**Comparing the Dell G14 and G16: Two Gaming Laptops with Different Flavors**

Let's take a closer look at these two gaming laptops from Dell, both of which are designed to deliver exceptional performance for gamers. We'll compare the features, specifications, and design of the Dell G14 and G16, highlighting their similarities and differences.

**Retail Packaging and Design**

One notable difference between the two laptops is the retail packaging. The G14 has the same packaging as the other models in this series, while the G16 comes in a different retail packaging that's more subdued in terms of attention-grabbing aspects. This means that the G16 can blend in with its surroundings and might be more suitable for use in executive spaces or gaming laptops that need to double up as workstations.

**Display**

Both laptops feature 16-inch displays, but there are some key differences between them. The G14 has a smaller trackpad compared to the G16, which has a significantly larger and more spacious keyboard layout. The keyboard on both laptops is similar, with slim bezels and RGB backlighting. However, the G16 has a slightly brighter display, making it ideal for gaming and video consumption.

**Specs and Performance**

When it comes to specs, the G14 and G16 have different strengths. The G14 is powered by Intel Core i9-11900H processors, while the G16 features more powerful Intel Core Ultra 9-1855H processors. In terms of graphics cards, both laptops offer RTX options, but the G16 can configure up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 GPU, making it a better choice for more demanding games. The G14 also comes with a 240W power adapter, which is necessary for the higher-end GPUs.

**IO and Connectivity**

Both laptops have similar IO configurations, including USB-A, USB-C, HDMI, Thunderbolt, and an SD card slot. However, the G16 swaps out the full-size SD card slot for a microSD card slot on the other side of the laptop. This is likely due to space constraints in the smaller design.

**Battery Life**

Both laptops have similar battery life expectations, but the G14 is slightly more lightweight at 1.5 kilograms compared to the G16's weight. However, the G16 has a larger trackpad that might be considered a trade-off for some users.

**Additional Features**

The G16 comes with some additional features that set it apart from the G14. These include:

* 2TB SSD storage (compared to the G14's 1TB)

* A more immersive display with 240Hz refresh rate

* Support for Sonic Match technology, which synchronizes lighting and sound effects

