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The ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 17 SE (the SE standing for Particular Version) is essentially the most {powerful} gaming laptop computer in the ASUS vary, and a contender for essentially the most {powerful} gaming laptop computer cash can purchase. It’s one of many first laptops to return with a brand new Intel HX collection laptop computer CPUs: upgraded variations of the already {powerful} Intel twelfth gen laptop computer collection of processors, with extra cores and cache, one thing the common ROG Strix SCAR 17 doesn’t. It has choices for the best TGP fashions of the RTX 3070 Ti or the RTX 3080 Ti, the latter additionally coming with distinctive superior cooling. On prime of all that, the Particular Version has a signature aesthetic design, commemorating older iterations of the ROG collection and with some hidden particulars. However, is it definitely worth the steep price ticket? Learn on to seek out out.
ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 17 SE
CPU
Intel Core i9-12950HX
Graphics
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti (150W) / RTX 3080 Ti (175W)
RAM
32GB 4800MHz DDR5 (max capability 64GB)
Storage
4TB M.2 4.0 NVMe (Raid 0)
Specs & upgradability
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti (150W) / RTX 3080 Ti (175W)
32GB 4800MHz DDR5 (max capability 64GB)
4TB M.2 4.0 NVMe (Raid 0)
2x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Kind-A, 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Kind-C help DisplayPort / energy supply / G-SYNC, 1x Thunderbolt 4 help DisplayPort, 1x HDMI 2.1, 1x RJ45 LAN port (Ethernet), 1x 3.5mm Combo Audio Jack
Professionals
- a minimum of as {powerful} as another gaming laptop computer
- excellent inner cooling on RTX 3080 Ti model
- MUX Change
- 240Hz QHD show
- 100% sRGB & 99% DCI-P3
- good high quality keyboard & trackpad
- very quick Raid 0 SSDs
- good construct high quality
- good high quality audio system for a Home windows laptop computer
Cons
- no webcam
- no SD card reader
- colour accuracy may very well be higher
- uncomfortable keyboard placement
- No G-Sync
- very costly
Opening the again of the laptop computer required eradicating 11 Phillip’s Head screws and a little bit of cautious however agency prying (we suggest a slender prying software for this job). Watch out when doing so to not tear the 2 connective ribbons which hyperlink the physique of the laptop computer to the RGB strip on the underside facet of the case. These might be disconnected and reconnected with care, however it’s troublesome to take action, and requires a tweezer-like software.
Inside there are two PCIe Gen 4 M.2 slots for SSD storage, which might be upgraded at a later date must you want, although the whopping 4TB of storage ours got here with (2x 2TB) ought to be greater than ample. The SSDs on this machine are extraordinarily quick, coming in a RAID 0 setup that provides 12,295MB/s learn speeds and 13,330MB/s write speeds.
There are two upgradable DDR5 appropriate RAM slots, and ours got here geared up with the utmost spec 32GB 4800MHz, although this may be upgraded to a most of 64GB down the road. There’s additionally an upgradeable Wi-Fi 6e slot.
The max specced model of the Strix SCAR 17 Particular Version comes with a really spectacular 175W TGP RTX 3080 Ti GPU, which is essentially the most {powerful} graphics card you will get in a gaming laptop computer, in addition to vapor-chamber cooling to allow it to run as quick as doable with out thermal throttling. Notice that the cheaper RTX 3070 Ti model doesn’t include the vapor chamber cooling answer.
All variations of the laptop computer include the Intel Core i9-12950HX, which is essentially the most {powerful} retail laptop computer CPU cash can purchase.
Software program
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The ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 17 SE comes with the standard ASUS Armoury Crate software program, that each one the corporate’s gaming laptops are saddled with. We are saying that as a result of the software program is a poorly laid out, busy mess, with far an excessive amount of in the best way of popups and menus that are basically ASUS advertising and marketing.
Nonetheless, it does have diploma of performance and customization: whether or not you’re searching for most gaming efficiency when plugged in, most vitality effectivity on battery, quiet followers while working, or just need to activate the MUX Change for a extremely beneficial efficiency enhance in-games (although this can require a full restart of the latpop).
