Asus’ new ROG Zephyrus laptops feature OLED displays and a sleek light strip

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By Antonio G. Di Benedetto, a writer covering tech deals and The Verge’s Deals newsletter, buying guides, and gift guides. Previously, he spent 15 years in the photography industry.

Asus’ ROG Zephyrus have been some of our most recommended gaming laptops for years — and now, for CES 2024, the Zephyrus G14 and G16 are getting thinner, faster, and even more versatile for non-gaming tasks. I’ve been testing them out for a couple of weeks, and so far, it seems like a winning update.

For 2024, Asus is redesigning the G14 and G16 with new aluminum builds, a smaller and sleeker hinge that doesn’t elevate the deck, 16:10 OLED screens (2880 x 1800 / 120Hz for the G14 and 2560 x 1600 / 240Hz for the G16), larger trackpads and keyboards, a new fast-charging port with reversible plug (separate from their USB-C charging), new six-speaker audio setups (even in the smaller 14-inch), new chips ranging from AMD’s Ryzen 8000 series in the G14 to Intel’s Meteor Lake in the G16, up to 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a very sleek strip of customizable white lighting on their lids.

What isn’t new for the Zephyrus G14 and G16 are their GPUs, which are still using last year’s class of Nvidia discrete graphics cards. The G14 can be configured with up to an RTX 4070, while the G16 goes up to the 4090. That’s totally fine, as I’m sure we’ll be waiting a while for laptops with Nvidia’s 40-series Super GPUs, and the quality-of-life benefits of the Zephyrus redesign far outweigh most year-over-year chip improvements. The 40-series cards in both laptops support DLSS 3.5, Frame Generation, and Ray Reconstruction.

I’ve had the chance to spend some time with early preview models of both the ROG Zephyrus G14 and Zephyrus G16 (both of which were configured at or