The ASUS ProArt Studiobook 16 is likely one of the most attention-grabbing so-called “NVIDIA Studio” laptops obtainable available on the market. This overview reveals one other aspect of the Creative Laptop market that we see skyrocketing prior to now couple of years.

ASUS has been catering to artistic professionals for years and is an innovation chief in some ways for that market phase. If something, most individuals don’t know sufficient about ASUS’ historical past of artistic innovation. The NVIDIA Studio label will earn further consciousness for ASUS.

If you’re not accustomed to NVIDIA Studio, comply with the hyperlink and skim our overview. In a nutshell, it’s an NVIDIA platform and a set of necessities for laptops that ensures patrons can simply establish high-caliber artistic laptops.

The NVIDIA Studio software program additionally prioritizes DCC (Digital Content Creation) apps’ stability and optimizations over gaming, regardless that they continue to be very a lot gaming-capable with comparable graphics efficiency.

Specs highlights and choices

Our particular check unit is supplied as follows: Ryzen 9 5900HX CPU, 32GB of RAM, 2TB of storage (1 SSD), 4K OLED show, and the NVIDIA RTX 3070 GPU. You can configure it for about ~$2200 at publishing time.

Configuration choices

Depending in your funds and desires, ASUS gives extra configurations, with extra inexpensive CPUs (Ryzen 7) or dearer ones such because the Intel Xeon line. Up to 64GB of RAM is supported, making this a correct workstation.

Users may choose “up to” a GeForce RTX 3080 or the workstation equal known as the NVIDIA A5000, which may run skilled drivers tuned for DCC apps. If the funds is extra restricted, the GeForce RTX 3060 is accessible too.

The storage choices are thrilling. Going from 1TB to 8TB, you even have the choice of utilizing a RAID-0 configuration to considerably improve efficiency by aggregating bandwidth throughout a number of SSDs.

Industrial Design

The ProArt Studiobook 16 makes use of an all-metal design that feels extraordinarily inflexible and durable. That’s why I’m not shocked that it passes the MIL-STD 810H navy sturdiness assessments, one thing that not many OEMs do.

This laptop computer is a light-weight workstation, and its 5.29 Lbs weight is properly in-line with others on this class, together with some we’ve reviewed lately: the Acer Predator Triton 500 SE and the Acer Concept D5.

You can discover lighter office-productivity 16-inch laptops such because the Huawei MateBook 16, however you’ll see that the graphics efficiency differential is necessary. More on that later.

There’s a floor therapy to guard the steel and even preserve fingerprints away. It’s removed from being “smudge-free,” however it’s a pleasant strive.

“APPRECIABLE COMFORT AND PRODUCTIVITY”

The most exceptional design function of the laptop computer is the ASUS Dial positioned on the upper-left of the trackpad. It is sunken into the chassis and doesn’t protrude. You solely really feel it a bit of bit on the ball of the thumb, so it doesn’t get in your means. If you press the dial, it triggers an motion.

What the dial does relies on the context. For instance, in Windows, the dial will typically management the brightness or quantity. However, its actual energy is revealed when utilizing it in Adobe’s Creative Cloud apps that provide ample help for these kinds of units.

I’m no designer, however I do use Photoshop and Premiere. Users will shortly alter to having this dial, and it’ll induce considerable consolation and productiveness, so it’s an ideal concept. When in comparison with an exterior Dial peripheral, the principle distinction is that your hand doesn’t want to maneuver almost as a lot as a result of it’s proper there close to the keyboard.

For a fast overview of the ASUS Dial, watch the official teaser:

For further customization of the ASUS Dial, folks can launch the ASUS ProArt Creator Hub and create new app profiles, along with switching between numerous efficiency modes or calibrating the show colours. The video under reveals overview of the functionalities:

Keyboard and Trackpad

The keyboard is positioned barely larger to accommodate the dial, however total it’s snug and doesn’t essentially change hand placement.

The keyboard keys are additionally barely smaller than on another 16-inch laptops, making room for the numeric pad to the best and the Dial.

DDC apps usually require inputting numerical values in edit bins, so having the numeric pad could make a giant distinction when working. On the opposite hand, one sorts barely sooner with bigger keys.

ASUS additionally makes use of the keyboard as a fan consumption, considerably growing the chassis’s cool-air move. Since heavy GPU utilization is at all times restricted by warmth, I like this so much. The total cooling design appears very environment friendly.

The trackpad is giant and cozy, however the floor isn’t “clicky” and ASUS as a substitute depends on three bodily buttons. As a matter of non-public choice, I’d relatively have the 2 bodily trackpad buttons positioned on the high, like ThinkPad laptops do, as a substitute of the underside.

“THE TRACKPAD IS ALSO A DIGITIZER”

The ProArt Studio 16’s trackpad can be a digitizer that helps 1024 ranges of stress. I haven’t tried the stylus, however it looks like an ideal integration to this artistic laptop computer.

Ports

The ProArt Studiobook 16 has a good assortment of ports, and the official illustration under reveals that very properly. Integrating an RJ45 port is superb as a result of many professionals want Gb Ethernet for community storage or file transfers. A wired connection is superior to the utmost WiFi throughput and latency.

