ROG Zephyrus G14: New leak reveals whereabouts of long-rumoured Intel Arc B390 gaming laptop

Asus refreshed its ROG Zephyrus series last week during CES 2026 in Las Vegas. As we covered at the time, the ROG Zephyrus G16 returned with Intel Panther Lake processors and a brighter display than its predecessor. At the same time, Asus updated the ROG Zephyrus G14 with Panther Lake and AMD Gorgon Point processors to replace Strix Point and Hawk Point models (curr. $1,591 on Amazon).

All these laptops leveraged discrete Nvidia GeForce GPUs, albeit from the same Blackwell generation as last year's models. However, the story did not originally end there for the ROG Zephyrus G14. According to Les Numériques, Intel originally demonstrated a ROG Zephyrus G14 that lacked a discrete GPU solution altogether during a closed event before CES.

As the image below shows, the slide supplied by Les Numériques mentions 'next-gen' Intel Core Ultra processors and Intel Arc Graphics without a single mention of Nvidia graphics. Incidentally, evidence of this dGPU-less gaming laptop surfaced on Geekbench back in October. With this variant a no-show in Las Vegas, Asus has apparently explained away its disappearance because of 'change in strategy' to its ROG Zephyrus line.

Presumably, this variant would have been cheaper than the ROG Zephyrus G14 laptops that have made it to market. The arrival of a new TUF Gaming A14 with AMD Strix Halo APUs would have put this Panther Lake-only Zephyrus G14 in a tough spot, though. As a result, we can see why the Taiwanese brand shuffled the latter away from view before taking to CES 2026.

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