TL;DRAsus listed the 2026 ROG Zephyrus G16 with an RTX 5080 at $4,799. The 2025 model with a more powerful RTX 5090 sells for $4,599 on Amazon.
Asus has quietly added an RTX 5080 configuration to the ROG Zephyrus G16 (2026) in the US, and the price is $4,799. That is $200 more than the 2025 ROG Zephyrus G16 with a more powerful RTX 5090 GPU and 64GB of RAM, which is currently available on Amazon and Newegg for $4,599. A newer laptop with a weaker graphics card costs more than its predecessor with a stronger one.
The new model pairs Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5080 with Intel’s Core Ultra 9 386H, the first Panther Lake processor to ship in a gaming laptop. It comes with 64GB of LPDDR5X RAM, a 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD, and a 16-inch 2.5K OLED display running at 240Hz with 1,100 nits peak brightness. Asus lists the GPU’s total graphics power at up to 160W in manual mode, 20W more than the RTX 5070 Ti variant that was previously the only US option.
The RTX 5080 is not a small upgrade over the 5070 Ti. It carries 16GB of GDDR7 VRAM compared to the 5070 Ti’s 12GB, and independent benchmarks show it delivering roughly 15 to 23 per cent better gaming performance depending on resolution. The RAM also doubles from 32GB to 64GB in this configuration.
