No longer an elusive creature of legend, we have been studying all the Strix Halo APU’s secrets and techniques recently. Firstly, there’s energy in names and AMD’s flagship laptop computer APU has lastly been knighted the ‘AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 395 w/ Radeon 8060S.’ Fair play to AMD—that is a reputation that strikes concern within the hearts of mortal males. However, it is not so intimidating when you break it down, because the ‘Radeon 8060S’ solely refers back to the built-in GPU contained in the AI Max+ Pro 395.
Besides Jacob’s additional demystifying of AMD’s next-gen APU, revealing all the secrets and techniques we realized throughout CES 2025, this is the story that’ll actually nonetheless the air in your lungs: you can wield the facility of the AMD Ryzen AI Max APU your self within the 2025 model of the ROG Flow Z13 pill. Talk about an absolute monster.
Stay your hand, knave—let’s discuss specs. First up, the ROG Flow Z13 (2025) has no devoted GPU to talk of as a result of that can be dealt with by the AMD Ryzen AI Max built-in graphics. That’s why they name it an ‘accelerated processing unit’ as a result of, in a fashion of talking, it is dual-wielding these two processing hundreds.
With as much as 16 Zen 5 cores and 40 RDNA 3.5 Compute Units (CUs), AMD’s Ryzen AI Max affords some critical energy, even whether it is an built-in chiplet. But as Nick wrote final 12 months, whereas one Geekbench artificial compute check rating of 67,004 is unquestionably head-turning, we can not know for sure how the APU will deal with video games till we truly get our mitts on it.
As for the ROG Flow Z13 (2025) extra particularly, there’s a lot extra on the spec sheet to dive into apart from its beastly coronary heart. For occasion, the 13.4-inch contact display will supply 1600p decision at 180Hz—like a gorgon, that’ll be tough to tear your eyes away from. With Corning Gorilla Glass 5 too, this is hoping the display withstands scratches and drops much better than petrified stone.
I do know it’s kind of previous hat to speak about how tiny highly effective bits of equipment are as of late, however do not begrudge me this straightforward pleasure. So, talking of the way it feels within the palms, this 2025 launch of the ROG Flow Z13 contains a completely new chassis, measuring about half an inch thick. That stays a head-turning kind issue, even when I can not but communicate to how heavy this factor can be.
In all, it is a smaller kind issue than its predecessor by shut to fifteen%, however I’m fairly satisfied to see that this pill remains to be rocking a full-sized HDMI port. That’s alongside two extra Type-C ports, and it is also been confirmed this pill would require 200 W charging.
Still, we’ll have to attend and see what that battery life is like in observe—although if our time with the equally Strix Point-powered OneXFly F1 Pro handheld is something to go by, it could be a removed from heroic efficiency.
Asus was additionally eager to focus on that the touchscreen stays cooler than its predecessors by round 1.3 °C partly because of a design that affords 70% extra airflow.
I can at the very least hope for fingertips which are barely much less uncomfortably toasty, although till I get the possibility to paw on the touchscreen myself, we’ll have to attend and see if we’re coping with a real legend. At the very least, I’m hoping this revised 2025 launch affords one thing slightly extra compelling than its years-old predecessor.
