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.
Heating and battery life
The maximum CPU temperatures of 98 degrees are no different from the competition, the worst of the compared pieces was the Zephyrus G14 with 102 °C. However, this is the maximum measured value across the tests, i.e. values that are usually the result of a rapid increase in performance and then decrease slightly. The same goes for the GPU with a value of 82 °C, which is the highest measured value for the change.
We will look at a more detailed analysis when comparing the modes and extended tests of Blender. We will be interested in it mainly due to the results of rendering tests but also graphics and game benchmarks.
Considering the large 300 Hz display, the battery life is relatively good with a value of almost 5 hours, which defeats the Legion 7i by a hair and ranks just behind the Zephyrus M15. This is not enough for the G14 or Legion 5, but again it is necessary to consider what components the SCAR 17 offers and neither the G14 nor the Legion 5 can compete with it in terms of performance.
