ASUS ProArt Studiobook OLED (H7604) review: state of the arts

A hugely powerful mobile workstation that also manages to be sleek and intelligently designed.

A grey ASUS ProArt Studiobook OLED sitting on a desk
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Our Verdict

A laptop that manages to crowbar in some of the most powerful components currently on the market, then keep them cool enough to extract huge levels of performance, the ASUS ProArt Studiobook is ideal for everything from basic image editing to 3D rendering. It laughs at 4K video, plays games, flies through raw image processing and looks good while doing it.

For

  • Excellent spec
  • Runs cool and quiet
  • Thunderbolt 4

Against

  • Expensive
  • Keyboard may take a bit of getting used to
  • Battery life a little low

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“The best ASUS OLED laptop for creators” reads the blurb on a sticker placed on the ASUS ProArt Studiobook’s lid. And with specs like these, leaving aside the possibility that there might be a non-OLED laptop that’s better, that might very well be the case. It’s a 16-inch model, and the one sent to us for review has specs that, just a few years ago, you’d not expect even in the biggest desktop workstation. It’s even covered in some sort of antibacterial coating, so you don’t have to worry so much about someone else’s dirty fingers contaminating your prize.

To see how it stacks up against our best graphic design laptop list or best laptops for Photoshop, I received a loan unit to put through its paces over a period of two weeks. I ran benchmark software on it, tried out demanding creative software, but perhaps more importantly, saw what it was like to live and work with in a real-world setting, because real creatives live in the real world, not Cinebench.

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CPU:

Intel Core i9-13980HX

GPU:

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 (8GB)

Display:

16.0-inch, glasses-free 3D OLED display, 3.2K (3200 x 2000)

RAM:

64GB

Storage:

8TB (2x4TB SSD)

Connectivity:

Thunderbolt 4, USB 3.2 Gen 2, SD Express reader, HDMI 2.1, 3.5mm headset jack, Ethernet

Wireless:

Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3

Dimensions:

35.60 x 27.10 x 2.09 ~ 2.39 cm

Weight:

2.4kg

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Cinebench R23:

Multi-core: 10,099; Single-core: 2,105

PCMark 10:

7,083

Geekbench 6:

Single-core: 2,300; Multi-core: 13,094; GPU: 113,701

Battery life test:

4h 40m

Handbrake:

4m 8s

The Verdict
9

out of 10

Asus ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED

A laptop that manages to crowbar in some of the most powerful components currently on the market, then keep them cool enough to extract huge levels of performance, the ASUS ProArt Studiobook is ideal for everything from basic image editing to 3D rendering. It laughs at 4K video, plays games, flies through raw image processing and looks good while doing it.

Ian Evenden
Freelance writer

Ian Evenden has been a journalist for over 20 years, starting in the days of QuarkXpress 4 and Photoshop 5. He now mainly works in Creative Cloud and Google Docs, but can always find a use for a powerful laptop or two. When not sweating over page layout or photo editing, you can find him peering at the stars or growing vegetables.