Customer Ratings & Reviews

Pros: Great Build Quality - Chassis is all Metal, Glass Touchpad feels super smooth, display is superb. Keyboard feels solid. We can all agree Laptops with a metal chassis outlasts Laptops with a plastic chassis, even if the plastic was a hard and good quality plastic. Sure at the expense of minor warmer thermals for metal however if the cooling solution is good, it should be no problem. Great Cooling Capability - In Gaming and Benchmarks, the GPU rarely ever go above 60C while the CPU stays around 80C which is normal for 13th gen CPUs. For cooling you're getting a giant vapor chamber, 4 intake fans, and 4 copper fins exhaust. Good Performance. Above Average in TimeSpy against other Laptops with the same specifications. Great Display - 100% DCI P3, QHD 240hz, around 400 Nits is Excellent for Gaming and Photo/Video Editing Power - They reach their advertised clockspeeds and wattages. 55W CPU and 175W GPU. Headphone Jack is Powerful and Clean - It's Enough to Power Most Consumer Headphones. Has Windows Hello, Windows signs in for you once the webcam detects your face. Has DDR5 5600mhz Memory. A LOT of Laptops with a RTX 4000 series are selling with 4800mhz memory, this has 5600mhz memory. It's not a big deal now but maybe in the future when DDR5 is more optimized. This is often overlooked but it has Thunderbolt 4 and a full RJ45 port. Having DC in the back is good.. As a experienced laptop owner, I can't tell you how many times I've accidentally bumped the charging cable while it was on the side. Taking off the back panel was straight forward and upgrading SSD or Memory is easy. Cons: If you're not the most tech savvy, you may download the wrong NVIDIA driver. To elaborate: the driver on this laptop takes the RTX 4090 Notebook Studio Driver instead of the Game Driver. The Game Driver IS NOT COMPATIBLE which make sense because typically Studio Drivers also have the calibrated display profiles. For some reason, Balance Mode Performs better than Best Performance Mode. After many benchmarks of Timespy, I've determined the best settings for performance is set Windows Power Mode to Balanced while in Gigabyte Control Center, set Power Mode to Gigabyte High Performance with NVIDIA Dynamic Boost. The 13950HX can definitely get more performance if Gigabyte allows it. 13th Gen CPUs are rated for 100C, mine caps around 80C and then throttles. I hope in the future, the CPU can go all the way to at least 95C before it throttles down. This is a 6LBS gaming laptop, no one will be playing games on their laps but rather on the table + the cooling solution on here is quite good. The speakers are are mediocre by far but it's no big deal if you prefer headphones. Gigabyte Control Center downloads are slow but works great once it's updated. Had no issues updating the bios through GCC. Battery Life is Average for a Gaming Laptop 1-2 Hours. Expect less than 1 hour if you're gaming. If Gigabyte used a brighter display or one with Mini LED, it would've been the Ultimate Laptop of 2023. As a photographer, it would've been nice if the display was just a tad brighter for outdoors editing - I know, rare used case but oh well. Editing on the go is a thing. It would've been nice if Gigabyte gave us 1x 2TB SSD instead of 2X 1TB SSDs. Tech Enthusiasts and Gamers like to upgrade.. On the bright side, it's not in RAID 0 like some other manufacturers because RAID 0 is useless for gamers. If you're a PC Enthusiast, you must care about thermals. -Thermals are Great If you're a Creator, you must care about having an accurate display -Colors are Great Overall this is a Excellent Laptop at $3500. No one is doing a all metal chassis laptop with a 13950HX, 32GB 5600mhz, and RTX 4090 175W at $3500 or lower. A true Desktop Replacement. Attached is my TimeSpy score at stock settings. The CPU and GPU temperatures in there speaks for itself. Note: With NVIDIA Dynamic Boost or Gigabyte AI, the score goes even higher.

