


We’re updated some of the test results and findings. Update: As of January 28th, there’s an updated BIOS from Asus, as well as new GeForce drivers.

We’ll follow-up in later articles where required, and we’d greatly appreciate your feedback and questions on what we should further test on this laptop. Keep in mind that while this laptop is identical to the ones you can get in stores right now, available over here for around 1500 EUR, we’re running our tests on the early BIOS and drivers available as of late January 2021, so certain aspects might change with future software tweaks. We’ve spent time with an early retail version of the ASUS TUF Gaming A15 FA506QR model, built on the Ryzen 7 5800H processor, 16 GB of DDR4 RAM, 1TB of SSD storage, and an Nvidia RTX 3070 MQ dGPU that runs at ~95W in sustained loads, and gathered our thoughts in this article. We’ve reviewed the previous TUF models and we agree they tend to run hot, especially in the higher-specced variants, that’s why our previous recommendations have gone towards the mid-range configurations instead.Įarly into 2021, ASUS have updated the TUF A15 series with 2021 hardware – AMD Ryzen 5000 H processors and Nvidia RTX 3000 graphics, a better screen option – 240 Hz panel with 3 ms response and 100% sRGB colors, and an updated internal thermal design with what looks like improved air intakes on the bottom.Īt the same time, the 2021 ASUS TUF Gaming A15 series offers higher-tier and higher-power graphics, so we were eager to find out how all these tweaks fair up in real-life use.
