

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).
