Customer Ratings & Reviews

I’ve not had any previous experience with the GigaByte brand, so wasn’t sure what to expect as far as build quality and performance. The laptop’s specs were pretty decent though, so I decided to test it and find out. This GigaByte AERO X16 has a clean, sleek chassis design, with a really unique detail along the backside of the laptop. There’s a grooved edge, as well as, a gap between the bottom of the screen and the rear of the keyboard. It’s just different, but in a nice way. The keyboard is backlit, always good to see on gaming style devices. IMO. The 16” 2560x1600 display is BEAUTIFUL. Bright, clear, crisp visuals. So I’m beyond pleased by that, and how the visual quality really contributes to game immersion. The keyboard is backlit, and you can go into Windows’ Personalization Dynamic Lighting settings for more light effect and color customizations. My usual lineup of favorite games - Guild Wars 2, World of Warcraft, FFXIV, Dead by Daylight - run so much better thanks to the AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 processor, GeForce RTX 5060 graphics card, and 32gb of RAM. No bothersome lag, stuttering, or delay. Gameplay was smooth, even during graphics intensive battles. And while the 1 TB SSD should be good for now, there are always other options for more storage if that isn’t enough as time goes on. The on-board camera was just average. Although the video quality is 1080p 30fps 60Hz, and the photo resolution is 2.1MP 16:9 1920x1080, it certainly doesn’t look like it. There was some noticeable pixelization. Fine enough for Zoom calls. Gamers and/or streamers would likely use a better quality webcam anyway. Audio quality was great! The on-board speakers more than do their job without the need to turn the volume up to its highest setting. Of course, many gamers use plug-in or Bluetooth speakers, or a gaming headset. There’s plenty of vents along both sides and the rear, and underneath on the bottom. Heat output was minimal. I didn’t notice the surface of the laptop, or the air around it, getting overly hot during gaming sessions. There’s also a decent selection of ports, including one for an Ethernet cable. You don’t see that that often these days on newer laptops. Oh, and a really fun and cool feature was that the thick cardboard packing pieces can be fashioned together to become a ‘make-shift’ laptop stand! I’m still “making friends” with AI. But this laptop comes pre-equipped with Copilot+, so I’ll continue to be getting familiar with that, though using it sparingly and for specific purposes, as I prefer to figure out and do most things myself rather than having AI do it for me. So far, I’m enjoying playing around with my new GigaByte AERO X16 gaming laptop. While it is a new brand to me, the price point is fair, and it seems to be well built with all the basics a mid-range gaming laptop should have.

