Today, with the popularity of generative artificial intelligence and all kinds of content creation, notebook computers are no longer simple office productivity tools, but have become an indispensable and important carrier in our life, work and entertainment. As a new generation of high-energy AI ultra-thin notebook, ASUS fearless Pro15 2024 has attracted the attention of many consumers with its excellent design, light and portable body, powerful performance, and ASUS good screen with 15.6-inch and 2.8K 120Hz OLED high score and high refresh rate.
Next, let’s further explore more functions of ASUS intrepid Pro15 2024, and see if it can truly achieve both thinness and performance in daily use, and what surprises it can bring us in terms of efficient office and AI experience.
exterior
First of all, let’s take a look at the design of ASUS fearless Pro15 2024, which looks more simple and elegant as a whole. Previously, the embossed nameplate on the A side was changed to etch English letters, which improved the high-end temperament. The fuselage shell is made of metal, but it is as thin as 13.9mm and as light as 1.5kg. Even if it is picked up with one hand, it will be easy, and you will not feel burdened when you go out.
The bottom of the A-side also adopts a concave hollowing-out design, which visually looks more agile and light, and will not block the heat outlet at the back of the fuselage, so the internal heat can be discharged efficiently.
ASUS fearless Pro15 2024 also supports 180 opening and closing, which makes it possible to share the screen content with others without projecting the screen, and directly expand the notebook to view it together, greatly improving the convenience.
Keyboard & touchpad
The 15.6-inch screen makes the body of ASUS fearless Pro15 2024 have enough space to design the keyboard and touchpad, so it is not only equipped with a full-size keyboard, but also has a key stroke of 1.7mm, which makes the feedback when typing clear and rebounds quickly. Moreover, a concave cambered surface of 0.2mm is designed on the key cap, which is more suitable for the fingertips. Large key spacing of 19.05mm, avoiding accidental touch and accurate typing without getting lost.
On the right is the independent number key area, and there are also some independent or shortcut keys, which are very efficient to use. The keyboard of fearless Pro15 2024 also provides RGB backlight design, supports multi-color settings and dynamic effects, which are rare in thin and light books and have a sense of atmosphere.
Fearless Pro15 2024 also designed a giant touchpad with 7.1-inch super-perception, which increased the area by about 40% compared with the previous generation, and newly upgraded the ultra-high sampling rate of 240Hz, which can better match the screen refresh rate and clear the sense of stagnation when dragging.
joggle/interface
In terms of interface, from the back to the front, the left side of the fuselage is HDMI 2.1 TMDS, full-featured USB C 5Gbps, full-featured USB4 40Gbps, MicroSD card slot and 3.5mm audio jack. Full-featured USB4 can be connected to an external 4K display, or a high-speed SSD, graphics card dock, docking station, etc., and supports PD charging. MicroSD card reader provides creators with convenient copy of materials without adapter.
On the right side of the fuselage are two USB-A 3.2 5Gbps interfaces, which connect keyboard, mouse, USB flash drive and other devices, and have better compatibility. In a word, it is very rare that fearless Pro15 2024 can provide so many interfaces to meet the needs of daily external devices under such a thin and light body design.
screen
On the screen side, ASUS fearless Pro15 2024 is equipped with a 15.6-inch 2.8K OLED ASUS screen, with narrow borders on the top, left and right. The high screen ratio makes the field of vision very wide, and the screen ratio of 16:9 is more suitable for most applications, especially when watching movies and playing games, which can get a better visual experience.
In addition to the excellent OLED screen, it also has a refresh rate of 120Hz, a response time of 0.2ms, a 100% P3 cinema-level wide color gamut, supports four professional color gamut switching, and has a peak brightness of 600nits, which can be called ceiling level in terms of color gamut fidelity and color expressiveness. Of course, there are also TV hardware-grade low blue light eye protection certification, DisplayHDR True Black 500 certification, SGS Eye Care eye protection certification, and DC dimming and anti-flicker modes to cope with various usage scenarios.
In Display P3 mode, the measured results with color calibrator show that 99.9%DCI P3 color gamut covers and 111.3%DCI P3 color gamut volume.
Asus fearless Pro15 2024 is also equipped with a 1080P+IR AI dual-camera high-definition camera, which, with the fourth generation of 3DNR noise reduction, brings exquisite and pure video quality. Intelligent portrait processing with AI blessing can set up background blur, eye tracking and other effects (described in detail below), as well as AI two-way voice noise reduction, which can be conveyed accurately and clearly, just like an interview.
It is worth mentioning that the camera is also designed with physical occlusion. After the video is over, the camera can be completely turned off by pulling the baffle to avoid personal privacy leakage.
To sum up, the brand-new ASUS fearless Pro15 2024 is further streamlined in design, but it is exquisite and fashionable, and the whole machine is lighter and more portable. The overall quality of the screen is still good, 2.8K OLED, 120Hz, which can meet all kinds of visual needs of office and creation.
hardware performance
The ASUS fearless Pro15 2024 evaluated in this paper is equipped with AMD Ruilong 7 8845H processor, Radeon 780M graphics card, 16GB LPDDR5X memory, 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD, WiFi 6E wireless network, built-in 75Wh long-life battery and 90W USB-C interface portable adapter.
