ASUS Zephyrus Max Q Gaming Notebook Review

Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Firestrike

By far, this is the fastest laptop we’ve ever benchmarked in 3DMark. It’s just behind the full GTX 1070 of a desktop system, but that system does have a more powerful watercooled CPU, so for a laptop, this is an incredible score.

Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme

When it comes to the more GPU bounch Unigine, the Zephyrus is really showing some exceptional performance, with a score of 3464!

PCMark 10

Interestingly, the score here didn’t fair as well as I had expected. Don’t be mistaken though, this is a good score, it’s just not as high as I would have expected.

WPrime 32M and 1024M

The same for the WPrime times, not quite as sharp as I would have hoped. Interestingly, I think the Max Q design may have something to do with it, as the system isn’t clocked as high to keep noise and temperatures in check. It works great though, through these benchmarks the system has been barely making a noise.

Cinebench R15

The Cinebench score was superb, unleashing what we know the 7700 HQ is capable of.

Handbrake MP4 to MKV Conversion 4K

The same while transcoding 4K video, not that we expect many to use a laptop for such a task, but it’s clearly no slouch when it needs to do some heavy lifting.