Display tests
Asus has taken a very bold and quite surprising step this year with its gaming laptop portfolio. It switched extensively to Ryzen 5000 processors and combined them with the new GeForce RTX 3000 mobile graphics cards. The new ROG Strix SCAR 17 is thus the first look at a new stage of mobile gaming, in the highest configuration with 8-core processor and a 16-gigabyte RTX 3080.
Gamut, brightness and color difference
We measured the image properties of the display using the Datacolor Spyder5Elite color analyzer. The display is one of the key features of gaming laptops for a full travel experience. The new generation of laptops also brings new display options. The tested piece has a 300 Hz Full HD 3ms matte IPS with Adaptive Sync, 300+ nit brightness and 100% sRGB coverage. There should also be an even faster 360 Hz model and a slower 165 Hz model with QHD resolution. Given the size of the display, I would recommend reaching for the QHD resolution.
The specs given by the manufacturer have been more or less confirmed to us. 100% sRGB, 82% AdobeRGB, 86% DCI-P3 and 79% NTSC are very good values for looking at a 300 Hz gaming panel. Gamma 2.2 with a slight deviation and a brightness of 313 nits are also respectable values. The average color difference of Delta-E with a value of 1.33 is also great.
Slightly worse is the uniformity of colors and backlighting, where we see a deviation in the orange band in the lower half of the display.
You can customize the display profiles in the Armoury Crate application in the Game Visual section.
- Contents
- Specs and details
- Testing methodology
- Display tests
- Rendering and Geekbench
- 3D/PC Mark and Unigine Heaven/Superposition
- Gaming tests – dedicated GPU
- Encryption, encoding
- Memory and storage tests
- Heating and battery life
- Blender – CPU, CUDA and Optix tests
- Performance modes
- Utility app
- Conclusion
