ASUS Zenbook 15 OLED review: fast AMD-powered laptop with great screen

The ASUS Zenbook 15 OLED is fast and nice to look at. Shame about the battery life though.

A black ASUS Zenbook 15 OLED laptop sitting on a table
(Image: © Ian Evenden)

Our Verdict

The ASUS Zenbook 15 OLED may not have a discrete graphics card, but it is still a zippy laptop that benefits from a fast AMD processor. It’s nicely thin and light, with a 16:9 OLED screen that’s ideal for media consumption as well as serious work. Being thin, and with such a bright screen, means that battery life could be better, but a compromise needed to be made somewhere.

For

  • Excellent screen
  • Good performance
  • USB 4

Against

  • Merely average battery life

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Laptops seem to have been getting chunkier recently – or perhaps it’s just the selection we choose to review – so it’s nice to see one that’s actually thin and light, as well as extremely capable. The ASUS Zenbook 15 OLED carries a nice processor and an even nicer screen but doesn’t have a separate GPU chip, so may fall off the radar of anyone wanting to do heavyweight gaming or video-editing tasks.

It’s the 15.6-inch OLED screen that’s going to attract most people to the Zenbook - it’s bright, sharp and, in a time of 16:10 and even 3:2 ratios, feels really wide at a classic 16:9. This ratio makes it nice to carry too – it’s perfect for popping under your arm as you whizz in and out of the meeting rooms, coffee bars and cushion-strewn huddle chambers of the modern office, and it helps that it looks great too.

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CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7735U
GPU:Radeon Graphics 680M
RAM:16GB
Screen:15.6in 2880 x 1620 OLED
Storage512GB SSD
Connectivity:Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A, 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2, 1x USB 4.0 Gen 3 Type-C, 1x HDMI 2.1, 1x 3.5mm combo audio jack
Dimensions:35.48 x 22.66 x 1.58cm
Weight:1.5kg
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ASUS Zenbook 15 OLED: Benchmark scoring
Cinebench R23:Multi-core: 7,908Single-core: 697
PC Mark 10:6,324Row 1 - Cell 2
Battery test:7h34mRow 2 - Cell 2
Geekbench 6 CPU:Multi-core: 5,129Single-core: 1,960
Geekbench 6 GPU:27,526Row 4 - Cell 2
Handbrake:6m55sRow 5 - Cell 2
The Verdict
8

out of 10

Asus Zenbook OLED 15 (2023)

The ASUS Zenbook 15 OLED may not have a discrete graphics card, but it is still a zippy laptop that benefits from a fast AMD processor. It’s nicely thin and light, with a 16:9 OLED screen that’s ideal for media consumption as well as serious work. Being thin, and with such a bright screen, means that battery life could be better, but a compromise needed to be made somewhere.

Ian Evenden

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.

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