ASUS TUF FX505DV Laptop Review

3DMark Firestrike

Before we start reeling off both our synthetic and gaming benchmarks, there is an important point that we feel needs to be highlighted. Although the ASUS TUF Gaming Alliance FX505DV might sound impressive with its Ryzen processor and Nvidia graphics card, relatively speaking this is not a high-end model. This laptop represents something of a cost-effective gaming solution and, as such, fantastic top-end results should not be expected.

So, now that we have that out of the way! Starting with the 3DMark FireStrike performance, the FX505DV finds itself sat nicely in the middle of our benchmarks with a solid and respectable 12,559.

Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme

While the Nvidia 2060 may be on the bottom rung in terms of the 20XX series, that still doesn’t mean that in terms of performance it’s not an impressive card!

As you can see below, it finds itself largely sat amongst (and above) systems with Nvidia 1070 cards (and some of those are of the desktop variety). It clearly highlights that Nvidia has still maintained a fair bit of grunt from this ‘mobile’ version of their GPU.

PCMark 10

I’m not going to lie, I appreciate that AMD might be (relatively speaking) new to the world of laptop processors, but the PCMark 10 benchmark is a pretty strong indication of how far they have to go (again, in terms of laptops) to match Intel’s 8th and 9th generation releases.

Admittedly, the results are on the lower end of our list, but there are some factors to consider. Usually, a laptop will come with an amazingly beefy processor and a poor graphics solution. The FX505DV has looked to provide a cost-friendly option that attempts (with more than a little success) to marry those features together.

We do, however, suspect that based on our experience in testing, this benchmark just wasn’t the best example for this processor. Something tells me that this should have scored higher and, for reasons unclear, just didn’t.

WPrime 32m and 1024m

The WPrime results do seem to confirm our feeling in regards to PCMark 10 as you see it much higher on the list in a comparatively similar CPU test. This is far more like the performance we expected from this processor.

Cinebench R15

Again, the Cinebench R15 results show that this little processor can still pack a decent punch. Although the single-core performance was a little under par, multi-core was more than acceptable if, indeed, impressive.

Handbrake MP4 to MKV Conversion 4K

When it comes to video rendering, more often than not laptops lack the overall physical grunt to provide any mind-blowing results. You will note for example that our top 6 results all came from desktop (and particularly high-spec ones at that) builds.

Despite this, however, the ASUS TUF Gaming FX505DV still managed to pull off a respectable 28.3FPS in 4K conversion which isn’t too shabby!