This thing is a beast! I was able to achieve number one in the world on speedway benchmark with this configuration and 21210 on time spy with a 23075 on the graphics. I had ordered the 4080 Razor Blade 18 and canceled it. The screen is awesome and bright. The build is aluminum and sturdy it’s not very thick. It is heavy but that’s probity because of the vapor chamber and materials. I’ve had the blade 14, 17, Alienware x17, x14,x15,MSI ge77, Asus Duo 15se, more than I can remember thinks to total tech, believe me when I say this thing is incredible. Gigabyte I’m not sure if you monitor these but way to go.

This 4090 laptop was not even on my radar, I was looking into every other option besides the Aorus 17X. This thing rocks, you can max out Cyberpunk at 2560x1440 with DLSS on balanced and ray tracing at "psycho" and nail 130-140 fps EASILY on this thing, i've been throwing everything I can at it and it just destroys every game. And it's SO thin, it's less than an inch thin pulling this off! Incredible device, it's a no brainer and I would argue it's the best value for a 4090 laptop, you're getting the following at the lowest price for a 175 full TDB 4090 laptop: -Nvidia Gsync -Advanced Optimus (I have had laptops with a standard mux, Advanced Optimus is better, NO reboots to change dedicated/hybrid! OR just let the system do it for you when you enter a game!) -Huge Vapor chamber coupled with 4 fans(2 large center fans, and 2 smaller higher speed offset fans) Combined with phase change pads on both the CPU and GPU as the thermal interface material. If you don't know what phase change material is, look it up. It nets the same benefits as liquid metal but isn't messy/can't leak out and damage components -400 nits screen (not the brightest but still plenty bright and vibrant enough especially compared to older 250-270 nit displays) -VERY easy to open and do routine maintenance and upgrades on, high quality CNC Milled aluminum, unlike competitors offering plastic builds -DDR5-5600 RAM (a few other4090 laptops are only using DDR5-4800) -1080p front facing camera (some laptops are only using 720p cameras) This thing is amazing, very well built, high quality product. Very impressive 3D mark scores as well, superb for any games, this thing is pulling slightly ahead of the SCAR 18 in some games as well. Even Classical Technology who has a channel on youtube is currently testing the Aorus 17X, the Alienware M17 and the SCAR 18 and he's reporting in his testing as well that the Aorus 17x is in fact pulling ahead in every game he's tested. Gigabyte has done a marvelous job engineering this thing. Now for the Cons: -Gigabyte Control Center is new and going through growing pains, but it works. It will get better duh. -"still feels pretty beta" firmware, but this is all the new i9 139XX /4090/4080 based laptops, they all have firmware issues currently, run "balanced" power config and you will get your performance, there will be bios updates for all these laptops regardless of brand down the road -you have to disable eye care in gigabyte control center and set "panel color" to native to get the true brightness of the display, it can seem *so* much lower in peak brightness than this thing initially lets on to be, stop protecting my eyes Gigabyte. I will sear them at my own will! Go buy it, it's wicked. Thing is thin, POWERFUL, and runs cool due to it's impressive engineering, this thing should be getting waayyyy more attention than the Asus or Razer models, hands down. Gigabyte wins this gen for me, and I say that as someone who's owned multiple Asus GTX 1070, RTX 2070 and Msi 3080 Raiders up until now. Gigabyte has impressed me like no other so far

This is actually a very good laptop. I decided to write this review having seen folks having troubles with BSODs and freezes. The device is well built, has good design and feels well. Everything works, no BSODs, reloadings and errors. The performance is as expected from this hardware. I did 3DMark tests and some gaming - all went well. So, it seems to me to be an excellent price-to-quality solution for high-end gaming laptop. I would seriously advise this thing over 3080 models, especially given the fact that 32 RAM / 2GB SSD can hardly be found now at 3080 models.

