ASUS TUF Gaming with Ryzen 7, GTX 16XX graphics coming to the Philippines, priced

Written by Vaughn ChuaPublished • April 23, 2019

ASUS has announced that its refreshed TUF Gaming laptops with Ryzen 7 processor and GTX 16XX series graphics will come to the Philippines very soon.

The company announced in February the new TUF Gaming laptops with an AMD Ryzen processor and Radeon RX 560X graphics. During the launch, we also caught a glimpse of a different model labeled as the Gold Steel variant. When asked, ASUS has stated that it has a metal chassis as compared with the plastic material that the usual models have.

There will be three 15-inch variants and one 17-inch model. The FX505DT and FX505DU will sport an AMD Ryzen 7 3750H with Radeon Vega Mobile graphics while the FX505DD will have a Ryzen 5 3550H with a Radeon Vega Mobile graphics. All of the models will have a 4GB DDr4 2666MHz RAM up to 32GB with varying NVIDIA graphics:

GTX 1050 (3GB GDDR5 VRAM) – FX505DD
GTX 1650 (4GB GDDR5 VRAM) – FX 505DT
GTX 1660ti (6GB GDDR6 VRAM) – FX505DU

For storage, the FX505DD and FX505DT will have a 1TB HDD while the FX 505DU will have two configurations — 1TB HDD + 256GB SSD or 1TB HDD only.

As for the FX705DU, it will have a 17.6-inch display with an AMD Ryzen 7 3750 processor with Radeon Vega Mobile graphics, GTX 1660ti GPU with 6GB GDDR6 of VRAM, and 1TB HDD + 256GB of SSD.

Here are the prices of each variant:

TUF Gaming FX505DU (Ryzen 7 3750, 15-inch 120Hz display, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD + 256GB SSD, GTX 1660ti 6GB GDDR5) – PHP 71,995
TUF Gaming FX505DT (Ryzen 5 3550, 15-inch 120Hz display, 4GB RAM, 1TB HDD storage, GTX 1650 4GB GDDR5) – PHP 49,995
TUF Gaming FX505DT (Ryzen 7 3750, 15-inch 120hz display, 4GB RAM, 1TB HDD, GTX 1650 4GB GDDR5) – PHP 54,995
TUF Gaming FX705DU (Ryzen 7 3750, 17-inch FHD IPS display, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD + 256GB SSD, GTX 1660ti 6GB GDDR5) – PHP 74,995

Local availability is yet to be announced.