2022 The most fragrant Shenji ASUS Wushuang is finally here!
I still remember when I first saw the official poster on March 10, I discussed with my colleagues, "If Wushuang continues the previous fearless cost-effectiveness and then makes a slight breakthrough, this machine will be 'invincible'." As a result, it seems that Asus does not want to give others too many opportunities. Just the 2.8K OLED screen + 120Hz refresh rate, there are already few competitors at the same level. Moreover, it also pressed the first launch price to less than 5,000 yuan on the basis of the 12th generation standard pressure Core . It can only sigh, "Asus is really a ruthless person!"
In addition, it has to be said that Asus is really "retracting and shrinking" when making laptops. The high-end ROG brings the configuration, hardware and design to the extreme, establishing a sense of faith-like brand identity among the player group; and the mainstream price Wuwei and Wushuang series even "dare" to fill the configuration, which really makes people have the urge to "can't help but pay". In short, a thousand words are: "I have shown you my heart, what else can I say?"
01 Impress users with exquisite detailed design
First of all, in terms of appearance design, this time Wushuang "hits the soul". After all, it is a product that has passed the strict certification of Intel Evo, and the overall quality is reliable.
Generally speaking, laptop is within 5000, especially for products with darker color matching, there is a common problem: cheapness. Even if you use metal materials, you will have a strong sense of plastic due to the paint finishing process. On the other hand, Wushuang didn’t have this feeling at all. The metallic paint surface was sprayed delicately and had outstanding texture. Just looking at the material and texture, it was nothing wrong with this laptop selling for 8,000 yuan. If you have to pick the thorns, it is easier to get handprints when you use it in actual use, but the author personally sweats heavily, so this problem may be more obvious. The details of the design of
often determine the quality of the final viewing experience. The A-side CNC embossed LOGO in the center of the right side of the A-side A-side adds a sense of quality to this series. The Wushuang LOGO design is slightly different from before, and the overall shape has changed from a rectangle to a trapezoid, which is more dynamic. At the same time, striped decoration has become more diversified, and coupled with the transmission of some brand voice and spirit, the overall details are more refined.
In this review, I got the 15.6-inch version. At first glance, the body design is slim and capable, with a thickness of about 17.9mm and a weight of about 1.8kg. I asked my female colleague to experience it. She felt that "the weight is not a problem when carrying it, but you may have to take a larger handbag or just put it on your shoulders." Personally, I don't have any pressure on carrying it. After all, it's worth it to lose some portability and get a 15.6-inch large screen experience.
02 It is even more than 5000 and is equipped with double lightning 4
. There are also surprises in terms of scalability.
However, when I saw that the left side of the body was equipped with the USB 2.0 interface, I still felt a little regretful, but when I thought of the receiver used to connect to wireless keyboard and mouse, I felt that it was not a loss at all. The biggest highlight of the right interface of
is the dual thunder 4 configuration, and I can only say "very fragrant".
At present, it is rare to see Thunderbolt 4 on laptops with less than 5,000 yuan. I'm afraid that only the other brother models of the Asus Wushuang and Asus Wushuang series are available. Most of the price can be equipped with a full-function TYPE-C and it will burn high incense, while Asus Wushuang will give the Double Thunderbolt 4, which will immediately bring the definition of "cost-performance notebook" to a higher level.
In addition, it also has a 3.5mm audio jack on the right side, 1 USB 3.2 Gen 1 TYPE-A and 1 HDMI 2.0 that supports 4K@60fps. And most importantly, Asus Wushuang does not have an annoying right-side air outlet design.
03 Large-size keycaps and trackpad enhance control experience
opens the screen, and the entire C-side design is presented in front of you.
The focus is on the orange-red Esc key in the upper left corner, and the twill decorated Enter key . The overall keyboard is arranged in a regular manner. Although the direction keys are half high, the surrounding area is relatively wide, so there is no need to worry about touching other keys by mistake. At the same time, it also has an independent numeric keypad, which is convenient for users to enter their account number and password.The power button of the machine is located in the upper right corner of the keyboard area. It should be noted that when ASUS Wushuang is turned on, you must hold the power button long and click quickly. Anyway, I tried it myself several times but couldn't turn it on, so I thought it was a fault.
keyboard key stroke is 1.4mm, which is short, and the trigger response is quick. The keys are elastic and neat and not sticky, and the touch feels comfortable. Moreover, this keyboard uses large-size keycaps and a 19.05mm full-size spacing design, with high input efficiency and low error rate.
