For creators, not gamers

ASUS ROG Strix GL702ZC

The ASUS ROG Strix GL702ZC is a laptop made for AMD fans. It features a Ryzen 7 1700 desktop chip, which is an 8-core/16-thread part with a base clock of 3.0GHz and maximum turbo core speed of 3.7GHz. The clock speeds aren’t anything to shout about, but an 8-core CPU on a laptop is something you don’t see every day.

Even the overclockable Intel Core i7-7820HK is just a 4-core/8-thread chip, so the Ryzen 7 1700 affords considerable oomph in the multi-tasking department and would be great mobile tool for creatives. It is however, a questionable choice for gamers, as it does trail laptops equipped with the usual Intel and NVIDIA equivalents.

For our con guration tion of an AMD Radeon RX 580 4GB, the ROG Strix GL702ZC goes up mainly against the pairing of the Intel Core i7-7700HQ (2.8GHz, 6MB L3 cache) and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB. Laptops with the latter con guration already retail for cheaper. For instance, the Dell