TUF Gaming A15 (2023) Gaming Laptop, 15.6" FHD 144Hz Display, GeForce RTX 4070, AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS, 16GB DDR5, 1TB PCIe SSD, Wi-Fi 6, Windows 11, FA507XI-EH94(Mecha Gray)

So far I am happy with the Ryzen 7 processor and RTX 4070 graphics card, the TUFF built in processor software is nice. There isn't any bloatware really, and I did choose to select the battery option to only charge up to 80% of my battery (which is nice not to have to go into the BIOS to do). I have run it with some newer games which is ran at ultra like a champ. I did notice it runs HOT, i've been over reddit about TUFF gaming laptops and this seems common. I'll have to do some more tweaking as I start to play more processor intense games. I may get a cooling bad just to help a little, but overall I am very happy with the purchase. I sat on Keeper for months watching the price and pulled the trigger at 1299 which seemed like the best I was gonna get. The charger is on the left, which for anyone right handed is very nice, now you can have the charging cable in, and on my laptop desk there isn't a cord blocking the mouse hand. Moving form an MSI to this has been smooth, and I don't have any regrets / missing features. The screen is fantastic, and playing Path of Exile made me laugh how turned down I had my old settings, and thats not processor heavy at all. Looking forward to putting this through its paces as I play through some assassins creed.

Great gaming laptop. Performance is excellent and I get about 8 hours of battery life surfing web out of the box. The touch pad is glass and very smooth and responsive. However, the Wifi module is a crappy RealTek that often caused random disconnects. I replaced it with an Intel WiFi 6E AX210 module for about $22 and wifi has been solid.

