Gigabyte G6X Series
Processor: Intel Raptor Lake-HX i7-13650HXGraphics Adapter: NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU, NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
Display: 16.00 inch
Weight: 2.5kg, 2.552kg
Price: 1349 euro
Average of 18 scores (from 28 reviews)
Gigabyte G6X 9KG (2024)
Specifications
Notebook: Gigabyte G6X 9KG (2024)Processor: Intel Raptor Lake-HX i7-13650HX
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU 8192 MB
Display: 16.00 inch, 16:10, 1920 x 1200 pixels
Weight: 2.552kg
Price: 1349 euro
Links: Gigabyte homepage
Price comparison
Average Score:
Reviews
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
Source: Jarrod'sTech
Comparison, online available, Medium, Date: 01/13/2024
Foreign Reviews
Source: HardwareLuxx DE→EN
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 12/14/2024
Source: HardwareLuxx DE→EN
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 12/14/2024
Source: PC Games DE→EN
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/02/2024
Rating: Total score: 84%
Source: PC Games DE→EN
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/02/2024
Rating: Total score: 84%
Source: Basic Tutorials DE→EN
Single 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: Basic Tutorials DE→EN
Single 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→EN
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 04/26/2024
Rating: Total score: 84% price: 85% performance: 90% mobility: 70% workmanship: 85%
Source: MuyComputer ES→EN
Single 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→EN
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 03/06/2024
Rating: Total score: 83% price: 88% performance: 80% display: 74% mobility: 86% workmanship: 81%
Source: Profesional Review ES→EN
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 03/06/2024
Rating: Total score: 83% price: 88% performance: 80% display: 74% mobility: 86% workmanship: 81%
Gigabyte G6X 9MG
Specifications
Notebook: Gigabyte G6X 9MGProcessor: Intel Raptor Lake-HX i7-13650HX
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU 6144 MB
Display: 16.00 inch, 16:10, 1920 x 1200 pixels
Weight: 2.5kg
Links: Gigabyte homepage
Price comparison
Average Score:
Reviews
Source: Think Digit
Gigabyte is one of the household names when it comes to gaming PCs in India. From GPUs to motherboards, gamers or PC enthusiasts who like to dabble in the art of assembling their own PCs are familiar with the brand. However, for laptop gamers, the Gigabyte name is still relatively new. Most of those who are familiar with it know it because of the Gigabyte G5 gaming laptop launched at the tail end of 2022. The laptop featured a fairly simple design and was powered by the Intel 12th Gen processor along with the Nvidia RTX 3000 series GPUs. Fast forward to technically two years later, and Gigabyte has launched its successor, which is now known as the Gigabyte G6X. While earlier, the entire G5 series was divided into KE, ME, and GE, the latest G6X series is divided into mainly two variants – 9KG and 9MG.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/03/2024
Rating: Total score: 85% price: 91% performance: 80% workmanship: 75%
Foreign Reviews
Source: Mega Obzor RU→EN
Positive: Decent performance; nice display; long battery life; silent system; good connectivity. Negative: Mediocre design; heavy and bulky.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 12/18/2024
Comment
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.
These graphics cards are able to play the latest and most demanding games in high resolutions and full detail settings with enabled Anti-Aliasing.
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).
With these GPUs you are able to play modern and demanding games fluently at medium detail settings and HD resolution.
NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU: Mid-range graphics card for laptops based on the Ada Lovelace architecture. Offers 6 GB of GDDR6 VRAM (96 Bit) and is configurable with a TGP of 35 - 115W (+ Dynamic Boost).
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Raptor Lake-HX:
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:
This range for display formats was and is a rarity. It is larger than the general standard of 15 inches, but not yet in the range of large workstations. One usually has higher screen resolutions available, but portability suffers from that.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
2.5 kg:
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.
76.57%: This rating is not earth-shattering. This rating must actually be seen as average, since there are about as many devices with worse ratings as better ones. A purchase recommendation can only be seen with a lot of goodwill, unless it is about websites that generally rate strictly.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.