Asus releases new 14-inch gaming laptop in the UK with AMD Strix Halo and 165 Hz display
Asus has quietly expanded the availability of its first AMD Strix Halo-powered gaming laptop to a new market. For context, the TUF Gaming A14 FA401EA reached the US in March. Now, Asus has begun selling that same variant in the UK.
To recap, the TUF Gaming A14 FA401EA is the first laptop to ship with AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 388 APU. Backed by the same Radeon 8060S iGPU as other Ryzen AI Max APUs, the Ryzen AI Max+ 388 provides the FA401EA with four fewer cores and eight fewer threads than the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 powering the ROG Flow Z13 (curr. $2,069 on Amazon).
The FA401EA combines AMD's Strix Halo platform with a 14-inch IPS display that outputs at 2.5K (2,560 x 1,600) and 165 Hz. Also, the laptop contains a 73 Wh battery and dual M.2 2280 slots in a housing that weighs just 1.48 kg. The FA401EA provides up to 85 W to its Strix Halo APU in Turbo mode, too.
Unfortunately, Asus has restricted the FA401EA to 32 GB RAM in the UK, just like in the US. Priced at £1,649.99 with 1 TB of storage, this SKU can only assign up to 16 GB of VRAM before dropping below 16 GB of RAM for the rest of the laptop. By contrast, one can purchase a 64 GB RAM variant in the Eurozone. Please see Asus' website and our launch article for more information.
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