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.
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.
It’s key to remember something here: Wi-Fi 8 isn’t a finalized spec, and per Asus itself, that may not happen until 2028. That means if the BN98 Pro is released before then, there’s no guarantee it’ll carry with it all of the features that the spec will land on.
If none of that wets your whistle, Asus also announced a new Wi-Fi 7 router, the ROG Rapture GT-BE98 Pro Edition 20. It’s a head crab, like its coming Wi-Fi 8 sibling, but with a gold-on-black aesthetic that includes “a precisely applied gold metallic coating” on the antennas that gives it “a sophisticated metal-inspired texture.”
Leaving aside that “metal-inspired” is a very silly thing to write, the gaming router looks kind of neat. The golden aesthetic combined with the hieroglyphic-adjacent ROG eye logo gives it almost an Egyptian vibe. If you think these routers are goofy things to behold, I super agree, yet I’ve always appreciated how hard the company leans into the outrageous look.
Anyway, to quickly run down the GT-BE98 Pro Edition 20’s details, it has the same collection of ports as the GT-BN98 Pro, and the company makes similar Wi-Fi performance claims (like that it’s 2.4x faster than… something). It even gets its own “Signature Edition 20” interface that, like the router, is gold and black, but otherwise looks like what you’d expect if you’ve ever gone to the web browser interface for an Asus router. I’d assume it has more configuration options than you will ever need, something that is increasingly rare in this age of software hand-holding.
For now, it’s unclear when either of these products will arrive or how much they’ll cost, although the company did say in January when it showed off a concept Wi-Fi 8 router that it would be shipping its first Wi-Fi 8 devices this year. We’ve asked for more details and will update this if the company shares them.
