ASUS – ROG 16″ Touchscreen Gaming Laptop – AMD Ryzen 9 – 16GB DDR5 Memory – NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 V6G Graphics – 1TB SSD – Off black

I review laptops as part of my YouTube channel codeHusky, and so far I’ve been extremely impressed with this laptop.
I performed an 8 hour battery test to determine how quickly the battery drains while playing a playlist of online videos at 1080p30. I had both the higher end MiniLED variant as well as the IPS model (this one from BestBuy) paired against each other in the test. At the end of the test, the IPS model still had hours of runtime left at 34% whereas the MiniLED had only 14% left. Extrapolating with the 90Whr battery, we could see upwards of 13+ hours on this model vs only 8-9 in this workload on the MiniLED model.
Noting here for anyone curious that both panels were kept at a minimally acceptable viewing brightness (around 50%), matched in brightness. Both were in Silent with the graphics set to Eco mode (disables Nvidia graphics completely), as well as having the CPU minimum performance state set to 0% in Windows power profile settings. Both systems were running no background apps or services, and the test was conducted in the Edge browser on the same exact playlist.
Overall, with some very tiny tweaks (all you need to do is tweak the power plan) the battery you get out of this model crushes just about anything of similar performance. With a 3070ti, this laptop would be a true godsend. Unfortunately there’s no option for that, but if there was, I’d recommend it easily with the IPS panel.
Worth note that the only difference between the IPS and MiniLED panels are the backlight tech and some of the internal filtering done inside of the panel for the backlighting. The color accuracy, coverage, vibrancy, and response times are identical otherwise as far as I was able to determine.
Included a run of Timespy as well as Tomb Raider on full max settings (no DLSS, no RTX, native, DX12) for anyone interested in performance figures. This model is certainly slower than the 3070ti model, but the amount varies depending on the game and your settings of course. This is going to be one of the best performing 3060 laptops on the market with 125w of TGP available (the same as the 3070ti model), so don’t underestimate it.
I’m still working on my testing of this laptop, but as far as I can tell my units flawless and rips through my testing like a champ. Easy recommendation from me if you can swallow the price.