**Conclusion**

Ultimately, the choice between the Dell G14 and G16 comes down to personal preference. If you prioritize portability and a larger display, the G16 might be the better choice. However, if you prefer a lighter laptop that's still packed with features, the G14 is an excellent option. Both laptops are designed for gaming and content creation, but the G16 offers more advanced features and configurations for serious gamers and content creators.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso we got some brand new zephrus stuff in front of me some new gaming laptops 14 and 16 and two completely different looks and two completely different configurations in terms of the chip that's inside first we have this specialized packaging here so we have this kind of acrylic top and then this nice texture to the bottom part of it as well Rog zephrus G14 and 16 this is the 14 inside this packaging here limited edition for unbox therapy we lift up the first portion and they've got this nice little booklet here describing some of the design characteristics some of the inspiration also the timeline of the zephrus lineup like you can see we go back we've got 2020 up to 2023 you can see some of the various drawings kind of concept art CNC unibody design and here we get our first Glimpse at the latest with this light bar on the back and then some of the things they were able to accomplish built to balance top tier r performance with portability and here you can see some of the manufacturing process different perforations and the unibody and again Inspirations and I mean that's a nice look right there okay so let's just move past that here is our device once again this is the G14 and look at how Sleek that is for an RTX capable gaming laptop and I think they found a pretty nice balance here for portability understated design but still something special still something capable you look at it and you see this light bar and you go okay that's not a typical laptop but at the same time it's not overwhelming so you can configure this to do a couple of different things light up obviously we do see Republic of Gamers down here but it's not like an overwhelming amount of branding as we look around the side we've got micro SD usba USBC this is also display port and then over here we have proprietary DC in for power fulls size HDMI port Thunderbolt another USB a and then we have our an analog audio jack now if we lift the lid the incredibly thin lid on here this is what the deck looks like I mean again I just like how minimalist and simple it is we have this edgo Edge track pad that's one of the bigger track pads I've seen I know it gets even bigger on the 16-in model power switch up top we have our dedicated audio buttons also separated from the main keyboard deck nothing mushy going on here just satisfying tactile you can see the amount of key travel you're getting there but like very little Flex if any obviously the keyboard is back lit and we're going to have RGB there so depending to what extent you want to show off the gamer aspect of this laptop you can do so utilizing RGB now when it comes to power and specifications so we do have to have a bit of a beast for the power brick and the reason for that is because we've got an RTX graphics card in there we want to get some of those impressive frame rates pretty beefy 180 wat power adapter now you could charge this up over the type-c port at 100 WS but just keep in mind for maximum performance you'll use the 180 Watt and then when you jump up to the 16-in model you've actually got a 240 W power brick for CPU you can configure up to amdr 98945 HS GPU up to RTX 470 you've got up to 32 gigs of lpddr 5x memory a 3K OLED 120 HZ 500 nit Peak brightness under HDR circumstances display with Nvidia g-sync support So this model has a 1 tbte SSD different configurations are available and that whole deal is coming in around 1.5 kg a very surprising figure for something with this spec sheet and it's all put together in this unibody package for something that feels strong now let's do a quick comparison with the 16-in model which I have in a different color now this one unlike the other is retail packaging so this is what you're going to see if you pick one of these up and in the darker color I would say it's even more subdued in terms of like attention grabbing aspects like this could go into the executive space and then double up as that gaming laptop it's just a little bit more covert little bit more stealth so this is black but you can still see that sort of metallic Sheen and once again we have our light bar this time obviously a little bit larger because it's on this 16 in display here we get a fullsize SD card slot usba a and then a type- c and then on the other side our power port HDMI Thunderbolt usba and analog audio so very similar I think the only thing that changes in terms of IO is swapping a full size SD for a Micro SD so obviously with this guy we step up to the 240 W power adapter and then that sends you the other important signal which is okay with 240 WTS we probably have different RTX options and you do and this 16-in model we're looking at Intel chips up to the Intel Core Ultra 9 185h there's actually quite a few RTX options you can configure in here depending on the price point you want to go for you can get the 4090 4080 70 60 or 50 the other difference if you spec the 70 or below is you'll receive a 200 W power adapter instead of the 240 so this display also OLED and 240 HZ capable but slightly fewer pixels at 2560 x600 but I think a lot of people are going to be fine with that trade-off considering we're at 240 this gives you an even larger trackpad that's a that is a huge trackpad now I'll give you a quick comparison here it might not be as obvious if you didn't have these right beside each other but obviously if you do you can tell just how much bigger that gets the keyboard on the other hand stays very similar speaker grills get larger and obviously the display grows as well now the other difference here 2 TB SSD storage compared to one and you can configure this model without OLED at a different price point obviously so bigger laptop but very similar keyboard Behavior I think the keyboard is almost identical between the two slightly different sound RGB backlit exactly what you expect uh slim bezel slimmest along the sides you have a little bit more room up top obviously in order to fit in your webcam so kind of a tough choice it really depends what you want to prioritize obviously we have some difference in spec but they're both going to be extremely capable and I think portability is going to come into play if you want the lighter weight package that can maybe go a few more places like this thing is really light at 1.5 kilos or if you want that slightly more immersive larger display and if you really want 240 htz this is where you're going to configure the slash lighting as it's called on the back of these devices so it's inside of Armory crate and here you can choose your favorite lighting effects you can edit it yourself so it could be completely unique so there's a few different presets and different themes as well and there's a dark mode to turn it off you can adjust the brightness oh you've also got something called Sonic match which is actually going to match the lighting to the sound every all right so couple observations we have a little bit of fan noise now obviously we're running off the power as well so the battery is charging which obviously has an effect as well of course with a gaming laptop while gaming you're probably going to have a headset on although in this case we were using the speakers and that was fine it was drowning out a lot of the fan as well main thing 240 HZ crazy smooth beautiful OLED display and with Max settings there on OverWatch we're achieving over 200 frames so a very sleek and minimal gaming laptop in a couple of different flavors you have the G14 and the the g16 one's a little bit lighter one's got a slightly better GPU and some beefier configurations and one's going to take up less space in your bag either can work as your main laptop your work laptop and then do your gaming on the side without looking like over the top or out of place in the workplace let me know down in the comments which would you choose