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lacks support for Nvidia G-Sync. I didn’t see frame-tearing issues in the games I
tested when I enabled V-sync in-game, but G-Sync would have smoothed it out
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SUPER-SIZE THOSE NUMBERS
The quartet of notebooks that I’m comparing to the Aorus 15G are all
15.6-inchers with top-of-the-line components. Gigabyte’s own Aero 15 OLED
XB has an identical loadout, while the Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 (GX550)
should lead our CPU-focused tests with its Core i9. That chip is an eight-
core/16-thread part like the Core i7-10875H in the Aorus, but it can reach even
higher clocks. The six-core/12-thread Core i7-10750H chips in the Acer
Predator Triton 500 and MSI GS66 Stealth are still heavy hitters.
The Nvidia Super laptop chips in these laptops aren’t a huge performance leg-
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units use power-limited Max-Q versions so they don’t produce too much heat.
(An important consideration; the GS66 Stealth is just 0.71 inch thick.)
Our benchmarks normally start with our PCMark 10 general system
performance assessment, but my Aorus 15G review unit wouldn’t complete it
for reasons I couldn’t identify. But there’s no question this laptop has more than
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workloads that test simulates. It did score 4,954 points in our PCMark 8 storage
benchmark, which was within 100 points of the others and indicates its 512GB
solid-state drive is fast indeed.
CPU-crunching tests: Moving on, the Aorus 15G did well in both. Cinebench
R15 stresses all available processor cores and threads while rendering a complex
image, while in our Handbrake test, we transcode a 12-minute 4K video down to
1080p. As expected, its eight-core i7 expectedly outperformed the six-core i7-
equipped Acer and MSI.