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Asus extracting 81% more CPU wattage from the 2026 Strix SCAR 18 while Nvidia keeps the GPU locked at 175W is the most interesting story in this spec sheet.
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Asus has announced a new gaming laptop, the ROG Strix Scar 18 (2026), with a claim that it’s the most powerful gaming laptop the company has ever built.
The main highlight of the device is the 320W of total system power: 145W to the Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus and 175W to the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 laptop GPU. While the CPU offers a meaningful upgrade over the 2025 model, the GPU has been borrowed unchanged.
Meet the next evolution of gaming performance with the ROG Strix SCAR 18, engineered to push power, visuals, and immersion to the next level. 320W Dominance. 4K Flagship.
🔥 Pre-orders are now available. pic.twitter.com/xMMkzQTf94
— ROG Global (@ASUS_ROG) May 15, 2026
What’s actually new on the ROG Strix Scar 18 (2026)?
To me, the 450W power adapter (up from 380W) supplied in the box is proof that the company is quite serious about Strix Scar 18. The 18% headroom goes into helping the CPU sustain up to 200W under certain workloads, though it’s not immediately clear which ones.
The cooling solution is overhauled to match the gain in power consumption and void throttling. Strix Scar 18 now features an end-to-end vapor chamber with a sandwiched heatsink design that features 0.1mm copper fins across a total surface area of 246,898mm².
You can configure the laptop with up to 128GB of DDR5 RAM and 8TB of PDIe 5.0 SSD storage, and of course, the top variant would cost you a fortune. Connectivity options include two Thunderbolt 5 ports (with DP 2.1 and PD 3.1), three USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports, and one HDMI 2.1, and Wi-Fi 7 among others.
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The laptop features world’s first 4K 240Hz Mini LED display
Coming to the display, it has received a major, first-of-its-kind upgrade. The 2026 Strix Scar 18 flaunts an 18-inch 4K (3,840×2,400) Mini LED panel that supports 240Hz refresh rate, ROG Nebula ELMB technology, and covers 100% of the DCI-P3 color space.
Just yesterday, I covered the Razer 18’s launch, and that particular laptop also provides 240Hz refresh rate in 4K resolution. So, what’s the difference? While the Razer uses an IPS panel, Asus adds Mini LED to it, so it’s the world’s first 4K 240Hz Mini LED panel, to set the record straight.
With everything, the laptop is now over 400 grams heavier than its predecessor, which, in my opinion, wasn’t exactly the lightest option in the first place. Asus hasn’t announced the pricing, nor availability.
For me, the 2026 ROG Strix Scar 18 is the clearest example about how gaming laptop performance gains are increasingly coming from an improved CPU, not GPU.
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This tiny gaming powerhouse costs more than many full desktop setups
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I’ve seen a lot of power banks, from the chunky rectangular bricks, round puck-shaped ones, and the flat ones that sit awkwardly next to a laptop in a bag, but none of them has ever looked like this.
The Krafted Edge is a 20,000 mAh power bank built into an aluminum slab measuring 27 x 19 x 1.28 cm, which is almost exactly the footprint of a closed laptop, and that’s intentional.
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Meta’s Ray-Ban Display now types messages from your finger movements
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The headline feature is Neural Handwriting, which is now available to every Ray-Ban Display owner, having spent its early months in limited access for Messenger and WhatsApp users.
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