Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE is a dual-screen gaming beast with RTX 3080 GPU

Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo fifteen SE is a dual-screen gaming creature with RTX 3080 GPU

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The new Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE has a hefty price, simply that's the instance when you've got great power (groovy responsibleness non included). It's arriving not simply with the newest laptop CPU and GPU that AMD and Nvidia take to offer, only its fourteen-inch secondary screen tilts up at an bending to extend its super-precipitous (or blazing fast) screen even further.

Then, what else does this all-time laptop contender — but announced at CES 2021 — take going for it? Permit's find out.

Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE specs

Processor: AMD Ryzen nine 5900HX
GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 laptop GPU
Displays: 15.vi-inch UHD 120Hz/8ms or FHD 300Hz/3ms; ScreenPad Plus: 14.1-inch 3840 x 1100 or 1920x550
Memory: 16GB to 32GB
Storage: 512GB to 2TB SSD
Dimensions: xiv.ii x 10.six 10 0.8 inches
Weight: 5.iii pounds
Ports: 1x USB-C, 3x USB-A, HDMI ii.i, headphone jack, Ethernet port, microSD reader

Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE price and availability

The ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE starts at $ii,899 and is available for pre-order in North America, from the ASUS US Store right now.

Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE pattern

The big story hither is how the ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE has dual displays to aggrandize your ability to practise more. The new ScreenPad Plus — a 14-inch display that'due south super sharp, at 3840 x 1100 or 1920 x 550 pixels — rises upwards to a 13-degree angle to meet the bottom of the screen, and extend its space.

The console goes the full width of the chassis, and Asus suggests that the secondary screen would be ideal space for the software used for chat, streaming broadcast tools and other programs. ROG is looking to work with game devs to further involve the ScreenPad Plus, and the upcoming Dying Light 2 volition identify touchscreen controls for managing inventory and quests in this infinite, too equally co-op chats. Other partners include XSplit Gamecaster, Overwolf and FL Studio.

Yous tin can besides make custom layouts for this department, using Asus' Task Group, to easily open groups of apps.

ROG has also upgraded the heat management for the Zephyrus Duo fifteen SE, which starts with the improved airflow from the tilted ScreenPad Plus. There is also a new Arc Catamenia fan pattern, that uses reshaped blades that ROG says will "more more air more quietly." Plus, Asus is using Thermal Grizzly's liquid metal compound on its new AMD CPUs to reduce CPU temperatures by up to x degrees Celsius (vs standard thermal paste). These measures are rated to dissipate "up to 165W of combined processor power."

Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE display

The Zephyrus Duo 15 SE is giving gamers two options for the main display. More casual gamers can get a 4K/120Hz panel, while the esports crowd can opt for a 1080p display with a super-fast 300Hz refresh rate. Both panels pack Adaptive-Sync technology to reduce lag and match the refresh rate of the screen with the frame-rate of the GPU. The 4K console is rated to cover the full Adobe RGB broad-gamut color space.

Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE perfomance

This is gonna exist a beast. The Zephyrus Duo fifteen SE packs an GeForce RTX 3080 laptop GPU, and Asus claims its cooling and ROG Boost technology volition permit that GPU to run at up to 1645 MHz at 115W. That GPU uses the new Nvidia Ampere architecture, which offers improvements to CUDA cores for programmable shading, also as upgraded RT cores for ray tracing and Tensor cores for AI. There are also a defended 16GB of VRAM for but the GPU.

On acme of that, you've got the latest from AMD, the Ryzen 9 5900HX mobile processor. It'due south got 8 cores and xvi threads, and uses the company's latest Zen 3 architecture and a larger on-chip cache (of upwardly to 20MB).

Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE outlook

Asus Rog Zephyrus Duo 15 SE back — (Image credit: Asus)

The ROG Zephyrus Duo xv SE truly looks to put the Special in Special Edition. With a ton of graphics power, a truly unique secondary screen design that extends your screen and a lot of cooling to keep everything running properly, this looks like it volition be the wildest gaming laptop y'all can get your hands on.

And at $2,899, it should exist. We look forrad to putting it through its paces, especially to see how useful the ScreenPad Plus is in actual usage.

Henry is a senior editor at Tom's Guide roofing streaming media, laptops and all things Apple, reviewing devices and services for the by six-plus years. Prior to joining Tom'southward Guide, he reviewed software and hardware for TechRadar Pro, and interviewed artists for Patek Philippe International Magazine. He'southward also covered the wild world of professional wrestling for Cageside Seats, interviewing athletes and other manufacture veterans.