Most of those controls are underneath the Dwelling part, the place you’ll be able to choose from Silent, Balanced or Turbo presets, or create your individual Guide customized profile the place you’ll be able to allocate wattage to the CPU and GPU, in addition to arrange fan profiles and save them so you’ll be able to simply change between them.
One distinctive function we haven’t seen earlier than is the Legacy DRM compatibility button on the house display, which lets you disable the e-cores (effectivity cores) inside the CPU when taking part in older video games that don’t help this function. That is purely to assist in backward compatibility and has no profit in any other case.
We’ll go into the opposite performance in larger element underneath the Display and Efficiency, Noise & Temperature sections beneath.
Design aesthetics & RGB
The aesthetic design is likely one of the key issues which differentiates the ASUS ROG STRIX SCAR 17 Particular Version from the common variant, incorporating sure components which might be a nod to the historical past of the ROG line and have an old-school really feel. Whenever you look down onto the keyboard, the physique of the laptop computer is split by a diagonal gray stripe stuffed with miniature ROG logos, with the left facet showing matte black and the proper third exhibiting the internals of the laptop computer by a semi-transparent smokey gray plastic.
The again left of the laptop computer has a silver-grey removable, slide-off plastic part with ROG in large letters; this may be changed with two totally different colour choices that include the laptop computer. The again of the laptop computer’s lid is the place the fanciest particulars lie, within the faint purple-green engravings that occupy a 3rd of its floor; barely seen in regular gentle however which gentle up underneath UV/LED gentle to disclose varied easter eggs and hidden messages. The included mini UV flashlight helps make these seen.
To the underside proper of the keyboard is the world the place the removable crimson keystone sits, although we didn’t get certainly one of these in our evaluation copy (we are going to speak extra about this beneath).
Whether or not or not you’ll be a fan of the aesthetic actually relies on your tastes. I preferred the design on the lid and the matte black sections of the laptop computer, although it does entice smudges very simply. I used to be much less of a fan of the gray/silver particulars, which seemed low-cost to my eye, and will take or go away the translucent factor, although my colleague was a giant fan of this latter half.
With regards to RGB there are plenty of choices: the emblem on the again of the lid, small strip underneath the show, keyboard, and enormous strip alongside the underside fringe of the laptop computer can all be custom-made. All might be setup from inside Armoury Crate utilizing ASUS’s AURA results (together with the standard respiratory, strobing, and a variety of different results).
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Measurement, construct high quality & ergonomics
The scale of the ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 17 SE (RTX 3080 Ti model) are as follows:
Top: 2.75cm / 1.08″, Width: 39.5cm / 15.55″, Depth: 28.2cm / 1.11″
Wanting on the weight now:
laptop computer: 6.57lb / 2.98kg, energy adapter & cable: 2.15lb / 0.98kg, mixed weight 8.72lb / 3.96kg
As a 17-inch desk alternative laptop computer, the ROG Strix SCAR 17 SE is just not an simply transportable gadget. The ability brick alone has a considerable weight to it, and also you’ll want a decent-sized bag to suit the laptop computer inside. That being mentioned, in comparison with competing laptops of comparable display measurement and energy, it measures up pretty effectively.
Though the width of each laptops is about the identical, the ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 17 is about 0.22” narrower than the MSI Titan GT77 at its thickest level (when it comes to its top when laid on a desk) and a full 2” much less deep, because of the substantial derriere on the Titan. In comparison with the MSI Raider GE76 the width and depth are very comparable, although the SCAR 17 SE is about 0.6” thicker.
Weight-wise the 8.72lb SCAR 17 SE is definitely lighter than each the ten.93lb Titan GT77 and the 9.15lb Raider GE76. Apparently, the RTX 3070 Ti mannequin of the laptop computer is round 1.75lb lighter, because it doesn’t include the extra weight of the vapor-chamber cooling answer.
