Our opinion on the Asus TUF Gaming A16 Advantage Edition TUF617NSR-N3003
Supplied without Windows, the creative gaming laptop PC Asus TUF Gaming A16 Advantage Edition TUF617NSR-N3003 discreet black is suitable for gaming thanks to its AMD Radeon RX 7600S RDNA 3 ray tracing graphics card which accelerates multimedia processing like the 16 GB of RAM and the powerful AMD Ryzen 7 7435HS Octo Core Rembrandt Refresh processor. But also fast 512 GB SSD storage which reinforces its responsiveness. Equipped with a 16-inch Full HD anti-glare IPS screen with more faithful sRGB colors and a frequency of 165Hz which improves fluidity in games, this versatile black laptop designed for gaming and creating is also equipped with a backlit keyboard and connectivity with USB 4, USB-C and Wi-Fi 6.
Features of the Asus TUF Gaming A16 Advantage Edition TUF617NSR-N3003
| Screen(s) | 16 » Full HD LED IPS 165Hz 100% sRGB 16/10ème 250cd/m² 1000:1 (1920×1200, antireflet/mat) |
| Processor | AMD Ryzen 7 7435HS Rembrandt Refresh (8 cœurs, 3.1 GHz, 35W) |
| Installed RAM (max) | 16 Go (2 x 8 Go) DDR5 4800 MHz (64 Go), 2 slots (occupés) |
| Graphic card | AMD RDNA 2 Radeon RX 7600S 8 GDDR6 dédiés (95W) |
| Storage | SSD M.2 de 512 Go (NVMe PCIe 4.0 x4, 2230) + 1 emplacement M.2 libre |
| Connections | 2 USB 3.2 (Gen1) + 1 USB 3.2 Type-C (Gen2) + 1 USB 4 Type-C, HDMI 2.1 |
| Network | Wi-Fi 6 ax (2×2), Bluetooth 5.3 + Ethernet Gigabit |
| Backlit Keyboard | Yes, 1-zone RGB |
| Numeric keypad | Oui |
| Windows Hello | – |
| Audio system | 2 speakers (2 x 2W) Dolby Atmos |
| Operating system | – |
| Announced autonomy / Battery | 4 hours / Li-Ion 4 cells 90Whr |
| Poids / Dimensions (mm) | 2.2 Kg / 355 x 252 x 22.1-26.8 |
The Asus TUF Gaming A16 Advantage Edition TUF617NSR-N3003 faces the competition
The Asus TUF Gaming A16 Advantage Edition TUF617NSR-N3003 is currently on sale at Cdiscount and offers an attractive equipment/price ratio for its category where it is one of the least expensive to offer such significant autonomy with a processor and an equally high-performance graphics card (and all AMD) with a screen ensuring such a high frequency, while offering the choice of operating system.
If this Asus TUF Gaming A16 Advantage Edition TUF617NSR-N3003 does not meet all your criteria, you will find other configurations for gaming with a similar budget in our gaming laptop guide. For the same budget, choose the model with the most powerful graphics card, it will have the greatest impact on performance.
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Chassis, connections, screen of the Asus TUF Gaming A16 Advantage Edition TUF617NSR-N3003
This versatile laptop, rechargeable to 50% in 30 minutes, cooled by 2 Arc Flow fans (84 blades), 6 heat pipes and 4 air vents, has a discreet gamer look with its Off Black black design with angular lines certified to the robustness standard American military MIL-STD-810H.
To exploit its full capabilities it is necessary to install a complete operating system such as a Linux or Windows distribution.
In terms of connectivity, this creative gaming laptop PC is well equipped with its 2 USB-C including 1 USB 4, its Bluetooth 5.3 and Wi-Fi 6 axis wireless modules for communicating and connecting remotely, its appreciable HDMI video output for easily connect it to a TV or a monitor for example, its Ethernet and audio ports without forgetting its 2 USB 3.0 (USB 2.0 compatible) ensuring transfers taking place up to 5 times faster than USB 2.0 if you plug in USB 3.0 devices.
When you need to better distinguish the chiclet keyboard, simply activate the backlighting of its keys.
The screen will delight gamers with its refresh rate of 165Hz, higher than the standard 60Hz, which clearly improves overall fluidity, including in games.
As it promises to be IPS sRGB, the screen also benefits from significant vertical and horizontal viewing angles as well as above-average colorimetric accuracy.
The Full HD screen has a 16:9 format suitable for video playback as well as an anti-reflective coating making it more readable than a shiny panel in a bright environment (eg outdoors).
Performances, autonomie de l’Asus TUF Gaming A16 Advantage Edition TUF617NSR-N3003
The Asus TUF Gaming A16 Advantage Edition TUF617NSR-N3003 is aimed at those looking for a versatile 16-inch laptop PC that performs well in gaming and creation offering the choice of operating system.
It runs on 16 GB of RAM coupled with an AMD Ryzen 7 7435HS Rembrandt Refresh processor, an Octo Core which has the particularity of not having an integrated graphics solution.
Consequently, all graphics services are entrusted to the care of the dedicated Radeon RX 7600S graphics card.
If the editions with integrated graphics module offer a good autonomy of 10 hours, interesting in particular for those who wish to have a student laptop PC, this specific model being without it we must expect a much less autonomy, of the order 4 hours in light use.
Still, the solid general performance provided by this gaming laptop PC will delight as many users as possible.
The core provides faster processing than 8 GB DDR4/5 as well as a Quad/Hexa Core, particularly in areas requiring RAM and CPU resources using multi-core, such as photo editing or video editing.
Especially since the dedicated AMD RDNA 2 Radeon RX 7600S graphics card provides graphics acceleration of processing under applications taking advantage of GPU computing power, such as the Adobe or Vegas suite. However, the acceleration is less than with an equivalent NVIDIA GPU.
In any case, thanks to the Radeon RX 7600S ray tracing, you can play recent games as long as you agree to a few settings under the most resource-intensive 3D games to obtain good playability.
You can install a lot of software and files on the integrated 512 GB SSD storage.
Good point, however, if the space proves insufficient, it can be extended by directly integrating a second SSD via the available M.2 slot. Or using an external storage module. To obtain fast transfers, we will favor a USB 3.0/USB-C device.
In any case, an SSD is more advantageous than a hard drive on several points, such as its greater robustness, its silent operation, its lower energy consumption but also its greater speed.
Starting/stopping, launching games/software, performing multimedia processing or even accessing online game cards is, for example, faster with an SSD than with a hard drive.
Generally speaking, responsiveness and fluidity are significantly better than when used with an SSD.
As for heating and noise, they are present in the event of heavy loads (eg: games, treatments) of this versatile creative gaming laptop PC heats up and is heard.
We can add a ventilated support to limit its temperatures (remember to check the dimensions carefully!).
