The ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo is about as much gaming laptop as you could possibly ever want

Just before everything shut downwards in March 2022, the last product briefing I went to in person was for the original ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo. Even two years on, everything about that laptop is pretty crazy. Just for 2022, the machine is getting fifty-fifty crazier.

Revealed at CES 2022, the ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo 16 takes the latest and greatest from AMD and NVIDIA, keeps the bones design the same, and just adds, well, more. Lots more.

Hither'southward a quick overview of the main specs.

Category	ROG Zephyrus Duo 16
Display	16-inch, 16:10 ROG Nebula HDR, QHD, 165Hz Dual Spec, 4K 120Hz and 1080p 240Hz
Processor	AMD Ryzen 9 6980HX viii-core, xvi-thread
Graphics	NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti
Retentivity	Upwards to 64GB DDR5
Storage	4TB PCIe four.0 in RAID 0
Connectivity	Wi-Fi 6E
Power	100W Type-C charging
Ports	HDMI, DisplayPort, micro SD card slot, Ethernet, USB-C, USB-A

One of the key features is the display, which grows to 16-inches while the overall contour of the laptop actually shrinks a touch. There are two options available, a QHD 165Hz Nebula HDR mini LED panel or a quite vivid sounding Dual Spec brandish.

This Dual Spec display offers two distinct modes, one of which is native 4K resolution at 120 Hz. The other is a more than standard 1080p resolution with a 240Hz refresh charge per unit. This ROG exclusive uses Pixel Acceleration Engineering science and offers gamers a pick over resolution and college frame rates whenever they please.

Inside, information technology's off-white to say ASUS did everything possible at this time to make this the most powerful gaming laptop on the planet, with AMD and NVIDIA providing their latest range toppers. The RTX 3080 Ti is and then skilful, it's said to outperform a desktop Titan RTX, which is scintillating performance to have in a laptop.

To help with cooling all that horsepower, the secondary brandish has been redesigned a trivial, now sliding upward and back to meet the main panel, creating a lovely air gap with an improved intake too every bit a seamlessly big display expanse. Inside, ASUS has partnered with Thermal Grizzly to use liquid metal over regular thermal paste and claims up to 15C lower temperatures as a issue.

The keyboard and trackpad layout remains a petty unorthodox, but the keys themselves sound great. Each has 1.7mm travel and per-key RGB, so you tin can go wild with the blinking lights. Rounding out the goodness is Dolby Atmos and Howdy-Res Sound support and so your games tin sound as good as they expect. And one of the staples of the whole ROG lineup for this year is a MUX switch, which enables a direct GPU mode for reduced latency and additional functioning.

No word just withal on when it'll launch or exactly how much this goliath is going to cost, but every bit far as flagships go, information technology'due south withal cool and nosotros love it.

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