I might have preferred to see a second Thunderbolt 4 connector as a result of one may go to a TB dock, whereas the opposite may join instantly with an exterior high-speed TB4 storage answer.

There’s a full-size SD card reader (SD Express 7.0, 985MB/s), which is nice, particularly if you happen to’re coping with a number of 4K video recordsdata the place this type of efficiency might be maximized. The HDMI port helps as much as 8K/120Hz or 10K/60Hz.

Sound high quality

The Harman Kardon audio system output good and highly effective sound. ASUS has chosen an clever technique to place the 2 major audio system on the entrance fringe of the pc.

It’s significantly better than having bottom-firing audio system, as some sound power goes instantly in the direction of the consumer. However, it’s not as highly effective as up-firing quad-speakers or soundbars, as seen on some Lenovo Yoga laptops.

The variations are most evident if pushing the sound to 100%, and that’s the place you possibly can spot a scarcity of bass and encompass energy on the ProArt Studiobook 16. Very good, however not one of the best.

Display

Our 16-inch 4K OLED show has a 16:10 ratio, which typically improves productiveness due to the additional vertical house in comparison with a 16:9 one.

This is an outstanding show with superior distinction (1,000,000:1), ultra-fast response time (2ms), and glorious brightness ranges (550 NITs).

Professional customers will respect the 100% DCI-P3 coloration gamut and the HDR True Black 500 certification that might be very useful with the proliferation of 4K HDR recording.

Asus has included some software program to tune and calibrate colours, however needless to say OLED shows ought to be color-calibrated for a selected brightness degree if you would like one of the best outcomes.

While I’m okay with the 4K OLED 60Hz show refresh charge, it’s good to know {that a} 120 Hz IPS 2.5K show is accessible too. That panel must also be extra power-efficient if you happen to want additional battery life on the go.

The high bezel hosts a webcam with an infra-red sensor appropriate with the Windows Hello face login system. There’s an array of microphones for higher sound recording, which ought to make a giant distinction in video-conferencing audio high quality.

Performance

As a light-weight workstation, the ASUS ProArt StudioE-book 16 reveals nice efficiency in its class. You can take a look at numbers from Geekbench 5 (artificial CPU check) or Cinebench R23 (3D software program rendering) to see processor efficiency that’s inside what we anticipate from this configuration.

Graphics efficiency is important for Creative apps, and that’s the place NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3070 makes a giant distinction. I’m including the Huawei MateBook 16 for reference because it has an ideal CPU, however no discrete graphics.

The extra demanding 3DMark Port Royal check illustrates the potential distinction between the RTX 3060, 3070, and RTX 3080/A5000 GPUs, since you have got the selection between all of those.

Even if you happen to take a look at “performance for the price,” (value-proposition) the ASUS ProArt Studiobook 16 seems excellent. You can see which you could get barely extra efficiency in your cash.

However, do not forget that game-centric laptops just like the Acer Predator Triton 300 SE don’t have creative-centric components just like the dial, trackpad digitizer, or 64GB of most RAM.

The Acer ConceptD5 can be a greater DCC laptop computer comparability, and each are neck to neck in relation to value-proposition, with a slight benefit for ASUS due to the higher consumer expertise (dial+digitizer).

Finally, the storage efficiency is excellent, particularly the write pace, one of many highest. If you go for the non-obligatory RAID0 configuration, it is best to see numbers just like our Predator Triton 500 SE that has such a setup.

Battery Life

The 90Wh battery capability is giant, and whereas it’s potential to search out opponents with 99Wh capacities available on the market, it gained’t make that large of a distinction in the true world.

In our workplace productiveness assessments, we received about 4 hours of steady utilization, and other people can anticipate to have the ability to watch native movies for about 6 hours with average brightness.

It may not appear to be so much, however these very highly effective computer systems have a base energy consumption that’s a lot larger than your typical workplace productiveness laptop computer.

You’ll must plug 240W energy provide to run at peak efficiency and needless to say it’s comparatively cumbersome, which is completely customary: that’s the case for all opponents too.

Conclusion

The ASUS ProArt Studiobook 16 is a wonderful NVIDIA Studio laptop computer. It combines the best design, consumer expertise (show, dial, digitizer), efficiency, and pricing. It is the best alternative for a lot of customers, and the combination of the dial and digitizer may prevent cash on two units often bought as peripherals.

A discrete GPU is required to realize most efficiency in lots of DCC apps, and the GeForce RTX 3070 with NVIDIA Studio drivers is a formidable alternative. Alternatively, the GeForce RTX 3060 has a wonderful worth, efficiency, and thermals ratio.

“AN EXCELLENT NVIDIA STUDIO LAPTOP”

At the high-end, the RTX 3080 or A5000 are unbelievable for fast bursts of labor, however needless to say sustained efficiency could be restricted by cooling.

The information reveals this laptop computer has efficiency corresponding to highly effective gaming laptops or enterprise workstations. However, the ProArt Studiobook 16 is genuinely constructed for DCC purposes.

It’s a reminder that efficiency just isn’t the one productiveness issue. The consumer expertise may make somebody work sooner, extra effectively, and with larger focus.

The similar is legitimate for having a extra snug expertise that makes you’re employed longer, just like the OLED show optimized to cut back eye pressure.

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