So, my previous personal laptop was definitely outdated (circa 2015 Dell) and in need of replacement, even though it's not my primary PC and is more of a backup/something I can take on vacation with me. This time around I wanted something I could game on and/or act as a viable backup should something befall my desktop gaming rig. However, because this wouldn't be a daily driver or anything, I didn't feel the need to go all out, a moderate budget of $1000-$1500 was where I wanted to be. I wanted something with a relatively modern CPU, a decent discrete GPU, upgradable RAM, and upgradable storage. There were a few laptops that were in the running. But in the end the Asus TUF A15 won the day. Mainly on the strength of it checking most of the boxes and being on sale for $1200 USD when I bought it. At $1600+ this laptop isn't a great deal IMHO. It's downsides are hard to overlook at that price point. But at under $1300 things became a bit more palatable. The Good - The Ryzen 9 7940HS is fine laptop CPU. 8 cores/16 threads. It's usually comes in above the i7-13700H and below the i9-13900H in most benchmarks, but offers better battery life and considerably stronger iGPU. The Radeon 780M is powerful enough to run some older or less demanding games at 1080p decently. So you don't always have to use the discrete GPU when gaming. Which is a nice option to have. With that said, it does lose out in pure CPU grunt to the Intel HX's those are basically detuned desktop CPUs. But in terms of performance vs. efficiency , the 7940HS is hard to beat. It's similar in performance to a desktop Ryzen 5 7600X or desktop i5-12400 for context. - The RTX 4070 discrete GPU. This GPU is really more than you need for 1080p gaming, particularly with DLSS and Frame Gen. At 1080p In Cyberpunk with DLSS Quality and Frame Gen, and with Pyscho ray-tracing (but not path tracing) enabled and with most of the other settings at "high" Things are motoring along at 90-110 FPS on average, Same thing with Starfield (no ray tracing in that though). Gaming performance is more that satisfactory at 1080p, If you were running a 1440p display it would still probably be fine. The RTX 4070 mobile is somewhere between an RTX 3060 ti desktop and RTX 4060 desktop GPU in terms of performance, but it does seem to handle ray tracing with more grace and dignity than the Ampere cards and it has frame gen to fall back on as well. The only thing that gives me pause is the meager 8GB frame buffer. 8GB of VRAM is quickly becoming the baseline for newer games. A few years down the road, 8GB of VRAM might not cut anymore. - Upgradability. Laptops aren't known for vast amounts of customization. The Asus TUF A15 is about as good as you can reasonably expect. It has an open M.2 slot for another SSD, it's wifi card is easy to upgrade (more on that in a minute), and it has two slots for RAM, which is becoming rare in an era where soldering down the RAM is common. Access is easy enough, there are about a dozen screws keeping the bottom cover on, one of which is captive and two of which are different lengths, so if you're going to do some upgrades, keep track of which screws go where, if needed Asus has the whitepapers for this laptop on their website and it has breakdown of which screws go where. - Big battery. The battery is a very generous 90Wh. It's about as high a capacity as you can get in a 15.6 inch laptop. The battery life is very good by gaming laptop standards. As long as you're not using the discrete GPU, you can reasonably expect 7 hours on the low side to 9 hours on the high side of typical use. For gaming, as you might expect, battery life drops to around 3 to 4 hours depending on how hard you're pushing the discrete GPU. When running on battery the screen refresh rate drops to 60Hz by default, presumably to help with battery life. - The ports are generous. Being an AMD powered machine, Thunderbolt was going to be off the table. But good news! You get USB 4 on the A15, which can do most of the things that Thunderbolt can do. You get two USB A ports and two USB C ports (at least one of which is the USB 4), You also get an HDMI 2.1 port. It does support G-Sync over HDMI assuming the display you hook it up to is also G-Sync compliant. - Full keyboard. The A15's keyboard has a numberpad, not all laptops do. Now onto, the "meh" features of the TUF A15. These are the aspects of the laptop that aren't really good or terrible, but are areas where things could be better, but they're not that bad. - Build quality is fine for $1200, not really what you'd expect at the $1600+ price point though. - The RGB on the keyboard is a bit much at it's default setting - There's the usual amount of pre-installed shovel-ware. You probably won't have to resort to a clean Windows install, removing the various/dubious pre-installed dreck only took a few minutes, it wasn't bad as far these things go. - The trackpad sometimes acts up randomly where it will assume you're trying to select everything on the desktop as you move the mouse pointer. I updated the software/drivers for it, but it made no difference. What did work was taking a microfiber cloth, *slightly* dampening it then cleaning the trackpad (computer is off when you're doing this), then turn it back on and it works fine again. - The OEM SSD is a 1TB WD SN560 which I don't think was ever sold at retail. It is a Gen 4 NVMe drive, but it's not exactly one of the faster ones. I ran CrystalDisk and got ~5000 MB/s read and ~3300 MB/s write. Good enough, but likely an area where costs were cut. Real world performance is fine, the laptop boot up quite quickly. - You do get two 8GB SODIMMS standard for a total of 16GB of dual channel RAM. Unfortunately it's only DDR5-4800 which actually slower than what the motherboard/CPU can support. While it's nice to have dual channel RAM standard, the slower speed of the OEM RAM is a bit of a let down. This is probably another cost-saving measure. Now we're at the "things that should be better" part, these are omissions or features that should've been better from the start; - The screen. The screen on the TUF A15 is mediocre at best. At a $1200 price point, it's underwhelming, but acceptable. At a $1600+ price point, it's basically an insult. It's a 1080p screen which isn't exactly cutting edge stuff. It's got an entry level IPS panel, and it's not very bright. You're getting 250-300 nits here. It's fine for indoor use with the brightness turned up, outdoors on a sunny day, it's barely useable. Typically , if you're spending over $1500 on a laptop, it's going to have a 500+ nit screen that's much brighter than this. The color reproduction is again, very "mid". Basically, you're getting a display that would be at home on a $500-$800 laptop. At the $1200-ish price point, you can overlook it since you're getting a great CPU and GPU, but at $1600, you can get similar CPU/GPU combos with a much brighter, higher resolution screen. It's a bit of let down. But most reviews of this laptop do mention it. - The stock Wifi card. Again because you're using an AMD CPU/chipset, you're not getting an Intel wireless NIC. The stock MediaTek wifi card was inconsistent (at best) for me. I did some research on the issue and after various updates decided that an upgrade was needed. I ended up buying an Intel AX210 Wifi card and swapped out stock mediatek card. It was an easy job, the wifi antenna leads being a bit fiddly. Now the wifi performance is better and it's not dropping the wifi connection every 10 minutes anymore. I recommend this upgrade for anyone with this laptop. Here I'll list the upgrades I've done to my Asus TUF A15 - Changed the wifi card to an Intel AX210 - Upgraded the RAM from 2x 8GB DDR5 4800 to 2x 16GB DDR5 5600 (Crucial CT16G56C46S5) - Added a 2TB Crucial T500 in the extra M.2 slot. Overall with the upgrades, other than the lackluster screen there's not that much to complain about. I snagged the A15 for right at $1200 with the upgrades, I ended up under $1500. And to get something with comparable specs (but probably a better screen) I would be up around the $1600-$1800 range. So the value for money if you can pick it up for $1100-$1200 is very good., the specs are good, and at that price point the foibles can be overlooked/accepted. At $1500 and beyond, I don't think the value is there vs. other more premium laptops.

