ASUS ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition: lights, camera, action laptop?

If you’re feeling a sense of deja-vu, that’s because we have indeed been here before. The GoPro Edition of ASUS’ PX13 is broadly similar to the vanilla model, just with a bit of a specs bump. It retains the OLED touchscreen and all-round solid and compact frame, but drops the Nvidia GPU because it doesn’t need it any more. The CPU ASUS has chosen for this edition comes with a lot of graphics cores of its own, something that should help battery life while retaining performance. And 128GB of RAM? In this economy? There's a lot of fast memory in this laptop, something that should help with video editing tasks as well as those requiring AI models.

Otherwise, the GoPro connection is really a branding exercise. There's (almost) no mention of the camera company on the laptop itself, but you do get a protective sleeve with GoPro-emblazoned straps. There are lines etched into the back of the lid that weren’t there on the old PX13, but you do get the same 200W charger and small, rectangular charging port for rapid juice-ups, though it’s also happy to suck power from USB-C.

So is the GoPro Edition a worthy new addition to the ASUS ProArt line, and a surefire entry into the list of our best laptops for video editing? A partnership with GoPro certainly makes sense, as editing action camera footage in the field is best accomplished on a portable but powerful machine. We ran it through the Creative Bloq Testing Lab and Experimental Doughnut Facility’s gauntlet of tests to find out.

Key specifications

Design, build and display

• Excellent build
• Comes with a case

The box that the PX13 GoPro Edition comes in is a very impressive thing. As laptops have become smaller and slimmer, so has the packaging they come in, but someone forgot to tell ASUS that. It’s so big we were left wondering if there was a whole GoPro kit in there too, complete with tripods and lighting and extreme sports equipment, but sadly, you’ll have to provide your own. Instead, you get the laptop, which is strapped in a cardboard sheath by GoPro-branded straps, and a separate branded case to keep the laptop in. You might very well wonder why the PC couldn’t be supplied inside its own case, shrinking the size of the whole package. We couldn’t possibly comment.

The GoPro Edition is as nicely built as the older PX13, with a solid metal frame and a chunky charm that comes from its 13-inch form factor. The large box makes the laptop feel even smaller than it is once you get it out, and it’s highly portable even if you’d prefer to use your own bag.

Design score: 4/5

Features

• Fast USB4 ports
• Reasonable battery life

The PX13 was always well-equipped, and the GoPro edition attempts to create an all-in-one video workstation you can take with you. There are two USB4 ports to quickly suck video directly from cameras or handle external SSDs, a Micro SD card slot if you’d rather do things that way, and a 2TB internal SSD to hold the footage. The only USB Type-A port is a 10Gbps model, and both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are to the latest standards. There's a full-size HDMI 2.1 port ready for an external monitor, or you could use a USB4 dock for a single-cable connection to your desk.

The one place GoPro gets a mention on the laptop is a single key on the keyboard. F8, in the middle on the top row, has a blue GoPro logo on it and when pressed launches the GoPro Player software (actually, the first time it’s pushed, it launches the Microsoft Store so you can install GoPro’s app). This allows you to extract angles from 360° footage by selecting keyframes, add stabilisation with Hypersmooth Pro, trim, level, and export your GoPro videos.

Elsewhere on the keyboard, you’ll find keys that have good travel and provide a good typing experience. The GoPro Edition features a cyan backlight, which looks rather good against the black background. Although some of the keys, such as the left Shift key, are a little small, there's nothing here that prevents efficient use. The trackpad is one of ASUS’s special features, equipped with a dial at the top corner, allowing you to adjust tip sizes and sliders in Photoshop or any other app that supports it. It’s fine, but we’d rather have a physical dial.

Battery life from smaller laptops is often a compromise, but the GoPro Edition beats the figure from our original PX13 review, with almost six and a half hours of constant use.

