ASUS Vivobook Pro 15 2024 Review Ultra 9 and RTX 4060 are the future of AI performance

Mondo Digital Updated on 2024-02-01

At the past CES 2024, ASUS released a large number of new phones, including the domestic counterpart Vivobook Pro15 2024. After this notebook was launched, we also got the new machine and had a quick experience. As the first AI all-in-one laptop with Ultra 9 185H processor and NVIDIA RTX 4060, what is the performance experience? What's different about the AI experience? Let's find out together!

Exterior design: First of all, a quick look at the appearance, the A-side top cover of the Vivobook PRO15 2024 is very simple, with only a delicately engraved logo.

Side B is a piece of 156 inches 28K resolution up to 120Hz refresh rate OLED ASUS good screen, specific screen quality performance, there is a detailed test later.

There are more infrared and ambient light sensors at the top of the screen this time, so it realizes Windows Hello infrared face unlocking, as well as the automatic dimming of the screen when looking at other places and the automatic lock of the screen when people walk. Of course, the camera is still equipped with a physical mask.

C-side ErgoSense ergonomic keyboard with support for automatic backlighting with ambient light, key travel 14mm, with its own numeric keypad, but the arrow keys are designed to be half-height. The trackpad retains the ASUS Virtual Knob feature, which is the icing on the cake.

In terms of interfaces, the left side of the laptop is equipped with USB-A 32 5Gbps, UHS- high-speed SD card reader, on the right is the power interface, RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet port, HDMI 21 **S port, USB-A 32 5Gbps, full-featured Thunderbolt 4 USB-C port, full-featured USB-C 32 10Gbps (support PD charging with ** output) and 35mm audio jack, overall very comprehensive.

The Vivobook Pro 15 2024 comes standard with a 200W power adapter, but you can also charge it with a portable charger that supports the PD protocol.

Performance test: One of the biggest highlights of the Vivobook Pro 15 2024 in terms of hardware is that it is equipped with a combination of Intel Core Ultra 9 185H and NVIDIA RTX 4060. We are all familiar with the RTX 4060 graphics card, so the Core Ultra 9 185H is still the first time we have met, how does it perform?

This processor is built on the Intel 4 process, with 16 cores (6 performance cores, 8 efficiency cores, 2 low-power efficiency cores) and 22 threads, with a turbo frequency of up to 51GHz, 24MB L3 cache, performance unleashed up to 65W. Of course, this processor takes into account both performance and power consumption, and uses AI computing power as a selling point, and the experience in AI will be greatly improved.

Set the power mode of the notebook to the best performance, set the fan mode to full speed mode in the software, and set the graphics card to the mixed output, and then test the processor.

The Core Ultra 9 185H has a CPU-Z score of 7786 points, multi-core 91856 points.

Cinebench R15 single-core 274CB, multi-core 3009CB; OpenGL is 22054fps。

Cinebench R20 719pts for single-core and 7745pts for multi-core.

Cinebench R23 single-core 1909pts, multi-core 19725pts.

3DMark CPU Profile test, single thread 1055, dual thread 20247, four thread 3818, eight thread 6298, sixteen thread 8125, maximum thread 8930. Through testing, it is not difficult to find that the performance of Intel Core Ultra 9 185H is very close to Intel's thirteenth generation standard pressure i9, so you don't have to worry about performance.

We've tested the NVIDIA RTX 4060 graphics card many times, and it's built on the ADA Lovelace architecture, has 8GB of GDDR6 memory, and supports ray tracing and DLSS 3. ASUS Vivobook Pro 15 2024 turns on the direct connection and full speed mode of the independent graphics card to perform the performance test of the 3DMark graphics card section.

The Wild Life Extreme score is 18487, the Fire Strike score is 22975, the Fire Strike Extreme score is 12253, the Time Spy score is 10885, and the Time Spy Extreme score is 5182.

In terms of heat dissipation, the ASUS Vivobook Pro 15 2024 adopts the ASUS Glacier Pro cooling architecture, which can achieve 125W performance in full-speed mode under the powerful configuration of dual 12V fans and 5 heat pipes.

We first used AIDA 64 for the FPU stability test, and we can see that after 20 minutes of testing, the power consumption of the CPU is about 65W, and the frequency of the two P-core performance cores can reach up to 4090MHz.

After a half-hour double-baking test on the notebook, it can be seen that the CPU power consumption release of the notebook hovers around 30W at this time, while the power consumption release of the graphics card is about 95W, and the frequency of the graphics card is still maintained at 2550MHz. Overall, the performance release of Vivobook Pro15 2024 is still very good, and the overall release of CPU+GPU can reach 125W.

When the temperature test is carried out during the double baking, it can be seen that the maximum temperature of the fuselage is only 48Around 8, the WASD area is also around 30, and the temperature control performance is not bad.

In terms of battery life, we also conducted a simple test, it has a large 75wh battery, set the notebook to energy-saving mode, silent performance mode, integrated display mode, turn off the keyboard backlight, adjust the screen brightness to 50%, *1080p**, a full ** 7 hours and 40 minutes, the notebook will automatically shut down, and the battery life is definitely good enough.

