The ASUS Zenbook A16 is among the pioneering Copilot+ PCs/laptops featuring the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme 18-core Armv9 SoC. It is currently offered for $1,699 on BestBuy or $1,999 on the ASUS website.
This laptop is equipped with a 16-inch “3K” OLED touchscreen display, 48GB of RAM, a 1TB NVMe SSD, HDMI 2.1 video output, WiFi 7, Bluetooth connectivity, and several Thunderbolt and USB ports.
Specifications of the ASUS Zenbook A16 (UX3607):
- SoC – Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-96-100)
- CPU – 18x Armv9 cores with 12 Prime cores up to 5.0 GHz (single/dual core) / 4.4 GHz (multicore), and 6 Efficiency cores up to 3.6 GHz
- GPU – Adreno X2-90 @ 1.85 GHz supporting DirectX 12.2 Ultimate, Vulkan 1.4, OpenCL 3.0
- VPU
- Encode: HEVC, AVC: Dual 8K UHD @ 30 FPS, AV1: 8K UHD @ 15 FPS, UHD @ 60 FPS
- Decode: AV1, HEVC, AVC: Dual 8K @ 60 FPS
- Concurrent: 8K UHD @ 30 FPS Encode + 8K @ 60 FPS Decode
- AI accelerators
- 80 TOPS (INT8) NPU
- Dual Micro NPU on Qualcomm Sensing Hub
- System Memory – 48GB LPDDR5X @ 9600 MHz (PoP)
- Storage
- 1TB NVMe (PCIe Gen4) SSD
- Full-sized SD card slot
- Display – 16-inch touch OLED with 2880 x 1800 resolution, 120 Hz refresh rate, 1100 nits brightness
- Video Output – HDMI 2.1
- Audio
- Built-in microphone
- Built-in microphone