ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 (2022) Review

You can configure the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 with the following AMD dedicated GPUs:

• AMD Radeon RX 6700S with 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM (100W TGP with SmartShift)
• AMD Radeon RX 6800S with 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM (105W TGP with SmartShift)

The AMD Radeon RX 6700S is a mid-range dedicated GPU with performance equivalent to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 or an RTX 3070, depending on the game or application. It can handle gaming at the laptop’s native resolution of 2560 x 1600, but you’ll have to lower some settings to get around or over 60 fps in graphically demanding games. You can also get higher frame rates by turning on FSR (FidelityFX Super Resolution), though only a limited number of games support it at this time. FSR is a feature that boosts performance by rendering the game at a lower resolution and upscaling the image afterward to minimize any loss in visual quality, similar to NVIDIA’s DLSS. If you want to take full advantage of the display’s 120Hz refresh rate, it’s best to play at 1080p. The lower resolution is easier to drive and doesn’t look significantly worse due to the size of the display. There’s ray-tracing support, but it has a high performance cost, so it’s only worth turning on if you also enable FSR to make up for the performance loss. The AMD Radeon RX 6800S is faster than the RX 6700S, giving you a 5 to 15% performance increase on average. Both GPUs are suitable for production workloads like video editing and 3D rendering.

The ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 has a MUX (multiplexer) switch to allow the dedicated GPU to send information directly to the display without going through the integrated GPU, resulting in better performance than a laptop that lacks this feature. The laptop is in Hybrid Mode by default, allowing the system to switch between the integrated graphics and the dedicated GPU to extend battery life.