ASUS Tianxuan 5 Pro gaming laptop experience review: an HX gaming laptop that is both beautiful and thin

Just after New Year’s Day, some laptop manufacturers couldn’t hold themselves back and began to build momentum for new products. But what I didn’t expect was that Asus sent a strong player right after it came up. It is the protagonist of today’s review, the Asus Select 5 Pro.

Yes, you read it right, Tianxuan uses the Pro suffix for the first time, directly uses the latest i9-14900HX processor, and has a 16-inch full screen. It weighs about 2.2kg, it is still positioned as a thin, light and high-performance gaming notebook. So let’s follow this site to see if this new force of the Chosen Family can surprise us.

Appearance design

Asus Tianxuan 5 Pro generally inherits the high-looking two-dimensional style of Tianxuan series in appearance this time. Whether you like low-key or publicity, ASUS Tianxuan 5 The two colors of Pro, eclipse gray and magic blue, can satisfy you.

What this website got this time is the Magic Blue color, the classic "Mistress Green" A side, with the Tianshou Logo printed with laser engraving technology in the center of the top, and the bottom It has a circle of iconic trapezoidal hollow shaft processing, and the pure white CD surface is exposed underneath. It definitely looks good when you take it out in front of others.

ASUS Tianxuan 5 Pro also has drill-cut processing and imitation trapezoidal texture on the four sides. There is a white embellishment on each corner, making the A side both simple and more personalized. . The body weight has increased by 0.1kg compared to the Tianxuan 4, reaching 2.2kg. It is also the lightest HX gaming notebook currently.

ASUS Tianxuan 5 Pro inherits the sunken family-style design in the hinge part, and with the narrower chin on the B side, the visual lower frame is narrower after the screen is opened. .

Open the screen, the design of side B has been adjusted compared to the previous generation, the screen has been changed to a 16:10 ratio, the screen viewing area is larger and the utilization rate is higher. The screen-to-body ratio is higher, the trapezoidal hollow hinges have a lower presence, and the entire screen is more immersive.

A trapezoidal bulge is made in the center of the top of the B side, which makes it easier to open and close the computer with one hand. At the same time, the camera module is also placed, and this time The camera opening is made very small, making it visually more refined.

Although the chin is narrowed at the bottom of the screen, the white ASUS Logo is still printed on it. There is also a set of symmetrical anti-scratch rubber pads next to it, and a set of long rubber pads on the top. The pads work together to prevent the screen from being scratched when the cover is pressed.

In terms of parameters, ASUS Tianxuan 5 Pro is equipped with a 16-inch, 2.5K resolution, 165Hz refresh rate, 3ms response time and 100% sRGB color gamut all-round battery Competitive screen, supports G-Sync screen anti-tearing technology and DC dimming, comprehensive quality while taking into account eye protection effect, while the brightness also reaches 400nit.

‎This website tested the screen color gamut through a professional color calibrator. The measured sRGB color gamut volume was as high as 117.8%, and the sRGB color gamut coverage was 98.7%. Adobe RGB and DCI P3 color gamut coverage are 75.1% and 81.2% respectively.

Regarding the refresh rate, we tested it with the help of the Testufo website. It is indeed 165Hz, and there is no smear problem with the naked eye, proving that ASUS Tianxuan 5 Pro does have a high refresh rate High color gamut gaming screen.

Side C is the signature design of the Tianxuan series. The pure white paint and the white screen frame on side B create a very strong sense of visual unity. Thanks to the 16-inch body, the keyboard layout is also full-size, and there is almost no threshold for getting started, except for the half-height arrow keys that require some getting used to.

The keyboard area has a complete numeric keypad area, which is more friendly to friends with office needs, especially the 2U-length 0 numeric key, who knows who uses it.

Asus Tianxuan 5 Pro places the hexagonal power button with status indicator function in the upper right corner of the keyboard, and there is a row of diagonal rectangles on the left Decorative ribbon, there are four independent shortcut keys in the upper left corner of the keyboard.