Address carefully, the keycap surface has a slight curvature design, and the official data is a 0.2mm concave curved surface, so it is more suitable for the fingertips. With the 5.9-inch large-size trackpad and multiple gesture controls in Windows system, you can use it independently after you get familiar with it by leaving the mouse aside. The surface of this touchpad is delicate and smooth, with a soft touch, excellent actual control and accurate positioning.
In addition, you can also see from the picture above that there are also some details on the panel of the area where the trackpad and the keyboard are connected, similar to the scale. It has the words "READY TO EXPLORE" printed on the left, and the words "SOUND BY Harman Kardon" printed on the far right. It is precisely these exquisite details that connect ASUS's unparalleled sincerity comes to users.
04 The first 120Hz OLED screen has amazing quality
Next, I will talk about one of the biggest selling points of Asus Wushuang, which is the high-quality OLED display.
In recent years, laptop screens have been constantly evolving, firstly increasing the resolution, and then strengthening parameters such as refresh rate, brightness, color accuracy, and color gamut. Since last year, Asus has taken the lead in laying out OLED screen notebooks and directly set the price of OLED screen notebooks to the 5,000 price range. Consumers have responded to this approach with their actual consumption capacity. This year, Asus' Unparalleled volume and price increase, and the OLED screen directly "strike" to the 4,000 price range, which is really strong. At present, consumers continue to pay tribute to them with their consumption power. If they don't pay attention to the rush button, they will turn gray for you.
Asus Wushuang This screen has a 2.8K 2880×1620 resolution, a ratio of 16:9, supports 100% DCI-P3 color gamut coverage, and provides four color gamut switching. You have calculated all these details?
supports color gamut switching
It has passed HDR 600 certification. After HDR is turned on, the peak brightness can reach 600nits, supports 10-bit color depth, and the response time is only 0.2ms. This is also the industry's first 120Hz refresh rate OLED screen. From actual tests, we can see that at the 120Hz refresh rate, the dynamic effect of the screen is very smooth, without any dragging, and the viewing experience is excellent. At the same time, this machine also supports variable refresh rate, and switching to 60Hz without plugging will save power.
supports variable refresh rate
In addition, this screen supports DC dimming, has passed the PANTONE professional color certification, and supports Rheinland hardware-level low blue light certification. The overall specifications are currently no competitors at this price.
Of course, some friends may think that OLED is easy to burn the screen. In fact, you can rest assured that this is the first thing that ASUS Wushuang uses the mature Samsung E4 material that has been tested by the market; the other is that Asus specially customized OLED Care technology for it into the MyASUS control center, which can achieve intelligent screen protection and effectively extend the life of the OLED screen.
ASUS OLED Care technology
At the same time, through pixel-level compensation technology, it can intelligently monitor pixel aging and compensate through algorithms to restore more accurate color performance. Under the corresponding functional module of MyASUS control center, you can set pixel refresh, pixel offset, automatic hiding of the taskbar, and factory default dark mode, and multiple protection measures to avoid burning the screen.
Asus Unparalleled Screen also adopts a three-sided narrow border design, but the camera and microphone module are still retained in the center of the top. Considering the privacy and security of users, Asus has designed dual physical protection for Wushuang. First, it has equipped the camera with a physical mask, using a bright orange color as a reminder to stop hackers from snooping at the physical level; secondly, the microphone and camera turntable keys are set on the F9 and F10 keys, and a yellow indicator light is added intimately to prevent everyone from "deathing" during remote meetings.
Its microphone also supports AI noise reduction function, and can achieve clearer voice call effects during remote meetings and online videos.
