ROG Strix SCAR 17 – Ryzen 7 5800H with GeForce RTX 3080

Encryption, encoding

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.

Encryption, encoding


In both encryption and decryption, the differences are in a few percent and all values are around 10 GBps.


h264 video editing is practically identical to the 4800H in the Legion 5, but with h265 the newer chip achieves an 11% better result.

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