ASUS opens its booth at SIGGRAPH an annual conference on computer graphics (CG) for tens of thousands of computer professionals. The booth showcases the comprehensive lineup of ASUS laptops, monitors, mini PCs and workstations, all designed to provide world-class content-creation experiences for professionals in the field of visual effects, 3D design, and animation. 

There are three main product demonstration areas where the dual-touchscreen ZenBook Pro Duo, NVIDIA® Quadro RTX™ StudioBook laptops, E900 G4 4 way graphics workstatioThe latest NVIDIA Quadro RTX and GeForce RTX GPUs utilize the NVIDIA Turing™ architecture and are the first to support real time ray tracing, capable of rendering beautiful scenes with more accurate light effects, shadows, and reflections. The AI prowess of RTX GPUs handles time consuming, repetitive tasks such as accelerating upscaling, photo enhancements, color matching, face tagging, and style transfer. The latest ASUS laptops, including ZenBook Pro Duo, StudioBook W700G3T, and StudioBook W500, take advantage of RTX capabilities, catering to the needs of content creators and meeting the stringent requirements of the NVIDIA RTX Studio program. RTX Studio laptops are precision crafted to deliver dramatic improvements in productivity and performance across everyday creative apps.

ZenBook PRo Duo

World’s first dual-touchscreen laptop: ZenBook Pro Duo

ZenBook Pro Duo features the ASUS ScreenPad™ Plus secondary full-width touchscreen that offers versatile creative possibilities for content creators, allowing productivity-enhancing workflows and easy multitasking. It integrates seamlessly with the primary display, and the built-in ScreenXpert software includes a wide selection of useful apps, tools and utilities that allow users to easily enjoy the efficiency benefits of ScreenPad Plus. ScreenPad Plus enables different creative scenarios — such as video editing with auxiliary split screens, intuitive controls with digital instruments and cross-screen 3D design and editing — that open up new possibilities for creators.

ZenBook Pro Duo is powered by up to a 9th Generation Intel® Core™ i9 eight-core processor with up to an unprecedented 5GHz Turbo Boost frequency and 32GB of DDR4 RAM. The GeForce RTX 2060 is a game-changing GPU that offers users the power of ray-tracing for the ultimate visual realism. ZenBook Pro Duo also features a stunning 4K UHD (3840 x 2160) OLED touchscreen, an exceptionally wide color gamut with 100% DCI-P3 coverage and HDR for breathtaking visuals.

SIGGRAPH attendees can try out ZenBook Pro Duo to create their own artwork, and have them printed on their own custom tote bags.

StudioBook

Quadro on the go: StudioBook W700 and W500

ASUS StudioBook series laptops pack desktop grade performance into a sleek, portable chassis featuring the innovative NanoEdge display design for immersive visuals and a more compact footprint.

StudioBook W700 is one of the world’s slimmest laptops to feature NVIDIA Quadro graphics, packing the Quadro RTX 3000 GPU in an 18.4 mm thin chassis. This combination of cutting edge graphics and portability makes it perfect for creative professionals. Its 17 inch NanoEdge display features slim bezels, effectively allowing a larger display to fit into a more compact chassis, as well as provide a more immersive visual experience. In addition, W700 offers the exclusive NumberPad, a 180° lay flat hinge, and additional hot keys.

The smaller 15 inch StudioBook W500 features a 4K UHD panel, an Intel Core i7 9750H CPU with up to 32GB of DDR4 2666 memory, NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 graphics, and a dual storage design. With Quadro RTX graphics, creative and technical professionals can take advantage of the power of hardware accelerated ray tracing, deep learning, and advanced shading techniques to create amazing content faster than ever before.

PA32UCX

Created for the studio: ProArt PA32UCX display and E900 G4 workstation

ASUS ProArt PA32UCX is the world’s first 32-inch 4K HDR monitor with a peak brightness of 1200 nits and mini-LED backlighting: this enables over 1152 zones of local dimming control and provides support for multiple HDR formats, including Dolby Vision, HLG and HDR-10, enabling the display to produce the deepest blacks and the brightest whites with sharper, more detailed visuals. PA32UCX has true 10-bit color and quantum-dot technology that supports the DCI-P3, Rec. 709, Rec. 2020, sRGB and Adobe RGB color spaces. To cater to studio workflows, PA32UCX also has a rich selection of connectivity options including dual Thunderbolt™ 3, DisplayPort and three HDMI 2.0 ports.

E900-G4

ASUS E900 G4 is an extreme-performance workstation for achieving excellence in a wide variety of fields, including architecture, engineering and construction (AEC), scientific research and design. Powered by up to dual 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors, for up to 56 cores, up to four NVIDIA or AMD® GPUs, and up to 1536GB of memory, E900 G4 is engineered for the most intensive applications, from AI and machine-learning configurations to real-time rendering, simulation and visualization scenarios. Itʹs built to last, designed to be easy to scale up or scale out, and benefits from multiple independent software vendor (ISV) certifications for total peace of mind.