📦 UNBOXING: Inside the box, you’ll find the Aero X16, the 150W barrel plug charging adapter, several sticker packs, and basic documentation. I do appreciate that GIGABYTE made good use of recyclable cardboard in their packaging, and the overall packaging seems to be good for shipping and transit. 💪 BUILD: My first impression of the Aero X16 is that it was thinner than I expected it to be. It stands out as one of the thinner gaming notebooks that I’ve owned. It weighs in at just under 4.4lbs, which is lighter, but not the lightest of gaming laptops. I do wish GIGABYTE could have used a smaller 150W brick, but it’s quite common to see power adapters of this size, so GIGABYTE isn’t the exception here. While there are other laptops using magnesium alloy and also weigh less, the plastic used on the Aero X16 is of good quality and also keeps cost down compared to those laptops. 🔌PORTS: On the left side, you have the DC barrel jack, 1x RJ45 port, 1x HDMI 2.1 port, 1x USB Type-A 3.2 gen1 port, and 1x USB Type-C 4.0 port that supports PD 3.0 and Displayport 1.4. On the right, you’ll find 1x USB Type-A 3.2 gen1 port, 1x USB Type-A 2.0 port, and 1x 3.5mm combo audio jack. Overall, the Aero X16 has a decent selection of ports, but the fact that it brings a USB 2.0 port is a bit embarrassing for this price. For a laptop that wants to be for both creators and gamers, I would have also appreciated the inclusion of an SD card slot. Another nit is that the USB4 port is seemingly not as reliable as Thunderbolt 4 on Intel-based laptops, as my displays would not respond on my CalDigit TS4 Dock, but they did on an Intel-based laptop. Meanwhile, another setup with a CalDigit TS3 Plus worked just fine. So your mileage may vary. 🔧 EXPANSION & UPGRADES: The Aero X16 has decent options for expansion and upgrades, but not without compromise. Firstly, it uses 2x SO-DIMM slots, pre-populated with 2x16GB for a total of 32GB of RAM running at 5600 MT/s. So if you find yourself needing more RAM down the road, you should be able to upgrade to a 2x32GB kit at 5600 MT/s. There are also 2x m.2 PCIe 4.0 slots onboard for your NVMe SSDs, but they aren’t created equally. The pre-populated slot runs at PCIe 4.0 x4, while the unpopulated slot only runs at PCIe 4.0 x2, which means it is capped at roughly 3.5GB/s. Other than that, there is a removable E-Key slot with a Wi-Fi 6E + Bluetooth 5.3 module (RealTek RTL8852CE), so you can upgrade it to a WiFi 7 module or future compatible revisions. ⌨️ ​KEYBOARD & TOUCHPAD: In my experience, the keyboard and touchpad have been solid. While the keys themselves are spaced out further than I’d normally like, my typing tests showed solid results of over 100 wpm with 96%+ accuracy, which is typical for me. The touchpad is also quite large and responsive, supports multi-touch gestures, and has a quiet tactile click when pressed. Overall, no notable complaints, and I didn’t run into issues with palm rejection while typing, either. 📺 DISPLAY: GIGABYTE has been known for putting OLED displays in their Aero lineup, so it’s a shame that they opted to switch to an IPS display. While these OLED displays were incredible to look at and were color-accurate for creative work, they maxed out at 60Hz which may be unacceptable for a lot of gamers. The company could have spent more to get a color-accurate OLED display with a higher refresh rate, but it seems like they felt this IPS display would meet the needs of both gamers and creatives at this price point. My unit used the panel model BEO NE160QDM-NYJ which is a 2560x1600 resolution. It’s rated for 100% sRGB and pantone-validated, so it is suitable for photo and video editing or other color-sensitive work. In my subjective experience, I think it’s an overall good display for color accuracy, but it does have a bit of backlight bleed from the edges which will be a bit more noticeable when displaying darker images at higher brightness. For gamers, the display maxes out at a 165Hz refresh rate but supports adaptive sync to prevent screen tearing and jitter. I played games that hit the VRR window and with V-Sync disabled, and the experience was smooth and tear-free. 📹​ WEBCAM & MICROPHONE: The webcam is 1080p and supports Windows Hello facial recognition for unlocking. In my experience, it yields pretty good quality under good lighting conditions, but becomes quite grainy in low light. Windows Studio Effects can leverage the onboard NPU to provide a background blur or auto-framing your face, but won’t help reduce noise. The microphone uses the typical dual-array setup with Realtek audio, and you can select from a few different noise reduction profiles in the Realtek console. For best audio quality, I like the Stereo-Enhanced mode, but you can opt for the Uni-Directional mode with AI noise reduction for aggressive noise reduction for meetings, but at the sacrifice of audio clarity. Alternatively, you can use the NVIDIA Broadcast app with noise removal or consider using the Studio Voice mode if you’re plugged into DC power since it’s significantly more GPU-intensive. Either way, it should suffice reasonably well for meetings, but if you’re playing games with the fans blaring, you will definitely want to consider using AI noise of some sort. 🔊 SPEAKERS & HEADPHONE: In my subjective experience, the speakers on the Aero X16 are slightly above average, but still far from being speakers I would want to be using for music. There are other gaming laptops with some excellent speakers, and the Aero X16 doesn’t compete. It uses downward-firing speakers, which means the quality will really rely on the surface your laptop is on. Overall, they’re much thinner on bass, so they don’t sound as full. Voice clarity is solid, but they definitely lead to more unwanted distortion when playing audio with a fuller frequency spectrum. There is an “AI Audio” EQ which is accessible via the GiMATE app under the “Scenario Profile Setting” which has 5 different EQ profiles for different surfaces. While this might help some, it does mean that you may have to switch between profiles each time you use the X16 on a different surface. The speakers also make use of Dolby Atmos, and in my experience, trying to use the EQ just didn’t quite help enough for me to find the speakers “good”. While I’ve heard significantly worse speakers, this speaker implementation isn’t something I would be praising to others about. The headphone jack is also nothing terribly noteworthy. You can expect to use headphones with lower impedance / high sensitivity and IEMs. ⚡ PERFORMANCE: One thing to note is that the Aero X16 includes a mux switch that means it can turn off and on the dedicated graphics as it needs. You have control over this through the GiMATE app under the “Scenario Profile Setting” where you can enable Nvidia Optimus while on battery or on power. In my experience, if you do use Type-C charging, that will not trigger the dedicated GPU setting, so you might have to go and enable Optimus for battery mode while charging over USB-C. Doing this worked for me while charging 100W over USB-C. The Ryzen AI 7 350 is an 8-core CPU with 4x performance cores and 4x compact cores. Each core has simultaneous multithreading, meaning you get 16 logical processors. In my Cinebench 2024 on the Performance profile, I yielded 931pts in Multi Core, and 117pts in Single Core. A good result for this CPU, especially considering its efficiency. In 3D Mark Time Spy, under the performance mode, the laptop managed to get a score of 10,951 with additional details here: https://www.3dmark.com/spy/57404852 Playing games like Enshrouded or Revenge of the Savage Planet yield good performance, but usually preferring DLSS to obtain > 60fps at the 1600p output resolution. Given the limited 8GB VRAM frame buffer, I would opt to play games at balanced/medium settings to hit higher frame rates, but if you want a minimum of 60fps, it is doable with some higher settings if you employ DLSS in performance mode. The Kingston OM8PGP41024Q-A0 is a DRAM-less SSD using Host Memory Buffer. In a default CrystalDiskMark run, it yielded 4758MB/s read and 3903 MB/s write. It’s a weaker showing compared to other Gen4 SSD’s, so if you want to use a higher performance Gen4 SSD, I’d recommend moving this one to the PCIe 4.0 x2 slot since it’s not significantly higher than the 3.5GB/s cap. Doing this yielded 3532 MB/s read and 3264 MB/s write. Anecdotally speaking, it appears to me that the RTX 5060 mobile is slightly better than the older RTX 3070 Ti mobile while also being more efficient and having better support for ray tracing and DLSS. The RTX 5060 in this laptop is rated for an 85W TGP, and in my testing, it hasn’t really gone beyond that. The fans can be louder while gaming in performance mode, but the temps generally stayed under 80C under load. 🔋 BATTERY: GIGABYTE claims that the Aero X16 should get 14 hours of battery life, but I’m not sure I’d say that with confidence. While you can lower the display brightness and disable the NVIDIA graphics to save on power, this laptop has only a 76Wh battery—considering an idle power drain of around 11W, you can probably expect 5-7 hours of active use throughout the day, but your mileage will vary. 🧐 CONCLUSION: The Aero X16 is a thin and light notebook for content creators who are also gamers. It makes compromises that might be acceptable for folks with a tighter budget who don’t want to spend more for premium build and features. My biggest criticism with it pertains more to its slower secondary m.2 slot and USB4 reliability, but if you’re willing to look past that, then there’s actually quite a bit to like here for the price.

