Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Firestrike
With the ASUS ROG GL703G being powered by an 8th-generation i7 and a Nvidia 1070, we expected big things in terms of a combined scoring of CPU and GPU performance. As the chart below shows, our expectations were not misplaced. Falling only slightly short of the truly excellent ASUS Zephyrus this laptop gives an exceptionally impressive score and also represents the 5th highest result we have tested to date.
Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme
Unigine scores find it calling in that close partnership that systems with Nvidia 1070’s have. While the results are towards to the lower end, you can clearly see the ground that has developed. As such, it not only confirms that the Nvidia 1070 is an excellent GPU, but also that results across various products rarely vary much for any point of note.
PCMark 10
In terms of pure processing power, the more I see of the 8th-generation intel processors the more impressed I am. The ASUS ROG Gl703G gave an excellent score in the PCMark testing with it being the 2nd highest ever result we have recorded. At least in this category of testing. The CPU Intel® Core™ i7-8750H Processor is clearly a top performer.
WPrime 32M and 1024M
In terms of the WPrime testing, we are again treated to some exceptional performance figures. The ASUS ROG GL703G gave the 4th best overall results we have seen. For a test that specifically targets single and multi-thread speeds, again the Intel processor impresses.
Cinebench R15
Confirming the results seen in the WPrime testing, the Cinebench results again finds the ASUS ROG Gl703G giving the 4th best results ever recorded. Since this specifically tests cores we find particularly note that the multicore results are so high.
Handbrake MP4 to MKV Conversion 4K
We have often made the point that it’s unlikely that you would buy a laptop with the specific purpose of video rendering. With the growing community of streamers and video content providers though, it is, if nothing else, a happy bonus if a laptop can perform well. Rendering video in our conversion test at 35 frames per second, the ASUS ROG GL703G proved to be more than capable and actually quite impressive.
Great review, some people are complain on BSOD.
For £2,000+ in 2018, where is the Thunderbolt 3??
I bought mine from PCWorld/Currys online, price £1870. Mine did not include any gaming headset, gaming mouse, or backpack though, just a cloth bag/covering. (which I`d hardly describe as “High Quality” as this review does, its literally just a thin black cloth bag. 😉
The machine is fast, but boy oh boy, did it have a load of junkware installed… (all removed now).
There was also an issue with the RGB keyboard driver/app freezing which needed a visit to ASUS support to obtain the drivers for re-install. (their website wasn`t compatible with firefox so I could not see any download links). Performance is stellar so far, & the 144Hz display is very nice.
I bought mine ( GL703G ) from iBuyPower. I swapped out the 1tb Hdd for a Samsung 2tb 960 EVO SSD. I also Opted for the 16gb of GSkill Ripjaws RAM as that is what I use in my Desktop build. I am having second thoughts about not going for a larger M.2 Drive. Thinking I should have opted for a 1tb M.2. Total cost was $2273 USD. My Desktop build is running the i7 6700k Skylake processor and has been upgraded to a GTX 1080 GPU. When I started up the lap top, I got it set up, then proceeded to Install Steam and GoG. I installed a few games and checked them out as was totally blown away with the graphics display. My monitor on the desktop is only 1680×1050. There is a big difference between that and 1920×1080. I have since gotten a new monitor. It came with Windows 10 Home installed and I was surprised to find that the reinstallation Disk was for Windows 10 Pro. Granted there is NO Optical drive, but went and got an External Optical drive. I don’t use the touch pad on those things as I prefer a Mouse. I also bought a bag for it and whatever other accessories I have for it, so good to go. I am very happy with it. It is also good for when I do a complete Wipe and reinstall on this Desktop. I do have one with an Intel i3 that does pretty well when I am working on this desktop, but now I am giving up nothing in the interim. I do not like the GUI of Windows 10, but just install Classic Shell and take care of that.