Saturday, June 3rd 2017
ASUS Showcases the First Ryzen Powered Laptop: The ROG STRIX GL702ZC
At Computex 2017, ASUS showcased the first Ryzen-powered laptop, which the company had already teased a while back. The STRIX brings to an end a period of lacking competition in the laptop space; before this, if you wanted a high-performance gaming (or even professional-grade) laptop, you went with one with an Intel processor inside, or not at all. AMD is back in the fold, and Ryzen was the one who rose to the challenge.
The ROG STRIX GL702ZC packs a Ryzen 7 1700 8-core, 16-thread CPU; the absence of an X there isn't a typo, considering AMD themselves say the company's XFR (eXtended Frequency Range) is meant to accelerate CPU speeds under the right thermal conditions (and headroom), which a laptop almost surely wouldn't have.) This is a full desktop CPU (and I stress, an 8-core, 16-thread one) running inside a laptop. And this laptop dresses itself fully in red, with the graphics workhorse being an RX 580. The RX 580 is a great 1080p card, so it will feel right at home on the ROG STRIX GL702ZC's 17.3", 1080p IPS panel with FreeSync support. Let's just hope this is the first in a wave of AMD-powered laptops. We'll be here to see what happens with Ryzen-based APUs closer to the end of the year.
The ROG STRIX GL702ZC packs a Ryzen 7 1700 8-core, 16-thread CPU; the absence of an X there isn't a typo, considering AMD themselves say the company's XFR (eXtended Frequency Range) is meant to accelerate CPU speeds under the right thermal conditions (and headroom), which a laptop almost surely wouldn't have.) This is a full desktop CPU (and I stress, an 8-core, 16-thread one) running inside a laptop. And this laptop dresses itself fully in red, with the graphics workhorse being an RX 580. The RX 580 is a great 1080p card, so it will feel right at home on the ROG STRIX GL702ZC's 17.3", 1080p IPS panel with FreeSync support. Let's just hope this is the first in a wave of AMD-powered laptops. We'll be here to see what happens with Ryzen-based APUs closer to the end of the year.
11 Comments on ASUS Showcases the First Ryzen Powered Laptop: The ROG STRIX GL702ZC
It would be most likely be at same price range as the gtx1060 intel/nvidia combo.
I am very very very interested in how this Ryzen laptop is cooled,
The R7 1700 and RX580 are heavy duty gear and draws a lot of power, so cooling must be super.
Will be interesting when they finally release some benchmarks and tests an so on.
My undervolted (950mv) 4GB RX580 uses ~90W running at 1280 / 1860, fans never go over 20%.
XFR is merely 100mhz on the best models, so it's not really much of a boost... nothing to do with form factor, it's simple wattage, anyone is free to use a terrible cpu cooler or cramped case to get a bad temperature that can be worse than a laptop
a laptop is fully capable of a 65watt cpu with whatever gpu power they decide to add
mine for example is 45w cpu with i dont know how much a 570m is, the power brick is 180w, but there are more high end gaming laptops that go up to 230w or possibly beyond...
so putting a large desktop cpu isnt a big deal when there are those historical laptops using SLI, quite a lot more power