Asus TUF Gaming A14 Series
Processor: AMD Ryzen AI 7 350, AMD Hawk Point (Zen 4/4c) R7 260, AMD Strix Halo/Point (Zen 5/5c, Ryzen AI 300) Ryzen AI 9 HX 370Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
Display: 14.00 inch
Weight: 1.46kg
Price: 1500 euro
Average of 11 scores (from 23 reviews)
Asus TUF Gaming A14 FA401WV-WB94
Specifications
Notebook: Asus TUF Gaming A14 FA401WV-WB94Processor: AMD Strix Halo/Point (Zen 5/5c, Ryzen AI 300) Ryzen AI 9 HX 370
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU 8192 MB
Display: 14.00 inch, 16:10, 2560 x 1600 pixels
Weight: 1.46kg
Price: 1500 euro
Links: Asus homepage Asus notebook section
Price comparison
Average Score:
Reviews
The Asus TUF series is getting bigger with its new smallest member powered by the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. It's one of the fastest 14-inch gaming laptops available so long as you can tolerate the high temperatures and fan noise.
Source: Think Digit
Priced at around Rs 1,70,000, we could actually say that the TUF Gaming A14 is a great alternative to pricier 14-inch gaming laptop options on the market. As weird as that sounds, it’s true. While it may lack some premium features like a metal deck and RGB lighting, it compensates with a solid port selection, comfortable keyboard, lightweight design, and good performance. If you’re looking for a compact yet capable machine, the ASUS TUF Gaming A14 is certainly worth checking out. The landscape of 14-inch gaming laptops has changed significantly over the past few years, with more options emerging. One of the latest entrants is the Asus TUF Gaming A14 FA401WV, equipped with AMD’s Zen 5 CPUs.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 11/05/2024
Rating: Total score: 82% price: 95% performance: 72% workmanship: 79%
Source: Think Digit
Priced at around Rs 1,70,000, we could actually say that the TUF Gaming A14 is a great alternative to pricier 14-inch gaming laptop options on the market. As weird as that sounds, it’s true. While it may lack some premium features like a metal deck and RGB lighting, it compensates with a solid port selection, comfortable keyboard, lightweight design, and good performance. If you’re looking for a compact yet capable machine, the ASUS TUF Gaming A14 is certainly worth checking out. The landscape of 14-inch gaming laptops has changed significantly over the past few years, with more options emerging. One of the latest entrants is the Asus TUF Gaming A14 FA401WV, equipped with AMD’s Zen 5 CPUs.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 11/05/2024
Rating: Total score: 82% price: 95% performance: 72% workmanship: 79%
Source: Jarrod'sTech
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 11/01/2024
Source: Jarrod'sTech
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 11/01/2024
Source: Laptop Media
Support, online available, Short, Date: 09/25/2024
Source: Laptop Media
The ASUS TUF Gaming A14 (FA401) is a well-engineered machine. It has solid build quality and great input devices. The comfort under load depends on the applied power preset. In idle, when the “Silent” preset is activated, the fans are completely turned off during light tasks. While gaming, the WASD zone is pleasantly cool and the other sections feel warm to the touch, not hot as hell. The “Performance” mode is the way to go if you prefer tamed fans at the expense of lowered CPU and GPU clocks. Turning on the “Turbo” mode unleashed the full potential of the laptop – a 100W GPU TGP and impressively high processor clocks. In this case, the fans are noisy but not too much.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 09/25/2024
Source: Laptop Media
Support, online available, Short, Date: 09/25/2024
Source: Laptop Media
The ASUS TUF Gaming A14 (FA401) is a well-engineered machine. It has solid build quality and great input devices. The comfort under load depends on the applied power preset. In idle, when the “Silent” preset is activated, the fans are completely turned off during light tasks. While gaming, the WASD zone is pleasantly cool and the other sections feel warm to the touch, not hot as hell. The “Performance” mode is the way to go if you prefer tamed fans at the expense of lowered CPU and GPU clocks. Turning on the “Turbo” mode unleashed the full potential of the laptop – a 100W GPU TGP and impressively high processor clocks. In this case, the fans are noisy but not too much.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 09/25/2024
Source: Matthew Moniz
Comparison, online available, Medium, Date: 08/10/2024
Source: Matthew Moniz
Comparison, online available, Medium, Date: 08/10/2024
Foreign Reviews
Source: PC Games
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Short, Date: 10/23/2024
Rating: Total score: 88%
Source: PC Games
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Short, Date: 10/23/2024
Rating: Total score: 88%
Source: Game IT
ES→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 09/30/2024
Rating: Total score: 94% workmanship: 90%
Source: Game IT
ES→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 09/30/2024
Rating: Total score: 94% workmanship: 90%
Source: Pemmzchannel
ID→ENPositive: High gaming performance; compact size; light weight; decent performance; good cooling system. Negative: Non-expandable RAM; hard to upgrade.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 11/25/2024
Source: Pemmzchannel
ID→ENPositive: High gaming performance; compact size; light weight; decent performance; good cooling system. Negative: Non-expandable RAM; hard to upgrade.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 11/25/2024
Asus TUF Gaming A14 FA401KM
Specifications
Notebook: Asus TUF Gaming A14 FA401KMProcessor: AMD Ryzen AI 7 350
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop 8192 MB
Display: 14.00 inch, 16:10, 2560 x 1600 pixels
Weight: 1.46kg
Links: Asus homepage Asus notebook section
Price comparison
Average Score:
Reviews
Source: Tom's Guide
Gripes aside, I can’t deny this is a fundamentally great gaming laptop with iterative upgrades across the board. It still sort of is my favorite gaming laptop, but it’s just the price that’s wrong for what you get, and that’s a heartbreaker. I know that companies have been upping prices in anticipation of tariff impact, but I can’t say for sure whether that’s happened here. And at the end of the day, none of that matters — what actually matters in gaming laptops is that you’re getting bang for your buck. And at this cost, you’re getting something equivalent to Mentos in Coca-Cola rather than a stick of dynamite. Still a decent bang, but not enough for the buck Asus is asking for.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 10/23/2025
Rating: Total score: 70%
Source: Expert Reviews
The Asus TUF A14 is a unicorn of a laptop. It’s surprisingly powerful for such a compact laptop. It has great battery life, which is unusual in any gaming portable. Finally, it doesn’t cost an arm and a leg, which is not something I expected given its broad spread of talents. In fact, I’d go as far as to say that the TUF A14 is one of the most wholly rounded laptops I’ve encountered recently. I could happily live with it as a day-to-day laptop for use in the office and when travelling, but once home, I could plug it in and play DOOM: The Dark Ages with all the lighting and detail effects turned up to 11 at over 100fps. What’s not to like about that?
