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Gigabyte AORUS 15G

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The 2021 Gigabyte AORUS 15G is a 15.6-inch gaming laptop that improves upon the 2020 model by offering NVIDIA RTX 30-series GPUs. It retains the 240Hz display with 72% NTSC color gamut, while dropping the 300Hz option.

Other tangential improvements include the larger 99Wh battery and the upgrade of HDMI to v2.1. More importantly, the 2021 AORUS 15G now measures only 0.9 inch thin, down from 0.98 inch.

A large collection of I/O options as well as the elegant CNC aluminum alloy chassis are carried over.

Alongside the AORUS 15G, Gigabyte also refreshed the AORUS 17G and AORUS 15P with RTX 30-series graphics at CES 2021.

Ratings

What we found

Pros

Powerful performance from Nvidia's RTX 3070 GPU
Bright 240Hz display
Good battery life

Cons

Dim display
Poor webcam

What external reviewers found

External score 68%

Pros

Good battery life
Gorgeous 15.6-inch display
Comfortable keyboard
Bright 240Hz display
Improved graphics performance
Powerful CPU and GPU

Cons

Poor battery life
Short battery life
No Thunderbolt 3
No webcam
No webcam placement

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External Reviews

laptopmag^[1]

Reviewer score 60% (normalized by Neofiliac)

Reviewers from laptopmag have found:

The Aorus 15G has a powerful Intel Core i7-10870H processor with 32GB of RAM. It transcoded a 4K video to 1080p in just 8 minutes and 5 seconds on our HandBrake benchmark. Gigabyte's 512GB SSD has a transfer rate of 801 MBps, faster than the average mainstream gaming laptop.

Pros

Powerful CPU and GPU
Bright 240Hz display
Comfortable keyboard

Cons

Short battery life
No webcam

notebookcheck^[2]

Reviewer score 65% (normalized by Neofiliac)

Reviewers from notebookcheck have found:

The Aorus 15G XC is a high-performance gaming laptop without any major issues. It offers good performance and manages to deal with temperatures and volumes quite well. It's also fairly portable for a gaming laptop due to its large battery. If you are familiar with the predecessor, however, you might be somewhat disappointed.

Pros

Improved graphics performance
High-quality case
Good battery life

Cons

No Thunderbolt 3

t3^[3]

Reviewer score 80% (normalized by Neofiliac)

Reviewers from t3 have found:

Gigabyte Aorus 15G offers all the benefits of the RTX 30 series from Nvidia. It offers a substantial performance boost, ray tracing, advanced AI processing and more besides. As you would expect, the visuals were super-smooth and super-impressive in every game we tried. Wi-Fi 6 support provides the fastest possible connection speeds as far as wireless internet goes.

Pros

Gorgeous 15.6-inch display
Top-notch performance

Cons

No webcam placement
Poor battery life

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References

^ Gigabyte Aorus 15G (2021, RTX 3070) review. [laptopmag].
^ Aorus 15G XC Gaming-Laptop review: Features suffer setback in favor of an upgrade to RTX 3070. [notebookcheck].
^ Gigabyte Aorus 15G (RTX 30 series) review: top-tier gaming laptop power. [t3].

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