<\/span><\/h2>\nThe G16 with RTX 4050, 4060, or 4070 has 3 fans inside now, up from last year\u2019s 2, but one of those fans is where the single memory slot used to be. There are heat pipes shared between the CPU and GPU with thermal grizzly liquid metal on the CPU and paste on the GPU. The higher tier RTX 4080 or 4090 versions only have 2 fans but use a vapor chamber cooler instead.<\/p>\n
There are holes directly above the air intake fans, and air comes in through the keyboard too. Air only gets exhausted out of the back, and you can\u2019t even see the vents because they\u2019re actually on the bottom with the rear rubber foot blocking hot air from coming straight back in. This new design means hot air doesn\u2019t blast the screen like before, and with no side exhausts this year, it also means no hot air blowing on your mouse hand.<\/p>\n
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ASUS\u2019s Armoury Crate software allows us to change between different performance modes, which from lowest to highest are silent, performance, turbo, and manual. Both turbo and manual modes apply this overclock to the GPU, but only manual mode lets you customize it. Manual mode also lets you customize CPU and GPU power limits, temperature limits, and gives you some control over the fan curves for all three fans. Whenever we\u2019ve tested manual mode, all power and temp sliders were maxed out with fans on 100% speed for best results.<\/p>\n
The internal temperatures were fine at idle. The rest of the results are from combined CPU and GPU stress tests, which aim to represent a worst-case full load scenario. Closing the lid was a couple of degrees warmer as air goes through the keyboard, and the cooling pad I test with was able to lower temperatures significantly\u20149 degrees lower on the CPU and 7 degrees cooler on the GPU. You can get a similar temperature reduction by setting the fans to max speed instead, but as you\u2019ll hear soon, that\u2019s also louder.<\/p>\n
CPU clock speeds were exactly the same in performance, turbo, and manual modes.<\/p>\n
The lower temperatures in manual mode with max fans allowed the GPU clock speeds to run higher compared to turbo mode, though. In a GPU-only stress test, the 4070 would sit around the 100-watt power limit of this laptop, but games were typically running lower at around 85 to 90 watts. The 4070 would run cooler than the CPU in combined stress tests.<\/p>\n
The control panel allows you to toggle a feature that disables the integrated graphics, otherwise known as advanced Optimus, which offers a speed boost in games at the expense of lower battery life. This feature was disabled for the best performance possible, and the 240Hz OLED screen only works when the Nvidia graphics are being used. There\u2019s no mux switch in Armory Crate, so you\u2019ve got to toggle this option through Nvidia\u2019s control panel, but we found a helpful tip to force this toggle to appear on our Discord server.<\/p>\n
The 16-inch model from MSI was around 3 FPS behind the G16 in this test, and although the Blade 14 was 2 FPS ahead of the G16, both are within margin of error range, so essentially these three are performing the same with the same specs. The G16 was right on the average of all RTX 4070 laptops I\u2019ve tested with this game so far. Some of the thinner 14-inch models were performing worse, but the G16 was performing better compared to Alienware\u2019s M16 R2, which was struggling as the same CPU and GPU combination.<\/p>\n