The Best & Worst of RTX 5000 Laptops - ROG Strix SCAR 16 & 18 Review

Published on 17 Jun 2025, 16:27

The ROG Strix SCAR 16 and Strix Scar 18 are all new for 2025 with GPUs like the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090. In this review we put the 2024 vs 2025 gaming laptop performance in the spotlight with the RTX 4080 vs RTX 5080 and RTX 4090 vs RTX 5090....and the gaming results are interesting. But there's things like CPU performance, battery life, cooling and a lot more that need to be taken into account and that might be where these 2025 gaming laptops are some of the best....maybe.

Buy items in this video from Amazon at the links below:
SCAR 16 RTX 5080 - geni.us/SCAR165080
SCAR 18 RTX 5090 - geni.us/SCAR185090

Buy from Best Buy here:
SCAR 16 RTX 5080 - bestbuy.7tiv.net/SCAR16RTX5080

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - 2024 vs 2025 ROG Laptops
1:05 - Strix SCAR Series Specs & Prices
2:18 - System Power (GPU & CPU) Explained
3:00 - All Laptops in this Review
3:20 - 1600p Gaming Framerates
5:11 - 4K Gaming Framerates
6:14 - GPU Accelerated Creator Workloads
7:40 - CPU Benchmarks
8:50 - SCAR 16 / 18 Temperatures & Noise
10:06 - AMAZING Upgrade Design!!!
10:48 - A Brand New SCAR Design..for Intel Only
13:29 - An Amazing Display
14:46 - Battery Life is...Weird?
15:50 - I Actually LIKE the RGB...Except...
16:36 - The Best & Worst of 2025 Gaming Laptops

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Review unit provided free of charge by ASUS as loaner devices. This video is not sponsored. As per Hardware Canucks guidelines, no review direction was received from manufacturer. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

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