Asus ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition (2026) Review

Design and Keyboard

• Subtle GoPro design cues
• Rugged and solid feel
• Excellent ports, plus comfortable keyboard and trackpad

The ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition hasn’t deviated from the compact form factor of the standard model that prioritises function over form, rather than the other way around. It’s an all-black metal frame with a meaner, rugged look that fits this laptop’s use case well, while it benefits from GoPro styling, such as the machined ridges and embossed GoPro logo on the lid, to help distinguish it from the standard ProArt PX13.

It tips the scales at 1.39kg, which is on the heavier side for such a small laptop. However, it remains easily portable with the 13-inch form factor in mind, and feels especially durable in hand. There’s no flex in the chassis, while the laptop’s 360-degree hinge feels robust.

Helping its more rugged characteristics is the fact that the ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition is slightly thicker than you may anticipate at 15.8mm. Granted, this still puts it in ultrabook territory, but it’s thicker than a lot of modern ultrabooks due to the venting and cooling needed for the beefy Strix Halo chip inside.

The port selection here is functional, with the left side coming with a DC jack for charging, a full-size HDMI 2.1 port, a Thunderbolt 4-capable USB-C port and a headphone jack. On the right, there’s another Thunderbolt 4-capable USB-C port, a USB-A, and a high-speed MicroSD card reader. For creatives on the move, that’s ample connectivity.

Opening up the ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition’s lid reveals a small form factor 65 percent keyboard layout, with arrow keys and a function row. It’s a comfortable keyboard to use for extended periods, with a good length of travel and a soft but snappy feel. Being a GoPro Edition laptop, the default keyboard backlight colour is the brand’s signature hue of blue, which is a nice touch. It also has a specific key on the function row for opening the GoPro Player app.

The trackpad on this Asus laptop is a nice size, allowing your fingers to track accurately and smoothly. Owing to this laptop’s video-centric use case, the trackpad also has Asus’ clever DialPad integrated in the top left corner. It’s essentially an integrated jog-wheel of sorts which allows you to control functions for everything, such as adjusting volume, or scrubbing through a YouTube video in Chrome. You can set it up to act as a useful shortcut for advanced functions in Adobe apps, too.

Display and Sound

• Detailed and compact OLED panel
• 60Hz refresh rate is a shame
• Excellent colours, display and contrast ratio

It seems that Asus hasn’t made any changes to the screen from the base PX13 against the ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition, continuing to opt for a 13-inch 2880×1800 resolution 60Hz OLED touchscreen. The detail here across a smaller panel is excellent, and the touch input is very responsive, although the lack of a higher refresh rate screen is a bit of a shame for the price.

As expected from an OLED screen, this panel has exemplary colour accuracy, with perfect coverage of both the mainstream sRGB and creative DCI-P3 gamuts, while Adobe RGB coverage at 95% is also excellent.

The black level and contrast ratio of the ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition is top-class too, with brilliant depth and dynamic range. My colorimeter measured a 0.01 black level and 33650:1 contrast, plus a decent 6800K colour temperature.

The 460.5 nits of peak SDR brightness give this screen solid vibrancy for images with a good amount of pop, although it isn’t quite as bright as the larger Asus ProArt P16 with the latest Lumina Pro tandem OLED screen inside.

As for its speakers, the ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition features a pair of downwards-firing drivers that sound okay. They have reasonable depth, although they could do with a bit more bass and overall power.

Performance

• Beefy Strix Halo processor
• Potent for games and creative loads
• Hefty RAM and storage combo

The big draw with this ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition over the standard model is that it can be specced with one of AMD’s Strix Halo APUs. These were unveiled at CES last year, and promised mega performance with lots of cores and threads, plus very powerful integrated graphics.

I’d previously been impressed with Strix Halo in the Asus ROG Flow Z13 (2025), although this more conventional laptop is packing in the beefiest chip in the lineup. This ProArt machine has the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395, with its 16 Zen 5 cores, 32 threads and up to 5.1GHz boost clock. I needn’t say that it’s a very powerful chip on specs alone.