Use the spider color calculator to check the actual test data of Asus's Wushuang screen. The specific details are as follows:
test can be seen. The color gamut volume of this screen is 100% sRGB (actually more than 100%), 96% AdobeRGB, 100% P3. The color gamut volume advantages of OLED screen are undoubtedly shown. After HDR is turned on, the screen brightness peak can reach 616.92nits. In terms of color accuracy, switch to the sRGB color gamut, the average color accuracy ΔE value is 0.9; in the Display P3 color gamut, the average color accuracy ΔE value is 0.79, and the color accuracy performance is very good.
05 12th-generation Core i5-12500H meets the needs of productivity application
Intel's 12th-generation Core processor seems to release power more violently, but in fact, the heat dissipation performance is much better than expected. In addition to Asus's ability in cooling design, Wushuang directly launched the 12th-generation Core standard pressure processor, which is also the foundation of its efficient experience.
This time the review model is equipped with Intel's 12th-generation Core i5-12500H processor, 2×8GB DDR4-3200 memory (8GB is onboard), 512GB solid-state drive , and Intel Iris Xe core graphics. There is no problem with this configuration for office and creation. Let’s take a look at the test status of the main hardware.
First look at the processor performance. Intel's 12-generation Core i5-12500H processor is designed with native 12-core 16 threads, of which 4 cores are high-performance cores (P-Core), turbo acceleration up to 4.5GHz, 8 cores are energy-efficient cores (E-Core), maximum turbo frequency 3.3GHz, and has up to 18MB of Level 3 cache, with a basic power consumption of 45W. The performance test part of
is first referred to the performance test of CPU-Z. Its single processor performance score is 716.1, multi-processor performance score is 6265, single-core performance exceeds AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS, and the multi-core performance is the same as that, and its performance is quite powerful. In the
CINEBENCH test standard, CINEBENCH R15 multi-core 2090cb and single-core 251cb; CINEBENCH R20 multi-core 4519cb and single-core 670cb; CINEBENCH R23 multi-core 11892pts and single-core 1740pts. Judging from the ratings, Asus Wushuang has fully utilized the single-core and multi-core performance of this processor, and has done a good job in CPU performance tuning.
ASUS Wushuang's overall positioning is a productivity tool, and is very good at daily office or content creation applications. Therefore, let's take a look at its video, rendering, compression and decompression capabilities.
Intel's 12th-generation Core processor further strengthens its video encoding and codec capabilities. While using P-Core+E-Core heterogeneous design, the 12th-generation Core i5-12500H processor realizes perfect scheduling of heterogeneous cores through Intel thread scheduler, so it can provide very good efficiency in video encoding and codec. Through the x.264 Benchmark test, it can be seen that encoding 2500 frames takes 40 seconds, and the frame rate is as high as 61.78fps, and the video encoding efficiency is about 20% higher than the previous generation.
In terms of physical rendering, under the V-Ray renderer standard, the actual measurement reaches 7694 vsamples, indicating that it has relatively efficient physical rendering capabilities. Therefore, Asus Wushuang can also provide good performance support in 3D rendering, modeling, etc. In terms of compression/decompression efficiency, we refer to the
ASUS Unparalleled Memory adopts an on-board + slot design, so users can expand their memory capacity by themselves outside of 8GB on-board. Its standard DDR4 memory speed test is much faster than that of ordinary machines, and to a certain extent it is also related to onboard memory.
According to AIDA 64 storage performance test, its reading speed reaches 44113MB/s, write speed is 44588MB/s, copy speed is 41589MB/s, and the delay is only 77.4ns.
During use, I upgraded the original 16GB memory to 40GB, which is 8GB onboard + 32GB slot, and compared the Premiere project file opening speed.
The following is the comparison result:
This project file is an H.264 rendering file of 4K high-code videos, with a total capacity of 1.28GB. In order to eliminate the impact of cache on loading speed, I opened the project file 5 times before doing time statistics, so the above time is the time when opening the project file for the 6th time. In 8GB+8GB configuration, it takes 3.8 seconds to open the file, while in 8GB+32GB, it takes only 2.5 seconds to open it.
In addition, another great benefit of increasing memory capacity is that while doing heavy load applications such as video rendering, you can also get a smoother system and software operation experience. After all, after increasing the capacity, the overall memory usage ratio decreases, making it easier to use.
occupies a ratio of 46% before increasing memory
After increasing memory occupies a ratio of 21% after increasing memory
hard disk storage, Asus Wushuang is equipped with a 512GB solid-state drive. The actual reading speed is 3732.19MB/s, the writing speed is 3364.84MB/s, the 4K random reading speed is 68.53MB/s, and the writing speed is 216.61MB/s.
