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Asus ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED (H7604) 2023 review: Display

In terms of color accuracy and coverage, Asus throws everything it can at the screens in its ProArt range. Here, that includes Calman Verified and Pantone Validated certifications, with the guarantee that each panel’s average Delta E (a measure of color accuracy) will be under two. Our panel’s accuracy was even better: it averaged 0.51 and had a maximum Delta E of 1.12.

Color coverage is superb, too. You have a choice of color profiles, including DCI-P3, where it covered 99% of the gamut. Print designers who prefer to work in the Adobe RGB space should stick to the Native profile, with 98% coverage.

But what really matters about this OLED panel is that it’s gorgeous. You benefit from incredible sharpness thanks to a resolution of 3,200 x 2,000, and whether you’re watching a film or editing photos you’ll fall in love with the rich colours and deep blacks. While a peak brightness of 363cd/m2 may not sound noteworthy, support for DisplayHDR’s True Black 500 shows that it can go higher in localized areas in supported content.

Its results in our 1080p gaming benchmark suite were predictably high: 186fps in F1 22, 144fps in Shadow of the Tomb Raider, 101fps in Metro Exodus, and 88fps in Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition. Those are all at High settings. Switching to the native resolution of 3,200 x 2,000 saw those figures drop to 105fps, 94fps, 56fps, and 45fps.

All our results were with the Studio drivers and the laptop in «MSHybrid» mode, where it automatically switches between discrete and integrated graphics. You can choose to use only the discrete GPU, but that made no difference to our results so we suggest sticking with the default.

Not least because using integrated graphics will squeeze some extra life from the 90W battery. The Studiobook is a power-hungry beast, and the best result we saw was in PCMark’s idle test where it kept going for 6hrs 36mins. It lasted around five hours in both the video-rundown and light-use office tests while switching to gaming reduced life to a mere 1hr 34mins. Those results are typical of a Windows workstation such as this, but the 16in MacBook Pro lasted for almost 20 hours in our video-rundown test.

Зайду с козырей. У этого лэптопа фантастический дисплей

Свежая новинка от ASUS получила 16-дюймовый OLED-экран с разрешением 3840х2160 (да-да, честные 4K). Соотношение сторон стандартное: 16:10.

Максимальная яркость — 550 нит. И ее вполне хватает для комфортной работы в любой точке планеты. Буквально сегодня писал часть этого обзора с этого ноутбука, ничего не бликало и не заслонялось солнечным светом.

Более того, здесь есть поддержка HDR10 и 100-процентный цветовой охват DCI-P3. Экран передаёт настолько сочные цвета, насколько это вообще возможно.

Это отличное решение для работы с графикой и изображениями. Цветоотображение такое же, каким я вижу все в реальной жизни. Дизайнеры точно оценят.

Каждый экран калибруют на заводе, чтобы пройти сертификации PANTONE Validated, Calman Verified и VESA DisplayHDR 500 True Black и обеспечить комфортное пользование. Это гарант качества.

Наверное, настолько четкого, яркого и насыщенного дисплея я не видел ещё ни на одном ноутбуке. Про MacBook вообще молчу, ему до такого ещё идти и идти.

Углы обзора широкие, всё видно даже в случае, если смотреть на экран почти сбоку. Очень порадовало отсутсвие ШИМ (ну или я его не заметил), чем любят грешить OLED-дисплеи при пониженной яркости.

Рамки тонкие, почти незаметные. А в верхней спряталась фронтальная камера с ИК-датчиком, что видеть пользователя в темноте. Полезная штука, ещё и разблокировку через Windows Hello поддерживает.

Дисплей

Из-за солидного веса крышка уверенно открывается одной рукой. Внутри располагается 16″ OLED-матрица 16:10 с разрешением 3840 × 2400 точек и частотой обновления 60 Гц. Производитель заявляет о 100% охвате цветового пространства DCI-P3, яркости до 550 кд/м² шустром отклике в 0.2 мс и наличии сертификатов Display HDR True Black 500, Pantone Validated и SGS.

Дисплей уже из коробки радует отличными цветами, но в фирменном софте предусмотрен отдельный пункт для калибровки (требуется внешний калибратор). Горизонтальный угол обзора отличный, запас яркости внушительный (правда, HDR-режим не доступен в автономном режиме), а соотношение сторон чуть вытянуто вверх (относительно 16:9), что полезно в рабочих задачах.

Настройки калибровки в ProArt Creator Hub

Наконец, нельзя не остановиться на главной особенности – матрице типа OLED. С одной стороны, она приносит с собой красочную картинку и настоящий чёрный цвет, смотреть на которые одно удовольствие. С другой, может напрягать глаза и требует особого отношения из-за не иллюзорной опасности выгорания (появления «отпечатков» от изображений).

