The Gigabyte Aorus 15G packs in some seriously powerful tech In our PCMark 10 battery benchmark, which tests the laptop’s battery under general use conditions, the Aorus 17X ran down a full charge in three hours and five minutes. On Metro: Exodus, thee 17X outperformed the 17G by about 60% on ultra and around 20% on low.
It beats out the 3DMark averages for a gaming laptop (5,730) and a gaming PC (9,216), and is closing in on a high-end gaming PC (11,085). To our surprise, though, it even turns out to be a better value than competing gaming laptops in terms of the relative price for performance, which lessens some of the sting.The Aorus 17X features the latest There are some downsides to a system like this, obviously. The full-sized keyboard is recessed so the mechanical keys are level with the plane of the chassis and the position of the track pad just below the space bar feels perfectly natural.The mechanical keyboard itself takes a little bit of getting used to because it feels too good to be something you should find in a laptop. While it’d be nice to see a bit more risk and diversity in high-end gaming hardware design, the market doesn’t seem to be quite there yet. As you would expect, performance was excellent, with hardly a slowdown to speak of – even with the graphics settings ramped up to the max, games such as Firewatch and GTA V were returning close to 200 frames per second.In the synthetic 3DMark Time Spy benchmark, the Gigabyte Aorus scored 10,306, which is the best we've seen yet from a laptop on that particular test. The Aorus 17G ran Total War: Three Kingdoms at 58fps on ultra and 159fps on low settings and ran Metro:Exodus at 50fps on ultra and 144fps on low.
GTVEVO, May 20, 2020 #5. Maybe next year.All that said, the quality of the build is phenomenal and the design execution is spot-on.
It tips the scales at 3.75 kg (8.27 pounds) though of course this is to be expected from a gaming laptop, especially one with so many top-end components: you can carry it from one place to another without breaking your back, but don't expect to be propping it open on the train or doing a bit of gaming on your lap in the local coffee shop.This size and weight comes with its benefits, including a really impressive 1,920 x 1,080 pixel, IPS LCD, 17.3-inch display which we like a lot.
Both systems ran a Core i9-10980HK CPU with the same amount of RAM and VRAM.Another recent favorite of ours is the On our 3DMark tests, the 17G simply wasn’t able to keep up with the 17X, scoring a 34,347 on Sky Diver, a 13,950 on Fire Strike, and a 5,872 on Time Spy. Here are the specs of the Gigabyte Aorus 17X sent to TechRadar for review:The Gigabyte Auros 17X configuration we tested was the most tricked-out configuration possible, with an i9-10980HK 2.4GHz (max boost to 5.3GHz), a The entry-level configuration, meanwhile, uses the i7-10875H processor, a Whatever the configuration, there is an extra While some of the lower-end configurations are technically available, so far every online retailer, and Gigabyte even itself, is currently filling back orders. I recently had the opportunity thanks to GIGABYTE Australia to review the AORUS 17X. It’s the kind of computer you get when give a designer a piece of paper and a pen and tell them to build the The Aorus 17X will blow through the All that high-performance hardware means its eye-watering price tag (even for its entry-level configuration) shouldn’t come as a shock, but it still kind of does. But while the Aorus 17G costs about 40% less than the 17X – which is roughly in the same ballpark as its performance deficit – the Duo (as tested) costs only about 5% less than the Aorus 17X, but the 17X outperforms the Duo by just over three times that.So while the Aorus 17X is genuinely one of the most expensive gaming laptops going at the moment, you more than get what you pay for when stacked up against the competition.The Intel Comet-Lake and RTX 2080 Super Max-P GPU combo laptops are only just now starting to make their way out of the factories, so Gigabyte’s Aorus 17X will start facing much stiff competition sooner rather than later.
For now though, it has the field largely to itself and so remains the most powerful pure gaming laptop your money can buy right now.Big, hulking beasts like the Aorus 17X clearly require a lot of power – the RTX 2080 Super build needs two power supplies, after all – so it’s natural to think that the battery is going to be all but useless on this laptop. If you're after the very best specs you might want to push to a 4K panel, but whether the extra resolution is worth it on a laptop screen is debatable.
Laptop speakers are all-too-often trash, but considering that you’ll be laying down this much money regardless of configuration, it’s disappointing that Gigabyte didn’t do more to tackle this perennial issue.This is especially vexing since adding to the bulk doesn’t seem to be a concern that the designers had when drawing up the Aorus 17X.