This Laptop Has The Most Powerful iGPU! Ryzen Max+ 392 First Look

This is the all-new TU A14 for 2026. And a lot has changed here from the previous generation. For sure, this is still a gaming laptop, but it's not using a dedicated GPU. This is actually using the world's most powerful iGPU. And believe it or not, this is an APU that we haven't tested on the channel yet. And I've been really excited about this one because the new TU A14 is packing the AMD Ryzen AIAX Plus 392. A couple numbers have changed there from the high-end skew, but we still have the Radeon 8060SIG GPU based on RDNA 3.5 with 40 compute units. The big difference here between this and the 395 is the core count's been cut down from 16 cores to 12 here. So, we have 12 cores, 24 threads. In this video, I've got a lot to go over and a lot to test. So, before we get into it, I do want to mention that this video is sponsored by URCD Keys. I've been using this site for quite some time now. 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When the first TU A14 launched, I personally loved it. It's one of my favorite laptops given the form factor, and the form factor here hasn't changed at all. We still got a relatively small unit here coming in with a 14-in display. It's a glare-free IPS up to 160 Hz with a resolution of 2560 by600. Obviously, it would have been nice if they used the Nebula OLED display here, but this IPS does look great, and I love the fact that it's a glare-free version. With these tough laptops, you don't get all the flashy bells and whistles on the outside. There's none of the RGB on the back lit or anything like that. It's a pretty sleek looking design. And when it comes to IO, over here on the lefth hand side, we've got our ASUS slim power jack. This does come with a 200 W wall charger, full size HDMI 2.1. We also have a 40 gig USB 4 port over here, one full-size USB 3.2 Gen 2 port, and a 3.5 mm audio jack. Moving over to the right hand side, micro SD card reader, and this does support UHS2, so up to 312 megabytes per second, USBC 3.2 and another full size USB 3.2 Gen 2 port. So, like I mentioned, I've always loved the form factor of the A14. I just love these smaller laptops. So, it'll fit right in the bag. We've got a chiclet style keyboard here. Single zone back lit LED, so there's not a ton of RGB on this device whatsoever. Trackpad here is pretty big for a 14-in laptop. Feels super smooth. Haven't had any issues with it. And obviously, we've got a co-pilot key here like most new laptops. Plus, we've got a dedicated Armory Crate key. And I do want to show you some settings in just a bit. We'll get there. But first things first, I wanted to give you a rundown on the specs because like I mentioned, this is much different from the last generation because with this version, it's using the all-new AMD Ryzen AI Max Plus 392. 12 cores, 24 threads. Obviously, with the 395, you get those 16 cores and 32 threads, but we don't need that many cores with something like this, and it could save power down the road, allowing for higher GPU clocks. We still have the Radeon 8060SIG GPU with 40 compute units. And you can get this laptop with up to 64 GB of unified memory running at 8,000 mega transfers per second. I've got the 32 gig version here. It's got a 165 Hz 14in IPS display with a resolution of 2560 by600. 16x10 aspect ratio, anti-glare, 100% sRGB and it does support AMD's Free Sync. Two M.2 got two PCIe 4.0 slots inside. Right now, I've got one populated with a 1 TBTE drive, but you can add up to 4 TB total. So, you need a single-sided SSD here. So, two two TBTE drives will fit in this unit. 73Wh battery and you can charge this up to 50% in 30 minutes. The weight on this is 1.48 kg or 3.26 lb and it's running Windows 11 out of the box. Moving in just a bit closer. There's a few things that I personally wanted to test because it's the first time that I've been able to get my hands on the Max Plus 392. Really excited about this. And as you can see, we've got 12 cores, 24 threads. Again, with that 395, we had 16 cores, 32 threads. Way overkill for a small form factor unit. I mean, it did perform really well like it was, but I do think with having less cores here, we can send more over to the iGPU, which just happens to be that Radeon 860S. So, we've got the same 40 compute unit iGPU here based on RDNA 3.5. You might notice I've got 16 gigs of VRAM dedicated. This is the 32 gig model. So, we've got 16 for system, 16 for the Radeon 860S, and of course, with a chip that has AI in the name. We've also got our NPU here. So, a couple things uh to change that VRAM. Actually, when I first booted this up, it was at 4 gigs. I went into Armory Crate. You could also do this from the AMD software or even the BIOS. But since we've got Armory Crate, we can go to devices, memory, and right here, dedicated graphics memory. We can set this from 0.5 up to 24 gigs. Kind of wish we had a 12 gig option in here, but I'm at 16. And with Armory Crate, we do have a lot of control over uh the performance. So, we've got a silent mode, performance, which does take it up to 65 watts, turbo, which gives us some crazy clocks and TDP. Plus, we've got a manual mode. So, we can edit the manual mode from here. And you can see the SPL, which is going to be our continuous TDP, 95 watts. SPPT, which is a 2-minute boost up to 100, and a 10-second FPPPT up to 115. We can also fully adjust the fan curve here. And the CPU auxiliary