reach 76 frames, and the gaming experience is smooth.
RTX 3070Ti is a high-end ray tracing graphics card on laptops. Can you play RTX games with it? We tested two RTX games. It can reach 67 frames at the highest image quality in "Control", and playing 2K ray tracing is not a problem.
"Cyberpunk 2077" is under great pressure. The 2K super ray tracing only has a few more than 40 frames. If you turn on the 2K low ray tracing + performance DLSS, the frame rate can reach 68 frames, satisfying smooth play.
summary
Last year, when the author reviewed Lingyao Pro16, he had some complaints about not supporting storage expansion, PD charging, and the lack of high-reflash screens. Now we are surprised to see that these problems have been solved on Lingyao Pro16 2022. Not only does the performance be stronger, but it also greatly improves the expansion. At the same time, the introduction of 120Hz OLED high-refresh large screen also gives it the attribute of taking into account both the game.
If you are a creative worker who needs performance and want to play games in your spare time, then Lingyao Pro16 2022 can be regarded as an all-round bucket machine. Friends who have the above needs can pay attention.
