Gigabyte G6X 9KG (2024)
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Primary Camera: 0.9 MPix
Price comparison
Average of 10 scores (from 14 reviews)
Reviews for the Gigabyte G6X 9KG (2024)
Gigabyte's gaming notebook offers plenty of performance with a Core i7-13650HX and GeForce RTX 4060 combination along with decent accompanying hardware that includes 16 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, and a 165 Hz 16:10 panel. Our tested configuration retails at around €1,350.
Source: Tom's Guide
Like I said, building a great cheap gaming laptop is all about balance. The Gigabyte G6X gets this balance wrong, but that’s not to say it’s an overtly bad laptop. Gigabyte’s focus on performance here has paid off pretty well with the frame rates of a solid mid-range gaming laptop packed into a budget body. But that budget body does bring the whole formula down a peg or two. There are better budget gaming laptops out there from the likes of HP, MSI and Lenovo, so make sure you do your research before settling for this because of the horsepower.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 01/27/2025
Rating: Total score: 60%
Source: PC Mag
The Gigabyte G6X 9KG is a classic midrange gaming laptop, but it makes some painfully noticeable sacrifices to deliver speedy gameplay for a few hundred dollars less than its competitors. Its keyboard deck flexes substantially, and the all-plastic chassis is bland and uninspiring. Most obvious, though, is the display, marred by low pixel response time even with a high refresh rate—and poor color production on top. The G6X 9KG performed impressively (if noisily) in our benchmarks, but it's hard to overlook its negatives, especially when the Lenovo Legion Pro 5i Gen 9 isn’t far off in price and delivers comparable performance with more quality in many respects.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 12/15/2024
Rating: Total score: 60%
Source: Hubwood
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 07/02/2024
Source: Creative Bloq
Marketed as a gaming laptop, the 165Hz refresh rate might matter more to its target demographic than the screen’s colour response, but even the most nocturnal of gamers isn’t going to appreciate a dim, washed-out picture. The built-in screen is fine for office work, but putting a large, bright, colourful external monitor on the HDMI port is going to allow you to use the machine to its best if it’s photos or video that you spend your time with. Beyond this, the machine’s internals are perfectly good, and perform slightly better than the similarly specced Lenovo laptop we reviewed previously, possibly thanks to more effective cooling.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 07/01/2024
Rating: Total score: 70%
Source: Hubwood
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/27/2024
Source: Jarrod'sTech
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/07/2024
Source: Laptop Mag
I got excited about the Gigabyte G6X 9KG showing up at my doorstep, but now I just want to just put it back out there. Is it really all that bad? Well… if it was $300 to $400 less, I could give it a little more credit, but even the keyboard flexes when I type on it. That doesn’t give me any confidence that this laptop will hold up for even a few years. I highly recommend checking out the Lenovo Legion 5 Pro, which you can find at Lenovo with a slightly weaker CPU but stronger GPU for a lower price than the Gigabyte. It’s at the top of our best gaming laptops under $1,500 for a reason — great performance, colorful display, sturdy chassis, and an excellent keyboard. Listen, if you’re planning on shoving this thing in a corner and connecting it to a discrete display and keyboard and mouse setup, then it’s worth buying (although I’d still try to wait until it’s on sale). Otherwise, get something else.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/20/2024
Rating: Total score: 60%
Source: PC World
The Gigabyte G6X has excellent internals — an Intel Core i7-13650HX, Nvidia RTX 4060, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD — for the price. It makes some compromises elsewhere on the laptop, so whether this is the right laptop for you really depends on your budget and whether you want a nicer display, a fancier design, a keyboard with more key travel, an IR camera so you can sign in with your face, and various other niceties. Laptops with Nvidia RTX 4060 GPUs tend to be more expensive than this. Laptops which are in this ballpark of price tend to have other compromises: Consider the Asus ROG Strix G16, which costs another $20 but has just 16GB of RAM instead of the 32GB on the Gigabyte G6X here. Or take a look at the MSI Cyborg 15, which gets down to $999 but does so by going down to an older Core i5 CPU, half the RAM, and half the storage.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 05/13/2024
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Jarrod'sTech
Comparison, online available, Medium, Date: 01/13/2024
Foreign Reviews
Source: HardwareLuxx
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 12/14/2024
Source: PC Games
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/02/2024
Rating: Total score: 84%
Source: Basic Tutorials
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 04/30/2024
Rating: Total score: 84% price: 100% performance: 80% features: 80% display: 80% mobility: 80% workmanship: 80%
Source: MuyComputer
ES→ENSingle Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 04/26/2024
Rating: Total score: 84% price: 85% performance: 90% mobility: 70% workmanship: 85%
Source: Profesional Review
ES→ENSingle Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 03/06/2024
Rating: Total score: 83% price: 88% performance: 80% display: 74% mobility: 86% workmanship: 81%
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NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU: High-end graphics card for laptops based on the Ada Lovelace architecture. Offers 8 GB GDDR6 (128 Bit) and is configurable with a TGP of 35 - 115W (+ Dynamic Boost).
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.
i7-13650HX: Mobile CPU based on the Raptor Lake series that offers 14 cores (6 performance, 8 efficiency cores) that clock with up to 4.9 GHz (P-cores) or 3.6 GHz (E-cores). » Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
16.00":
15-inch display variants are the standard and are used for more than half of all laptops.
The reason for the popularity of mid-sized displays is that this size is reasonably easy on the eyes, often allows high resolutions and thus offers rich details on the screen, yet does not consume too much power and the devices can still be reasonably compact - simply the standard compromise.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.2.552 kg:
With this weight, a laptop is rather heavier than average. Devices in this range shine more with screen size and performance than with mobility.
Gigabyte: Gigabyte Technology is a Taiwanese computer hardware manufacturer founded in 1986, best known for its motherboards and graphics cards. Gigabyte offers a wide range of products including motherboards, graphics cards, laptops, monitors, systems and components. Gigabyte's laptops offer gaming and creative features on the go. Gigabyte monitors offer 4K Pro Gaming.
74.82%: This rating is poor. More than three quarters of the models are rated better. That is rather not a purchase recommendation. Even if verbal ratings in this area do not sound that bad ("sufficient" or "satisfactory"), they are usually euphemisms that disguise a classification as a below-average laptop.
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