Wanting Some Opinions

[Randi Poling]

SO I am looking at these 3 laptops:

ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 17 G733ZW-XS96
Lenovo Legion 5 Pro 16ARH7H
Lenovo Legion 5i Pro 16IAH7H

Any thoughts and/or opinions on these 3? Lenovo over Asus? Intel over AMD? Looking to get something that will last me a good while.

(Have the Lenovo Legion with 5800H and 3060 - 17" but the nVidia GPU died on it so returning)

 

[Eximo]

CPU comparisons, 12900H is certainly the fastest, but really depends on the cooling. The larger 17" laptop might pull ahead here as well.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compar...-12900H-vs-AMD-Ryzen-7-6800H/4721vs4728vs4749

I assume you would be going for the 3070Ti in each one? All priced pretty much the same around $2500.

16" screens on the Lenovo are 2560x1600 165hz vs the 17" 2560x1440 240hz of the SCAR. The Lenovos come with a pair of 1TB SSDs? And the SCAR only a single 1TB SSD. SCAR also has thunderbolt 4 , don't see that with Lenovo, but that is pretty typical, they stay away from standards that have licensing fees.

I don't see a 3070Ti pushing 165 FPS in AAA titles let alone 240 FPS, so I suppose it depends a lot on what you play how that will go.

 

[geofelt]

Look at the cooling systems.
Many laptop gamers complain of throttling.
Expect to not be able to get full performance without throttling when gaming plugged in.

Find reviews of the candidates and check out the cooling systems.

Do you need the portability of a laptop?
Perhaps a desktop would be cheaper for equivalent performance.

 

[Randi Poling]

Look at the cooling systems.
Many laptop gamers complain of throttling.
Expect to not be able to get full performance without throttling when gaming plugged in.

Find reviews of the candidates and check out the cooling systems.

Do you need the portability of a laptop?
Perhaps a desktop would be cheaper for equivalent performance.

I already have a dersktop with a 5800X and aa 3080ti, just looking for something portable thatll last me a while.

 

[Randi Poling]

CPU comparisons, 12900H is certainly the fastest, but really depends on the cooling. The larger 17" laptop might pull ahead here as well.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compar...-12900H-vs-AMD-Ryzen-7-6800H/4721vs4728vs4749

I assume you would be going for the 3070Ti in each one? All priced pretty much the same around $2500.

16" screens on the Lenovo are 2560x1600 165hz vs the 17" 2560x1440 240hz of the SCAR. The Lenovos come with a pair of 1TB SSDs? And the SCAR only a single 1TB SSD. SCAR also has thunderbolt 4 , don't see that with Lenovo, but that is pretty typical, they stay away from standards that have licensing fees.

I don't see a 3070Ti pushing 165 FPS in AAA titles let alone 240 FPS, so I suppose it depends a lot on what you play how that will go.

The Scar is sitting at 2399. The Intel Lenovo is sitting at 1899 and the AMD Lenovo is sitting at 1799.

My biggest concern is build quality and screen quality. After using an HP EliteBook Workstation for the last 7 years, Im shooting for a laptop display that has zero (or nearly zero) light bleed.

Ill be going into Microcenter, they (All 3) have single 1TB nvmes and 32GB DDR5 with 3070tis. I think the most demanding game I would be playing on them would be cyber punk, and that would only be here and there.

Im mostly just looking for something that will hold up for a good 3 to 5 years.

 

[Eximo]

Then I don't think you can justify a 240hz display if that is the type of games you are going to play. I would go with the Lenovo Intel one myself, but then I probably wouldn't get a 3070ti, I would look at a 3060. You can always run a low resolution on a small display without too much of a problem, same can't be said for a 27" desktop monitor.

 

[Randi Poling]

Then I don't think you can justify a 240hz display if that is the type of games you are going to play. I would go with the Lenovo Intel one myself, but then I probably wouldn't get a 3070ti, I would look at a 3060. You can always run a low resolution on a small display without too much of a problem, same can't be said for a 27" desktop monitor.

I was even considering a 3060 since I read somewhere where this generation, bang for buck, the 3060 is actually pretty good. Might actually end up going that route and play around with them at MicroCenter, could save me a few hundred bucks.