You can’t really beat the price with that kind of performance and quality. This laptop doesn’t had overheat issue or bad quality issue whatsoever, I can get over 100 FPS in most games with highest settings. Plus this laptop had lots of spaces for future upgrades, you can upgrade it up to 64GB DDR5 Ram and an SSD.

After a little over a year the power button on this laptop is failing. Online research leads me to believe that this is a common problem and it cannot be fixed simply due to the way the button is mounted. Will not buy ASUS again,

I’ve had this since July 2024 and it has been amazing I used it for university and gaming and it did not disappoint, runs cod, battlefield, fifa etc smoothly and has great storage

Replacing an Asus zenbook pro 15 with this. I get a slight boost in GPU compared to the 3050 ti that my zenbook had, but this run considerably cooler and I like the option of onboard video for just running my business stuff then offloading any gaming or graphics stuff I do to the nvidia card. I was able to get 64gb or ram working in this with no issues, I did buy it directly from crucial and it isn't technically supported based on the spec sheet on the ASUS website, but it work and have had zero issues. I would also recommend upgrading the SSD to the fastest you can find, gen 4, 7,000+ Mbps 4tb card is considerably faster than the stock gen 4, 1tb card that was in mine. My complaints with this mainly revolve around first the realtek wifi/blutooth card, which is absolute crap and should be replaced immediately. I cannot stress this one enough and there are hundreds of others with similar issues if you browse reddit or forums, the included card is nothing but a headache. I had switched to a usb bluetooth card even and that was an improvement but I wanted my usb back. The intel AX 210 NGW works well as a drop in replacement, fixes the bluetooth and wifi issues, which included poor to no usable sound on some bluetooth devices, slow internet, dropped internet and dropped bluetooth connections, constant resetting, having to re-pair devices, etc., it never ended, and tried more than once on a full OS install, and still wouldn't work. Next issue is the usb and specifically video over usb isn't much better. It's not uncommon for my usb docking station with video to just disconnect randomly throughough the day, and this happens with different brands of usb stations as well. It got a little better with disabling the windows power management on usb devices which takes a bit of work because the options aren't available by default in power management, but still get completely random disconnections that have transcended operating system installs. Third issue and I have a suspicion it also relates to power management and possibly the usb subsystem, is that it occationally bricks itself when in sleep mode. Like no buttons work, power doesn't work, keyboard doesn't work, LED lights still show the computer is functioning, but not responsive. Have to hold the power down for a like a minute with the power cord out to get it to actually hard power off since pulling the battery would require opening the bottom. Beyond those negatives, which are substantial on an otherwise working computer setup, this is a good workstation/light-gaming setup. It will run hot when doing video rendering or heavy gaming, but it's a laptop so not sure what else to expect. It's a bit quirky with the dual graphics setup, but it works well enough and makes sense logically and functionally since the onboard graphics use a lot less power and nobody using spreadsheets or just watching a streaming video is going to need a 4070 gpu for it. I can run 2 external large monitors, a 34 and a 32 from the onboard GPU, and/or run my gaming monitor from the 4070 by using the HDMI port directly. CPU and normal usage is very fast, and it does accept 64gb of ram, which is one of the reasons I moved from the Pro 15 which has soldered ram. This also does not have the second ssd slot even though it is listed on the ASUS website and it shown on the right in one of the pictures, unless they are saying the wifi/bluetooth card slot is a SSD slot or something, there's not a slot of blank unsoldered placeholder on the opposite side of the existing card, on the motherboard I can see for it either, so no clue why Asus lists this as having 2 for this specific model. If this did not have the usb and out of the box bluetooth mess, I would give it 5 stars, but the USB isn't fixeable that I can see, and I've been in IT and a computer and network admin for almost 25 years now, and dumping the realtek card is asking a lot for a brand new laptop that should work, and especially with thousands of complaints about the realtek card going back many years now, I mean WTF asus...

I bought one of these during a summer sale (4060 version) for around $1200 and then bought one of the 4070 version for my girlfriend for Christmas for around $1150. In my opinion best laptop for the price, will handle most modern games and CAD for 3D printing. The Ryzen 9 is a nice to have, though I feel like there is only so much power that can go into a laptop so if anything it might be under utilized, but overall a good laptop.

Acorde a las características, la compré para un sobrino y puede jugar de todo.

Excelente equipo, el estilo gamer es genial, la duración de la bateria es muy buena y en general los productos Asus son los mejores y super rapidos. Un poco mal con windows 11 pero se cambio a windows 10 y todo mejoro un monton

El rendimiento es bueno, pero no lo suficientemente bueno por el precio de ~40k.