Для продления срока службы дисплея ASUS предлагает ряд мер, объединённых в группу ASUS OLED Care, а также не рекомендует выводить на дисплей статические изображения на высокой яркости на длительное время. Учитывая, что мы говорим об ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED – устройстве для работы (как правило, в одних и тех же программах на протяжении длительного времени), это может оказаться проблемой. Хотя от местной максимальной яркости глаза вытекут куда раньше появления любых «отпечатков».

ASUS OLED Care поможет сохранить матрицу

Информация о дисплее

В рамке над дисплеем нашли своё место массив микрофонов и Web-камера с поддержкой Windows Hello. Последняя может быть как закрыта физической шторкой, так и отключена функциональной кнопкой. Максимальное качество видеосъёмки 720p@30fps, фотосъёмки – 1280 на 720 точек. Качество фотографий и видео среднее, а вот звук пишется хорошо.

Web-камера

Design and Connectivity

As equipment aimed at professional or semi-professional users, the ASUS ProArt Studiobook Pro 16 OLED W7604 It moves away from the most striking designs of the company’s gaming line, and opts for a much more sober finish, with a smooth lid on the top, joined by two hinges that are located somewhat forward with respect to the rear edge. It can be read in the ProArt center in chrome letters.

Its design offers a maximum thickness of 2.39 cm in its thickest part, a measurement that is reduced in the thinnest areas to just over 2 cm. It’s not an ultrabook, but considering its internal hardware and features, it’s pretty slim.

On the right side we have, from left to right, two USB-C ports with Thunderbolt 4.0 connectivity followed by a 10Gbps USB-A 3.1 port (now known as USB 3.2 Gen 2). To the far right, an air outlet from the right heatsink ends up closing the side.

On the left side, in addition to another air outlet, we have another 10 Gbps USB-A 3.1, a combined 3.5 mm audio port and an SD Express card reader capable of reaching 985 MB/s, ideal for users who transfer long files from video or photography cameras using this type of media.

The rest of the physical connectivity of the laptop is found on the back, with an HDMI 2.1 port in the central area, followed by the power connector for the 240 W source. On the right side we have an RJ-45 port with Ethernet connectivity 2.5 Gbps. Additionally, two air outlets join the other two on the sides for the equipment’s cooling system.

Opening the screen we find a 16:10 and 16-inch OLED panel, as it is touch-sensitive we have a glossy coating, which although it is not one of the most reflective on the market, the reflections of what we have can be seen without problem back. It is integrated into fairly contained frames, even at the bottom thanks to the use of the 16:10 format.

The complete keyboard uses membrane mechanisms, with a more than correct path and good rigidity in the structure, the numerical area on the right side is appreciated, and the placement of the direction arrows is striking to take advantage of the space. It has white LED backlighting. However, in this area there are two elements that take away its prominence.

One is the trackpad, which instead of having a system of physical buttons, includes haptic feedback through vibration, making the entire trackpad also a button and recognizing presses from the right or left.

Another is the ASUS Dial that we already saw in other models such as the StudioBook 16 OLED based on the Ryzen 5900X, it is a configurable wheel with a button that is automatically associated with different functions depending on the program used.

It can work as standard as if it were a Microsoft Wheel like those in the Surface range, or it can also be customized or apply ASUS settings for applications such as Office, the Adobe Suite, browsers, Spotify, etc.

Depending on the program, we will have different functions, and we can add or edit the ones we want. The ASUS software will recognize each program and activate the specific functions of the Dial.

Performance

The WD PC SN730 SSD here is quite fast, with close to 3000MB/s read and write speeds. You can also drop in another SSD, as the ASUS ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED (H5600) does have a secondary M.2 slot if you decide you need more storage space.

When it comes to CPU performance, the ASUS ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED (H5600) posts slightly slower scores than most of the other laptop in these charts. It does quite easily outperform the last-gen ProArt Studiobook One, although it is worth mentioning that the ProArt Studiobook One was already outdated back when it was launched.

In Superposition, the ASUS ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED’s GeForce RTX 3070 scores more than the GeForce RTX 3060 laptops, but it is slower than the GeForce RTX 3070 in the ROG Zephyrus M16. The tables turn here for the ProArt Studiobook One, as the ASUS ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED is a good 33% slower, which is to be expected since the RTX 6000 is actually faster than the desktop GeForce RTX 2080…

In 3DMark Time Spy, the ASUS ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED sits in the same position the stack, being faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 and slightly slower than the GeForce RTX 3080. The ASUS ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED (H5600) is 22% slower than the ProArt Studiobook One here.

The gap between the ASUS ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED’s GeForce RTX 3070 and the Acer Nitro 5’s RTX 3080 is even narrower here. This is a gauge of raytracing performance in games, and we can see that the ASUS ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED (H5600) is a pretty great performer here. Overall, gaming performance should be great, which should come as no surprise for a laptop with a GeForce RTX 3070 under the hood, but this is a content creator laptop, so let’s see how it does in PCMark.

