Asus VivoBook 15 OLED K513

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OLED screen technology has been showing superiority over IPS screens, but there is still a long list of reasons for laptop manufacturers to apply this technology to their products. So far, Asus has been bold and daring to put this new technology into affordable and reasonable laptops. That is also the subject of this article, a product using Asus’ OLED screen: Asus VivoBook 15 OLED K513.

The machine is equipped with an Intel Tiger Lake I architecture processor with impressive specifications: Core i7-1165G7 with a discrete GeForce MX350 graphics card. Configuration is enough to meet the completion of common daily tasks, along with the ability to entertain light gaming. Now with the addition of a quality OLED screen, it will further enhance the user experience.

Specifications

CPU: Intel Core i7-1165G7 / i5-1135G7 / AMD Ryzen 7 5700U / Ryzen 5 5500U

GPU: Nvidia GeForce MX 350 / MX 330 (25W, 2GB DDR5) / Intel Iris Xe G7 / Intel UHD / AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 / RX Vega 7

Screen: 15.6 inches, Full HD, IPS / OLED

Battery: 3 cells, 42Wh

Dimensions: 359.8 x 235.3 x 17.9 mm (14.17″ x 9.26″ x 0.70″)

Weight: 1.70 kg (3.7 lbs)

Charging source: 65W

Design and finish

Asus once again brings a variety of color options for users to express themselves, VivoBook 15 OLED K513 will be available in 3 colors: Black, Silver, and Gold. We love the matte black color for its subtlety and elegance, with its metal lid and overall hard plastic finish.

The machine has a not-so-heavy weight of 1.7kg and a thickness of about 17.9mm, still providing good flexibility and mobility.

It is quite difficult to open and close the lid with one hand and open the device, the edges of the screen are quite thin, and the top edge will have an HD webcam.

The C-side of VivoBook 15 OLED including the chassis and keyboard also feels luxurious and elegant like the overall machine. But there is an additional highlight which is the Enter key with a yellow border, and the touchpad also has a creative cutout to attract attention.

The keyboard feels good to type with, with a fairly long key travel, good bounce, and smooth and fast typing. There is a Numpad with full-sized keys, and good support for users in jobs related to books, accounting, and data entry, …

The touchpad is not large, the surface is handled quite smoothly, the swiping operation is generally very good and fast, and the mouse click is quite smooth, but the sensitivity is only good.

At the bottom, we will have speaker slots and cut-out mesh panels to support additional heat dissipation for the system. This factor is not so important with this type of laptop.

Connection ports

Speaking of ports, on the left side of VivoBook 15 OLED K513 we will have 2 USB-A 2.0 ports.

On the opposite right side, in addition to the power jack, the device is also equipped with an HDMI 1.4 port, a USB-A 3.2 Gen 1 port, a USB-C 3.2 Gen 1 port, a 3.5mm headphone jack with mic, a MicroSD card reader.

Disassembly, upgrade, and cleaning

Inside we will find the 42Wh battery is quite small, but through testing, it still gives up to 9 hours of web browsing time, and 7 hours of video playback, which is surprising!

Talking about internal hardware components, we will have 4 or 8GB of Ram soldered directly to the motherboard depending on the configuration. In addition, Asus provides an additional SODIMM slot so that users can upgrade up to 40GB more Ram. As for the storage memory, the machine has 1 M.2 PCIe x4 slot, and an additional 2.5-inch SATA tray without connecting accessories.

The cooling system looks quite simple, with a copper heat pipe, a fan, and a heatsink slot. Asus also pays attention to heat dissipation for VRM circuits when adding a metal plate.

Display screen

ASUS VivoBook 15 OLED K513 is equipped with a screen with an AMOLED panel, 15.6-inch screen size, Full HD resolution (1920×1080), model code Samsung ATNA56YX03-0 (SDC4161). In addition, the screen ratio is 16: 9, and the pixel density – is 142 PPI.

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Wide and comfortable viewing angle

The maximum brightness measured is 390 nits (cd/m2) in the center of the screen (HDR off). The corresponding color temperature on a white screen and at maximum brightness is 6400K – pretty close to the 6500K sRGB color temperature.

In the illustration below, you can see how the screen works from a homogenous perspective. DeltaE color deviation is low below 2.0. The contrast ratio is very good, IPS or TN panels have no “equal” to compare!!

The yellow dotted line represents the color gamut coverage of the ASUS VivoBook 15 OLED K513.

Its screen covers 100% sRGB and 100% DCI-P3, for vivid, sharp color and image display quality.

Battery life

Conduct the battery test in the following conditions: screen brightness is adjusted down to 120 nits, all programs are turned off except for the one we used to test, and Windows Better Performance mode is enabled. As a result, the VivoBook 15 OLED’s 42Wh battery lasts for 9 hours and 16 minutes of web browsing, or 6 hours and 57 minutes of video playback.

CPU Performance

The VivoBook 15 OLED model K version has 4 processor options, including Intel Core i3-1115G4, i3-1125G4, i5-1135G7, and i7-1165G7.

GPU Performance

In terms of graphics, besides the integrated Intel UHD graphics card, Iris Xe G7, .., there are also dedicated discrete GeForce MX330 and MX350 cards.

Temperature and cooling system

Stress test

In this test, we run light-to-heavy tasks over time, pushing CPU cores up to 100%, thereby monitoring clock stability, and temperature chip output.

Also in this test, we enabled the Performance setting from the separate application software provided by Asus. It allows the processor to maintain the 28W TDP limit for a long time, thereby also keeping the clock close to 3.0 GHz at the end of the test. This can be considered an impressive result, but the temperature emitted is quite warm at 85 degrees Celsius.

Warmth can be felt through the keyboard frame, but fortunately, it is mainly concentrated around the Numpad area, not affecting too much the process of use.

Summary

Advantage

The screen has high color coverage, and color accuracy is also high.

Hardware upgrade support is quite good.

Impressive hardware performance.

Battery life is decent.

Defect

2 out of 3 old tech USB-A 2.0 ports