Sporting the fastest AMD processor available, this laptop offers a great balance of performance, entertainment and productivity, despite some sacrifices in battery life.
The ASUS Zenbook S 16 laptop, in my opinion, has been the flagship laptop using AMD ’s Ryzen AI 300-series processors going back to this past June at Computex in Taipei, where I first set eyes on a preview version. AMD formally launched these processors, along with its other Zen 5 laptop and desktop processors, in July. While this specific laptop wasn’t launched until August, it did stir up quite a bit of excitement with its new CPU, GPU and NPU capabilities.
The HX 370 is a 12-core chip, featuring four Zen 5 cores and eight Zen 5c low-power cores. This is clearly a configuration designed for power efficiency without compromising too much on performance. That’s why it should be no surprise that single-core performance fell within the middle range of my GeekBench 6 benchmark results of Copilot+ PCs powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite processor. Where it faltered was in multi-core performance, where it fell towards the bottom of the stack.
Battery life is another difficult discussion to have for this laptop because, although it’s quite clear that the platform brings a significant improvement in battery life over the previous generation, that’s hard to quantify with a 3K OLED display and a 78 Wh battery. OLEDs are inherently power hungry, and a 78 Wh battery is quite large and designed to account for that hunger, which may negate any chip-level power savings.
I did, however, run into a long-time Windows issue on this machine that I had all but forgotten about once. The issue is that the Zenbook S 16 woke up in my laptop bag overnight and drained its battery while overheating inside my bag. I truly thought that the industry had moved away from this problem, but it seems that x86 systems are still plagued by it, while Arm systems are not.
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