Thankfully, this is also backed up with some outstanding benchmark results. Granted, the single-core scores are on par with the new Intel Panther Lake chips inside the likes of the Samsung Galaxy Book6 Pro and the Asus Zenbook Duo (2026), although intriguingly, it’s in the multi-threaded loads where this Asus laptop falls behind a smidgen against Panther Lake in both Geekbench 6 and Cinebench R23.

This top-spec Strix Halo chip also benefits from AMD’s most potent integrated graphics, with the Radeon 8060S, complete with its 40 RDNA 3.5 Compute Units to make it one of the most powerful iGPUs you’ll find. As much as this has especially potent gaming power for a thin ultrabook, such as the ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition, the draw with this laptop is the potency for more creative loads, as demonstrated by its seriously high 3DMark Time Spy score.

To get into some gaming numbers, at 1080p I saw 66fps in Cyberpunk 2077 and 70fps in Returnal, plus 154fps in Rainbow Six Extraction which is seriously impressive for integrated graphics, and is the best I’ve seen from an APU. That’s a fair margin higher than even Intel’s top Arc B390 iGPU found in the top-end Panther Lake chips, and proves that demanding AAA games can be run, although with some caveats.

Going up to 1440p, the 31.89fps result in Cyberpunk 2077 proves performance does take a hit at Ultra settings, although if you’re happy to drop to a lower graphics preset and enable FSR 2.1, you will see more playable rates at the higher resolution. For instance, at this laptop’s native 2880×1800 resolution and the same Ultra preset, it took Cyberpunk 2077 up to 41.86fps, and up to 78.53fps at 1080p.

The RT: Ultra preset may still be a little too far, though, with just 21.33fps recorded at 1080p, although FSR 2.1 did push this up to 37.36fps. Nonetheless, what AMD has cooked up with this top-spec Strix Halo chip is mighty impressive.

Asus has also upgraded the RAM and storage combo with this ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition, opting to bundle 128GB of LPDDR5X RAM inside this compact powerhouse. I needn’t say that’s a lot of RAM, although it has its benefits for everything from running local AI models to intensive video editing. 

There is also a capacious 2TB SSD inside, which is handy for storing project files, video libraries and raw media files alike with room to spare. With tested read and write speeds of 7111.32 MB/s and 6727.37 MB/s, it’s also a brisk PCIe Gen 4 option.

Software

• Copilot+ PC AI powers
• Lots of Asus-specific apps
• Integration with GoPro services baked in

The ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition has the usual AI features that its contemporaries have, and is a Copilot+ PC, as the Strix Halo chip inside has enough AI horsepower. This includes image creation features in Photos and Paint, as well as the clever blurred background, auto framing and eye contact tools with the Windows Studio webcam effects.

There are also some Asus-specific apps pre-installed. These include GlideX, which is where you can manage tasks such as casting or mirroring the screen to other devices wirelessly, or transfer files across the same network. You can also enable remote access to a mobile device, too.

The StoryCube app is designed as another means of organising photos and videos, using AI to recognise faces and file your photos for you, which is handy – with this GoPro Edition laptop, it also provides access to the integrated GoPro Cloud app. MuseTree comes pre-installed, which is an AI image generator.

Battery Life

• Lasted for 10 hours 57 minutes in the battery test
• Capable of lasting for between one and two working days

Asus has bundled the ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition with a 73Whr cell, which should help provide decent endurance for the very powerful Strix Halo inside, plus the compact, high-res OLED screen. Surprisingly, there isn’t a specific claim as to how long it’ll last, and the battery capacity is unchanged from the non-GoPro model.

In dialling the brightness down to the requisite 150 nits and running the PCMark 10 Modern Office battery test, this ProArt machine lasted for 10 hours and 57 minutes. This will get you through a working day with room to spare, although it is a little disappointing against the battery life gains we’ve seen with Panther Lake-powered ultrabooks from Samsung and Asus itself.

Asus has also bundled this laptop with a beefy 200W charger that, unsurprisingly, puts power back into the ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition rather briskly. It took just 28 minutes to get it back to 50 percent, while a full charge took 70 minutes.

Should you buy it?