I was waiting for MSI and Asus stocks, refreshing every so often since my Alienware 2070 could not be repaired within the 30-day limit. I was watching Youtube and saw a review of Gigabyte Aorus. I checked Best Buy and saw it was available for delivery. It arrived one day earlier (always a nice surprise), which i then ran through my new laptop process (update, uninstall bloat, organize, rinsr and repeat), installed a few apps and games (3DMark, Blender, GTA5, and RDR2) to test. Do note this is a mobile 4090 so you will get scores closer to a solid 4080 or 4070ti. Price was much better than MSI’s current offering, though I would have preferred Asus $2500 laptop. I ran a few benchmarks and stress tests, no issues or crashes. I use Cortex to set game mode, though not sure if Giga CC offers a game mode. 1440p@240hz is great on this device, but I recommend optimizing your game settings to find the best visual/performance combo for your needs. It can get loud, but I run this on balanced since I dont run too many GPU/CPU-intensive games. It’s a solid gaming laptop by a respected company. RDR2 looked great, but max settings will require an ANC headset to cover up the copper-rich coolers as you gallop into the sunset. After receiving my order, I saw this laptop has been out of stock. If it comes available, buy it and you’ll save some serious cash versus Razer’s 18” comparable.

I wanted to buy the strix 18 for $2500 with the 4080. It sold out really fast so I ordered this for $1000 more but with double the ram, double the stroage space, and a 4090 instead of a 4080. Build Quality is really high on this. CNC aluminum chasis that feels premium. The keyboard feels and looks great. Performance wise I was able to get 5672 in the speed waytest on 3dMark. This laptop is awesome, just as expected at this price point. The screen is bright and looks great. Being about $1000 less than the razor blade, I say it worth it.

P R O S: > Excellent build quality - sturdy aluminum case with very minimal flex and screen wobble. > Very good vapor chamber cooling with 4 fans. Laptop runs surprisingly cooler under heavy CPU/GPU loads being one of the thinnest RTX 4090 175W rated laptops. Max CPU temp I observed is around 80-85 C and Max GPU temp I observed is around 75-80 C. - Decent keyboard with good click feel and excellent touch pad with smooth haptic-like feel. - Decent display (300 nits is not too bad). > Performance of some of the latest games (some of the other RTX 4090 laptop GPUs gave 5-10 more FPS than these numbers): - Hogwarts Legacy: All Ultra with RT Maxed @ 1440p (DLSS Quality w/o Frame-Gen): 80-90 FPS - The Witcher 3 Next Gen: All Ultra+ with RT Maxed @ 1440p (DLSS Quality w/o Frame-Gen): 60-70 FPS - Cyberpunk 2077 v1.6: All Ultra with RT Psycho @ 1440p (DLSS Quality w/o Frame-Gen): 65-75 FPS C O N S: > Gigabyte Command Center - THIS! For some reason, the laptop is not utilizing the full potential of CPU and GPU. Although the GPU is rated at 175 W (150W+25W dynamic boost), the max Power draw I noticed is only 155W, while on the CPU it is almost always at 55W. Hopefully, GCC will get a software update to fix this. > NVIDIA Advanced Optimus does NOT work WELL! - with this feature, we are expected to see a smooth transition of display driver change from integrated Intel to discrete NVIDIA without any latency/lag whatsoever. BUT that's NOT the case. Even on the games that are not so demanding graphically - I experienced occasional stuttering and few seconds of black screen when I open those games applications - possibly due to delay in switching from Intel GPU to RTX 4090 NVIDIA GPU - its not as seamless as expected. I fixed this issue on my end - by going into BIOS and changing default GPU from Intel to NVIDIA. > For now, I uninstalled the GCC and using the laptop on its default settings (i.e. keyboard lighting setting, fan speed setting, and balanced windows 11 setting mode). O V E R A L L: > After changing the default GPU in BIOS to NVIDIA RTX 4090 (since battery life is not important for me), and uninstalling the GCC, this thing works like a beast and can tackle any demanding games I throw at it at all MAX settings with RT Maxed out with 60+ FPS (YES!! I am good with 60+ FPS, since I only play Single-player games). > Desktop 4070 Ti equivalent, so this works well for atleast another 2-3 years with Top class performance.

