

Game at pro-speed with a fast, IPS-level panel up to 144Hz (optional). * This Asus TUF Gaming A17 Laptop image is for illustration purpose only. A superfast NVMe PCIe SSD speeds up load times, while an open SSD slot makes it easy to add terabytes more space for all your games. Gameplay graphics are smooth with the latest GeForce GTX 1650 GPU which reliably delivers high frame rates for a ton of modern games. Up to AMD Ryzen 4600-H Series CPU to fly through multitasking and more. While you may have guessed that the more expensive gaming laptop was going to take the victory, keep in mind that the Asus TUF Gaming A17 is only $100 more than the Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3i yet it offers so much more.Always ready for action, the TUF Gaming A17 excels at gaming, streaming, and everything in between. Winner: Asus TUF Gaming A17 Overall winner: Asus TUF Gaming A17 The TUF Gaming A17 continuously surfed the web over Wi-Fi at 150 nits of brightness and lasted a meaty 7 hours and 41 minutes, sailing past IdeaPad Gaming 3i by over 2 hours, as the Lenovo machine died at 5:40. However, AMD remains the champ of the gaming battery life circus. Lenovo clocked in at 10.7 seconds for a 476 MBps transfer rate.įor gaming laptops, the Asus TUF Gaming A17 and the Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3i both impress with long battery life. The Asus’ 1TB SSD copied 4.97GB of data in 8.7 seconds, translating to a transfer rate of 585 megabytes per second, which is just barely faster than Lenovo’s 512GB SSD.

The TUF Gaming A17 transcoded a 4K video to 1080p in 6 minutes and 52 seconds on our HandBrake benchmark, decimating the IdeaPad Gaming 3i’s time of 10 minutes and 41 seconds. On the Geekbench 4.3 overall performance benchmark, the TUF Gaming A17 scored 24,568, crushing the IdeaPad Gaming 3i’s score of 20,911. The former is toting around an AMD Ryzen 7 4800H processor with 16GB of RAM, while the latter packs the new Intel Core i7-10750H CPU with 8GB of RAM.

In terms of general performance, the Asus TUF Gaming A17 and the Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3i couldn’t be any more different. When running Metro: Exodus (Ultra, 1080p), the TUF Gaming A17 got 41 fps, which is a healthy, playable score, whereas the IdeaPad Gaming 3i landed in the unplayable realm of 26 fps (our playability threshold is 30 fps).
