ASUS TUF Gaming FA506IC 15.6 Inch Full HD 144 Hz Gaming Laptop (AMD Ryzen 5, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050, 8 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD, RGB Keyboard, Windows 11)

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We’ll pitch the FA506 against the FX505 and an Intel-based i7/RTX 2060 configuration in a separate article. Noise, Heat, Connectivity, speakers, and others Factors that affect battery life include laptop configuration, power settings, and the way it is used. Battery capacity fades with its cycle count and age. Of course, AMD’s Ryzen 4000 H hardware is a major step-up from the Ryzen 3000 H in the previous generation, with an impact on both performance and efficiency, as you’ll see down below. However, the FA506 generation also improves on exterior design and ergonomics, as well as adds features and configuration options not available before on TUFs, while remaining competitively priced. This article is a detailed review of their latest TUF Gaming A15 FA506 update, based on an AMD Ryzen 4000 platform and Nvidia RTX graphics. Launched in the first half of 2020, this model follows up on the highly popular Asus TUF FX505 models of 2019, and they’re more than just a hardware bump.

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Finally, the camera is placed on top of the screen, flanked by microphones. It’s OK for occasional calls, but laggy and grainy, so don’t expect much. Battery life Once more, the Ryzen 7 4800H processor smokes the existing Intel mainstream competition in Blender and the CPU intensive parts of Specviepwerf, even outmatching the more expensive Core i9s. However, updates are coming for the Intel i7s as well with their 10th gen platform. The battery here is a huge 90Wh one, which is a lot larger than you’d usually find in a gaming laptop (and not far off the maximum size you’re legally allowed to bring onto a plane), and that also explains the excellent 11 hours, 44 minutes, uptime we recorded in our looped 1080p video benchmark.We’ve come to never expect too much from a gaming laptop when it comes to battery life, but the Asus TUF A15 doesn’t do too badly here, with the PCMark 10 battery life benchmark, which replicates moderate use, taking five and a quarter hours to drain the battery. With Adaptive-Sync, the display’s refresh rate synchronises with the GPU’s frame rate to reduce lag, minimise stuttering, and eliminate visual tearing for ultra-smooth and immersive gameplay. Level up your multitasking abilities by connecting a second monitor via the USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C™, which is G-SYNC® enabled and supports DisplayPort™ 1.4. Play 4K Ultra HD movies, videos, and games on big-screen TVs with HDMI 2.0b. That’s not too bad for a gaming laptop, and it’s in part thanks to the energy efficiency of the AMD Ryzen 7 4800H, which doesn’t deplete the battery as fast as the more power-hungry Intel CPUs we often find in these laptops. The Ports selection here is quite basic and has nothing special going for it but at the same time, it has all the essential ports that 95 percent of people need.

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Finally, gaming on battery (on Performance) is also possible. In this case, the CPU is still limited and the GPU runs at 50W. I’d recommend disabling Battery Boost in the GeForce Experience app, or at least up the default 30 fps limit. It is possible to move the SSD to the other M.2 slot and boot from there, which helps the SSD run cooler. I’m not seeing a significant increase in our readings, though, but I can confirm that the two slots run on independent PCIe x4 connections, and not a shared one as I was initially assuming. We’ve talked elsewhere about how AMD’s Ryzen 4000 mobile processors could transform gaming laptops, and the Asus TUF A15 is a great example of this, with eight cores and 16 threads bringing a level of power we’d expect to see in much more expensive laptops.The actual transfer speed of USB 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, and/or Type-C will vary depending on many factors including the processing speed of the host device, file attributes and other factors related to system configuration and your operating environment. W (~9+ h of use) – 1080p fullscreen video on Youtube in Edge, Silent Mode, screen at 70%, Wi-Fi ON;