I bought this machine after doing much research online. If I had to do it again, I may have looked at Laptop 4080 vs 4090's first, instead of strictly 4090's. This laptop does have the top 175W TGP GPU, but if you look, the top 4080 has the same wattage. So depending on the title, the difference between a 4080 and a 4090 in a laptop seems to be pretty small because they both have to stay in that power envelope. I would take a hard look again at the Strix being over $1,000 less. You could easily up the ram and storage and still be miles ahead, but you trade the CNC machined chassis for plastic. I really like the CNC chassis and minimalistic gamer RGB garbage of the Aorus, but its a tough call when you are looking at the difference of 450 to 500 FPS (50FPS) at the most FPS in reviews, to 10-20FPS in other AAA Titles. The price difference between 4080 & 4090 make it hard to justify. Maybe time will tell and the gap will widen with time, but currently its pretty close when to comes to laptops being able to cool these beastly GPUs. Laptop is also ungodly thin. No way would I have imagined they could cool a 4090 in this. It's really something else. The display is also amazing. All around 10/10.

The hardware is solid. Unfortunately the Gigabyte Control Center software that directly interfaces with the components is absolute garbage. Updates don’t work properly, fan control is spotty at best, keyboard settings don’t save. The fans will randomly kick over to high and cause games to stutter and graphics to glitch. BIOS is ancient and flashing doesn’t work with the Gigabyte software. For the price, this should run a lot better, and would with better software.

Awesome laptop for my Golf Simulator running 4K graphics and never has an issue so far.

It keeps on restarting middle of matches, and now my screen wont turn on… it has power but the screen wont turn on

Oh boy this device is power and beautiful . Runs games at maximum settings smoothly. Only draw back is the screen and I only think this because it’s competitors have better screens . I’m afraid that this laptop will be the reason they will increase the price of they’re future laptop.

This laptop is junk. Constantly freezes and crashes. Can’t even open 3D Mark without it crashing. Do not buy this laptop. It looked great on paper but it is junk. Gigabyte control software freezes. For how much money this computer costs it’s unacceptable.

Had the Laptop for nearly a month and had zero issues with it. The cherry on the cake is that I was able to purchase it open box and save 500 on the already low listed price. So whomever returned it "thank you!"

The open box had weird movements of its own doing things like closing out pages and making like 50 tabs that didn't work. returned it. speakers are garbage and have no special audio their update system looks like it's made by AOL. if you know what that is.

I really like the look and feel of this laptop but experienced 3 BSOD within the first 2 days and its now unable to connect to bluetooth devices. Its going back.

Very powerful but poor design on the power adapter. While the laptop is plugged in the adapter plug is loose and disconnects from the back of the laptop with no effort. Not sure if anyone else has the same issue but i sent it back.

I bought this laptop to replace my aging Alienware Area 51m. I didn't want to go back to the crap Alienware Control Panel software with a new machine. The Aorus had everything I was looking for in regard to specs and at a price point lower than comparable machines. I only have one thing I don't like about the specs overall, but I do have a few complaints. First, the display. While it looks great and is fast, it's not bright enough. If I have the blinds open, it's very difficult to see. My old Alienware sitting next to it is much better. Next is the exhaust design. It pumps out heated air from the back and both sides. At full tilt during games, if you're running a mouse, your hand will cook. I have it hooked up to a 55" 4k tv and the laptop sits to the side on a cooling mat, so I don't get that anymore. And lastly, the keyboard. It sucks. The keys are a bit smaller than normal, so typing for my fat fingers is slow. And, the 0 on the num pad is centered under the 2, that shouldn't be a problem, but it is. I keep hitting the right arrow key instead because it's where the 0 should be. There is plenty of room on this deck to make it right, I don't understand why Gigabyte did it this way. In short, you will enjoy the performance of this machine, but it comes at a design cost.

Really bad software. It's designed in every way to choke the CPU, which in turn creates stutter and extreme frame rate drops. The CPU is locked, so there is no going into the bios or running Intel XTU, this is because TPD of the entire system is locked up too, basically drip feeding 35w to the CPU. I really wanted to like this rig but it's under powered. There are so many things to like about it too. Unfortunately it's being returned.