By way of construct high quality, virtually every little thing on the plastic and metallic chassis is as much as the standard ASUS excessive commonplace, together with the trackpad and the keyboard. The hinges particularly had been good and stable, which is all the time good to see, and we skilled no display wobble in any respect when utilizing the laptop computer. The one exception to this was the removable gray/silver plastic ROG part on the again left nook, which feels unpleasantly unfastened and flimsy – this doesn’t cowl something essential so it doesn’t matter if it comes off when it comes to the longevity of the laptop computer, however if you’re paying this a lot cash we’d have preferred to have seen a bit extra high quality.
Keyboard & trackpad
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The keyboard is opto-mechanical however of a chiclet-style, that means the keys are pretty flat. Regardless of this they’ve an inexpensive 2mm of journey and a 0.2ms set off time, although we discovered them to be a bit much less clicky and responsive than these of the ASUS ROG FLOW X16 for instance.
The keyboard is full-size as you’d count on on a 17-inch machine, with numpad included, which makes it extra helpful exterior of gaming. The keyboard is positioned far again from the entrance of the laptop computer, behind the massive wrist relaxation and trackpad. This was the identical within the 16-inch ROG FLOW X16, nonetheless on this smaller 16-inch gadget it was simpler to get used to, on the SCAR 17 the keyboard is even additional away, and when you’ve smaller-sized fingers it may be pretty uncomfortable. You could end up by chance nudging the trackpad with the facet of your thumbs / inside fingers when making an attempt to sort among the back-central keys. A barely smaller trackpad for a more in-depth keyboard would have been a worthwhile trade-off.
The keyboard has varied helpful shortcuts as secondary capabilities of the perform keys, together with a sleep button, airplane mode, a button to disable to the trackpad, one to shortly cycle by the fan efficiency profiles and one other to open the Armoury crate software program. There isn’t any fingerprint sensor included nonetheless.
Based on ASUS the keyboard ought to for 20 million presses, although sadly we didn’t have the time in our evaluation to check the veracity of this declare.
The trackpad is massive, feels good and responsive, and has a satisfying clicking motion to it.
Webcam, ports, sockets, and different options
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The webcam on the ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 17 SE might be simply summarised: non-existant. Even on one thing designed to be a pure gaming laptop computer, and an homage to older ROG designs, the shortage of a webcam on a laptop computer this costly and enormous is just not actually acceptable, significantly provided that ASUS has added them to most of their different gaming laptop computer traces in 2022.
In an analogous vein there is no such thing as a SD card reader on the SCAR 17 SE, an annoying omission given this could in any other case be the best dual-use workstation and gaming machine for creatives.
Moreover this the collection of ports is enough: two USB-A 3.2 gen1 ports (one on the again, on on the proper) are good to see alongside the 2 USB-C ports, certainly one of which doubles as a Thunderbolt 4 socket with as much as 100W charging help and video output from the devoted graphics card (dGPU), and the opposite permitting output from the iGPU. You additionally get an HDMI 2.1 port which additionally connects to the dGPU, that means you’ll be able to output to 2 displays from the Nvidia graphics card.
The mannequin we acquired to evaluation didn’t include the removable keystone sadly, however we all know it may be used to switch pre-configured profiles inside Armoury Crate, or act as a fast approach to immediately activate these profiles when inside or exterior of a recreation. Not solely does this imply you’ll be able to simply change between say most fan and voltage efficiency to silent efficiency, but in addition extends to fast launch for varied applications as quickly as you insert the gadget. You may also set it to routinely lock the laptop computer when you take away it, which is a pleasant safety function, or use ‘Shadow Drive’ to retailer delicate paperwork/knowledge on the keystone, solely accessible if you plug it right into a appropriate ASUS laptop computer.
Display
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There are two display choices for the ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 17 SE: both a 1080p 360Hz mannequin, or the 1440p 240Hz choice we needed to evaluation. Each are 16:9 IPS screens, and ideally we’d have preferred to have seen some extra vertical display area with a 16:10 facet ratio, nonetheless we will’t complain an excessive amount of given the 17.3″ sized display. The underside bezel is a bit on the thick measurement, however all of the others are good and skinny, and the show definitely feels lots large enough to recreation on.
