Asus updated the TUF Gaming laptop line with the release of the TUF Gaming F15 (FX506), with an RTX 3050 GPU and a relatively affordable price.
This laptop is the first Asus gaming laptop to use an Intel Gen 11 H series (H45) processor, aka a high-performance processor series. Asus also provides a new design for this laptop line.
“The TUF Gaming series has become an icon for tough, powerful, and affordable gaming laptops. Now the series is reborn with a new, more modern design, equipped with more powerful specifications, and a new cooling system,” said Jimmy Lin, Asus Regional Director Southeast Asia.
“All of this is brought back at an affordable price,” said Jimmy Lin, ASUS Regional Director Southeast Asia. “Not only that, the TUF Gaming F15 (FX506) also now comes with GeForce RTX 3050 and RTX 3050Ti graphics chips, making RTX graphics technology more affordable than ever,” he added.
The combination of the Intel Core Gen-11 H series with the RTX 3000 Series GPU is promised to provide the best gaming experience. Of course, with the support of various components and other features on this laptop.
For example, the Adaptive Sync feature is combined with a refresh rate of up to 240Hz on a 15-inch screen, as well as a new cooling system that has a special fan and heatpipe design that can reach more components.
The battery capacity of the TUF Gaming F15 (FX506) is 90Whr, which promises to last all day for normal use. The body is also claimed to be tough because it has pocketed the US military standard endurance test certification.
The Intel Core Gen-11 H series used has a maximum configuration of 8 cores 16 threads, with a maximum clock speed of 4.9GHz. The RAM is DDR4-3200 with capacities up to 16GB (expandable), and an M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD slot up to 1TB.
As a graphics processor, there is the RTX 3000 series, ranging from RTX 3050 to RTX 3060. Of course with various RTX mainstay features such as real time ray tracing to DLSS 2.0.
The TUF Gaming F15 (FX506) is equipped with a Thunderbolt 4 port. This modern port with a USB Type-C interface offers data transfer speeds of up to 40Gbps and can be used as display output via the DisplayPort 1.4 protocol. Unmitigated, the TUF Gaming F15 (FX506) can be connected to up to two 4K resolution monitors or one 8K resolution monitor.
In addition to connectivity via ports, the TUF Gaming F15 (FX506) also comes with mooder wireless connectivity technology. This gaming laptop is equipped with a WiFi 6 module which has a better connection speed than the previous generation WiFi. Not only that, TUF Gaming F15 (FX506) is also equipped with the ASUS WiFi Master feature which makes WiFi connections run more stable.
Asus TUF Gaming F15 (FX506) is sold at prices starting at Rp. 15.8 million for the cheapest variant (Core i5/RTX 3050/8GB RAM/512GB SSD/144Hz/48Whr), up to Rp. 26 million for the most expensive variant (Core i9/RTX 3060 /16GB RAM/512GB SSD/240Hz/90Whr).