TechRadar Verdict
Asus has gone with all-AMD hardware for this reasonably priced gaming laptop.
It mostly works, with both decent gaming performance and great battery life.
But a similarly priced laptop with Nvidia’s RTX 4060 GPU is still marginally the better choice.
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As an Asus TUF model, that probably makes sense.
After all, TUF is Asus’s more accessible gaming brand.
Despite that, the specs and hardware look good.
Screen-wise, it’s an expansive 16-inch IPS panel with 240Hz refresh and 2,560 by 1,600 pixels.
Along with those headline features, there’s 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD.
Meanwhile the screen lid is alloy and lush to the touch.
The same goes for performance.
For the most part, it’s about on par with anRTX 4060laptop in games.
The proviso, of course, is that applies to conventional raster games.
Enable ray tracing and theNvidiaGPU will have quite the edge.
Nvidia graphics also offers superior scaling and frame generation technology.
Still, the APU makes for fantastic battery life for web browsing and movies of well over 10 hours.
(Image credit: Future / Jeremy Laird)
So, this is a pretty nice machine overall.
It’s not a bad price for the overall specifications, build and performance.
That’s probably where we’d spend our cash.
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The keyboard is smooth and tactile with a nice solid bed.
The only exception is a whiff of flex in the top cover, just above the keyboard.
The trackpad is nice and big, too, with a super-slick surface - it’s nice to use.
Incidentally, the keyboard is limited to white backlighting.
There’s no programmable RGB, but that’s reasonable at this price point.
Asus has designed slim bezels for a 90% screen-to-body ratio.
That’s handy on a 16-inch laptop when it comes to maintaining portability.
This isn’t an excessively big or heavy system by gaming laptop standards.
Less successful is the port placement.
The mix of USB4, USB-C and USB sockets, plus HDMI and LAN is fine.
How does the AMD Radeon RX 7600S GPU stack up?
So, for gaming, it’s clear enough that a laptop with the RTX 4060 would be preferable.
For demanding titles, you’re looking at about 60fps.
Arguably, that high-res screen is a bit more than the AMD GPU truly cope with.
It’s a clear cut above you’re average budget gaming laptop screen, that’s for sure.
Gaming aside, this thing has all the performance you could reasonably ask for.
That’s very impressive.
Battery life: 4.5 / 5
Should I buy the Asus TUF Gaming A16 Advantage Edition?
It took over all duties from basic web browsing to loading up my fullSteamlibrary and watching movies.
Games-wise, I ran all my favorites fromCounter-Strike 2toCyberpunk 2077.
Testing battery life was interesting, too.
With most gaming laptops, you could almost see the remaining charge indicator shrink in real time.
But this thing just kept on trucking.
Seeing it show well over 90% after the first hour of movie playback was a revelation.
Clearly, this laptop lasts longer than the vast majority of gaming portables.