Until you’re a really hardcore aggressive gamer, the 240Hz 1440p show ought to be the higher choice, as we predict the upper decision on a display this measurement is only a higher all spherical visible expertise. The upper refresh charge of the 360Hz choice would offer you barely extra of an edge in on-line shooters, when you tweaked your settings to allow you to get FPS considerably above 240 (which, relying on the sport, may not require you to decrease your settings a lot with this {hardware}).
We received a mean grey-to-grey response time of 4.3ms on the 240Hz mannequin we examined (count on the 360Hz model to be barely higher a minimum of), which may be very near the 4.16ms threshold wanted to utterly remove ghosting at this refresh charge (if not fairly). An excellent end result.
Sadly the laptop computer doesn’t include G-Sync to assist remove tearing, which is dissapointing at this worth, nonetheless it does have Adaptive Sync.
ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 17 SE evaluation colour gamut
ASUS claims that the SCAR 17 SE covers each 100% of the sRGB spectrum and DCI-P3 spectrum. Our outcomes, which you’ll see beneath, helps the sRGB assertion, recording 99.9% sRGB (which is pretty much as good as 100%) however simply fell shy in the case of the 98.6% DCI-P3 end result. Nonetheless, this shall be shut sufficient to 100% DCI-P3 that it’s best to have the ability to work in that area with little subject. Adobe RGB protection was 86.7%.
ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 17 SE evaluation colour accuracy out of the field
Previous to calibrating the show, the colour accuracy of the ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 17 SE out of the field confirmed a mean delta of two.78, which is a bit disappointing, and above the two.5 threshold {that a} display wants to attain beneath to get a respectably low degree of variance. The white level nonetheless, was superb at 6425K, pretty near the best 6500K end result. Gamma was equally good at 2.14, not far off the two.20 superb. Black depth was enough at 0.1087 cd/m², however we’d have preferred to have seen a greater (decrease) end result, and the identical might be mentioned for the 1105.7:1 distinction ratio.
ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 17 SE evaluation colour accuracy following calibration
Calibration noticed little optimistic change to the outcomes, with the perfect end result being the rise within the white level to 6470K. Black level and distinction ratio barely modified (0.109 cd/m² and 1102.6:1 respectively), and the gamma elevated barely to 2.18. Common Delta elevated (i.e. worsened) very barely to 2.81.
The dearth of change isn’t too stunning given the display has already been Pantone calibrated and licensed (nonetheless all the time value a crack regardless). It’s doable {that a} extra in-depth calibration than the one we did could yield a barely improved delta end result, although it’s unlikely.
Finally, which means that professionals working in fields the place colour accuracy is paramount may not discover this show appropriate for his or her wants, even with the nice gamut protection. The vast majority of creatives (together with professionals) who don’t need to be fairly so industry-precise in the case of colour ought to nonetheless discover it greater than appropriate nonetheless.
ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 17 SE panel uniformity
We do a panel uniformity check on all laptops we evaluation after their calibration, which checks for each luminance and colour accuracy. We begin on the centremost level as a reference after which check all the opposite sections of the display (25 in whole) to see how they examine.
Typically, any common colour variation underneath 1.00 is nice and exhibits up as inexperienced within the picture above, although the typical shopper received’t have the ability to inform a lot distinction beneath 3.00. Visible editors who work with colour nonetheless could have a keener eye.
The outcomes we received on the Scar 17 SE had been fairly good. Most variation was beneath 1.00 common delta (in inexperienced), with the left edge and backside proper nook averaging between a 1.14 and a pair of.58 rating (in yellow). Because of this the untrained eye doubtless will discover no variation in any respect on the display, with color-trained professionals with the ability to detect some discrepancy alongside the left-hand facet and backside proper. Nonetheless, this explicit result’s ok for many creatives to work with until they’re working on the very excessive finish of color-accurate requirements. It’s only a disgrace the colour accuracy outcomes detailed above are usually not fairly as much as scratch.
ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 17 SE brightness
We completed off our colour accuracy testing by working a luminance check. On the unit we examined, we received a peak brightness of 303 cd/m² and a minimal of three.45 cd/m². This peak brightness is ok for gaming or for workplace use indoors, although considerably disappointing given the worth tag – we’d have preferred to have seen 350nits a minimum of.
When utilizing the laptop computer indoors throughout the daytime we’d suggest matching the brightness to 120 cd/m² which equates to a brightness setting of 38% underneath the brightness controls for this laptop computer.
Audio
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ASUS are likely to have the perfect audio system within the enterprise so far as gaming laptops go, and the ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 17 SE continues this pattern. It comes with a 4-speaker system (with two downward going through woofers and two upward going through tweeters) that’s able to producing in all probability the perfect bass replication we’ve heard in a gaming laptop computer, although admittedly not by a lot – you continue to received’t get the form of audio output you’ll from a MacBook, and bass tones stay weedy when taking part in music or gaming. Regardless of the supposedly superior speaker system, we didn’t discover a lot better sound than on the FLOW X16 for example, which is a a lot thinner and lighter machine. Nonetheless – nice high quality audio for a gaming laptop computer.
The highest quantity is decently excessive, although once more not fairly as loud as we anticipated, significantly given the Good Amplifier Know-how. Crucially although there wasn’t any discernible lack of sound high quality at max quantity.
Lastly, the laptop computer comes with Two Manner AI Noise Cancellation, that may be turned on inside Armoury Crate, and utilized to incoming and outgoing audio when on a videocall or streaming, with the intention to filter any errant background noises, and enhance readability. Within the temporary check we carried out there was a discernable improve in audio high quality throughout a voice chat, although the function does drain the battery quicker than if it’s turned off.
Battery life
There was an fascinating quirk (presumably a bug?) with the settings inside Armoury Crate for the SCAR 17 SE that meant we couldn’t fairly do our typical battery check.
Once we set MSHybrid (i.e. Optimus) on, to allow the laptop computer to make use of the built-in GPU (iGPU) to avoid wasting energy, this prevented us from altering the brightness settings – both through the keyboard controls or withing Home windows.
Consequently, we did needed to do our typical check however on 100% brightness: with Quiet Mode and Panel Energy Saver all turned on underneath Dwelling > System Configuration inside Armoury Crate. Additionally, One Zone Backlight Management switched on, Panel Overdrive turned off, and underneath Gadget > System the GPU Energy Saving set to Eco Mode. Keyboard RGB was additionally turned off.
Conducting our typical check of background functions switched off, two hours of fullscreen YouTube, then the remainder internet searching and typing on GoogleDocs, the ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 17 SE battery life lasted 5 hours.
Once we tried working the identical check however with MSHyrbid off and at 38% brightness, the battery life dropped to round 2 hours 45 minutes.
For an Intel twelfth gen laptop computer with an RTX 3080 Ti graphics card and a 17-inch display, 5 hours is definitely fairly affordable for a gaming laptop computer, significantly on most brightness. The substantial improve in battery utilization that comes with turning off MSHybrid and outputting from the dGPU solely means this isn’t advisable until you want it for gaming.
Efficiency, noise & temperature
Noise
Normally, non-gaming utilization, when set to Silent mode inside Armoury Crate the ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 17 SE was very quiet, although not utterly silent. We observed a sporadic however recurring quiet noise from the mechanics of the laptop computer which sounded a bit like a tough drive ‘head over platter’ noise (one thing like a “brrrrt-brrr-brrrr” sound), although a lot quieter. Given the laptop computer comes with SSDs solely we’re unsure what that is, however regardless it wasn’t an irritation. That is the setting we’d suggest when you’re in a quiet workplace or on public transport.
On Balanced Mode the followers had been undoubtedly audible, although moderately quiet. When gaming underneath Turbo or our personal customized Guide preset (both of which we’d suggest), the laptop computer received loud, although no worse than most competing high-end laptops with this a lot energy.