The GIGABYTE - AERO X16 1VH93USC64AH - Copilot+ PC - 16" 2560×1600 WQXGA AMD Ryzen Al 7 350 - 1TB SSD - 32GB DDR5 RAM GeForce RTX 5060 - Space Grey is my first gaming laptop of this brand. The unboxing of this laptop was somewhat entertaining. It comes with plenty of Gigabyte brand stickers and the box converts to a gaming console look, which I thought was very clever and gets an A for presentation. The laptop took a couple hours to charge right out of the box and set up was fast and efficient. Some of the main things me and my family of gamers looks for in a gaming laptop is, storage capacity, battery life, glitch tendencies and refresh rate during gaming, picture quality, screen size, weight, keyboard responsiveness, excessive heat, fan sound, sound quality, webcam privacy shutter option, and built in ports. The 32 GB DDR5 RAM and 1 TB SSD is a very decent size of storage and processing for my gaming needs. It has performed very well during gaming, streaming, and for multitasking when using it for work. I am pleased with the versatility this laptop has shown so far. The battery life unplugged while gaming lasted about an hour to an hour and a half. It’s not great, but since it is processing so much more while gaming, it is pretty average. The laptop can charge with the provided cord and power box (somewhat old school compared to the newer USB-C charging options for laptops now.) If you are trying to tote this around, don’t worry, you do have the option to charge it with a USB-C charger too, it is supposedly a little slower but will still get the job done for you. The glitch tendencies and refresh rate for this laptop were on point. I didn’t have issues with lag, nor did I have to wait for the pixels to all light up as I would turn and go from frame to frame while gaming. It’s very annoying to have to wait for the picture to load. The picture quality and graphics on this laptop are excellent. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 delivers a high-quality gaming experience every time. The screen size is one of the laptops best assets. The 16-inch screen is a comfortable size easy on the eyes, along with the 2060 x 1600 screen resolution. This laptop can fit in your backpack and weighs 4.19 pounds. Compared to a small laptop, it seems heavy. However, compared to most standard gaming laptops, it feels a lot lighter. So it is a nice middle of the road option if you’re looking for both business and gaming in your laptop computer. The keyboard is ergonomically laid out and has a Yuge touch pad, it’s awesome. It uses the golden curve keyboard layout. This is to improve typing comfort and posture. Typing is satisfying and feels good as I’m cruising along typing over 60 words per minute. The keyboard is back lit and appears to have the option of either being on or off. I tried to adjust the light and dim the backlight but it looked the same. The only way I was able to get the light to turn off was by using the GiMATE. I asked the GiMATE to turn off the keyboard backlight and viola it was done. The keyboard has dedicated keys for GiMATE and CoPilot AI. This is super convenient and I’ve enjoyed playing around and getting used to using them. I’m not heavy into AI, it has its uses, but I’m not mad that the convenient option is there for me ready on the keyboard when I need it. I will say that the paperwork that comes with the laptop failed to identify what the GiMATE and CoPilot button were. I suppose they assume you will figure it out. The heat output has been average while gaming but the fan noise is not loud at all so far. This is a nice upgrade! Gigabyte uses OdB ambiance Windforce technology to achieve this. The vents on the side do put out warm air to keep the keyboard cool. If you set it on your lap, it will really heat up, so don’t do that! The sound quality is great. I don’t have any complaints about the Dolby Atmos Surround Sound. It does have its limits to the volume level, but they cap it at a good level before sound can get distorted from being too loud. I have used the headphone jack and the USB-C port to listen with my wired headphones. This option is super convenient! You can NOT use them both at the same time though if you were trying to have 2 people listen simultaneously. Webcam quality is mid. It is not fabulous but not terrible. If you are planning on streaming, I’d definitely upgrade to a higher quality, separate webcam. There is no built-in privacy cover or privacy shutter, so you will need to add one yourself to keep the creepers out of your business. Finally, the built-in ports are nice. You have a good variety from USB-A’s, USB-C, audio jack, ethernet, HDMI 2.1. The USB-A options are for Gen1 and 2.0 and there are 3 total (2-Gen1 and 1-USB-A 2.0 which are not interchangeable fyi.) Overall, I found this gaming laptop to be a good option for multi-use of professional and gaming applications. Solid purchase.