*Before the following test items, the system, ASUS Butler, motherboard BIOS and other software and hardware have been upgraded to the latest version. The system power supply is set to the best performance, and the fan mode of ASUS Butler is set to full speed mode. In this mode, the performance of the whole machine can be released to the maximum, and the fan runs at full speed to ensure the stability of the whole machine.
CPU
The Ruilong 7 8845H processor on the fearless Pro15 2024 adopts TSMC 4nm FinFET technology, with 8 cores and 16 threads, 24MB of second-and third-level cache, the basic clock frequency is 3.8GHz, the maximum accelerated clock frequency is 5.1GHz, and the default thermal design power consumption is TDP 45W. In addition, AMD Radeon 780M graphics card with RDNA 3 architecture is built in. The number of GPU cores is 12, and the graphics card frequency is 2700 MHz, which is very powerful. Not only that, but its biggest highlight is the integration of AMD Ryzen AI engine. The performance of NPU can reach up to 16 TOPS, and the performance of CPU+GPU+NPU can reach up to 38 TOPS. It can easily handle local AI applications including Wen Sheng Tu, audio and video, creative design and game acceleration, which is not only more efficient, but also can extend the battery life.
First, let’s take a look at the power consumption performance of the Ruilong 7 8845H processor on the intrepid Pro15 2024 notebook. The indoor temperature is 20°C, and it is tested by the Stress FPU of AIDA64. It runs continuously for 20 minutes, with CPU package power consumption of 54W and core temperature of 84.7 C. Under high load, double heat pipes and full-speed fans provide strong heat dissipation efficiency, which can meet the needs of high-intensity games and creations.
CINEBENCH test
The results of CINEBENCH R20 test show that the single-core score is 680 pts and the multi-core score is 6257 pts；. R23 scored 1768 pts for single core and 15985 pts for multi-core. On the whole, the CINEBENCH single-core performance of Ruilong 7 8845H is equivalent to that of Core Ultra 7 155H, and the multi-core performance is about 18-20% higher than that of Core Ultra 5 125H, and the performance is quite good.
3DMark CPU Profile
In order to test the multithreading performance of CPU, 3DMark CPU Profile can be used to test the evaluation of single thread, double thread and maximum thread. The results show that the maximum thread score of Ruilong 7 8845H is 7461, and the advantage of big core and big display is still good.
7-Zip benchmark
Compression and decompression is our common operation. 7-Zip built-in benchmark test can evaluate CPU performance and give an overall score through multiple rounds of compression and decompression. 95.261 GIPS means that fearless Pro15 2024 can be competent for the compression and decompression of larger files with higher efficiency.
X264 FHD BENCHMARK
X264 FHD BenchMark is mainly used to test the video transcoding ability, and the testing process only calls CPU. The results show that the score of 67.08 fps means that Ruilong 7 8845H can be very smooth in video transcoding.
GPU
Thanks to the improvement of processor technology and frequency, as well as the excellent RDNA3 architecture, Radeon 780M has 12 CU cores, and the graphics card frequency is as high as 2700MHz. Its performance has far exceeded the significance of nuclear display. It can not only work easily, but also run some online games smoothly. Moreover, judging from the notebook computers in recent years, the powerful performance of nuclear display has basically eliminated the entry-level independent display.
First of all, let’s take a look at the theoretical runout on 3DMark.
In the 3DMark Time Spy test of 2K resolution in DX12 environment, the graphics card scored 2912 and the comprehensive score was 3259.
The 3DMark Fire Strike test with DX11 resolution of 1080p has a comprehensive score of 7890.
Night Raid is mainly used to test PCs with integrated graphics cards, with a comprehensive score of 30876.
The running score of 3DMark is comparable to that of Arc nuclear display of Core Ultra 7 155H, and the running score of some projects is even higher than Radeon 780M. In terms of running games, we chose League of Legends and CSGO to see if Radeon 780M can run smoothly.
"League of Legends" game, 2.8K resolution full screen display, medium image quality, the number of frames in 130-140 FPS, even in the scene of the match, it will not get stuck, and the OLED screen of ASUS fearless Pro15 2024, with a refresh rate of 120Hz, also helps the game a lot.
"CSGO" doesn’t have a high demand for PC hardware, so it can also run smoothly on a thin and light book like ASUS fearless Pro15 2024. Moreover, ASUS Fearless Pro15 2024 is also equipped with 2×7cc large-size and high-quality stereo speakers, as well as the blessing of Dolby Panorama and Harman Kardon, which not only has a more shocking volume, but also the details of the sound can be well expressed, such as footsteps, gunshots and communication with teammates in the game, which can be more immersed in the game.
memory
Let’s take a look at the memory and hard disk performance of the fearless Pro15 2024 notebook. This fearless Pro15 2024 evaluated in this paper is equipped with 16GB LPDDR5 onboard memory. If you have greater demand for memory performance, or want to avoid memory bottleneck in the next few years, it is recommended to purchase the model with 32GB memory version.
