ASUS TUF Gaming FA506IC 15.6 Inch Full HD 144 Hz Gaming Laptop (AMD Ryzen 5, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050, 8 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD, RGB Keyboard, Windows 11)

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No matter your setup, the TUF Gaming A15 will keep you connected. A dedicated HDMI 2.0b port is supplemented by a USB Type-C with DisplayPort support. Fast and reliable WiFi 6 (802.11ax) ensures that you’ll be able to get online and be productive wherever compatible connections are available, or you can wire up directly with gigabit Ethernet on-board. As we mentioned at the outset of this review, what made us particularly excited about the Asus TUF A15 is its choice of components, which includes some of the latest hardware from both AMD and Nvidia.

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Ray Tracing is the holy grail of graphics. It simulates how light behaves in the real-world to produce the most realistic and immersive graphics for gamers and creators – and runs fast thanks to 2nd gen RT Cores. inch, FHD (1920 x 1080) 16:9, Value IPS-level, Anti-glare display, sRGB:62.5%, Adobe:47.3%, Refresh Rate:60Hz, Optimus Display:15.6-inch, FHD (1920 x 1080) 16:9, IPS-level, Anti-glare display, sRGB:100.00%, Adobe:75.35%, Refresh Rate:240Hz, Adaptive-Sync, Optimus; Of course, AMD’s Ryzen 4000 H hardware is a major step-up from the Ryzen 3000 H in the previous generation, with an impact on both performance and efficiency, as you’ll see down below. However, the FA506 generation also improves on exterior design and ergonomics, as well as adds features and configuration options not available before on TUFs, while remaining competitively priced.As you can see from our benchmarks, the graphically-demanding Metro Exodus runs at 45fps (frames per second) at Ultra. With a bit of tweaking, you’ll get it to play over the magic 60fps mark, while still looking great.

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It is possible to move the SSD to the other M.2 slot and boot from there, which helps the SSD run cooler. I’m not seeing a significant increase in our readings, though, but I can confirm that the two slots run on independent PCIe x4 connections, and not a shared one as I was initially assuming. I’m seeing some people complaining about ghosting on this screen. I don’t have the right tools to test for input lag and response time, and as far as I can tell the gaming experience was OK in the titles that I’ve tested. Nonetheless, this is something to further look into, especially if you’re interested in playing fast action games. We’ll pitch the FA506 against the FX505 and an Intel-based i7/RTX 2060 configuration in a separate article. Noise, Heat, Connectivity, speakers, and others depends on what you're used to. If you're coming from a very fast monitor, you'll notice some lag and minor hosting with this panel, but if you're coming from an older 60 Hz screen, you won't. Either way, I'd say most would get used to this aspect after a few daysIf you provide content to customers through CloudFront, you can find steps to troubleshoot and help prevent this error by reviewing the CloudFront documentation. This is a highly-specced configuration of the ASUS TUF Gaming A15 FA506, but Asus offers the series in a few different versions. Base models start with an AMD Ryzen 5 4600H processor, 8 GB of RAM, Nvidia GTX 1650 graphics and a 48 Wh battery (TUF Gaming FA506II), while mid-range units get more RAM and GTX 1660 TI graphics (TUF Gaming FA506IU). Far Cry 5, Middle Earth, Strange Brigade, Red Dead Redemption 2, Tomb Raider games – recorded with the included Benchmark utilities;