The keyboard has a dark mint color translucent design on the four WASD keys, and has built-in Min LED lamp beads, which is more power-saving and brighter. Make keycaps more personalized. Other keycaps have also been treated with hollow characters. They use a blue keyboard backlight by default. They also support custom RGB lighting effects and lighting synchronization. The surface of the keycaps has a micro-arc concave treatment, which is more ergonomic.

It is worth mentioning that the touchpad of ASUS Tianxuan 5 Pro has been redesigned this time. Not only is it large enough, but the touch is also very silky and smooth. , even if it is placed on a touchpad made of glass, it still belongs to the first echelon level. The pressing and touch experience has been greatly upgraded, but the smooth surface will definitely be more sensitive. Users who are used to using lower DPI mice are best to go there in person. Feel it offline.

In terms of interfaces, ASUS Tianxuan 5 Pro is distributed on the left and right sides. There are two sets of heat dissipation outlets on the back of the fuselage, and there is also a set of heat dissipation outlets on the left and right sides of the fuselage. tuyere.

There are more interfaces on the left side of the fuselage. From left to right are the cooling air outlet, power interface, RJ45 network port, HDMI2.1 interface, Thunderbolt 4 Type- C interface (integrated display output) and full-featured Type-C interface (independent display output), USB3.2 Type-A port and 3.5mm audio interface.

On the right side of the fuselage are the USB3.2 Type-A port, the cooling air outlet and the anti-theft lock.

The D-side bottom case of ASUS Tianxuan 5 Pro also has a certain sense of design. The four 90° bent magic blue color-matched foot pads are more eye-catching. There are two in total on the left and right sides of the bottom. There are four speaker openings, and the left, right and bottom sides are beveled to make it visually thinner and feel better in hand. In short, ASUS Tianxuan 5 Pro has made a lot of optimizations in appearance design, and the user experience has been significantly improved compared to the ASUS Tianxuan 4 series.

Hardware Performance

The most Pro thing about ASUS Tianxuan 5 Pro is that it is equipped with the 14th generation Intel Core i9-14900HX processor for the first time. It is based on the RaptorLake architecture and has 8 performance cores. It has a hybrid heterogeneous architecture composed of 16 energy-efficient cores and supports hyper-threading technology. It is also equipped with a 36MB L3 cache, a baseline power consumption of 55W, and a P-core turbo frequency of up to 5.8GHz, making it very suitable for hardware enthusiasts.

It may be because the CPU model is too new. The latest version of CPU-Z displays 14900H on the processor information page. In terms of core display, it maintains similar specifications to the previous generation HX. For example, 32EU. Before the performance test, we first disassemble the machine to take a look at the internal structure of the machine, as well as the heat dissipation specifications of ASUS Tianxuan 5 Pro. After all, only when the heat dissipation and power supply are in place can the performance of the hardware be fully released.

After removing the D shell, we can see that the stack inside is still very substantial, with no large empty areas.

The heat dissipation part adopts a configuration of five heat pipes and dual fans. The fan part is an Arc Flow dust-free fan with 84 blades. It can effectively avoid fanning even after long-term use. The leaves are covered in dust, and the heat pipes have been blackened. There are at least three heat pipes passing through the CPU and graphics card areas.

The memory and solid-state drive are placed in the middle area. The machine comes with a 16GB DDR5 5600MHz memory and provides dual memory slots. It is recommended that you install another one when you get it. Memories of the same specifications form dual channels. In terms of solid state, it comes standard with a 1TB PCIe4.0 M.2 hard drive, and there is an empty solid-state slot on the right side to facilitate user expansion space later.

There is also a dual-cell 90Wh large-capacity battery at the bottom to ensure longer battery life in the off-charge state. So with such heat dissipation and internal stacking, can the ASUS Tianxuan 5 Pro cope with the i9-14900HX and the 130W full power consumption RTX 4060?

We conducted a roasting test for this purpose. In the first round of single-burning FPU testing, the initial CPU power consumption instantly reached around 120W, and the full P core was 4.5 GHz, the maximum temperature of the CPU suddenly reached 97°. As the baking time increased, the temperature and power consumption of the CPU slowly decreased. After 10 minutes, the CPU temperature remained at 88°, and the power consumption stabilized at 100W. The P core frequency at that time fluctuated around 3.3GHz. It can be seen that the CPU power consumption of ASUS Tianxuan 5 Pro is not particularly aggressive, which can also reduce some heat dissipation pressure.

