Promo €1499 Asus TUF Gaming A16 FA608UP, 16″ 165Hz creative gaming laptop PC under Blackwell GeForce RTX 5070 and AMD Ryzen 7 260, comfortable with recent games

Our opinion on this Asus TUF Gaming A16 FA608UP

Comfortable for playing recent games, the creative gaming laptop Asus TUF Gaming A16 FA608UP take advantage of the latest generation GeForce RTX 5070 ray tracing high-end NVIDIA Blackwell graphics card which accelerates multimedia processing. This is also the case with the recent AMD Ryzen 7 260 Hawk Point Refresh processor and the 16 GB of efficient RAM as well as the fast 512 GB SSD storage. Responsive, this versatile dark Windows 11 laptop geared towards gamers and creatives adopts a 16-inch IPS Full HD anti-glare screen whose frequency of 165 Hz provides beautiful fluidity, a backlit keyboard, an Infrared webcam for biometric facial authentication as well as Wi-Fi connectivity 6E, Ethernet and fast dual USB-C.

Characteristics of this Asus TUF Gaming A16 FA608UP

This Asus TUF Gaming A16 FA608UP faces the competition

This Asus TUF Gaming A16 FA608UP is currently displayed in promotion at the house of Darty and the Fnac. It is positioned in the good average in its category where it is one of the only to offer a graphics card as powerful and recent as the processor, but encounters cheaper competitors.

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Chassis, connections, screen of this Asus TUF Gaming A16 FA608UP

Certified to the American military resistance standard MIL-STD-810H, this versatile gamer and creator-oriented laptop computer cooled by 2 2nd generation Arc Flow fans (double propeller 84 blades + 42 blades), heat pipes and ventilation grilles is adorned with a gamer look with its dark angular Jaeger Gray design.

This creative gaming laptop PC has good connectivity including Ethernet and audio ports, Bluetooth 5.3 and Wi-Fi 6E ax wireless modules to communicate and connect remotely, a practical HDMI video output to easily connect it to a TV or a monitor for example as well as 5 USB including 2 USB-C including a very fast 1 USB 4 Type-C thanks to which you can connect peripherals such as a mouse, a gamepad, a headset, external storage or a printer.

Biometric facial authentication is possible via infrared webcam technology and Windows Hello.

The chiclet keyboard – which supports 20 million keystrokes – obviously has a backlighting solution, practical to activate whenever you want to better discern the keys.

The Full HD screen has a refresh rate of 165Hz higher than the standard 60Hz and thus provides much greater fluidity in everyday life, including in games.
Equipped with significant viewing angles both horizontally and vertically thanks to its IPS technology, the Full HD screen adopts a 16:10 format displaying more information vertically than the classic 16:9 screen.
Anti-reflective treated, the screen also offers better visibility than a shiny panel in a bright environment (e.g. near a window).
High Definition fans, however, will be disappointed.

Performance, autonomy of this Asus TUF Gaming A16 FA608UP

This Asus TUF Gaming A16 FA608UP is a powerful versatile laptop PC for gaming and creating equipped with recent components.

Gamers will be delighted to be able to play recent games on this gaming laptop.
In fact, it features the latest generation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 ray tracing dedicated high-end graphics card. Blackwell.
Here the Full HD definition proves to be an advantage since it ensures a higher number of fps than High Definition (eg: 2.5K) because it requires fewer calculations to play.

If gamers will be delighted with the performance of the GeForce RTX 5070, they will also be creative since this graphics card accelerates multimedia processing in areas taking advantage of GPU computing power, such as the Adobe suite, Vegas or VSDC.

In practice, the GeForce RTX 5070 is used by NVIDIA Optimus technology to carry out graphics processing deemed too heavy for the Radeon 780M graphics solution integrated into the processor.

Whether with the Radeon 780M or the GeForce RTX 5070, watching HD photos and videos (including streaming) is obviously possible.
Despite its much lower performance, the energy-efficient Radeon 780M, whose performance is significantly lower, is favored wherever possible by Optimus to ensure the best possible autonomy.
In this regard, expect around 6 hours of battery operation in light use.

In any case, Optimus is responsible for automatically switching in real time between the Radeon 780M and the GeForce RTX 5070, activating the latter when it comes to executing tasks that are too demanding for the Radeon 780M, typically for gaming.

The Radeon 780M takes place in the Ryzen 7 260, an AMD processor with 8 cores adopting the old architecture Hawk Point Refresh.
The Ryzen 7 260 deploys its potential in work requiring CPU resources using multi-cores, such as 3D rendering, photo editing or video editing.

Associated with 16 GB of RAM, the Ryzen 7 260 delivers solid general performance which will delight a maximum of users, especially as the fluidity and responsiveness are present under this versatile laptop.

And the silent SSD, which consumes little energy and is very fast, contributes to this for game/software launches which are carried out quickly, like multimedia processing, starts/stops or even arrival on online game cards.

And in terms of capacity? Asus opts here for a standard solution, namely a 512 GB SSD capable of housing a lot of games, software and files.
But this space may disappoint some: if necessary, you can insert a second SSD in the available M.2 slot. Or connect an external storage device, such as a USB-C/USB 3.2 device or, failing that, USB 3.0 to maximize transfer speed.

Finally, expect this versatile multimedia gaming laptop to heat up and make itself heard when pushed hard (e.g. games, processing).
To contain its temperatures, we can add a ventilated support (remember to check the dimensions carefully!).