Question ASUS TUF VG3B 27" Monitor looks kind of grainy ?

[BuffBro7141]

Hello. As per the title, I have an ASUS TUF VG3B 27" monitor that runs at 180hz. I am connecting this monitor to my ASUS TUF F15 FX506 laptop that has a NVIDIA RTX3050 GPU w/only 4gb VRAM.

The monitor is a 1920x1080p monitor, and I am already aware this size has some decent PPI issues, but my friend has the same monitor, albeit with an actual PC, and it looks incredible and smooth and sharp. Mine looks grainy and weirdly overly white/saturated/bright. I have tried turning on the monitor's HDI, ASUS' ASCR setting, ELMB, and turned the VividPixel (sharpness, essentially), all the way up.

I've done Windows clear text option and even fiddled in the ASUS Display Widget. No matter what I do, the monitor just has that sense of graininess and a bit of blurriness. I've even messed with the contrast and saturation directly on the monitor, which helped to reduce the oversaturation.
I only have the shadow boost on level 1, my friend has it on level 3.

ASUS Armory Crate gives me a notification that the GPU power saving mode isn't set up to use an external display, and there is no way to turn it off, this even happened on Standard mode.
I've just been very confused lately trying to get my monitor to look even close to as good as my friend's does, as his looks as though it's like a 2k resolution monitor or something because it is so smooth/sharp.

 

[Aeacus]

I've just been very confused lately trying to get my monitor to look even close to as good as my friend's does

For that, there is simple fix: replace your laptop with desktop PC. Since that's the only diff between your build and your friend's build.

Also, do note that laptop version of the same GPU is inferior compared to the desktop version of the same GPU.
E.g laptop GTX 3050 vs desktop GTX 3050, comparison: https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-3050-Laptop-vs-Nvidia-RTX-3050/m1570008vs4127

My best guess, your GPU isn't powerful enough to give you the smooth image on the monitor. Hence why yours looks "grainy" and your friend's (who has desktop PC and desktop GPU) has it much smoother on the same monitor.