Exterior temperature
The SCAR 17 SE remained cool to the contact for common use when switched to Balanced mode. Silent mode generated some slight heat on the keyboard after extended use however beneath what you’d usually count on from most gaming laptops.
When gaming on both Turbo mode or our personal maximized customized preset, with each the followers and energy allocation to the CU and GPU set to the max, there was a bit of heat generated on the keyboard after a interval of gaming, however it was noticeably cooler than different gaming laptops we’ve examined up to now. An excellent end result.
Inside temperature
The graph above exhibits the temperature outcomes for the video games we examined.
As per all of our checks, we set the wattage allocation to the CPU and GPU to the utmost inside the onboard software program, set the followers to most underneath Dwelling > handbook mode, and turned off any vitality saving settings for the GPU and different elements – this can put the utmost pressure on the inner temperatures of the laptop computer, and isn’t essentially what you’d need for daily gaming, however provides the perfect concept of the utmost efficiency potential.
To present you a unfastened concept, the low-to-mid 90’s is the place thermal throttling begins to happen on a CPU, and the excessive 90’s is the place harm to the longevity of elements begins to happen.
The outcomes present respectable scores for the CPU max temp and common temp throughout all of the video games, however the GPU max temperatures are the bottom we’ve ever recorded by round 2 levels celsius on common, and the typical GPU temps are additionally pretty spectacular. This will very like be attributed to the vapor-chamber cooling on the RTX 3080 Ti mannequin of the SCAR 17 SE that we examined.
ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 17 SE benchmarks
We examined the ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 17 SE with Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti and Intel Core i9-12950HX in each its native 1440p decision and at 1080p throughout a variety of titles on totally different graphical presets.
We made positive that MSHybrid/Optimus was turned off, utilizing the MUX Change inside the Armoury Crate software program, which is how we suggest everybody has it set when taking part in demanding video games, because the FPS uplift it brings might be as excessive as 50% in some titles.
As said above, we used Guide Mode in Armoury Crate to show the voltage allocation and fan pace to most when testing every recreation.
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For CSGO (a extra CPU-leaning recreation) at 1080p there was just about no change within the common FPS recorded between the totally different graphical settings, although there was some uplift on the 1% and 0.1% FPS because the settings had been lowered. This factors to the very fact that is an older, much less demanding recreation, and that the bottlenecking of efficiency on the decrease settings is all the way down to the constraints of the sport itself. At 1440p it was an analogous story, and the typical FPS throughout each resolutions stayed inside the tiny 346 – 348 FPS vary. On CSGO at 1440p on the best settings nonetheless, there have been notable body drops at 1% and 0.1%, which interprets to occasional stuttering throughout hectic gunfights.
For Doom Everlasting (a extra GPU-heavy recreation) we noticed simply the perfect outcomes we’ve ever recorded on this recreation throughout each setting, however particularly the outcomes the place Ray Tracing was switched on along with the best graphical preset led by a rustic mile. This speaks to the ability of the upper VRAM of the RTX 3080 Ti, its 175W TGP, and the elimination of among the thermal throttling because of the cooling answer on the GPU.
Far Cry 6 (one other extra CPU-focused recreation) noticed simply the perfect outcomes we’ve recorded on the best and medium graphical presets throughout each resolutions, however curiously scored worse on the bottom graphical presets in comparison with the Intel Core i7-12700H-equipped XMG Neo 15 E22 with RTX 3070 Ti GPU. We’re noticing comparable ends in our testing of the ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo 16 with AMD Ryzen 9 6980HX and RTX 3080 Ti, which in all probability factors to some form of replace with the sport altering some facet {hardware} efficiency on the decrease settings. Good outcomes regardless.
Lastly, Murderer’s Creed Valhalla (a reasonably commonplace), which as of Spring 2022 now has FSR help. Most of our historic testing on this recreation couldn’t implement this function, however we predict it greatest to indicate the perfect efficiency doable so had it set to ‘Balanced’ within the settings for all our benchmarking. Unsurprisingly, these are essentially the most spectacular outcomes we’ve examined on this recreation by some margin, although it’s troublesome to say how a lot of that is all the way down to the implementation of FSR vs the laptop computer itself. You possibly can see our ASUS ROG Zephyrus FLOW X16 evaluation for an instance of an RTX 3070 Ti, RX 6900HX laptop computer performing with FSR Balanced enabled, nonetheless for a comparability in opposition to one other RTX 3080 Ti machine you’ll have to await our upcoming ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo 16 evaluation.
