The Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 (2025) is a gaming laptop with a physical footprint of 399 mm wide by 298 mm tall and a thickness of 23 mm, giving it a volume of approximately 2,734.75 cm³. It tips the scales at 3,480 g, which is consistent with its large chassis and active cooling setup — the design does not use a fanless configuration. The laptop includes a backlit keyboard, while weather sealing is not part of the build.
The laptop features an 18″ display with a resolution of 2560 x 1600 px, resulting in a pixel density of 167 ppi for a reasonably sharp image across its large panel. An anti-reflection coating is present to help reduce glare, though the screen does not support touch input. The GPU can drive up to 4 displays simultaneously, making it suitable for multi-monitor setups.
The processor runs across 24 threads with a core configuration of 8 cores at 2.7 GHz and 16 cores at 2.1 GHz, reaching a turbo clock of 5.4 GHz, and is built on a 4 nm semiconductor process with multithreading and 64-bit support. System memory sits at 32 GB of DDR5 at 5,600 MHz across two slots, with a maximum capacity of 64 GB. Storage is handled by a 1,024 GB NVMe SSD connected via PCIe 4.0. On the graphics side, the GPU carries 12 GB of GDDR7 VRAM with a base clock of 847 MHz and a boost of 1,447 MHz, delivering 17.04 TFLOPS of floating-point performance alongside a texture rate of 266.2 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 115.8 GPixel/s; it supports DirectX 12 Ultimate but does not include XeSS.
In PassMark testing, the system achieves an overall score of 56,426, reflecting the combined throughput of its CPU and subsystems, while the single-threaded result comes in at 4,723, indicating the per-core processing capability of the processor. The GPU registers a PassMark G3D score of 23,749, providing a standardized measure of its graphics rendering performance.
Wired connectivity includes three USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, two USB 4 40Gbps ports with Type-C connectors, one RJ45 Ethernet port, and a single HDMI 2.1 output; there are no DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, VGA, Thunderbolt 3, or Thunderbolt 4 outputs, and no external memory slot. Wireless connectivity is handled by a Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) adapter that also supports Wi-Fi 6E, Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 5, and Wi-Fi 4, paired with Bluetooth 5.4. The laptop additionally supports AirPlay for wireless display streaming.
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 powered off or in sleep mode. It does not use a MagSafe power adapter.
Audio output is handled by stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos support, and a 3.5 mm headset jack is included, though there is no S/PDIF output. The laptop features a front camera paired with 3D facial recognition and two built-in microphones, but does not include a fingerprint scanner or voice command functionality. On the graphics side, the GPU supports both ray tracing and DLSS. Motion and location sensors — including a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, and GPS — are absent, and no stylus is included in the package. 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, a TDP of 60W, a maximum operating temperature of 105°C, and Turbo Boost version 2 support; it uses big.LITTLE technology, features an unlocked multiplier, includes integrated graphics, and operates across 2 memory channels with a maximum supported RAM speed of 6,400 MHz. The processor also carries 36 MB of L3 cache and 40 MB of L2 cache, supports the NX bit, double precision floating point, and ECC memory, and is compatible with instruction sets including MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2. It contains 31,100 million transistors and supports Intel Resizable BAR. The Blackwell-architecture GPU features 5,888 shading units, 184 texture mapping units, and 80 render output units, backed by a 192-bit memory bus running at an effective speed of 25,400 MHz for a maximum bandwidth of 608.6 GB/s; GPU memory speed is rated at 1,750 MHz. The GPU does not include LHR, but supports multi-display output, stereoscopic 3D, OpenCL 3, and OpenGL 4.6.
