

We also think the QHD resolution is the sweet spot for high-refresh mobile gaming. The 3ms response time, 240Hz maximum refresh rate and support of NVIDIA G-Sync technology are also welcome features, which results in buttery-smooth animations and gaming, free of tearing artifacts. It’s not as bright or vibrant as some of the mini-LED laptop displays we’ve experienced recently, but offers great fidelity, with wide viewing angles and accurate color reproduction.

The IPS-level QHD display option on the ASUS ROG Strix Scar 17 is excellent.

So, let’s stop beating around the bush and get right to it.ĪSUS ROG Strix Scar 17 (2023) Gaming Laptop Specifications Just how powerful the ASUS ROG Strix Scar 17 is relative to the stiff competition in this space, however, remains to be seen. Needless to say, with AMD’s and NVIDIA’s latest and greatest silicon inside, the ASUS ROG Strix Scar 17 should be one powerful beast, well-equipped for a wide variety of workloads. And paired to the beefy Dragon Range processor is an equally powerful GPU, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

It is this powerful processor that beats at the heart of the latest ASUS ROG Strix Scar 17 gaming laptop we’ll be showing you here today.Īs its name suggests, the ASUS ROG Strix Scar 17 is a large format 17” gaming machine, but it is thinner and lighter than the average laptop in this class. The flagship processor in the family is the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX, a 16-core, 32-thread part that’s fundamentally similar to its desktop counterpart. Then at CES this past January, AMD revealed the starting line-up of Dragon Range processors, which will hit store shelves, featuring Ryzen 7045 HX branding. After a couple of leaks and unsubstantiated initial reports, AMD officially confirmed its plans to release a series high-end mobile processors, codenamed “ Dragon Range,” during a financial conference call in June of last year.
