I've been shopping for this and already thought costco had the lowest price at 2649.99 but now it's 200 off and pulled the trigger. You have to be a costco member.
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I've been shopping for this and already thought costco had the lowest price at 2649.99 but now it's 200 off and pulled the trigger. You have to be a costco member.
Ultra 9 386H: Intel Xe3 / standard Intel Graphics.
For the most part, you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference in real use.
Where you will see the difference is in graphics performance. The Arc B390 is a significant upgrade over the Xe3. You won't be able to do any high end gaming with maxed out settings with either of these, but you can play any but the most graphics-intensive games at lower settings with the Arc B390. If gaming is one of your uses for this laptop, go with the X9.
That being said, the Ultra X9 388H has been replaced by the Ultra X9 378H, so any 388H's are older models.
Ultra 9 386H: Intel Xe3 / standard Intel Graphics.
For the most part, you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference in real use.
The B390 (12 Xe cores) in the Ultra X7/X9 chips is SIGNIFICANTLY more performant GPU than the lower end Xe3 GPUs (4 Xe cores), something like 2.4-3x depending on implementation and throttling.
Since this laptop comes with dual 2880x1800 displays you're not going to want to save a bit of money for much worse GPU.
The X9 version, has the upgraded Intel arc b390 graphics with 12 compute units. The 9 version, 386h only has 4 compute units.
Get the x9 for gaming or if you'd like more flexibility. If you are purely using it for school/productivity, then you could save some money with the 386h
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Yea i was specificgally looking for the 388h prerformance.. but i also heard rumors that asus has throttled the cpu becasue of heat issues, any one have any word on this? by the way for anyone wondering about the Zenbook DUO overall, it's great, I have a previous generation from 2024 and LOVE it, I'm just upgrading now. I use it mostly for work with the dual screens, and ai/creative.
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- X9 388H: Intel Arc B390 GPU (higher TFLOPS and clock speeds).
- Ultra 9 386H: Intel Xe3 / standard Intel Graphics.
For the most part, you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference in real use.- X9 388H: Intel Arc B390 GPU (higher TFLOPS and clock speeds).
- Ultra 9 386H: Intel Xe3 / standard Intel Graphics.
For the most part, you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference in real use.That being said, the Ultra X9 388H has been replaced by the Ultra X9 378H, so any 388H's are older models.
- X9 388H: Intel Arc B390 GPU (higher TFLOPS and clock speeds).
- Ultra 9 386H: Intel Xe3 / standard Intel Graphics.
For the most part, you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference in real use.Since this laptop comes with dual 2880x1800 displays you're not going to want to save a bit of money for much worse GPU.
Get the x9 for gaming or if you'd like more flexibility. If you are purely using it for school/productivity, then you could save some money with the 386h
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