Feature score: 4.5/5

Benchmark scores

We test every one of our laptops using the same benchmarking software suite to give you a thorough overview of its suitability for creatives of all disciplines and levels. This includes:

• Geekbench: Tests the CPU for single-core and multi-core power, and the GPU for the system's potential for gaming, image processing, or video editing. Geekbench AI tests the CPU and GPU on a variety of AI-powered and AI-boosted tasks.
• Cinebench: Tests the CPU and GPU's ability to run Cinema 4D and Redshift.
• UL Procyon: Uses UL Solutions' Procyon software suite to test the system's ability for AI image generation in Stable Diffusion, its Microsoft Office performance and its battery life in a looping video test.
• Topaz Video AI: We use Topaz Video AI to test the system's ability to upscale video and convert video to slow-motion.
• PugetBench for Creators: We use the PugetBench for Creators benchmarking suite to test the system's ability to run several key tasks in Photoshop and Adobe Premiere Pro, as well as its performance when encoding/transcoding video.
• ON1 Resize AI: Tests the system's ability to resize 5 photos to 200% in a batch process. We take the total time taken to resize the images and divide by 5.

Performance

• Excellent GPU for an integrated chip
• Screen only 60Hz

Asus has packed the PX13 GoPro Edition with some serious processing. The Ryzen AI Max+ 395 is a 16-core chip that comes with a 40-core integrated GPU (for comparison, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D, AMD’s current best 16-core desktop chip, only has two graphics cores of its own), and in the laptop sent to Creative Bloq for review, there's 128GB of screamingly fast DDR5 RAM.

It’s the CPU that’s the most interesting part. The Strix Halo chips have been talked about for a while, with growing excitement that they might produce laptops and smaller PCs that don’t need a discrete GPU to perform well in graphics tasks. And so it proves, with the GoPro Edition keeping company with laptops sporting Core Ultra 9 chips in our CPU tests. For graphics tasks, it also does extremely well, beating the MacBook Pro M5 in Geekbench’s GPU workout, and every other integrated GPU too. It’s not RTX 5080 fast, but it’s definitely a step up.

Video editing is something you’d expect a GoPro partnership to excel at, and in our Premiere Pro tests, it’s up there with the cheaper gaming laptops running low-end GeForce chips, and beats the MacBook Pro M5 again. The problem is, it costs three times what those machines do in their entry-level spec, and a lot of that cost must be because of the 128GB of RAM. It does well in AI tests, beating the M5 in many of them, and one machine it frequently trades blows with is ASUS’ own RTX 5050-equipped TUF Gaming A16, which costs less than half as much.

The GoPro Edition also performs very well in AI applications, with 150 TOPS available to it across all its processors. This means it rides fairly high in the Topaz Video AI and ON1 photo resizing benchmarks, where it’s beaten mainly by gaming laptops with immense GPUs.

The OLED touchscreen performs well, and can display almost all of the DCI P3 colour gamut. The only thing that brings it down is the 60Hz refresh rate - that’s starting to look a bit low by 2026 standards, and with something like the GoPro Hero 12 Black offering 120fps at up to 4K, it would have been nice to be able to play it back exactly as shot.

Performance score: 4.5/5

Price

For the version we’ve tested here, with its 128GB of fast DDR5 RAM that was pricey even before component costs went through the roof, the price is very high. We're waiting for a . You could get a MacBook Pro or a powerful gaming laptop for the same sort of money, and those will both run GoPro’s software too.

The non-GoPro-branded version with 64GB of RAM is already £2,499 so these are not cheap laptops by any stretch of the imagination.

Value score: 3/5

Who is it for?

• Action cam enthusiasts

ASUS and GoPro have created an excellent portable video-editing workstation that is well placed to suck up all the video footage you take in the field and edit it right there.

Buy it if...

• You’re a GoPro fan
• You edit video on the run
• It’s worth the cost to you

Don't buy it if...

• The price puts you off
• GoPro means nothing to you
• You’d prefer a GeForce GPU

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