![]() ![]() Fan noise under load is definitely noticeable, but more of a muted whir than we’ve experienced with plenty of powerful gaming laptops we’ve tested in the past. It’s also worth pointing out that the laptop’s fans don’t get particularly noisy when gaming or doing productivity work. Clearly, Gigabyte’s cooling hardware is doing an admirable job which bodes well for content creation and other productivity tasks on the Aero. That’s less than a 6% performance dip over more than 30 minutes of work stressing all 16 CPU cores. The biggest dip happened at run 12, with the score dropping to 3,036. As usual, the first-run score of 3,221 was the highest, but the dropoff was minimal, with most of the subsequent runs were still well above 3,100. Since this is a new CPU, we also ran our Cinebench R20 stress test, which loops the benchmark 20 times in a row. These results prove Gigabyte’s 2020 Aero 17 is at least as capable a content creation machine as it is a gaming laptop. The previous Aero was only 10 seconds behind, but everything else here was minutes slower to cross the finish line. On our Handbrake video transcoding test, the Aero 17 HDR XB again finished first, with a time of 7 minutes and 58 seconds. That’s not the fastest we’ve seen, but it is the best result here, beating the Alienware’s 828.2 and nearly doubling the previous Aero 17’s speed of 462.7 MBps. It took the latest Aero 17 6.3 seconds to copy 4.97GB of files, a rate of 848.2 MBps. In Geekbench 5, the new Aero narrowly edges out the previous Gigabyte model, but its score of 29,222 pretty much destroys everything else here. The GPU ran at an average of 1,324 MHz at an average temperature of 72.1 degrees Celsius (161.8 Fahrenheit). The average CPU clock speed was 4.2 GHz, with an average temperature of 77 degrees Celsius (170.6 degrees Fahrenheit). In this case, we ran the game at the RTX preset at 1080p. We also ran our gaming stress test, in which we ran Metro Exodus 15 times on a loop to simulate half an hour of gaming. But that’s not particularly surprising, since the laptop is meant to balance gaming and productivity performance, and ships with Studio drivers aimed more at stability than absolute speed. In short, while the new Aero 17 is a capable gamer, it’s not the best performer in its class. And all other competitors here were either effectively tied or performed better. Lastly, in Grand Theft Auto V (Very High), the Aero 17 HDR XB again performed slightly better than Gigabyte’s previous model at both 1080p and 4K-though just barely at the higher resolution. And once again, the Razer Blade Pro performed better here, despite its older, non-Super 2070 Max-Q graphics. The Aero 17 HDR XB didn’t look quite as good in Far Cry New Dawn (Very High), where it fell a few frames behind last year’s model at 1080p, though it did have an edge at 4K. And while the Razer and Alienware laptops performed better at 1080p, with the 60 Hz panel on the new Aero we tested, you wouldn’t be able to see the frame rate advantage above 60 fps, anyway. On the Shadow of the Tomb Raider benchmark, the Gigabyte Aero 17 HDR XB looked pretty good, easily outpacing the model it’s replacing from last year by 6 frames per second (fps) at 1080p and at 4K. You can, of course, swap drivers if you lean more toward the latter, but Gigabyte’s choice here solidifies the laptop’s designation as a creation/productivity machine first and a gaming rig (a close) second. Note also that while both Gigabyte Aeros were tested with 4K panels, the other competitors sported lower-resolution panels, so the majority of our results are at 1080p resolution.Īlso note that Gigabyte ships the Aero 17 HDR XB with RTX Studio drivers, which prioritize stability and productivity over day-one game optimizations and squeezing every bit of possible performance out of your GPU. The Asus and Razer laptops both have RTX 2070 graphics, while the Alienware steps things up with a 2080 Max-Q. In between the old and new Aeros, we’re adding Asus’ 15-inch ROG Zephyrus S GX502, Razer’s Blade Pro 17, and Alienware’s m15 R2 to our testing charts. But that doesn’t mean gaming performance is always substantially better than last year’s Aero 17 (which packed a non-Super 2070 and a previous-generation Intel chip. The Aero 17 HDR XB’s pairing of both a brand-new 8-core Intel 10th Gen H series Core i7-10875H processor and new Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q graphics is potent - particularly in a laptop that’s under an inch thick. ![]()
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