fan is also adjustable. So, with all of my testing here, I'm actually going to be in turbo mode. We're going to leave it there. And from CPUZ, what I want to do is run a stress test here. So, we've got our TDP listed. It'll be right here. Let's go ahead and run a stress test on this. I mean, 115 for, I'd say, 10 seconds. So, with turbo mode, we're probably going to get around what we see in manual mode. It'll come back down. So, in theory, we should have a sustained of around 90 to 95 watts, but they may have dropped it down just a bit down to like 85. And if I wait 2 minutes, we can see exactly what happens. So, give this a second. So, yeah, it looks like in turbo mode, we're up to a 99 to 100 watt TDP here, uh, sustained on this. And keep in mind, this is going to be split up between the GPU and CPU once we put a load on the GPU. But, I think this is going to be more than enough in turbo mode, and you might be able to get just a bit more out of it in manual mode. But I find that the uh stock power profiles from ASUS work really well with their chipsets. Next thing I wanted to do here was take a look at some benchmarks. And I've got a little more testing to do with this against the Max Plus 395. But if you take a look here with Geekbench 6 at the very top, we've got the new TU A14 with that Max Plus 392. 12 cores, 24 threads, single core 2,894, and our multi is 18,000. Right below it, I've got the Flow Z13 with the Max Plus 395 using the turbo power profile from Armory Crate. You can see that the A14 with the 392 is coming ahead of it in single core, but it is losing out just a bit in multi. Either way, I thought with 16 cores and 32 threads on that 395, we'd be way ahead of this. But I think what's happening here is just the lack of power to get all 16 of those cores with the 395 clocked all the way up there. Again, I will do some more testing between the two, but I also ran Cinebench R24 on the TU A14. Single core, we scored 109. You can see that that Apple M1 Max is beating it out. That's exactly the case with the 395. And when it comes to multi-core with Cinebench R24, we're sitting at 1,381. Still coming behind the M1 Ultra. And I'll tell you that 395 will beat out the M1 Ultra with 16 cores and 32 threads. So, yeah, I'll have to do testing between the two, but this is not looking bad at all for all-in-one APU for sure. And the final benchmark I ran for this video was 3D Mark Time Spy. With that 8060S, we're coming in with a score of 10,786. And you've heard it before, but this is on par with like a laptop RTX 4060, except this is an iGPU. But now it's time to see how this thing really handles gaming. And the first one I have here is Red Dead Redemption 2. We're at 2560 by600. Wanted to match this screen's resolution. High settings with no FSR for this one. And remember, I've got this set up in turbo mode. And I've got 16 gigs of VRAM dedicated to that 8060SI GPU. We're seeing averages a little over 80 FPS. Here's Borderlands 4. And I've tested this on a ton of different iGPUs. Really no way around it. If we want to get up to this high resolution, even with the 8060S, we do need some frame generation or you could take it way down. But I do like running this with like the high preset. So we're at 2560 by600 with FSR frame gen enabled. And even then in battle, we're only in the mid80s with it. Spider-Man 2 is another one I like to test on these iGPUs. 2560 1600 high settings with no FSR. Not bad at all, but there were a few areas where I saw it dip down. It quickly came right back up. This is one of those games where FSR really comes in handy with these GPUs. Even something as powerful as the 8060S. Blackmmith Wukong 2560 1600 high settings with the uh FSR resolution scale set to 80%. I also wanted to test at least one racing game, so I went with Japanese Drift Master. Been really enjoying this game. We're at high settings with no FSR, and this little setup is handling it just fine. kind of wish we could lock this down at 120. And with FSR, we definitely could, but I wanted that native 1600p 2560 by600 high preset, which does add some FSR there. I'm just sitting right here at that preset, and it feels good like this. We could go up to high. And of course, with all of these newer games, we do have frame generation available. Frame gen works great on the 8060S and it can almost double your frame rate and everything that we've tested here. So keep that in mind. So far I'm really liking the new TU A14 and I'll have at least one more video coming up. I need to spend a few more days with this. There are a few extras that I want to test here, like the other performance profiles, thermals, and everything like that. Plus, I really want to put this Max Plus 392 up against the Max Plus 395 to see what the real difference is. But I truly believe that at a lower wattage, we might see better performance, at least in gaming with this, given that it doesn't have to power those extra cores, and we can send all of that extra saved power over to the GPU to bring those clocks up. But yeah, pretty cool little setup here. And if you want to see more about the 2026 TU A14, it'd be really cool if you could hit that like button and think about subscribing so you know when I post the next one. If you want to learn a little more, I'll leave some links to their official website. But that's it for this one. Like always, thanks for watching.

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