Finally, let’s take a look at the overall performance. Here we refer to the performance test results of CrossMark and PCMark 10.
ASUS Wushuang’s target application scenario is mainly office productivity, and CrossMark is a professional Benchmark software that explores productivity performance. Under the CrossMark test standards, the overall score is 1662 points, the productivity score is 1622 points, the creativity score is 1716 points, and the responsiveness score is 1623 points. These scores show that Asus Wushuang has good productivity application efficiency, can easily be competent for daily office applications, and can better undertake heavy-load application tasks such as video editing, picture rendering, and 3D rendering.
PCMark 10 Work test standard, this product scores 10319 in common basic functions, including web browsing, video conferencing, application startup, etc., indicating that it has no problem completing these basic office tasks; while the score in the productivity project test was 7166 points, indicating that it has very efficient spreadsheet and document work performance; in terms of digital content creation, its score reaches 6385 points, indicating that it can provide excellent performance support for pictures, videos, graphics rendering and other work; its comprehensive score is 5582 points, and it has no shortcomings as a productivity tool, and it has excellent performance in office efficiency.
06 Stable cooling performance and excellent battery life
Asus Wushuang adopts an ice front cooling system, 6+8mm dual thickened heat pipes efficiently conduct heat, and 97 LCP curved fan fan, which increases ventilation while maintaining a low noise level. The superimposed dual air outlet design allows the processor to release performance stably around 45W power consumption. In addition, this product supports three-speed performance mode, which can be quickly switched through Fn+F to cope with performance release in different usage environments.
Below we pass AIDA 64 test to see the heat dissipation and power consumption performance of its processor.
Under AIDA 64 Stress CPU stress test, the temperature of the 12 cores of the processor is between 80℃ and 92℃, the power consumption is stable around 45W, and the frequency is stable at 2.54GHz. Judging from the release of TDP and the core temperature, Asus Wushuang performed quite well, and the processor performance was fully released. At the same time, the core temperature can be controlled at a good level, and the overall heat dissipation performance is good.
CPU single-grode test
ASUS Wushuang's performance in battery life is also remarkable. This product is equipped with a 70Whr large-capacity lithium battery. Through the actual battery life of PCMark 10, the screen brightness is 70%, 120Hz refresh rate, 50%, quiet mode, and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are turned on throughout the whole process, the battery life is 9 hours and 49 minutes, easily meeting the needs of unplugged offices for a day.
Judging from the battery life recorded by the Windows 11 system, our test started around 18 pm, and by 3 am the next day, the battery was exhausted, and it took more than 9 hours in history. This battery life is excellent enough for a laptop equipped with a 120Hz OLED screen and a 12th generation Core standard pressure processor.
07 Review summary: Asus Wushuang’s “WuShuang” way
“The most fragrant productivity tool at 5,000”, how about it? After reading the review, do you have more sense of recognition about this?
In fact, it is not difficult to make the cost-effectiveness of a laptop, and it can be achieved using some "means". But these "means" often cannot withstand people's careful chewing.
Asus Unparalleled? At least from the past two weeks I have used it personally, the mold design is solid, the performance is stable, the OLED screen feels comfortable, and occasionally watching the HDR travel videos I like is really a pleasure. The only two things that are slightly troubled are: First, the surface of the body is indeed more likely to be touched by handprints; second, the screen frame can still show the characteristics of the 5,000-yuan model. However, since the pricing is so conscientious, my two problems are indeed too pretentious.
As an Intel Evo certified product, Asus Wushuang has actually ensured high specifications in the "basic hardware facilities". After all, it is not easy to pass Evo certification. On this basis, Asus has further improved many dessert elements, such as memory expansion, switchable color gamut and refresh rate, the first 120Hz high-refresh OLED screen thin and light notebook, good tuning of hardware performance and cooling, and excellent battery life. These elements are actually difficult to see at the same time on a 5,000-yuan laptop. And this is exactly the "unparalleled" way of Asus.
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