The one actual downside is the high value. The true magic of the GamePad is in how it interacts with video games. It excels in CPU and GPU efficiency 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 field, 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 mix of the S17’s i9-11900H processor and RTX 3080 GPU making light work of the workload within the RoTTR preset. Cinebench’s single-threaded benchmark scores show solely minimal distinction amongst laptops (consultant of mainstream applications), nevertheless, the S17’s multi-threaded score ranked the S17 the second highest among our comparison laptops, proving its suitability for high-finish gaming and CPU demanding tasks like 3D video editing. That’s enough for practically all Mac laptops to cost at full velocity or while in use.
