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

Memory and storage 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.

Memory and storage tests




We also see solid results in the memory test, where again there are just tiny differences. Unfortunately, the latency in this case is in the last place from the compared models.


I can praise the SSD speed. This is the fastest measured read speed in a single-drive configuration, and writing is also one of the top places.

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