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 07/01/2025
Rating: Total score: 100%
Source: Tom's Guide
Jason goes hands on with the new Asus TUF A14 gaming laptop at Computex 2025. Asus has finally refreshed the budget TUF gaming lineup with improved thermals, more power and up to an Nvidia RTX 5060 GPU. Will this be the best budget gaming laptop to beat?
Hands-On, online available, Very Short, Date: 05/19/2025
Foreign Reviews
Source: PC Games
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Medium, Date: 08/04/2025
Rating: Total score: 89%
Source: Profesional Review
ES→ENSingle Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 07/18/2025
Rating: Total score: 88% price: 88% performance: 85% display: 85% mobility: 95% workmanship: 88%
Asus TUF Gaming A14 FA401KM, R7 260
Specifications
Notebook: Asus TUF Gaming A14 FA401KM, R7 260Processor: AMD Hawk Point (Zen 4/4c) R7 260
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop 8192 MB
Display: 14.00 inch, 16:10, 2560 x 1600 pixels
Weight: 1.46kg
Links: Asus homepage Asus notebook section
Price comparison
Foreign Reviews
Source: Noticias 3D
ES→ENSingle Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 09/08/2025
Source: El chapuzas Informatico
ES→ENPositive: Compact size; light weight; premium design; solid workmanship; powerful hardware; high gaming performance; good cooling and silent system; long battery life; nice connectivity. Negative: Mediocre speakers; relatively high price.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 07/24/2025
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Asus: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. is a major Taiwanese computer hardware manufacturer based in Taipei, founded in 1989. Under the Asus brand name, the company manufactures a wide range of products, including laptops, desktops, motherboards, graphics cards, monitors, smartphones and networking equipment, complete systems and PC components for end users.
Under the ROG (Republic of Gamers) brand name, ASUS manufactures gaming laptops known by gamers for their powerful specifications, dedicated graphics cards, high refresh rate displays and advanced cooling systems.
Beyond gaming, a wide range of notebooks are offered for different needs and budgets, from ultra-slim and lightweight ultrabooks to versatile 2-in-1 convertibles and budget-friendly options. In 2023, Asus had a 7% global market share of the PC market.
Customer satisfaction with ASUS notebooks concerns performance, the features, and the good price-performance ratio of ASUS notebooks. However, as with any brand, there are occasional reports of problems such as overheating, driver compatibility, or build quality issues.
With these GPUs you are able to play modern and demanding games fluently at medium detail settings and HD resolution.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU: High-end graphics card for laptops based on the Ada Lovelace architecture. Offers 8 GB GDDR6 (128 Bit) and is configurable with a TGP of 35 - 115W (+ Dynamic Boost).
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop: Mobile mid-range graphics card from the Blackwell family based on the GB206 chip with 3328 shaders and 8 GB GDDR7 graphics memory (128 bit).
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
AMD Strix Halo/Point (Zen 5/5c, Ryzen AI 300):
Ryzen AI 9 HX 370: A powerful Strix Point family processor that debuted in June 2024. The Ryzen AI 9 series APU comes with 12 CPU cores, the 16 CU RDNA 3+ Radeon 890M graphics adapter and the 50 TOPS XDNA 2 neural engine. There is still no PCIe 5 support here and 8 of the CPU cores are slower than the other 4.
AMD :
Ryzen AI 7 350: A relatively powerful Krackan Point family processor that was introduced in early 2025. The APU integrates 8 CPU cores (4 Zen 5 cores with up to 5 GHz and 4 Zen 5c cores with up to 3.5 GHz).
AMD Hawk Point (Zen 4/4c):
R7 260: A fast Hawk Point family chip that saw the light of day in H1 2025. The chip is identical to the old Ryzen 7 8845HS, meaning it is an octa-core Zen 4 CPU running at up to 5.1 GHz. Furthermore, the chip integrates a dedicated NPU with 16 TOPS.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
14.00:
14 inch display size represents a middle ground between the small subnotebook formats and the screens of the standard 15 inch laptops.
The reason for the popularity of mid-sized displays is that this size is reasonably easy on the eyes, provides good resolutions with usable detail sizes, yet does not consume too much power and the devices can still be reasonably compact.
In the past, 14-inch devices were very rare, but now they are the standard for laptops after the 15-inchers.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
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86.85%: This is an above-average rating. Nevertheless, it should not be forgotten that about one fifth of all tested models receive a better rating.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
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