The only real draw back is the excessive value. The real magic of the GamePad is in the way it interacts with games. It excels in CPU and GPU efficiency and dishes up constantly clean and detailed visuals in AAA video games on its 4K display. In our Rise of the Tomb Raider benchmark, our Asus ROG Zephyrus S17 with Nvidia RTX 3080 GPU set to 140W topped the sphere, 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 mild work of the workload in the RoTTR preset. Cinebench’s single-threaded benchmark scores show solely minimal difference amongst laptops (representative of mainstream functions), nonetheless, the S17’s multi-threaded rating ranked the S17 the second highest among our comparability laptops, proving its suitability for prime-finish gaming and CPU demanding tasks like 3D video modifying. That’s sufficient for practically all Mac laptops to charge at full speed or whereas in use.