The Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo is back at CES 2026 with an all-new look. No longer sporting a funky, half-sized touchscreen between the main display and the keyboard, the Zephyrus Duo is now a proper dual-screen gaming laptop. With a built-in second display, the Zephyrus Duo lets you game on one display and keep your team chat or raid strategy up on the second display, without needing any extra hardware.
That alone just might make the new Zephyrus Duo worlds ahead of the old model, which felt more like a proof of concept design than a usable gaming laptop.
From a Quirky Prototype to Something Actually Useful
The Zephyrus Duo was last seen in 2023 and featured an awkwardly-sized touchscreen display below the main panel, and that left the Duo with a truly awkward keyboard layout that pushed the touchpad to the extreme right-hand edge in an odd, vertical configuration. While not the worst dual-screen attempt, the original Zephyrus Duo design felt more like a prototype than a usable multi-screen laptop.
This new Zephyrus Duo design offers two full-sized displays that can be used in a top-bottom dual screen, side-by-side book, traditional laptop, and tent configurations similar to the revamped Asus Zenbook Duo that first hit the shelves in 2024.
Clearly, Asus took the two-year hiatus on the Zephyrus Duo to perfect the new, flexible hinge and wait for the right combination of specs to make a fully dual-screened gaming laptop be a functional, useful addition to the ROG gaming laptop lineup.
New Duo, New Specs
Along with the new design, the new Zephyrus Duo comes with a slight twist to its specs. Previously, the Zephyrus Duo featured a powerful Intel Core i9 HX or AMD Ryzen 9 HX mobile gaming processor, but this new model opts for a more energy-efficient Intel Core Ultra 300-H Panther Lake processor, likely due to weight and cooling constraints. The Intel Core Ultra 200HX and Ryzen 9 900l0HX3D processors are notoriously power-hungry and require additional cooling, while Intel’s Core Ultra 300 Panther Lake chip is designed more for thin and light laptops, so it requires less cooling and lets Asus put more power to the GPU, with up to 135W of total graphics power dedicated to the Zephyrus Duo 2026’s Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 mobile GPU.
The ROG Zephyrus Duo can be configured with up to 2TB of SSD storage and up to 64GB of LPDDR5 RAM, and dual 3K ROG Nebula OLED displays with a refresh rate of 120Hz, a response time of 0.2ms, and a peak HDR brightness of 1,100 nits.
Pricing and Availability
Asus has yet to announce a price or ship date for the new ROG Zephyrus Duo, but it’ll likely arrive within the first half of this year. As for the pricing, if it’s anything like the older models, the new Duo will be a premium investment in the $3,000-$5,000 range.
While that’s a large chunk of change for a laptop, we’ve seen more gaming laptops in that $5,000 range since the RTX 50-series launched last year and it seems that trend will only continue in the 16 and 18-inch desktop replacement segment. But, at least with the Zephyrus Duo, you get two displays for the price.