The ASUS ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED’s content creation capabilities definitely outclasses the ProArt Studiobook One, presumably because of its faster CPU. As a whole, it is not the fastest laptop we have tested, with most of the other laptops in this collection outperforming it.

Battery Life

Battery life is quite lackluster here, as ASUS seems to have forgotten to add an iGPU mode here to improve battery life by switching off the dedicated graphics, something which is included with ASUS’ gaming laptops. Less than four hours of battery life is definitely not that great when you are out and about, but I guess most users of this sort of machine won’t be relying on the battery much, as you can’t get the most performance out of it on battery anyway.

Thermals

The ASUS ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED’s cooling does a pretty good job of maintaining thermals where they should be. While the CPU pulls up to 84.31W, the highest temperature recorded was only 92.4°C, with the average being just 87°C. On average, CPU clocks hovered at 3.29GHz while pulling 48.63W, with peaks of 4.37GHz. Meanwhile the GPU clocks are hovering at 1298MHz with a power draw of 86.2W on average, while temperatures were below 73.8°C at all times. No throttling to be observed, and it seems that ASUS decided to optimize for lower thermals over flat out performance, as evident in the benchmark scores above.

The six heat-pipe system and the heatspreaders that span out from them covers the VRM and VRAM, providing cooling to components that are often ignored. Unfortunately ASUS didn’t decide to use liquid metal here, so we could probably have seen better performance out of the ASUS ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED if ASUS decided to go with liquid metal and a more aggressive power profile on the chips.

ASUS ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED Specifications

CPU	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX, 8C/16T @ 3.3GHz (Boost up to 4.6GHz), 45W+ TDP, 7nm
RAM	64GB DDR4-3200 (2 x 32GB SO-DIMM), dual-channel
Graphics	AMD Radeon Graphics, 8CU @ up to 2.1GHzNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU 8GB GDRR6, 90W TGP (110W with Dynamic Boost
Storage	1TB WD PC SN730 M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD 1 x M.2 2280 PCIe slot vacant
Connectivity	WirelessIntel Wireless-AC 9260 (WiFi 5 + Bluetooth 5.1)Wired 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 (Type-C), 10Gbps 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 (Type-A), 10Gbps 1 x SD Express 7.0 card reader 1 x Realtek RTL8111 GbE LAN 1 x 3.5mm audio jack
Display	16″ WQUXGA (3840 x 2400) 16:10 OLED display (Samsung SDC415D) 550 nits, 100% DCI-P3, Pantone Validated, VESA DisplayHDR True Black 500 1 x HDMI 2.1 2 x DisplayPort Alt Mode via USB-C
Audio	Stereo speakers, tuned by harman/kardon SonicMaster, Smart Amp technology Array microphone, Alexa, Cortana voice-recognition support AI Noise-Cancelling Mic + AI Noise-Cancelling Speaker
Power	90WHrs 4-cell Li-ion battery 240W power adapter USB-PD charging support (not included)
Dimensions	362 x 264 x 21.4 mm
Weight	2.4kg

Asus ProArt StudioBook 16 OLED review: Display and speakers

The ProArt StudioBook has an incredible display, a 16-inch 16:10 4K (3,840 x 2400 pixel) OLED panel with a peak brightness of 550 nits. Professional users will probably like the display, because you can colour grade HDR videos and photos accurately. It supports 100% of the DCI-P3 colour gamut, and boasts VESA Certified DisplayHDR True Black 500 for high contrast and is Pantone Validated for colour reproduction.

Although these numbers don’t matter to average users, for professionals a high-quality display matters. The resolution combined with punchy colours, deep blacks, bright whites and excellent contrast ratio gives you the picture quality comparable to that of a high-end 4K TV but in 16-inch screen size. For regular people like me, that means colours pop when watching movies and TV shows. This kind of display on a laptop makes a huge difference if you know the advantages of a 4K HDR OLED screen. A high-refresh-rate display could have been an advantage but that’s ok.

The resolution combined with punchy colours, deep blacks, bright whites and excellent contrast ratio gives you the picture quality comparable to that of a high-end 4K TV but in 16-inch screen size. (Image credit: Anuj Bhatia/Indian Express)

Audio is a high point on the ProArt StudioBook 16 OLED. The Harman/Kardon-tuned speakers are way better than any other Windows laptop I’ve tested this year. They get plenty of loud and rich bass so you don’t need a Bluetooth speaker when listening to music and watching movies at home or on the go.

Benchmarks

PassMark result

48083

This benchmark measures the performance of the CPU using multiple threads.

PassMark result (single)

4341

This benchmark measures the performance of the CPU using a single thread.

Cinebench R20 (multi) result