[Specs and Info] ASUS Zenbook Pro 14 OLED (UX6404) – How will it sustain these components?
The ASUS Zenbook Pro 14 OLED (UX6404) is a new Gen 1 product, offering a potable and well-built 14-inch chassis with a matching OLED panel and enough power from a Core i9 CPU and a dedicated RTX GPU to be the ultimate small Creator laptop. Stay tuned to see its most important features and how it will manage to keep these powerful components’ temps in check.
Today we’re giving you a quick overview of the ASUS Zenbook Pro 14 OLED (UX6404).
ASUS Zenbook Pro 14 OLED (UX6404): Full Specs
Design
The Zenbook offers a very premium, elegant chassis, fully made out of metal and with a sleek black finish. The back has a glossy ASUS logo, along with chamfered edges and rounded corners all around the laptop. The back and sides house a lot of vents, so ASUS definitely thought about ways to cool down the little beast.
On the base, we find a smaller keyboard without a NumPad, as well as an ASUS DialPad, which feels just like a regular dial, giving you more flexibility when working in many Creator apps. In terms of dimensions, the laptop weighs only 1.65 kg and has a profile of 17.9 mm.
Display
We have a 14.5-inch 2.8K display with a 16:10 aspect ratio, a 120Hz refresh rate, and an OLED panel. It goes as bright as 400 nits in standard mode and up to 550 nits in HDR mode. With 100% DCI-P3 coverage and PANTONE validation, the display is ready to tackle any Creator task. The display does come with a MUX switch, allowing you to switch between integrated and discrete graphics, which is great for gaming performance. While not a gaming laptop, it has the power to be one, so it’s good that ASUS gives you the option to squeeze as much frames out of the GPU as possible after you’re done with your work.
Specifications and features
There’s only one hardware configuration to choose from, with a Core i9-13900H and an RTX 4070. Needless to say that it will be hard to keep these cool and quiet, however, ASUS is betting on being able to with its IceCool Pro setup, offering two fans and five heat pipes. To help the setup, the CPU and GPU have a combined max TDP of 105 watts, of which 45W goes to the CPU, and the rest 60W is left for the GPU. With the supposed efficiency improvements of the 40-series graphics, we hope to see higher clock speeds at lower wattages, so we get better performance. If you feel up to it, you can set up custom fan profiles and really get into it when controlling fan noise and thermals.
The connectivity of the laptop is good, with one USB Type-A 3.2 (Gen. 2) port, one Type-C 3.2 (Gen. 2) port, one Thunderbolt 4 port, an HDMI 2.1 port, an SD card reader, and a 3.5 mm audio jack.