The Gigabyte Aero X16 Copilot+ is a bit of a hybrid. Gigabyte seems to have positioned it as a laptop designed for mobile professionals as well as creative users who also engage in moderate gaming, with features like a Pantone-validated display and Copilot+ AI tools setting the tone. It's powered by the AMD Ryzen AI 7 350, a chip that combines solid CPU performance with an integrated NPU to support AI-centric features within Windows like enhanced image generation or real-time language translation. Paired with 32GB of DDR5 RAM and a 1TB SSD, it it seems to handle multitasking and large projects well. The graphics side is handled by NVIDIA’s RTX 5060 mobile GPU, which isn’t particularly high-end in terms of gaming. It offers decent 1080p and light 1440p performance, and while DLSS 4 helps boost frame rates in supported games, the 8GB of GDDR7 can feel limiting in heavier titles. It’s fine for casual gaming or creator tasks that don’t rely heavily on GPU horsepower, but it doesn’t compete with higher-tier mobile GPUs. The Aero One area where the laptop stands out is its 16-inch WQXGA display. It’s color-accurate, Pantone-validated, covers 100% of the sRGB gamut, and runs at 165Hz. That makes it a solid choice for creatives who need precise visuals without stepping into OLED or 4K territory. The magnesium alloy chassis keeps the weight down to just under 2kg, and it’s only 16.7mm thick, giving it a premium feel without being overly flashy. Features like Dolby Atmos speakers and GIGABYTE’s GiMATE assistant add some polish to the day-to-day user experience. I wouldn't expect much from Dolby Atmos in a laptop, although there is an improvement compared to generic, unprocessed laptop audio, making the sound "fuller" or "more open.". Using headphones, however results in significant improvements for gaming and movies. Still, the Gigabyte Aero X16 Copilot+ is in the upper price range for devices with these specs. The premium price doesn’t necessarily reflect raw performance, especially considering the midrange GPU. Instead, most of the cost seems to be tied to the excellent build quality, AI platform, and creator-friendly display. If you're mainly gaming or looking for raw performance-per-dollar, there may be some other machines that might offer a bit better value. But if you're after a refined build and AI-enhanced creative support, the AERO X16 seems to fit that niche well.