In terms of charging, with the original 200W charger, it can be charged to about 50% in half an hour. If you're in a hurry to take your laptop out, it's perfectly fine if you want to recharge the laptop battery quickly in a short time.

In addition, the notebook memory is dual 8GB DDR5 5600MHz, and the hard drive is Western Digital SN560 1TB PCIe 40,It is worth mentioning that the notebook also reserves memory and hard disk slots for subsequent upgrades,This is very good。

According to CrystalDiskMark, the sequential read speed of the hard drive is 5012MB s and the sequential write speed is 3364MB s.

Gaming & AI Experience.

The ASUS Vivobook Pro 15 performs well in software tests, but how does it perform in real-world use cases?

First of all, let's take some game tests, "Tomb Raider: Shadows" in 2At 8K resolution, with ray-traced shadows turned on, the quality is high, and the test can reach 83fps. A Plague Tale: Requiem can reach 66 fps with ray tracing and DLSS 3 turned on, and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt can reach 81 fps with ray tracing and DLSS 3 enabled. Through the above game tests, it is not difficult to see that Vivobook PRO15 can already bring a very good triple-A gaming experience to a certain extent.

In terms of AI, the Vivobook Pro15 2024 equipped with Core Ultra 9 185H also has a very big advantage. Of course, many friends may ask, notebook manufacturers have been promoting AI PC, so what can AI PC do? What are the aspects of AI performance?

That's actually the AI that's the focus of the Core Ultra upgrade, and AI can help us do a lot of things. In the application of ASUS Hall,ASUS has also specially added a "AI New Era" section,It has collected some AI tools for everyone,Up to now, there are twelve,Mainly concentrated in office、Image and other fields。

Of course, you may not have used these tools before, but I highly recommend you to try these AI software, I believe it will bring a lot of efficiency improvement in your work and creation. What is certain is that more and more software will be connected to the AI model in the future, which will bring a different experience.

As the AI functions brought by software become more complex and powerful, the requirements for AI computing power of hardware devices will also become higher and higher, and the level of AI computing power may directly affect the production efficiency of PCs.

Take the "Jianying" that everyone often uses for **editing, as soon as you arrive at its editing interface, you can actually see a lot of AI-related functions, such as AI generation with text generation, using AI to identify pauses and repetitions of oral materials, and realizing one-click rough cutting, realizing AI special effects with specified style descriptors for materials, and using AI intelligent recognition and intelligent keying functions.

In addition, like the popular overseas stable diffusion, it also has extremely high requirements for AI computing power, and it needs the support of AI computing power when generating **, and the higher the computing power**, the faster the generation speed.

In October last year, we used a notebook with 10tops computing power, set the sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras, CFG Scale: 7, Clip Skip: 2, Model: anything-v5-prtre, **Resolution: 512 512, and the measured time to generate a ** took 1 minute 176 seconds. And with the computing power of up to 34TOPS, the Vivobook Pro15 2024 uses the same settings to generate a ** only 496 seconds.

Even if you spawn 6 at once**, it only takes 1464 seconds, which shows that the Vivobook Pro 15 2024 equipped with Core Ultra 9 185H has a huge improvement in AI performance and efficiency.

AI will definitely greatly improve our creative efficiency in the future, and as an important productivity device in our daily office, PCs with advanced AI blessings will undoubtedly gradually replace traditional PCs.

Screen experience: In fact, every time I get my hands on the ASUS Vivobook notebook, its screen performance will not disappoint me. The ASUS Vivobook Pro 15 2024 features a piece of 158 inch 28K resolution up to 120Hz OLED ASUS good screen, with 02ms instantaneous response, Pantone color certification, TÜV hardware-level low blue flicker-free certification, and full-brightness DC dimming.

The laptop screen supports 4 professional color gamut switching, including native color gamut, sRGB, DCI-P3, Display P3 four color gamut modes, so we have also tested the specific quality of the screen.

Using the SPYDER X colorimeter with DisplayCal test, the average δE of the measured notebook is only 074, and the maximum δe is also only 227。

In the Display P3 color space, the average δe is 077, and the maximum δe is 233, as good as ever.

In addition, in the native color gamut mode, the screen is tested to cover 100% srgb, 966% Adobe RGB, 100% DCI P3 color gamut.

In sRGB color gamut mode, test its coverage of 979% srgb;Display P3 color gamut, test its coverage of 990% DCI-P3 color gamut.

Overall, the screen of the ASUS Vivobook Pro 15 2024 notebook still maintains a high level of quality, and the display effect is outstanding, even if you have professional screen color display needs, it can meet your requirements.

Summary: The ASUS Vivobook series notebooks have always given me the feeling that they are all-round. Just like this Vivobook Pro 15 2024, it is equipped with a Core Ultra 9 185H processor with greatly improved AI performance, and is equipped with an RTX 4090 graphics card that supports DLSS 3, which guarantees a smooth experience in many gaming or professional scenarios.

In addition, the excellent screen, the decent size and weight, and the design of the memory and hard disk can be upgraded on their own, so that it can take care of all aspects of use. The ASUS Vivobook Pro 15 2024 will be an RTX all-around AI laptop that deserves your attention in the New Year.

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