We then conducted a 10-minute FurMark donut single-bake GPU. With the support of DynamicBoost technology, the RTX4060 of our machine maintained a power consumption of 130W throughout the process. , at this time the GPU temperature is stable at 79°, and the GPU frequency is around 2.3GHz.

Next is the most stressful double baking test. After baking the machine for 10 minutes, the power consumption of the CPU and GPU remained at around 45W and 115W respectively. The total power consumption was At about 160W, the temperature is 82° and 78° respectively, and the performance release intensity is still very good. It should be noted that the NVIDIA graphics card driver version number we used for this test is 546.24, which is not the latest driver version and will have different power allocation strategies for the processor and graphics card. Under certain driver versions, the power consumption of the CPU and GPU will become 30W or 130W. Of course, the overall power consumption is at the 160W level.

After reading the roasting machine, the next step is to look at the theoretical performance. Let’s look at the CPU part first. In the CineBench R23 test, which represents the theoretical performance of the CPU, the i9-14900HX ran a single-core score of 2148 points and a multi-core score of 29601 points. Compared with the 140W i9-13980HX top flagship gaming laptop, The single-core performance is about the same, and the multi-core performance is slightly worse, but it can still reach a level of about 92%.

In addition, CineBench recently released a new 2024 testing tool. Although there are currently very few samples for comparison, we still tried it and tested it, at least to give everyone a refer to. There are three test items in CineBench 2024. The multi-core score of the CPU part is close to 1500 points, the single-core score is 123 points, and the comprehensive score of the GPU part directly exceeds 10,000 points, reaching 10632 points.

In another 3D Mark PROFILE test that reflects the multi-threaded performance of the CPU, the i9-14900HX’s single-thread score was 1069 points and the maximum thread score was 12186 points.

Next let’s take a look at the performance of the RTX 4060 graphics card. In the 3DMark Time Spy test, which represents DX12 game performance, the RTX 4060 graphics card score It reached 11129 points, and the graphics card score in the 3DMark Time Spy Extreme test reached 5196 points.

In the 3DMark Fire Strike test, which represents DX11 game performance, the graphics card score of the RTX 4060 reached 26484 points. In the 3DMark Fire Strike The graphics card scored 12989 points in the Extreme test.

In terms of graphics card ray tracing performance, we also tested the Port Royal project, and the RTX 4060 finally ran a score of 6251 points. In general, although the RTX 4060 on the ASUS Tianxuan 5 Pro is not strictly speaking at full power in terms of power consumption, it is still very high in performance among the 4060 gaming laptops we have tested.

What about the performance on memory and hard disk? ASUS Tianxuan 5 Pro comes standard with a single 16GB DDR5 5600MHz memory this time. In order to reflect its best performance, we have installed an additional memory with the same specifications. Judging from the AIDA64 running score results, the memory read speed reached 85377MB/s, the write and copy scores were 77072MB/s and 79408MB/s respectively, the memory latency was 73.8ns, and the L3 cache latency was 15.9ns.

In terms of hard drives, ASUS Tianxuan 5 Pro is equipped with a 1TB Western Digital SN560 solid-state drive. The actual running scores are as shown in the figure, and the performance is quite satisfactory.

Lastly, battery life. ASUS Tianxuan 5 Pro is equipped with a large 90Wh battery and supports 100W PD charging. Tianxuan users should be familiar with its battery configuration. . We switched the graphics card to integrated display mode, turned off the keyboard lighting, and passed the PC Mark 10 modern office battery life test project. The final battery life score of ASUS Select 5 Pro was 6 hours and 38 minutes. What do you think of this performance?

Productivity and Gaming

The main event is here. After the above running scores and theoretical performance measurements, I believe everyone has a rough understanding of the performance level of ASUS Tianxuan 5 Pro, but consumption What readers are most concerned about is the actual experience. How will the performance of Tianxuan 5 Pro in this regard be? Before the test, let me explain that ASUS Tianxuan 5 Pro supports dual-display and three-mode switching technology, which can take into account both graphics card performance release and machine battery life. Therefore, for this theoretical performance and actual measurement part, we switched to the independent display mode.

