The Asus ROG Strix Scar 16 (2025) is a gaming laptop with a physical footprint of 354 mm wide by 268 mm deep and a thickness of just 22 mm, giving it a relatively slim profile for its class. It weighs 2,850 g and has a total volume of 2,087.184 cm³. The chassis is cooled by an active fan system rather than a fanless design, and it does not carry a weather-sealed or splashproof rating. A backlit keyboard is included, adding usability in low-light environments.
The laptop features a 16″ Mini-LED display with a resolution of 2560×1600 px and a pixel density of 188 ppi, offering a sharp and detailed image across the panel. It runs at a 240Hz refresh rate, making it well-suited for fast-paced content, and includes an anti-reflection coating to reduce glare in various lighting conditions. The screen does not support touch input, and the system can drive up to four displays simultaneously.
The processor runs 24 threads across a configuration of 8 cores at 2.7 GHz and 16 cores at 2.1 GHz, with a turbo clock speed reaching 5.4 GHz, and is built on a 4 nm semiconductor process with multithreading support. System memory consists of 64GB of DDR5 RAM running at 5600 MHz across two slots, with a maximum supported capacity of 64GB and a peak speed ceiling of 6400 MHz. Storage is handled by a 2048GB NVMe SSD using flash memory over a PCIe 4 interface, and the system supports 64-bit operation. On the graphics side, the GPU carries 16GB of GDDR7 VRAM with a base clock of 975 MHz and a turbo of 1500 MHz, delivering 23.04 TFLOPS of floating-point performance alongside a texture rate of 384 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 144 GPixel/s; it supports DirectX 12 Ultimate but does not include XeSS acceleration.
In CPU benchmark testing, the system achieves a PassMark multi-threaded score of 56,426, reflecting the combined processing throughput of all available cores and threads. The single-threaded PassMark result stands at 4,723, indicating the per-core processing capability of the processor.
Wired connectivity includes three USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports and two USB 4 40Gbps ports with Type-C connectors, while Thunderbolt 3 and 4, USB 3.2 Gen 1, and USB 4 20Gbps ports are absent. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port, with no DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, or VGA connector present. Networking is covered by one RJ45 port for wired connections alongside Wi-Fi support spanning Wi-Fi 4 through Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be), and Bluetooth 5.4 is included for short-range wireless. AirPlay is supported, but there is no external memory card slot.
The laptop is equipped with a 90 Wh battery and supports sleep-and-charge functionality, allowing connected USB devices to be charged even when the system is in a low-power state. It does not use a MagSafe power adapter.
Audio is handled by stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos support, a 3.5 mm headset jack, and two built-in microphones, while an S/PDIF output is not included. For graphics, the system supports both ray tracing and DLSS, expanding rendering options for compatible applications. A front camera is present alongside 3D facial recognition for authentication, though there is no fingerprint scanner, and voice commands are not supported. Motion and location sensing features — including a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, and GPS — are all absent, and no stylus is included in the box. There is also no optical disc drive.
The CPU is a laptop-type processor mounted in a BGA 2114 socket with a clock multiplier of 27 and an unlocked multiplier, a TDP of 80W, Turbo Boost version 2, and a maximum operating temperature of 105 °C; it uses big.LITTLE technology, includes integrated graphics, and supports the MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2 instruction sets alongside an NX bit. Cache consists of 40 MB of L2 and 36 MB of L3, and the dual-channel memory subsystem supports up to 6400 MHz RAM with ECC. The GPU is built on the Blackwell architecture and features 7,680 shading units, 256 texture mapping units, and 96 ROPs, operating across a 256-bit memory bus at an effective memory speed of 25,400 MHz and delivering a maximum bandwidth of 811.5 GB/s; it supports multi-display output, stereoscopic 3D, double-precision floating point, OpenCL 3, OpenGL 4.6, and Intel Resizable BAR, and does not carry LHR restrictions. GPU memory runs at a base speed of 2000 MHz, and the platform does not use AMD SAM.
