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The Asus ROG Zephyrus is the thinnest and most compact gaming notebook in the company. Despite its features that pack a 15.6-inch display into a 14-inch case, the ROG Zephyrus doesn’t affect performance. It offers the latest silicon from AMD and Intel as well as GPUs from the current GeForce RTX series from Nvidia.
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The RTX 2060 is the budget card in Nvidia’s current RTX product line and, besides ray tracing, offers an excellent price-performance ratio that reproduces the behavior of light in the real world to give games a more photo-realistic look. Located in the sweet spot of Nvidia’s offerings, it offers plenty of performance and the latest graphics technology without increasing the price of a gaming rig to $ 2,000 or more. There are currently two 15-inch ROG Zephyrus models with RTX 2060 graphics that are reduced to an attractive $ 1,550. Best Buy offers an Intel-based device and Amazon offers an AMD-based model with a similar price. Let’s have a look.
Asus ROG M15 GU502GV: $ 1,550
This 15-inch model features a ninth generation Intel Core i7-9750H processor, 16 GB RAM, a 1 TB SSD and Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 graphics. The Core i7-9750H has six physical cores and 12 processing threads with a base frequency of 2.6 GHz and a maximum turbo frequency of 4.5 GHz.
The 15.6-inch display offers a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels as well as a fast refresh rate of 144 Hz and a response time of 3 ms. According to Best Buy, the laptop is only 0.7 inches thick and weighs only 4.3 pounds. It is currently available with a $ 200 discount.
Asus ROG Zephyrus G15 GA502IV-XS76: $ 1,500
This AMD-based model at Amazon is almost identical to the Intel-based sales model at Best Buy and costs $ 50 less. It has the same range of components while the Intel Core i7 chip is exchanged for the AMD Ryzen 7 4800HS, which has eight cores and 16 threads with a frequency between 2.9 GHz and 4.2 GHz.
It also offers a faster display with a refresh rate of 240 Hz. The price was only $ 1,600 last week, which makes the current price an attractive offer for an RTX 2060-based gaming laptop.
To get a feel for the ROG Zephyrus design, take a look at our 14-inch test Asus ROG Zephyrus G14.