Aorus 15G XC
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Primary Camera: 1 MPix
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Average of 6 scores (from 8 reviews)
Reviews for the Aorus 15G XC
Gigabyte's Aorus 15G has been updated with the new graphics unit RTX 3070. Unfortunately, the manufacturer seems to have made some cuts as a result of this upgrade, as several features from last year's model are no longer included. Can the new graphics performance outweigh these omissions or might the predecessor actually be the better choice?
Source: Laptop Media

Support, online available, Very Short, Date: 07/28/2021
Source: Toptenreviews

The Aorus serves up impressive gaming speed and a good 1080p display alongside great thermal performance and a smart chassis. However, it does suffer from an patchy 1/0 option, an underwhelming keyboard and a higher price than similarly specified rivals. Indeed, it’s not tricky to find RTX 3070 laptops for less money, and sometimes with better AMD CPUs. That said, that price gets you a decent screen, solid build quality and low-noise operation. It could be cheaper, but it’s a well-built laptop if you can afford it.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 06/08/2021
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: The Verge

This is a fantastic machine if all you want to do is get 60 frames per second (and often, better than that) in most of your games without tweaking many settings. Doing that for under $2,000 is an achievement worthy of praise. But if you care less about mobility and having a thin form factor that Gigabyte’s Aorus 15G provides, MSI’s GP66 Leopard takes the RTX 3070 even further. Its thicker, heavier chassis affords the chip even more headroom to get better performance in games — for the same $1,799 price, no less.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 02/24/2021
Rating: Total score: 75%
Source: Pokde

I would have preferred a configuration with 16GB RAM and 1TB storage over this, but I guess GIGABYTE thinks that people appreciate more RAM over storage. With that said, you can always drop in another M.2 SSD into the GIGABYTE AORUS 15G XC to upgrade the storage, versus having to dispose of two sticks of memory because you had to upgrade the memory..
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 02/16/2021
Rating: Total score: 84% price: 82% performance: 84% mobility: 83% workmanship: 89%
Source: Laptop Mag

Yes, the Gigabyte Aorus 15G is powerful thanks to its brand-spankin’ new GPU, and the fact that it’s super portable and has a colorful 240Hz panel is appealing. However, a super-powerful GPU alone does not make a gaming laptop good. This machine falls short on battery life, as well as its display, webcam, keyboard, speakers and even its heating solution.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 01/26/2021
Rating: Total score: 60%
Source: T3

The Aorus 15G gets some added RTX 30 series power and we've been very impressed by what the laptop has to offer – if you want a gaming laptop with top-level performance this year, then this is an option that we'd recommend putting somewhere on your shortlist.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 01/26/2021
Rating: Total score: 80%
Foreign Reviews
Source: Ixbt

Positive: Powerful hardware; high gaming performance; excellent display; backlit keys. Negative: Noisy under loads; short battery life.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 04/01/2021
Source: Alt om Data

Positive: Powerful hardware; high gaming performance; excellent display; impressive design; solid workmanship.
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 06/16/2021
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU: High-End laptop graphics card based on the Ampere GA104 chip. Available in different versions with a TDP from 80 to 125 Watt.
These graphics cards are able to play the latest and most demanding games in high resolutions and full detail settings with enabled Anti-Aliasing.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
i7-10870H: A higher-end, octa-core processor of the Comet Lake product family. This i7 is designed for use in larger, beefier laptops; its Hyper-Threading-enabled CPU cores run at 2.2 GHz (base clock speed) to 5 GHz (max. Boost frequency when under single-thread load). The all-core Boost clock speed is 4.2 GHz. Core i7-10870H is manufactured on Intel's third-gen 14 nm process and features the 24 EU UHD Graphics 630 iGPU.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
15.60":
15-16 inch is a standard display size for laptops and offers the biggest variety of products.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.2.138 kg:
Usually, old laptops with 14-16 inch display-diagonal weigh as much.
Aorus:
This company was founded as a subsidiary of Gigabyte in Tawain in 2014. The logo is a falcon head, since the name Aorus is derived from the ancient Egyptian falcon god Horus. According to employees, the first letter of HORUS was changed to "A" to represent the brand as "A team". Aorus primarily produces gaming laptops as well as computer accessories.
Since the market shares are still low, there are also few reviews. However, the products achieve relatively good ratings (as of 2016).
77.57%: This rating is not convincing. The laptop is evaluated below average, this is not really a recommendation for purchase.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.