The first is the modern office benchmark test of PC Mark 10, which can more comprehensively reflect the comprehensive performance level of notebooks in daily office scenarios. ASUS Tianxuan 5 Pro finally It reached a total score of 7999 points. In the three test sub-items, commonly used basic functions and digital content creation capabilities exceeded 10,000 points, and the productivity sub-item also scored 8899 points. Use this computer for regular light office work and video No issues at all with editing etc.

The representative modeling software V-Ray can reflect the modeling and rendering capabilities of the machine. The test is divided into three projects. In the CPU project running score, ASUS The score of Tianxuan 5 Pro is as high as 19672 points, while the score of 140W full-blooded version 13980HX is about 22400 points.

Thanks to the strong release of GPU power consumption, the RTX 4060 scored as high as 1214 points in V-Ray's GPU CUDA project test, which is even higher than the 1180 points of an i3-13980HX RTX 4090 gaming notebook we previously measured. Even better, it seems that through continuous driver optimization and manufacturer adaptation, the current RTX 4060 graphics card is enough to show off its skills in professional productivity fields such as modeling and rendering.

In another GPU RTX test, the RTX 4060 also scored 1880 points. If it is a student group, the above three sets of results mean that you can complete it with it. Software coursework tasks related to modeling and rendering are stress-free.

In terms of games, everyone is familiar with the performance level of RTX 4060, so this time we simply tested the performance of several games at 2K resolution. The first is "CS2", the most popular competitive game on Steam. Since the major version update, its requirements for device performance have been greatly improved. At 2K resolution, we do not change the image quality option and play the game at the default high image quality. And using Frame View software to record the average frame data, the average frame number of ASUS Tianxuan 5 Pro is 182 frames. It can also run its 165Hz gaming screen at 2K resolution, fully enjoying the silky smoothness and smoothness of high-brush games.

Next is the sports competition game "Forza Horizon 5" with excellent game optimization. After entering the game, we selected 2K resolution and ultra-high image quality, and ran the game automatically. Through the performance benchmark test, the final average number of frames was 103 frames, which is also a proper e-sports level, and you can play without stress.

In the traditional raster type classic 3A game "Shadow of the Tomb Raider", we chose the highest image quality, did not turn on DLSS and ray tracing options, and ended up with 2K resolution The average number of frames reached 91 frames, which is also the level that RTX 4060 should be.

Finally, the most stressful next-generation 3A game is "Cyberpunk: 2077". If RTX 4060 does not use NVIDIA DLSS 2 and 3 technology, the frame rate will definitely be lower. That’s enough, so let’s just do it in one step, turn on 2K resolution, super ray tracing image quality, turn on DLSS 2 and 3 at the same time, set the DLSS gear to the balanced gear, and then run the performance benchmark test that comes with the game, and the final average frame rate is At 64 frames, it is relatively easy to play at 60 frames.

Summary

This updated ASUS Tianxuan Pro 5 is a brand new attempt. Previously, the Tianxuan series has not been equipped with HX-level processors, so the i9-14900HX processor has become One of the core upgrade points. After testing, it is not difficult to find that ASUS is very familiar with the power consumption, performance release and heat dissipation performance of the HX series processors. The performance is very stable, although it does not adopt a particularly radical performance strategy. , but the competitiveness is still quite strong.

In addition, improvements in the mold have also made the Tianxuan 5 Pro's performance more balanced, such as the 16:10 four-sided narrow bezel screen, the new layout of the body interface, and the hand feel. The super cool touchpad, Tianxuan's always strong 90Wh large battery and 100W PD fast charging, and even two-dimensional color matching, Tianxuan Ji desk favorite, exclusive WASD semi-transparent keycaps and other personalized elements make this gaming machine This book seems quite sincere. In the price range of less than 10,000 yuan, I think ASUS Tianxuan 5 Pro is trying to create a ceiling product. If it fits your budget, especially for college students, it can be said that it is a machine you can buy with your eyes closed. Game book.

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