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Overview:

ROG STRIX G18 - Victory, accelerated.
Dominate Windows 11 Pro gaming with up to Intel Core Ultra 9 processor 275HX and up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop GPU with a 175W max TGP.

Power up
Game with confidence thanks to Windows 11 Pro and up to Intel Core Ultra 9 processor 275HX. Backed up by the serious gaming muscle of up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop GPU and up to 32GB of DDR5-5600 RAM, the 2025 Strix G18 has the perfect amount of power to keep you gaming at peak performance. With additional features like NVIDIA Max-Q technologies, including Advanced Optimus, NVIDIA DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, and a 2TB PCIe Gen 4 SSD, the Strix G18 is truly a force to be reckoned with.

To the limit
As a Strix machine, the G18 was designed from the ground up to push the limits of gaming performance. That means that we've engineered a thermal solution that gives the system room to breathe, and overclock, to its maximum potential. In Turbo mode, the G18 can reach a maximum system wattage of 230W, but when fully unlocked in Manual mode, 255W of total system power is yours to command.

Dominant force
High-performance gaming machines need high-performance processors, and up to Intel Core Ultra 9 processor 275HX absolutely delivers. With 24 cores and 24 threads, this gaming and multi-tasking beast can draw up to 80W when needed, ensuring that your games always stay buttery smooth.

Next-gen graphics
Stix G18 boasts up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop GPU, ensuring that you'll get incredible framerates and visuals in all the latest games. With NVIDIA Max-Q technologies, including Advanced Optimus and Dynamic Boost, the GPU can intelligently switch between battery-saving and high-performance modes when you need it, making the Strix G18 a true next-gen gaming laptop.

Supreme Speed. Superior Visuals.
DLSS 4 massively increases performance and improves image quality for top games using the power of Al.

Game-Winning Responsiveness
NVIDIA Reflex 2 with Frame Warp gives you the ultimate responsiveness, enhancing target acquisition, reaction time, and aim precision.

True-to-Life Graphics
Experience cinematic quality visuals at unprecedented speed with full ray tracing and breakthrough neural rendering technologies.

Your Ultimate Pit Stop
We've completely redesigned the 2025 Strix G18 to make upgrades easier than ever. This tool-less design allows for simple access to both the RAM, SSD, and fans, and we've also brought our latest Q-latch system here for those SSD slots. Like an experienced pit crew, you can remove and replace your SSD and RAM in seconds, having the machine back up and running without missing a lap. A specially designed frame covers the rest of the mainboard to protect the other components, but can easily be removed with a few screws for users who want to tinker further.

Your Ultimate Pit Stop
We've completely redesigned the 2025 Strix G18 to make upgrades easier than ever. This tool-less design allows for simple access to both the RAM, SSD, and fans, and we've also brought our latest Q-latch system here for those SSD slots. Like an experienced pit crew, you can remove and replace your SSD and RAM in seconds, having the machine back up and running without missing a lap. A specially designed frame covers the rest of the mainboard to protect the other components, but can easily be removed with a few screws for users who want to tinker further.

Q-Latch System
M.2 SSDs are incredibly small and versatile, but the traditional mounting system involves tiny standoffs and screws that can be difficult to manipulate. ROG solved this problem with Q-Latch, a system that first debuted on our award-winning desktop motherboards. Q-Latch uses a simple, tool-less plastic hinge to securely retain your M.2 SSDs, no screwdriver required.

Storage Upgrade
Take on even the largest projects with confidence thanks to ultra-fast PCIe Gen 4 storage. Both SSD slots feature our incredibly simple and tool-less Q-latch system, no standoffs or tiny screws required. For those looking to leverage even faster storage speeds, both SSD slots are PCIe Gen 5 ready

RAM Upgradability
The Strix G18 is upgradable to 32GB ofDDR5 6400MHz RAM, offering incredible gaming and multitasking performance. Whether you bought a machine straight from the factory or upgraded the RAM yourself, the G18 is a gaming and content creation powerhouse. Go ahead - keep all those tabs open.

Limitless Connectivity
We've also equipped the Strix G18 with dual Thunderbolt 5 ports, which offers the latest in high bandwidth connectivity, up to 3X compared to Thunderbolt 4. With a diverse ecosystem of devices and peripherals compatible over USB-C, including support for power delivery, high-resolution display output, and support for the latest docking stations, Thunderbolt 5 is the easiest way to turn your G18 into a true battlestation.

