Asus gives its $4,000 creator laptop a 4K tandem OLED and RTX 5090

Asus’ ProArt P16 laptop is getting RTX 50-series GPUs and a unsocial caller surface successful its high-end configuration. Its biggest upgrades see Nvidia’s top-tier RTX 5090 mobile GPU and a agleam 16-inch 3840 x 2400 tandem OLED touchscreen, susceptible of up to 1,600 nits of brightness successful HDR and 120Hz refresh with VRR. The caller flagship P16 volition outgo $3,999.99 astatine Best Buy and nonstop from Asus erstwhile it launches internationally successful mid-October and successful the US successful December.

Other cardinal specs and features of the P16 see an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU (same arsenic the 2024 model), 64GB of LPDDR5X RAM, 4TB of SSD retention (via 2 2TB NVMe drives), Wi-Fi 7, and Bluetooth 5.4. It’s besides got a clump of ports, including 1 40Gbps USB4, 1 10Gbps USB-C 3.2 Gen 2, 2 10Gbps USB-A 3.2 Gen 2, HDMI 2.1, a 3.5mm audio jack, and SD Express 7.0 paper slot.

It’s a full batch of laptop, designed to beryllium a nonstop Windows alternate to a 16-inch MacBook Pro (it adjacent comes successful each black). Like erstwhile P16s, it’s fundamentally a creator-focused mentation of the Intel-based Asus ROG Zephyrus G16. That means it’s reasonably bladed astatine 14.9mm / 0.59 inches, and astatine 1.95kg / 4.3 pounds it’s decently airy for its size. It besides means it’s apt to person astatine slightest a small thermal throttling nether the heaviest of loads from originative apps and graphically intensive games — arsenic has been the lawsuit for the Zephyrus laptops. And Asus’ tech specs way with that, arsenic the P16’s 5090 GPU is rated for up to 120W full graphics powerfulness (TGP), though the paper tin perchance spell up to 150W according to Nvidia.

Still, conscionable similar the ROG Zephyrus G14 and G16 are fantabulous gaming laptops (particularly if you worth portability), the caller P16 sounds beauteous bully for a originative laptop — astatine slightest connected paper. To cater it much toward creators than the Zephyrus line, Asus enactment that brighter tandem OLED surface with much solution and interaction compatibility successful the caller flagship config. The P16 besides features Asus’ DialPad, a ring-shaped dial built into the trackpad for other power of sliders successful originative apps similar those from Adobe.

If $4,000 is excessively precocious an asking price, Asus is besides keeping the entry-level 2024 exemplary with an RTX 4060 astir for $1,999.99. And determination are mid-tier options for the caller 2025 mentation with RTX 5070 and 5080 GPU options, the erstwhile of which starts astatine $2,499.99 and sports the aforesaid AMD Ryzen 370HX CPU, 32GB of RAM, 2TB SSD, and a non-tandem 4K / 60Hz OLED display. Not arsenic fancy-sounding arsenic Asus’ halo config, but not excessively shabby either.