Asus adds a new configuration to its ROG Zephyrus G16 laptop line in the United States, featuring an NVIDIA RTX 5080 GPU. According to reports, the updated model is listed at $4,799. Both outlets describe the pricing comparison to a prior-generation Zephyrus G16 model from 2025 that uses a higher-end RTX 5090 GPU. That earlier system, reported as equipped with 64GB of RAM, is listed as available for $4,599 at major retailers.
The Digital Trends report characterizes the RTX 5080 Zephyrus G16 as faster and also notes it includes more RAM than the prior option, while still costing more. The Next Web similarly frames the situation as a quiet introduction of the RTX 5080 configuration and highlights that the $4,799 price is $200 higher than the RTX 5090-equipped model from the previous year.
The sources agree on the key point that the new RTX 5080 laptop is priced above a last-gen model carrying an RTX 5090, despite differences in system configuration.