The memory performance test using AIDA64 shows that the reading speed is 59100 MB/s, the writing speed is 105.46 GB/s, the copy speed is 77 134 MB/s, and the delay is 103.5ns. The performance is at a high level, which can meet the needs of multitasking.
hard disc
In terms of hard disk storage, fearless Pro15 2024 is equipped with a Samsung 1TB SSD, model MZVL81T0HELB, PCIe 4.0 NVMe 2.0, which supports SMART and TRIM functions.
In terms of transmission speed, the sequential reading and writing speeds are 5061 MB/s and 3682 MB/s, respectively, and the performance is completely sufficient. The capacity of 1TB can also meet the needs of daily office, study or creation.
PCMark 10 productivity test
PCMark 10 can simulate all kinds of daily office and creative scenes, and score each detailed project, so that it can be better than this notebook computer in a certain aspect. The test results show that fearless Pro15 2024 scored 9941 for common basic functions, 8855 for productivity and 9268 for digital content creation. The comprehensive score of PCMark 10 test is 6699. In terms of productivity, Ruilong 7 8845H processor is also handy.
endurance
AMD Ruilong 7 8845H processor not only greatly improves the performance, but also greatly improves the battery life by optimizing the power management. Moreover, the built-in Ryzen AI engine can independently handle AI applications without occupying other resources, with obvious advantages in energy efficiency ratio.
ASUS fearless Pro15 2024 has built-in 75Wh long-life fast charging battery, which supports ASUS flash charging technology, and the charging cycle of long-life battery is increased by 20%. For a notebook with a 15.6-inch OLED large screen, what will be the performance of battery life? We use PCMark 10 to simulate the modern office scene for testing. The screen brightness is set to 50%, the system power supply is the most efficient, and the fan mode of ASUS Butler is set to quiet mode, which can dynamically reduce the fan speed according to the system or application, meet the demand and work more quietly.
The final result shows that 11 hours and 6 minutes of battery life, going out for mobile office, 100% full charge without worrying about battery life, can easily cope with the whole day.
AI experience
The AMD AI PC Innovation Summit has just ended in Beijing, including Lenovo, Asus and other big manufacturers, as well as ecosystem partners such as Zhizhi AI, Zhipu AI, Tongyi Qianwen, Baichuan Intelligent, Youdao, and Game Plus. Together, it also showed how AMD Ruilong 8040 series relies on 60% higher AI TOPS performance than AMD’s first generation AI PC processor, and the new experience brought by AI PC.
In order to provide AI experience on PC, AMD uses three computing engines: CPU based on Zen architecture, integrated or independent GPU based on AMD RDNA, and AI engine based on AMD XDNA, namely NPU. AMD Ryzen AI PC also includes AMD Ryzen AI software, which brings a new life experience and releases the full potential of Ryzen AI hardware. From CPU to GPU to NPU, Ryzen AI software allows users to optimize and deploy specified pre-training models on their Ryzen AI PC.
At present, there are more than 10 kinds of global and China open source LLM running on the equipment, with more than 20 parameters ranging from 2 billion to 72 billion. From daily productivity to content creation, AMD Ruilong 8040 series processors provide a higher level of performance. Take the popular Stable Diffusion platform as an example, we can see that Radeon 780M can be selected to participate in the hardware processing in the generation engine.
After inputting the prompt words, you can quickly generate high-definition pictures, and when you generate multiple pictures at one time, the average time will be shorter, so for users who want to learn and create, the experience brought by AI PC is unprecedented. Of course, the generation of AI in the cloud is even more obvious. For example, AI processing such as Tsinghua Zhipu AI and ERNIE Bot has improved the efficiency of creation.
In addition, AMD also cooperates deeply with Windows 11 system to bring more efficient and textured image quality effects through the cameras commonly used in video conferencing. For example, the studio effect, we can turn on auto-framing, so that the characters are always in the middle of the video screen.
Eye contact can track the caller’s eyes, and even if you are looking at the screen, you can always make eye contact between the two sides. The background effect provides a blurred background. When we don’t want the other party to see the environment, we can blur the background after opening it, thus avoiding embarrassment and protecting privacy.
In the clipping application, you can use AI to generate a copy, and then convert it into a video. After a little modification, you can complete the required video and publish it. Therefore, on the one hand, it is the creation of a copy, and on the other hand, it is the generation of a video, which is much simpler and more efficient than a person’s hard thinking.
The hardware test and AI experience of ASUS fearless Pro15 2024 are here. In fact, AI experience can be more. With the emergence of a large number of related applications, the current AI PC is not the same as the traditional PC, and this has just begun.
Evaluation summary
As a large-screen lightweight book, ASUS fearless Pro15 2024 uses a 15.6-inch OLED large screen, which brings a more shocking visual experience, and only has a thickness of 13.9mm and a total weight of 1.5kg, making mobile office more convenient. The overall feeling is big, but very light.
In terms of hardware performance, the Ruilong 7 8845H processor, the more powerful nuclear display and the Ryzen AI engine make office study, games and entertainment more efficient and more playable, and the prospects brought by AI are very broad, so contacting AI this morning will bring more opportunities.