Artificial benchmarks produced the next outcomes. Once more these checks had been carried out with CPU and GPU voltage and fan pace set to most inside Guide mode:
Cinebench R23
- Multicore: 23,391
- Single core: 2,008
3D Mark Time Spy
- CPU: 16,995
- GPU: 13,582
- Total: 14,001
ASUS ROG STRIX SCAR 17 SE vs MSI Titan GT77 vs MSI Raider GE76
As said, the MSI Titan GT77 and MSI Raider GE76 are the principle competing laptops to the ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 17 SE. All three laptops have the identical 175W TGP RTX 3080 Ti GPU, although have totally different CPUs: the SCAR 17 SE has essentially the most {powerful} Intel Core i9-12950HX, the Titan GT77 has the i9-12900HX, and the Raider GE76 has the i9-12900HK wither fewer cores and cache.
Sadly, we haven’t but had probability to check these MSI laptops ourselves, however have finished some dutiful scouring of the net for different reviewers we belief to see their benchmark outcomes. On common it appears that evidently the ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 17 SE performs about as effectively in-game because the MSI Titan GT77 in FPS phrases: performing just a few % higher in some titles, however worse in others by about the identical. You’d be unlikely to note a lot distinction between the efficiency of the 2 in-game until you had been truly wanting on the FPS rely. In artificial benchmarks simulating inventive workloads, the Strix SCAR 17 SE nearly edges forward of the Titan, more than likely as a result of its barely extra {powerful} CPU.
The Raider GE76 performs about 3-5% worse in FPS phrases throughout the board in comparison with both of those two laptops, and has inferior workstation efficiency as a result of its comparatively weaker CPU (although nonetheless fairly spectacular).
By way of different options, the MSI Titan GT77 comes with a webcam, SD card reader, 4 upgradeable RAM slots (versus two on the SCAR 17 SE), the choice to purchase the machine geared up with 64GB, and 4 upgradeable M.2 SSD slots (one of many slots being PCIe Gen 5), albeit with no RAID 0 choice (that means quicker SSDs for the Scar 17 SE). The shows of each machines are comparable, however the Scar SE 17 has superior DCI-P3 colour replication, with the Titan solely managing 73.2% protection. The Titan has worse audio system, however comparable battery life. The options of the Raider are similar to the Titan, excluding solely having two upgradable RAM and SSD slots.
Ultimate Phrase
All the pieces thought-about, the ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 17 SE is in a minimum of joint first place for the title of strongest gaming laptop computer, although we’re a bit much less entusiastic about it than we want to be contemplating the very excessive price ticket. For an MSRP at round $4,299, we’d have anticipated to have seen a webcam, SD card reader, and higher colour accuracy, weak factors which all detract from its usefulness as a dual-use inventive/workstation machine, whatever the CPU’s energy. Choices for overclocked RAM, a fingerprint scanner, and significantly G-Sync would even have been good. Then once more, we’d definitely rating it pretty evenly with the competing MSI Titan GT77: though this has a webcam and an SD card reader, in addition to larger RAM and SSD enlargement choices, it’s a bit larger and heavier, is just not fairly as {powerful} in workstation duties, has worse audio system, and a narrower colour gamut for creatives fascinated about working within the DCI-P3 area.
Finally, all of it comes all the way down to worth for cash, and when you’re simply after an ultra-powerful gaming rig, we’d in all probability go for the marginally much less {powerful} MSI Raider GE76 when you can decide one up for considerably cheaper (the perfect deal we’ve seen is the 4K model on Newegg for $3,690). If you happen to really need essentially the most {powerful} laptop computer round although, and are into the distinctive ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 17 Particular Version styling, then it’s definitely a worthy choice.
