The Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 (2025) is classified as a gaming laptop with a weight of 3,480 g and a footprint of 399 mm wide by 298 mm tall, keeping a thickness of just 23 mm across its 2,734.746 cm³ volume. It features a backlit keyboard and relies on an active cooling system rather than a fanless design. The chassis is not weather-sealed, so it offers no splash protection.
The laptop features an 18″ Mini-LED LCD display running at a resolution of 2560×1600 px, which works out to a pixel density of 167 ppi. An anti-reflection coating is applied to the screen surface, though touch input is not supported. The system can drive up to four displays simultaneously, including the built-in panel.
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 and 64-bit support. Memory consists of 64GB of DDR5 RAM running at 5,600 MHz across two slots, with a maximum supported capacity of 64GB and a maximum speed of 6,400 MHz; storage is handled by a 2,048GB NVMe SSD using flash memory over a PCIe 4 interface. On the graphics side, the GPU carries 24GB of GDDR7 VRAM and delivers 31.8 TFLOPS of floating-point performance, a texture rate of 496.9 GTexels/s, and a pixel rate of 193.9 GPixel/s, with a base clock of 990 MHz boosting to 1,515 MHz; it supports DirectX 12 Ultimate but does not include XeSS acceleration.
In CPU benchmark testing, the laptop achieves a PassMark multi-core score of 56,426, while the single-core PassMark result comes in at 4,723.
Wired connectivity includes three USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, two USB 4 40Gbps Type-C ports, and a single HDMI 2.1 output, while a dedicated RJ45 port handles wired networking; there are no DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, VGA, Thunderbolt 3 or 4 outputs, and no external memory card slot. Wireless connectivity covers Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) along with backward-compatible Wi-Fi 6E, 6, 5, and 4 standards, paired with Bluetooth 5.4. AirPlay is also supported.
The laptop is equipped with a 90 Wh battery and supports sleep-and-charge on its USB ports, allowing connected devices to be charged even when the system is powered down. It does not include 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 a front camera and 3D facial recognition are included for authentication; there is no fingerprint scanner, and voice commands are not supported. On the graphics side, the laptop supports both ray tracing and DLSS, though it lacks a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, GPS, S/PDIF output, optical disc drive, and no stylus is included.
The CPU is a laptop-type processor mounted in a BGA 2114 socket with a 95W TDP, a clock multiplier of 27, an unlocked multiplier, and Turbo Boost version 2; it uses big.LITTLE technology, includes integrated graphics, supports ECC memory, and has a maximum operating temperature of 105 °C, with 36 MB of L3 cache, 40 MB of L2 cache, two memory channels, a maximum RAM speed of 6,400 MHz, and instruction set support spanning MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, alongside NX bit and Double Precision Floating Point capabilities. The GPU is based on the Blackwell architecture and features 10,496 shading units, 328 texture mapping units, 128 ROPs, a 256-bit memory bus, a GPU memory speed of 2,000 MHz, an effective memory speed of 25,400 MHz, and a maximum memory bandwidth of 811.5 GB/s; it supports multi-display output, stereoscopic 3D, OpenCL 3, OpenGL 4.6, Intel Resizable BAR, and does not include LHR.
