The Asus ROG Zephyrus G15 is absolutely one of the best gaming laptops you can find right now thanks to its near-perfect combination of gaming performance, battery life, and design.
It comes within a hair’s breath of true desktop replacements running desktop-quality hardware while keeping the price reasonable (for a high-end gaming laptop) and packages everything in a design that isn’t the same old Decepticon-inspired aesthetic that has plagued gaming hardware for the past decade or so.
The Asus ROG Zephyrus G15 comes with one of the best mobile processors, the Ryzen 9 5900HS, and is paired with Nvidia’s latest mobile RTX 3060, RTX 3070, and RTX 3080 GPUs, offering some of the highest framerates you can get on the go.
The ROG Zephyrus G15 sounds great as well, thanks to two top-firing speakers on either side of the keyboard, which is unfortunately tenkeyless. The ROG Zephyrus G15 also lacks a webcam, so for those looking to both work and play on their new machine, you’re going to need a separate camera. Essentially, the ROG Zephyrus G15 is a pure gaming machine, none of that crossover business like the Gigabyte Aero 17.
In our Battery test, the ROG Zephyrus G15 lasts for eight hours 56 minutes, while it lasted eight hours 22 minutes in our HD movie test. Granted, with a 90 WHr battery, we would expect the laptop to last for a while, but these scores are honestly Ultrabook-level battery life, which we aren’t used to seeing in a gaming laptop.
The exception is the Asus TUF Dash F15, which lasts eight hours 43 minutes in PCMark10’s Battery test and nine hours 43 minutes in our HD movie test (which is simply shocking).
Meanwhile, the Gigabyte Aorus 17G lasts just over 6 hours in the PCMark10 Battery benchmark and 6 hours and 23 minutes in our HD movie test. For the Aero 17, we’re looking at 6 hours 7 minutes for the PCMark10 Battery test and just 3 hours 39 minutes for our HD movie test.
