AMD's new Ryzen 9 7945HX releases with a bang, beating out the most powerful gaming laptops on the market.
Asus ROG Strix Scar 17 MSRP $3,500.00 Score Details DT Editors' Choice “The Asus ROG Strix Scar 17 is a solid gaming laptop, buoyed by the excellent AMD processor inside.” Pros Cons AMD has struggled for a few years to make the list of the best gaming laptops, but Asus’ new Strix Scar 17 might be an inflection point. Serving as a showcase for AMD’s most recent mobile platform, it is hands down one of the fastest gaming laptops on the market.
Otherwise, the specs are fairly standard for a high-end, 17-inch laptop released in 2023. You get 32GB of DDR5 memory with support for up to 64GB if you upgrade it yourself, along Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.2, and a fairly mediocre webcam. That’s par for the course with most gaming laptops, unfortunately.
Originally, I was worried about thermals due to this design, but Asus has proven it has the situation under control. First, thick rubber feet on the bottom of the laptop help it stay lifted off whatever surface you’ve set it on. More importantly, the Scar 17 has a large intake vent on the back, which feeds air into the vapor chamber inside.
Build quality is decent, but the Scar 17 doesn’t carry the “robust milled aluminum chassis” that Asus advertises. The external surfaces are almost entirely plastic, short of the lid, which has an aluminum cover. Even so, the Scar 17 doesn’t feel cheap. There was little flex in the keyboard, and although there’s a bit of wiggle in the screen, I’m not worried about it snapping off the two hefty hinges Asus has in place.
Scaling back on the screen I was disappointed to learn that the Scar 17 doesn’t carry one of Asus’ new Nebula HDR displays. Instead, you’re getting a fairly standard IPS panel with unimpressive brightness and mediocre contrast . It’s very color accurate, with a color error of less than 1, but it fails to deliver the cinematic HDR experience I’ve seen with machines like the Zephyrus M16.
A win for AMD AMD isn’t messing around with its new Ryzen 7000 processors. The flagship Ryzen 9 7945HX inside the Strix Scar 17 is the fastest mobile processor I’ve tested, even managing to beat out Intel’s 24-core Core i9-13980HX across my suite of tests. That’s even when Intel’s processor is stuffed inside a massive laptop with a ton of cooling, such as the MSI GT77 Titan.
The chip stayed cool and quiet during testing, but gamers looking for optimal battery life won’t find it here. The Scar 17 was able to slightly beat out the Core i9-13900HX by about 30 minutes, but due to its size and massive computing power, the Scar 17 still isn’t efficient enough for all-day battery life.
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