The only real draw back is the excessive price. The real magic of the GamePad is in how it interacts with video games. It excels in CPU and GPU performance and dishes up consistently smooth and detailed visuals in AAA games on its 4K show. In our Rise of the Tomb Raider benchmark, our Asus ROG Zephyrus S17 with Nvidia RTX 3080 GPU set to 140W topped the sector, edging out the Asus ROG Zephyrus X13 with Ryzen 8 5980HS CPU and RTX 3080 GPU set at 150W. It additionally proved superior to the Adata XPG 15KC with GeForce RTX 3070 set at 145W - the combination of the S17’s i9-11900H processor and RTX 3080 GPU making mild work of the workload within the RoTTR preset. Cinebench’s single-threaded benchmark scores present solely minimal difference among laptops (consultant of mainstream functions), nevertheless, the S17’s multi-threaded score ranked the S17 the second highest among our comparability laptops, proving its suitability for top-end gaming and CPU demanding duties like 3D video modifying. That’s sufficient for practically all Mac laptops to cost at full velocity or whereas in use.
