Asus is betting big on India and its growing obsession with gaming, especially since the launch of battle royale phenomenon PUBG. The Taiwanese tech giant today expands its ROG lineup with the launch of six new gaming laptops, sporting the latest 9th-gen Intel processor, RTX graphics cards and up to 240Hz screens.
ROG Strix G531/G731
Starting off with the entry-level segment, the Asus ROG Strix G531 offers users up to a 120Hz display – with 3ms response time, smaller bezels, and an 81.5% screen-to-body ratio. It’s powered by up to 9th-Gen Intel Core i7-9750H processors, clocks as high as 4.5GHz, and coupled with up to 32GB 2666MHz DDR4 RAM, 1TB of HDD, and 1TB PCIe SSD.
- ROG Strix Scar III
The popular ROG Strix Scar gaming laptop has gotten a major refresh this time around, which I believe was long due and you are going to appreciate it. The biggest upgrade is certainly the display onboard, which is now a 15.6-inch FullHD panel with 240Hz refresh rate and 3ms response time.
ROG Strix Scar III
ROG Zephyrus M
The Zephyrus M can be called the productivity-cum-gaming beast because it does have some quirks of a typical gaming laptop but is not all out crazy. It’s the most lightweight gaming in the Asus ROG lineup, weighing just under 2 kilograms, and I believe it would surely be my favorite of the lot here.
ROG Zephyrus S GX531
While the Zephyrus M is the lightest gaming laptop in this lineup, the Zephyrus S is the slimmest laptop among the lot. It measures just 15.35mm at its slimmest point, which certainly sounds impressive for a gaming laptop. Asus has gone all out with this laptop, packing a 15.6-inch Full-HD display with a 240Hz refresh rate and 3ms response time. It’s also PANTONE calibrated and can be used for editing purposes as well.
This gaming laptop is powered by the Intel Core i7-9750H processor and packs MaxQ design-based NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 GPU. This is coupled with up to 32GB DDR4 2666MHz RAM and 1TB of PCIe 3.0 storage. Asus has packed in this laptop their new “Active Aerodynamic” cooling system, which employs dual 12V anti-dust cooling fans, alongwith 5 heat pipes and 4 heat sinks.
ROG Zephyrus S GX701
This is merely a spec refresh of the Zephyrus gaming laptop that we recently reviewed. This is the biggest among the Zephyrus lineup but features a 17.3-inch Full-HD IPS display with a 144Hz refresh rate and 100% sRGB support packed in the chassis of a standard 15-inch laptop.
ROG G703
Finally, let’s talk about this big boy. Asus plans to bring the Mothership (I hope you all remember this) later this year but if you’re looking for some raw gaming power in the market right now, well, ROG G703 should be your pick.
The company has also added an RGB backlit chiclet keyboard with a full-size numpad. I, however, would point out that Asus HyperDrive Extreme storage technology in tow here sounds the most exciting to me. It combines up to 3 NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 SSDs, providing G703 with the world’s fastest RAID 0 storage configuration and helps avoid bottlenecks.
I know you have all been waiting to know the pricing of each of the ROG gaming laptop listed above, especially the Scar III right? Well, you find the price list for each of these models right here:
