ASUS ROG Strix Scar 15 Review (5900HX/RTX 3080)

1. Introduction2. CPU, Memory & SSD3. 3DMark4. Gaming 5. Thermals, Noise & Battery6. Closing Thoughts7. View All Pages

CPU Performance

Blender 2.92:

Cinebench R23:

Handbrake 1.3.3:

CPU Performance Summary:

We see similar, but overall slightly better CPU performance from the Scar 15's 5900HX than that of the Strix G15 Advantage, which seems to be down to the Scar's ability to maintain higher all-core clock speeds under load. The Handbrake media encode is also a fair bit faster, but the 32GB DDR4 memory – with seemingly higher quality modules than the G15 – also helps matters here.

Memory Performance

AIDA64:

Speaking of the memory, bandwidth is higher than the other two ASUS laptops we have tested, but still not quite at the same levels as the MSI GE76 Raider, though do remember that machine is priced at over £4000.

Drive Performance

CrystalDiskMark:

It may not be as optimal as a single PCIe Gen4 SSD – both because of long-term reliability and the fact that a single 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD would leave a second slot for future upgrades – but the 2x 1TB SK Hynix BC711 drives, configured in RAID 0, really deliver the goods in our sequential read/write speed test.

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