When comparing Asus ROG Zephyrus GX501V vs Razer Blade Pro, the Slant community recommends Razer Blade Pro for most people. In the question“What are the best laptops for gaming?” Razer Blade Pro is ranked 5th while Asus ROG Zephyrus GX501V is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose Razer Blade Pro is:
The chassis is made from aluminium and is very solid, giving the feel of a premium laptop.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Wrist support included
ASUS includes a wrist support in the box, as the keyboard design is awkward. This helps a lot.
Pro Fast access ports
Thunderbolt 3 and USB 3.1 ports helps rapid data transfer.
Pro VR ready
You can plug your VR headset and play VR Games on this device.
Pro Blazing fast SSD
The hyperdrive SSD (it sits somewhere between Samsung EVO 960 and PRO 960 ) gives ultra fast response, read and write times and one of the best SSD's on the planet.
Pro Amazing screen
120 Hz IPS , Wide Angle and high contrast screen produces %100 sRGB gamut and is a pleasure to play with G-Sync support.
Pro Fast processor
With Intel Kaby Lake i7-7700HQ Processor, it runs whatever you throw at it.
Pro Durable and Anti-Ghost keyboard
The keys are warranted to be typed 20 million times and they are anti-ghost that you can press up to 30 keys simultaniously.
Pro Silent fans both idle and under load
The fans are so slient even under load that you can take your gaming device into a library without annoying anyone.
Pro Efficent cooling system
With Active Aerodynamic System (AAS) the bottom panel opens 1 cm wide when the lid is open, thus lifting the device up and makes exhaust ports wider. This feature makes the laptop runs 20% cooler, increases system airflow about 32% and airflow space about 20% too. So this way no throttling occurs. Also the keyboard is positioned down to prevent keys getting hot , and opened up the space for the air intake panel.
Pro Has a virtual numpad
The touchpad can be used as a virtual numpad with a push of a button.
Pro RGB keyboard
It has a RGB chiclet keyboard which you can set the color from 16-million colors.
Pro Amazing build quality
Zephyrus' chasis is built from magnesium and aluminium. Only the screen cover and bottom movable panel is plastic. It has orange diamond cut edges with metal lid.
Pro World's slimmest gaming laptop with GTX-1080
Asus Zephyrus has the slimmest and lightest chasis ever for a gaming laptop which has a 8GB of Nvdia GTX-1080 GPU. It measures only 16.9 mm thick and weights only 2.2 kg !
Pro Great build quality
The chassis is made from aluminium and is very solid, giving the feel of a premium laptop.
Pro Customizable RGB keyboard backlight
The keyboard’s RGB backlight can display 16.8 million colors on each key and the touchpad border. The included Synapse software lets you program the lights with different patterns and color profiles and is shareable to other Razer devices.
Pro One of the best displays on the market
The Razer Blade Pro has easily one of the best touchscreen displays that can be found in any laptop. The colors look accurate and vivid, as it covers 185% of the sRGB color gamut. Brightness goes beyond the industry average and can provide a very bright picture. The screen also supports NVIDIA G-Sync that helps eliminate screen tearing and smooths out movement.
Pro Built to be portable
At 22mm thin, this is the thinnest laptop that has the NVIDIA GeForce 1080 and one of the thinnest gaming laptops overall.
Pro Uses an actual mechanical keyboard
Razer uses ultra-low profile mechanical switches in the Blade Pro, which replicate full-sized mechanical keyboards. While it certainly makes the familiar, though noisy, clicking noise and is stiffer than a Chiclet keyboard, the travel is still too shallow compared to a regular mechanical keyboard.
Pro Great gaming performance
While from the outside Blade Pro looks like an ordinary 17 inch laptop, it packs serious gaming laptop performance. It is because Razer has equipped this laptop with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 and one of the fastest mobile processors you can buy today. It can run almost any modern game in 4K resolution in high or maximum settings at upwards of 30 FPS.
Cons
Con Backlight bleed
As we are used to see this nearly on all IPS panels and usually with Asus, this pricey device also has minor IPS Backlight bleed.
Con Crappy webcam
For a device this expensive, the webcam is just a typical 720p one.
Con Mic & headphone jack
There is only one jack for either a mic or a headphone. So you cannot use both.
Con No SD card slot
For those who still use SD Cards, there are no SD card slot.
Con No PrintScreen button
There is no PrntScrn button on the keyboard, so you have to use a software to get screenshots.
Con No switch off for the led's.
There are 2 red glowing lights at the sides of the laptop. You cannot switch them off.
Con The keyboard position
Keyboard is OK when used on a table but its so unpractical on the lap due to its design.
Con Inconvenient touchpad location
The touchpad is a pain to use due to its position. You get used to it but the shape of it - being a vertical rectangle makes it a pain to drag and drop.
Con GPU is mis-advertised
Although the GPU is enough to handle every game on Ultra detail, the advertising for this device with the name 1080 Max-Q is merely a cheat. Because in real life, in terms of performance, this GPU sits somewhere between an actual GTX1080 and GTX1070. Many specs and the processor is the same with an actual GTX1080, only the clocks are lowered with the voltage. With a 225 MHz overclocking, however, you can catch up with the FireStrike GPU points of the GTX1080.
Con Very short battery runtime
As G-Sync prevents switching between GPU's , and due to small battery, the battery runtime is about 1 hours and 30 minutes.
Con No switchable graphics
As it uses G-Sync technology, you cannot switch between Intel Onboard GPU and Nvdia GPU, thus the impact on battery life is deadly.
Con Limited Hardware Upgrade
It's impossible to upgrade it with more than 24GB's of RAM and it may only hold 1 M.2 SSD. Also the chasis is hard to open up.
Con High price
Its price is very high starting from 2099 US Dollars.
Con Power-In port location
The power plug-in is located too close to the exhaust port - thus the hot air hits the cable everytime. Not a good place to put that port.
Con Average speakers
The stereo speaker system onboard is not so great. It lacks basses and the sound is too low for gaming.
Con May need some time to getting used to the position of the touchpad
The touchpad is located on the right side of the keyboard, and can take some time to get used to.
Con No 802.11ac support
The wireless network card does not support 802.11ac, a wireless standard with significant improvements over the previous 802.11n standard.