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Asus ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition and Asus ROG Strix G17 Advantage Edition gaming laptops have been announced soon after AMD introduced its latest generation of Radeon mobile graphics at Computex 2021. The new gaming laptops come with AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX CPU and the newly announced Radeon RX 6800M GPU. This makes Asus ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition and Asus ROG Strix G17 Advantage Edition the first two gaming laptops to offer AMD’s highest-end mobile CPU and highest-end mobile GPU in one build.

Asus ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition and Asus ROG Strix G17 Advantage Edition pricing and sale date have not been announced yet. The company says that Asus ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition will be made available sometime soon whereas Asus ROG Strix G17 Advantage Edition will hit shelves sometime in the third quarter of this year.

Asus ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition, Asus ROG Strix G17 Advantage Edition specifications

Both Asus ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition and Asus ROG Strix G17 Advantage Edition gaming laptops come with 15.6-inch and 17.3-inch displays and have up to 300Hz refresh rate and 3ms response time. Both displays will also feature support for AMD FreeSync Premium technology. The two laptops pack 90Whr battery each and claim to offer up to 11.4 hours of video playback. Additionally, the laptops come with fast charging support with up to 50 percent charge in 30 minutes.

The two laptops come with AMD SmartShift to automatically adjust load on CPU and GPU and this new tech is said to boost performance by up to 15 percent. AMD Ryzen 9 59000 HX octa-core CPU powers both the laptops and the new Radeon RX 6800M GPU, that is based on their new RDNA 2 architecture., is also integrated. The laptops pack up to 32GB RAM and up to 1TB SSD. Ports include 3.5mm audio jack, HDMI 2.0, three USB Type-A slots, one USB Type-C port, and one RJ45 LAN port. Connectivity options include Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth v5.1. Asus ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition and Asus ROG Strix G17 Advantage Edition have two 4W speakers each with Smart Amp Technology, AI mic noise-cancelling and inbuilt array microphone.


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