of these two would you go for the g16 bigger display better options for graphics cards or would you go for the G14 still still with OLED and tons of pixels and you still got RTX but the entire package is 1.5 kilos like this is light for a gaming laptopso we got some brand new zephrus stuff in front of me some new gaming laptops 14 and 16 and two completely different looks and two completely different configurations in terms of the chip that's inside first we have this specialized packaging here so we have this kind of acrylic top and then this nice texture to the bottom part of it as well Rog zephrus G14 and 16 this is the 14 inside this packaging here limited edition for unbox therapy we lift up the first portion and they've got this nice little booklet here describing some of the design characteristics some of the inspiration also the timeline of the zephrus lineup like you can see we go back we've got 2020 up to 2023 you can see some of the various drawings kind of concept art CNC unibody design and here we get our first Glimpse at the latest with this light bar on the back and then some of the things they were able to accomplish built to balance top tier r performance with portability and here you can see some of the manufacturing process different perforations and the unibody and again Inspirations and I mean that's a nice look right there okay so let's just move past that here is our device once again this is the G14 and look at how Sleek that is for an RTX capable gaming laptop and I think they found a pretty nice balance here for portability understated design but still something special still something capable you look at it and you see this light bar and you go okay that's not a typical laptop but at the same time it's not overwhelming so you can configure this to do a couple of different things light up obviously we do see Republic of Gamers down here but it's not like an overwhelming amount of branding as we look around the side we've got micro SD usba USBC this is also display port and then over here we have proprietary DC in for power fulls size HDMI port Thunderbolt another USB a and then we have our an analog audio jack now if we lift the lid the incredibly thin lid on here this is what the deck looks like I mean again I just like how minimalist and simple it is we have this edgo Edge track pad that's one of the bigger track pads I've seen I know it gets even bigger on the 16-in model power switch up top we have our dedicated audio buttons also separated from the main keyboard deck nothing mushy going on here just satisfying tactile you can see the amount of key travel you're getting there but like very little Flex if any obviously the keyboard is back lit and we're going to have RGB there so depending to what extent you want to show off the gamer aspect of this laptop you can do so utilizing RGB now when it comes to power and specifications so we do have to have a bit of a beast for the power brick and the reason for that is because we've got an RTX graphics card in there we want to get some of those impressive frame rates pretty beefy 180 wat power adapter now you could charge this up over the type-c port at 100 WS but just keep in mind for maximum performance you'll use the 180 Watt and then when you jump up to the 16-in model you've actually got a 240 W power brick for CPU you can configure up to amdr 98945 HS GPU up to RTX 470 you've got up to 32 gigs of lpddr 5x memory a 3K OLED 120 HZ 500 nit Peak brightness under HDR circumstances display with Nvidia g-sync support So this model has a 1 tbte SSD different configurations are available and that whole deal is coming in around 1.5 kg a very surprising figure for something with this spec sheet and it's all put together in this unibody package for something that feels strong now let's do a quick comparison with the 16-in model which I have in a different color now this one unlike the other is retail packaging so this is what you're going to see if you pick one of these up and in the darker color I would say it's even more subdued in terms of like attention grabbing aspects like this could go into the executive space and then double up as that gaming laptop it's just a little bit more covert little bit more stealth so this is black but you can still see that sort of metallic Sheen and once again we have our light bar this time obviously a little bit larger because it's on this 16 in display here we get a fullsize SD card slot usba a and then a type- c and then on the other side our power port HDMI Thunderbolt usba and analog audio so very similar I think the only thing that changes in terms of IO is swapping a full size SD for a Micro SD so obviously with this guy we step up to the 240 W power adapter and then that sends you the other important signal which is okay with 240 WTS we probably have different RTX options and you do and this 16-in model we're looking at Intel chips up to the Intel Core Ultra 9 185h there's actually quite a few RTX options you can configure in here depending on the price point you want to go for you can get the 4090 4080 70 60 or 50 the other difference if you spec the 70 or below is you'll receive a 200 W power adapter instead of the 240 so this display also OLED and 240 HZ capable but slightly fewer pixels at 2560 x600 but I think a lot of people are going to be fine with that trade-off considering we're at 240 this gives you an even larger trackpad that's a that is a huge trackpad now I'll give you a quick comparison here it might not be as obvious if you didn't have these right beside each other but obviously if you do you can tell just how much bigger that gets the keyboard on the other hand stays very similar speaker grills get larger and obviously the display grows as well now the other difference here 2 TB SSD storage compared to one and you can configure this model without OLED at a different price point obviously so bigger laptop but very similar keyboard Behavior I think the keyboard is almost identical between the two slightly different sound RGB backlit exactly what you expect uh slim bezel slimmest along the sides you have a little bit more room up top obviously in order to fit in your webcam so kind of a tough choice it really depends what you want to prioritize obviously we have some difference in spec but they're both going to be extremely capable and I think portability is going to come into play if you want the lighter weight package that can maybe go a few more places like this thing is really light at 1.5 kilos or if you want that slightly more immersive larger display and if you really want 240 htz this is where you're going to configure the slash lighting as it's called on the back of these devices so it's inside of Armory crate and here you can choose your favorite lighting effects you can edit it yourself so it could be completely unique so there's a few different presets and different themes as well and there's a dark mode to turn it off you can adjust the brightness oh you've also got something called Sonic match which is actually going to match the lighting to the sound every all right so couple observations we have a little bit of fan noise now obviously we're running off the power as well so the battery is charging which obviously has an effect as well of course with a gaming laptop while gaming you're probably going to have a headset on although in this case we were using the speakers and that was fine it was drowning out a lot of the fan as well main thing 240 HZ crazy smooth beautiful OLED display and with Max settings there on OverWatch we're achieving over 200 frames so a very sleek and minimal gaming laptop in a couple of different flavors you have the G14 and the the g16 one's a little bit lighter one's got a slightly better GPU and some beefier configurations and one's going to take up less space in your bag either can work as your main laptop your work laptop and then do your gaming on the side without looking like over the top or out of place in the workplace let me know down in the comments which would you choose of these two would you go for the g16 bigger display better options for graphics cards or would you go for the G14 still still with OLED and tons of pixels and you still got RTX but the entire package is 1.5 kilos like this is light for a gaming laptop\n"