Gigabyte Aorus Master 16 review: powerful graphics, LOUD FANS

A small implicit 3 Gs for capital-G Gamers.

The Gigabyte Aorus Master 16 is simply a gaming laptop, and it definite looks similar one. It's an inch thick, weighs 5.5 pounds, and is awash successful RGB lighting, stylized text, and curved plastic.

This Aorus Master offers almighty hardware and a beauteous high-res, high-refresh OLED display. It's the archetypal of respective laptops we're reviewing with the GeForce RTX 5080, Nvidia's second-fastest laptop graphics paper of this generation. At $3,100, it's really a fewer 100 dollars little than likewise almighty models from Razer, Lenovo, and Asus, and implicit a 1000 dollars little than laptops with the RTX 5090, Nvidia's fastest GPU.

But successful speech for being a small cheaper than its nonstop competitors, the Aorus Master feels a small cheap, and its built-in bundle includes a useless AI chatbot but nary customized instrumentality controls. And those fans get loud.

Like the Razer Blade 16, the Aorus Master 16 comes with a 16-inch 2560 x 1600 OLED display. The Aorus's sheet isn't rather arsenic close arsenic the Blade's - with slightly lower colour reproduction - but it's conscionable arsenic agleam and astir arsenic pleasing to the oculus successful regular use. It's got punchy colors that aren't oversaturated, and its 2.5K solution and maximum 240Hz r …

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