End-to-end Vapor Chamber
We've used vapor chambers in our high-end ROG machines before, but the component inside the heart of the 2025 Strix G18 is truly special. We've designed a vapor chamber with different layers to more accurately match the layout of the motherboard, for maximum contact on the CPU and GPU. We also pushed the vapor chamber all the way to the rear of the chassis, sandwiching it between the upper and lower heatsinks to further optimize heat dissipation.

Sandwiched heatsink
The entire rear portion of the Strix G18 is dedicated to its full-width heatsink. The upper and lower sections are built from 0.1mm thick copper fins, for a total surface area of 213041 mm² . This sandwiched design uses all available space for the densely packed fins, giving the G18 ultra-efficient thermal performance without increasing bulk.

Tri-Fan Technology
Our cutting-edge Tri-Fan Technology directs air though precisely calculated cutouts in the chassis, sending airflow directly towards internal components to keep them cool in all conditions. A third auxiliary fan sends additional heat from the GPU and VRAM directly to the heatsinks, keeping the machine cool during long video renders or gaming sessions.

Conductonaut Extreme Liquid Metal
The Strix G18 features Thermal Grizzly's cutting-edge Conductonaut Extreme, which improves upon the already incredible heat transfer found in standard liquid metals. Compared to traditional thermal pastes, this indium- and gallium-based compound offers 17X higher conductivity, in addition to CPU and GPU temperature reductions of up to 15 degrees. Used exclusively by ROG, this material offers the highest thermal transfer available on a laptop.

Ambient cooling
The new rear facing exhaust, redesigned vapor chamber, and 2nd Gen Arc Flow Fans allowed us to bring the operating volume in Turbo Mode down from last generation.

0.1mm ultra-thin fins
The Strix G18's heatsink features ultra-thin 0.1mm copper fins, providing the perfect balance between airflow and density to keep heat dissipation optimal.

CoolZone keyboard
Extended gaming sessions can heat up internal components and make the keyboard warm to the touch. The Strix G18 boasts the largest airflow cutouts we've ever added to a laptop, which allows the fans to draw in fresh air from above and through the keyboard deck. This keeps your fingers cool during marathon gaming sessions, while also improving overall system airflow.

Dust Filter
The ROG Strix G18 features a dust filter on its intake vents. Dust and fibers can collect inside the machine, trapping heat and causing degraded performance over time. A filter helps keep dust out, allowing the CPU and GPU to breathe easier for years of smooth and stable operation.

ACR Technology
This year, we even added two layers of Ambient Contrast Ratio (ACR) film to the display, which reduces reflections and enhances contrast, ensuring the image stays punchy, vivid, and accurate even when viewed at an angle or in bright rooms. This machine doesn't just perform at a high level - it draws you into the visuals, with colors so realistic it's as if you were right in the middle of the action.

Dolby Vision Technology
Scene to scene, frame to frame, Dolby Vision makes media look better. The technology improves on standard 4K high dynamic range (HDR) video, dynamically adjusting visuals to make every image in front of you richer, brighter, and livelier. Creators can film and edit their streams, videos, and other content in a format commonly used by industry professionals.

Pantone Color Validation
Each IPS-level display is factory-calibrated to ensure that colors are accurate to the Pantone  palette. Artists, designers, and content creators can add high-quality content to their portfolios and enjoy richer gaming visuals all on the same machine.

100% DCI-P3 Color Coverage
While the sRGB color space is the standard for most digital visuals, it only represents about 75% of the DCI-P3 spectrum used for professional filmmaking. Displays with complete DCI-P3 coverage offer a wide color gamut for more vibrant images, letting you see films and other media exactly the way they were meant to be experienced.

NVIDIAG-SYNC
Nothing breaks in-game immersion like stuttering and tearing. GPUs render frames at variable rates, but displays usually refresh at a constant clip, so they can get out of sync, causing visible hitching and artifacts that pull you out of the action. With Adaptive Sync, the refresh rate of the display synchronizes with the GPU's frame rate to eliminate visual tearing, minimize stuttering, and reduce input lag. Get ready to experience gameplay that looks and feels more natural than ever.

TÜV Rheinland Certification
Displays emit light across a broad spectrum that unfortunately includes some less desirable wavelengths. Our Nebula Display protects your eyes by reducing blue light before it leaves the screen, preventing eyestrain during long gaming or content creation sessions.

Refined design
The 2025 Strix lineup has been redesigned from the ground up, built for powerful performance, maximum speed, and calculated movement, with a shape inspired by race cars that personify these same concepts. With rounded edges, a streamlined shape, and reduced seams, the 2025 ROG Strix G18 is sleeker than ever.

Full-surround Aura
The 2025 ROG Strix G18 features a full-surround RGB lightbar along the bottom of the chassis, giving you a distinct glow on your desk that syncs with your other ROG peripherals.

