Asus brought quite a few Republic of Gamers (ROG) products to Computex 2026. One announcement that might’ve flown under the radar is that the company is giving the Wi-Fi 8 treatment to its head crabby ROG Rapture Wi-Fi gaming router series, with a forthcoming device called the Asus ROG Rapture GT-BN90 Pro.
If you’ve been following them, you’ll know the ROG Rapture routers as massive, RGB-laden affairs that take up plenty of shelf space with their big, greedy footprints. They’ve got eight antennas and an aggressively in-your-face top plate emblazoned with a shimmering ROG eye logo. Here, it’s peeking out through pixel-like dots. A significant chunk of that top plate is clear plastic that lets you see what looks like some of the router’s innards (lit by more RGB lights, naturally). Asus makes big claims on its website for this new 802.11bn gaming router, like that it will offer “up to 2x faster higher median throughput” or “up to 34% lower latency” (compared to what is unclear) when gaming—it’ll move more data at once and be more responsive, in other words. A graphic illustrates that the router can still put out a fairly stable 600Mbps stream versus the 200Mbps, unstable stream of another generic router at an unspecified distance. Asus also says the new router will feature “up to 35% better heat dissipation” compared to the Wi-Fi 6E-equipped ROG Rapture GT-AXE1600, which the company released in 2022. © Asus Unlike in TP-Link’s announcement of its own Wi-Fi 8 router last week, Asus included some hard details about the ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro. It’ll have seven ethernet ports: one gigabit LAN (for wiring up your laptops and such), three 2.5Gbps LAN, one 2.5Gbps LAN/WAN (meaning it can either wire your devices or bring in internet data from your modem), one 10Gbps LAN/WAN, and a 10Gbps “dedicated gaming port” that the company says automatically prioritizes gaming traffic. The two 10Gbps ports can be used in concert as one logical wired link, provided you have the equipment to take advantage of that.
