ASUS ROG Strix G15 Advantage review: All AMD and A-OK | Engadget

And best of all, AMD’s hardware will typically cost less, which could help lower the cost of gaming notebooks across the board.The ASUS ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition is one such laptop. Just like with AMD's recent Radeon desktop GPUs, there are some instances where NVIDIA's hardware still comes ahead, like the Geekbench 5 Compute benchmark.NonePCMark 103DMark (TimeSpy Extreme)Geekbench 5ATTO (top reads/writes)ASUS ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition (AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX, AMD Radeon RX 6800M)6,9925,1891,457/7,6912.8 GB/s / 1.5 GB/sASUS Zephyrus G15 (AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS, NVIDIA RTX 3080 Max-Q)6,8814,5301,426/7,2673.3 GB/s / 2.85 GB/sMSI GS66 Stealth (2021, Intel i7-10870H, NVIDIA RTX 3080 Max-Q)5,3694,5381,247/6,5053.1 GB/s / 2.9 GB/sASUS Zephyrus Duo 15 (Intel i9-10980HK, NVIDIA RTX 2080 Super Max-Q)5,6163,6801,365/8,0553 GB/s / 3.24 GB/sASUS Zephyrus G14 (AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS, NVIDIA RTX 2060 Max-Q)5,4362,7251,189/7,7051.7 GB/s / 1.67 GB/sAMD also still lags behind NVIDIA when it comes to ray tracing, which could be a deal-breaker if you want to see games like Control at their best. During extended gaming sessions, the Strix G15's Ryzen CPU reached near 80 celsius, making it feel like a small space heater after a while.Like many of ASUS's recent gaming notebooks, the Strix G15 doesn't have a webcam, which isn't ideal if you need to handle plenty of remote meetings. (You can nab that for closer to $1,500 with a less powerful GPU.)By cutting a few corners, especially when it comes to weight and case design, ASUS has made the ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition one of the best gaming values on the market. The G15 Advantage also makes it clear that AMD isn't just dabbling in gaming notebooks anymore — it's finally ready to seriously compete with NVIDIA and Intel.Please enter a valid email address