New Gaming Laptops from Gigabyte in 2024 - Aorus 16X & Gigabyte G6X

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Gigabyte has some new gaming laptops, awesome  OLED monitors and faster graphics cards coming  

out this year, and they’ve sponsored this  video at CES 2024 for us to check it all out!

Let’s start out with their new  Aorus 16X gaming laptop. There’s a  

new shiny lid design which changes  based on the angle of the light.

It’s available with Intel’s latest 14th gen HX  processors, up to Nvidia’s RTX 4070 graphics,  

and a 16” 165Hz screen with  G-Sync and advanced optimus.

It keeps these specs cool with a  bottom panel that has the corner  

feet rounded to stop hot exhaust air  coming straight back in. They also  

had the WINDFORCE Infinity cooler that’s  inside on display, so we’ve got two fans  

and a bunch of heatpipes with air coming  out the back and left and right sides.

The ports sit in front of the air vents. The  left side has the power input, gigabit ethernet,  

HDMI 2.1, USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A and Thunderbolt  4 Type-C port, while the right has a 3.5mm audio  

combo jack, UHS-II MicroSD card slot, and there’s  another USB Type-A and Thunderbolt Type-C port on  

this side too, which I like as it gives you the  option of connecting devices on either side.

There aren’t any ports on the back, just  those air exhaust vents I mentioned. You  

can connect a monitor to either Type-C  port as both have DisplayPort 1.4 support,  

and the left one can be used to charge the  laptop with 100 watts. PD 3.0 support means  

50% of the 99.9Wh battery can  be charged in just 30 minutes.

The keyboard has 3 zones of RGB backlighting  with clear Q W E R A S D keys, and with 1.7mm  

of key travel it feels nice to type on. Oh  and it was one of the few new laptops I’ve  

seen with Microsoft’s new shortcut key to copilot  - their AI assistant that’s built into Windows.

Speaking of AI, the Gigabyte Control Center  software also has an AI boost option to  

automatically control the laptop based on the  workload being run. Gigabyte’s website claims  

that a 9% FPS boost is possible in games with  it enabled, which we’ll have to put to the test.

And within the new AI Nexus section of the  software they’ve included the stable diffusion  

image generator, which lets you create images from  text locally with the RTX graphics. I can see this  

being useful on their Aero creator laptops, but  hey it’s available on the gaming models too.

The Aorus 17X laptop has also been updated to  Intel’s latest 14th gen HX processors, and they  

had it setup with a fun live demo. Basically it  takes whatever it gets from the laptop’s camera  

and uses that as input to the AI image generator.  The text prompt also included words like cat,  

which explains why those were popping up randomly.  Anyway this was running on the RTX 4090 mobile  

graphics and just demonstrating how fast it  can take fresh visual input and change it.

The Aorus 15 and Aorus 17 are their only  gaming laptops to move to Intel’s new Meteor  

Lake processors with up to the latest Core Ultra  7 155H, and they had a demo of a Microsoft Teams  

call showing the background blur effect using  the new NPU hardware. Offloading tasks like  

this uses less power compared to the CPU  and GPU, which means better battery life.

Next up is Gigabyte’s G6X,  another 16 inch gaming laptop,  

but a budget friendlier option  compared to the Aorus 16X.

The G6X uses Intel’s 13th gen HX processors,  which makes perfect sense to me. These still  

perform well and presumably cost less  compared to the newer 14th gen options,  

so I think this is a good choice  for a lower to mid-range option.

The new G6X has a refreshed design with a much  smaller bottom chin below the screen. Here’s  

Gigabyte’s G6 for comparison, and although  that also uses Intel 13th gen processors,  

they’re H series, so the newer G6X has more  cores which means more multicore performance.

The G6X has a nice clean gunmetal  gray plastic design with a USB 3.2  

Gen 1 Type-A port and 3.5mm  audio combo jack on the left,  

and USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A and Type-C ports on  the right. The back has a gigabit ethernet port,  

HDMI 2.1 output, the power input, and  a second USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port.

The rear Type-C port has DisplayPort  1.4 support for connecting a monitor,  

while the right one can be used  to charge the laptop with 100  

watts using the PD 3.0 standard - another  feature the lower tier G6 did not have.

This one has a single zone of RGB  backlighting with 1.3mm of key travel,  

so not quite as nice as the higher tier Aorus  16X, but I still had no problems typing on it.

So the G6X has a few extra nice  to have premium features compared  

to Gigabyte’s G5 and G6 like  a MUX switch, HX processor,  

Type-C charging and less screen bezel which  just makes it look a bit nicer in my opinion.

And speaking of looking nice, Gigabyte  also has some new OLED monitors,  

like the Aorus FO32U2P - a 32” 4K  OLED display with 240Hz refresh rate,  

super fast response time, high  color gamut, and DisplayPort 2.1.

But specs aside, the first thing I thought when  I saw this monitor was “how do I get one”? I use  

a 32” 4K 144Hz IPS screen at home - I love the  size and resolution, but the colors from this  

OLED panel just look amazing in person. It’s  way more vibrant and brighter, and I need it.

But if that’s not big enough for you,  Gigabyte also have their first 49” OLED  

gaming monitor on show too - the Aorus  CO49DQ. Now I could tell you that this  

curved screen has a 5120 by 1440  resolution, 144Hz refresh rate,  

fast response time and high color gamut, but  that wouldn’t do it justice. All you need  

to know is how fully immersive it is just  standing in front of such a huge display.  

It reaches right around and takes up most of  your vision, really getting you into the game.

Both monitors have Gigabyte’s OLED Care,  an AI-based algorithm that apparently  

runs on the monitor to minimize burn in  issues and keep the display looking good.

You’ll need some decent GPU power to  run games at those higher resolutions,  

and Gigabyte also has their new  GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super Eagle,  

on the left here, and their GeForce RTX  4070 Ti Super Gaming OC on the right.

Both cards have metal backplates  which do more than just look cool,  

they make the card stronger too. And  we can see Gigabyte’s screen cooling,  

which is an extended heatsink that allows  air to pass through for better cooling.

Nvidia announced the new RTX 4070 Super  at CES for the same price as the RTX 4070,  

while the RTX 4070 Ti Super replaces the  RTX 4070 Ti at the same price point - so  

this should mean more performance for  the dollar with these new Super cards.

I'm most interested in that new 32” OLED  monitor because it seriously looks amazing,  

but let me know what you  thought down in the comments.

And if you want to know about more new  gaming laptops this year check out the  

rest of my CES 2024 coverage. I’ll  see you in one of those videos next.