Seamless design
Now featuring a smoother texture for an extra premium feel, the corners of the 2025 ROG Strix G18 have been chamfered to give it a more elegant and contemporary look. With rounded edges, a streamlined shape, and reduced seams, the 2025 ROG Strix G18 is sleeker than ever.

• Static
• Breathing
• Strobing
• Color cycle
• Rainbow
• Music
• Smart
• Starry night

Press the Attack
The difference between victory and defeat can be separated by a single keystroke, so the Strix G18 has a full-size keyboard designed to secure the win. Overstroke technology offers sublime work and play, reducing key actuation and improving responsiveness. Built with gamers in mind, the keyboard features spaced function keys for intuitive identification and dedicated hotkeys for quick access to essential commands. Large arrow keys allow for more accurate control in the heat of battle. A larger touchpad means easier tracking across all of your applications, while per-key RGB lighting lets you choose from millions of colors on every key for endless customization. You can also create game specific layouts via Armoury Crate, making every game feel unique.

• Per-Key  RGB
• Full-Size Keyboard
• Gaming Hotkeys

Large touchpad
We know you aren't always gaming, so we've increased the size of the touchpad by 36% from the previous generation for effortless scrolling even when your mouse is tucked away. A larger touchpad also makes multi-touch inputs easier, giving you a smoother experience with the machine even when you're just browsing the web.

Dedicated hotkeys
Dedicated gaming hotkeys sit just above the left side of the keyboard for quick access to volume, mic mute, operating modes, and Armoury Crate. They are also fully customizable, and can be programmed to launch apps, set as a function key, or used as a macro. The Strix G18 has all the tools you need for victory.

Overstroke technology
Exclusive ROG Overstroke technology registers keypresses earlier in the stroke, enabling a more responsive experience for serious gaming and work. Triggering earlier means faster, effortless inputs with greater accuracy.

Studio-quality Sound
Dual Dolby Atmos-powered speakers create an authentic sound stage for your games. Hi-Res audio ensures you hear your music in the same quality it was recorded. Two-Way AI Noise Cancelation processes both incoming and outgoing audio to filter any errant background noises, making sure that your calls, chats and streams come through without distraction.

Two-Way AI Noise Cancelation
Our advanced Two-Way AI Noise Cancelation technology runs on the CPU, which frees up the GPU to hit higher FPS. It works with any input device and also with downstream  connections, letting you remove noise from both your own mic input and from incoming feeds. Noise-canceling settings can even be customized per program, filtering specific apps like voice chat without affecting game audio you want to remain untouched.

Dual Speakers With Dolby Atmos
Richer audio draws you more deeply into gameplay and media. Virtual 5.1.2-channel surround sound powered by Dolby Atmos enhances spatial immersion with more nuanced, layered sound effects that you can optimize with specially tuned preset modes for movies and games.

All Day Endurance
We equipped the Strix G18 with a large 90Wh battery, which provides plenty of endurance for video playback and web browsing. If you're traveling without the included power supply, it also supports USB Type-C power delivery up to 100W, allowing you easily top up a charge while on the go.

All the bandwidth
Connectivity is everything in a high-performance machine, so we've spared no expense with the Strix G18's feature set. With support for the latest Wi-Fi 7 standard, offering download speeds up to 2.4X times faster than Wi-Fi 6, onboard 2.5G ethernet, and dual Thunderbolt 5 ports, this machine puts even many desktop battlestations to shame. We've also included a FHD camera with Windows Hello support, allowing you to unlock the machine possible with just a smile.

Incredible I/O
Ports allow you to connect your mouse, headset, or even an external monitor, so we gave the Strix G18 an incredibly flexible I/O that can adapt to any situation. On the right side you'll find two USB-A ports, but the left side offers the bulk of the connections, with an audio jack, dual Thunderbolt 5 ports (USB Type-C), a single USB-A, HDMI 2.1, a 2.5G ethernet port, and the power port. If you can imagine your ideal battlestation, the Strix G18 can make it a reality.

• USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A x3
• 2.5G ethernet port
• power port
• HDMI 2.1
• Thunderbolt 5 (USB Type-C) x2
• audio jack

Endless Customization
When you want to tweak settings, monitor temperatures, or tinker with your laptop, Armoury Crate is your command center. Real-time monitoring allows you to see what your GPU, CPU and memory are doing. RGB can be adjusted on a game-by-game basis with Aura Sync. Fan and power profiles allow you to change the acoustics, power delivery, and thermal characteristics of the laptop on the fly. And exclusive game deals keep your library topped off at all times.

