ASUS Zenbook S 16 (UM5606)
ASUS Zenbook S 16 (UM5606) - Specs
- HDD/SSD
- up to 8000GB SSD
- M.2 Slot
- 1x 2280 M.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 x4 See photo
- RAM
- up to 32GB
- OS
- Windows 11 Home, Windows 11 Pro, Windows 11
- Battery
- 78Wh
- Body material
- Aluminum
- Dimensions
- 353.6 x 243 x 11.9 ~ 12.9 mm (13.92" x 9.57" x 0.47")
- Weight
- 1.50 kg (3.3 lbs)
- Ports and connectivity
- 1x USB Type-A
- 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps)
- 2x USB Type-C
- 4.0, Power Delivery (PD), DisplayPort
- HDMI
- 2.1
- Card reader
- SD (SD, SDHC, SDXC)
- Ethernet LAN
- Wi-Fi
- 802.11be
- Bluetooth
- 5.4
- Audio jack
- 3.5mm Combo Jack
- Features
- Fingerprint reader
- optional
- Web camera
- FHD IR with Windows Hello
- Backlit keyboard
- optional
- Microphone
- Array Microphone
- Speakers
- Stereo Speakers, Smart Amp Technology, harman/kardon
- Optical drive
- Security Lock slot
All ASUS Zenbook S 16 (UM5606) configurations
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Office Work should be used mostly by users who spend most of the time looking at pieces of text, tables or just surfing. This profile aims to deliver better distinctness and clarity by keeping a flat gamma curve (2.20), native color temperature and perceptually accurate colors.
Design and Gaming
This profile is aimed at designers who work with colors professionally, and for games and movies as well. Design and Gaming takes display panels to their limits, making them as accurate as possible in the sRGB IEC61966-2-1 standard for Web and HDTV, at white point D65.
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CPU performance
Here you can find the price/performance difference between all the CPUs that come in the ASUS Zenbook S 16 (UM5606) series.
Here, we evaluate the CPU's performance using a real-world 3D rendering task, assessing its ability to handle complex computations and rendering workloads efficiently.
Results are from the Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core test (higher is better)
GPU performance
Here you can find the price/performance difference between all the GPUs that come in the ASUS Zenbook S 16 (UM5606) series.
The results are from 3DMark Time Spy (Graphics). Higher is better.
ASUS Zenbook S 16 (UM5606) in-depth review
The first Zen 5 laptops are already on the market. The Zenbook S 16 (UM5606) is one of the first new-age ASUS AI PC with an ultraportable design. This fella is based on the AMD Strix Point chips. The top-tier laptops are offered with the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 which boasts four Performance Zen 5 cores and eight smaller Zen 5c cores alongside 24 threads and a mighty RDNA 3.5-based Radeon 890M iGPU with 16 compute units. The latter makes this super thin laptop into an entry-level gaming machine. You can even play some of the AAA titles on Low or Medium details. The more affordable notebooks are paire[...]
Pros
- Great OLED display with 100% sRGB and DCI-P3 coverage (SDC41AF)
- Infinite contrast ratio, 120Hz refresh rate, and 2880 x 1800 resolution (SDC41AF)
- 588 nits in HDR and 378 nits max brightness in SDR mode (SDC41AF)
- Tremendous color accuracy (SDC41AF)
- Good audio setup
- "OLED Flicker-Free Dimming" mode in MyASUS software
- Comfortable well-illuminated keyboard
- Huge smooth touchpad
- 1080p IR Web camera
- Very good overall CPU and iGPU performance given the thin profile
- The fans are noisy even in "Full-speed mode" mode during full loads
- Up to 32GB of soldered LPDDR5x
- Long battery life
- The Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 can maintain 28W plus ~2.70 GHz / 1.80 GHz for the P and E cores
- Great solid premium build quality
- 2x USB4 ports + Type-C charging
Cons
- PWM usage without the "Flicker-Free Dimming" mode (SDC41AF)
- Only one M.2 slot + soldered RAM
- High price
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