Computex’s new laptops from ASUS, Razer and extra

In case you’ve been holding out for the most recent 2025 PC fashions and graphics card loadouts, Computex is often when it’s a must to verify your financial institution steadiness. The PC-centric tech present in Taiwan has kicked off with a barrage of recent laptops from the likes of Razer, ASUS and Acer.

ASUS has revealed the brand new ROG Zephyrus G14, with a 14-inch (in fact) display at 3K decision, a refresh charge of 120Hz, 500 nits of peak brightness and Dolby Imaginative and prescient assist. The G14 could be outfitted with as much as an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor with 12 cores and 24 threads and an AMD XDNA NPU with as much as 50 TOPS. The graphics card maxes out with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, whereas RAM choices go as much as 64GB and on-board storage as much as 2TB.

In the meantime, Razer’s new Blade 14 laptops will arrive with RTX 5000 sequence playing cards, whereas nonetheless remaining skinny, skinny, skinny. These NVIDIA playing cards can faucet into the corporate’s DLSS 4 tech to supply “the very best high quality gaming expertise doable in a 14-inch” laptop computer, in keeping with Razer. The laptops have AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 processors that may obtain as much as 50 TOPS. And should you’re feeling much more lavish, there’s additionally the larger Blade 18, which you’ll be able to load out with the RTX 5090. After which there’s Acer, which is doing one thing particular with thermal interface materials.

— Mat Smith

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