Scenario Profiles
More than just simple fan curves, Armoury Crate's performance modes serve to transform your machine from a silent, power sipping web browser to a full gaming battlestation with maximum horsepower. And for those that require even more granular control, Manual mode removes all limiters and lets you make a custom profile that suits your exact needs. For more information on Performance Modes, check out our full guide here .

Specifications:

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Specifications and features
Laptop Product Code	G815LP-U93210G0W
Model	G815LP / 90NR0LK1-M004N0
Marketing Name	ROG Strix G18
Operating System	Windows 11 Home
Office	1-month trial for new Microsoft 365 customers. Credit card required.
Color	Eclipse Gray
Dimension (W x D x H)	39.9 x 29.8 x 2.35 ~ 3.20 cm (15.71" x 11.73" x 0.93" ~ 1.26")
Weight	3.20 Kg (7.05 lbs)
Processor	Intel Core Ultra 9 Processor 275HX 2.7 GHz (36MB Cache, up to 5.4 GHz, 24 cores, 24 Threads) , Intel AI Boost NPU up to 13TOPS
Chipset	Mobile Intel HM870 Express Chipsets
Intergrated GPU	Intel UHD Graphics
Discrete/Optimus	MUX Switch + NVIDIA Advanced Optimus
Graphic	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU
Graphic Wattage	ROG Boost: 1475MHz (1425MHz Boost Clock+50MHz OC, 100W+15W Dynamic Boost)
Graphic Memory	8GB GDDR7
Neural Processor	Intel AI Boost NPU up to 13TOPS
Panel Size	18-inch
Resolution	2.5K (2560 x 1600, WQXGA) 16:10 aspect ratio
Refresh Rate	240Hz
Response Time (G2G)	3ms
Viewing Angle	170
Panel Tech	IPS-level
Brightness	500
Contrast Ratio	1000:1
DCI-P3 %	100 %
Glare	Anti-glare display
Adaptive-Sync technology	G-Sync
Pantone	Pantone Validated
Nebula Display	ROG Nebula Display
Support Dolby Vision HDR	Yes
Thermal Feature	ROG intelligent cooling
On board memory	N/A
DIMM Memory	16GB DDR5-5600 SO-DIMM, the memory speed of the systems vary by CPU SPEC *2
Total System Memory	DDR5 32GB
Memory Slot	2x SO-DIMM slots
Memory Max.	64GB
Multi-channel memory technology	Support dual channel memory technology
Storage	1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD
M.2 slots support either SATA or NVMe	2
M.2 SSD Support List	512G/ 1TB /2TB G4x4 PCIe SSD
Expansion Slot (includes used)	2x DDR5 SO-DIMM slots
	2x M.2 PCIe
LAN	10/100/1000 Mbps
Wireless	Wi-Fi 7(802.11be) (Triple band) 2*2+Bluetooth 5.4 Wireless Card
	(*Bluetooth version may change with OS version different.)
I/O Ports	1x RJ45 LAN port
	1x Thunderbolt 4 with support for DisplayPort / power delivery (data speed up to 40Gbps)
	1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C with support for DisplayPort / power delivery / G- SYNC (data speed up to 10Gbps)
	3x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A (data speed up to 10Gbps)
Display output	1x HDMI 2.1 FRL
Camera	1080P FHD IR Camera for Windows Hello
Mic	Built-in array microphone
Keyboard Type	Backlit Chiclet Keyboard 4-Zone RGB
	With Copilot key
Aura Sync	Yes
Touchpad	Touchpad
	N/A
Speakers	2-speaker system with Smart Amplifier Technology
Audio	1x 3.5mm Combo Audio Jack
	Built-in array microphone
Audio Tech	AI noise-canceling technology
	Dolby Atmos
	Hi-Res certification (for headphone)
	Smart Amp Technology
Security	BIOS Administrator Password and User Password Protection
	Trusted Platform Module (Firmware TPM)
Antivirus	McAfee 30 days free trial
Battery	90WHrs, 4S1P, 4-cell Li-ion
Fast charging	Recharge from 0-50% in 30 minutes
Power	Rectangle Conn, 280W AC Adapter, Output: 20V DC, 14A, 280W, Input: 100- 240V AC, 50/60Hz universal
Xbox Game Pass	Xbox Game Pass for PC_3 months (*Terms and exclusions apply. Offer only available in eligible markets for Xbox Game Pass for PC. Eligible markets are determined at activation. Game catalog varies by region, device, and time.)
Included in the Box	ROG backpack
Ecolabels & Compliances	N/A
Reparability Index (for France)	9.9