After buying three “cheaper” gaming laptops last year for all 3 kids, 2/3 kids laptop quit working with in less than a year. One being an HP and the other an asus. My son has a group of friends he plays games with and one recommended gigabyte. Honestly I laughed it off. After doing research for months we started really looking to buy something decent and the gigabyte had better specs for a cheaper price. It’s such a nice laptop. It’s super slim and runs all the big games. The old laptops had nothing but issues running those same titles. I’m floored at the amount I paid for the gigabyte( the asus wasn’t much cheaper). The asus would get so hot it would burn you if you touched it. Not the gigabyte. The only issue I see and this is a personal problem, I need to buy 2 more to replace the crappy name brand versions. Gigabyte take my money.

Excellent laptop! Super fast, long battery life for office work, and great performance in gaming, multimedia, video editing, and even AI tasks. Truly my ideal notebook!

This is a very good-looking laptop. It is thin and lightweight. It's held back by the lack of an OLED screen. There are some screen bleeding issues around the edge. The price, as of now, is also not very good. You can get Lenovo Legion 5 around the same price with similar CPU and GPUT, but with better thermal and an OLED screen.

This laptop is overall extremely solid and trustworthy. It runs quick, battery lasts forever, and easy to navigate. The laptop itself looks really good as well; clean and sleek. Although it is on the more spendy side, I have had no problems with it at all. I recommend.

This is my first time using a gigabyte device and I was genuinely surprised by the quality and look of this laptop. The metal outer chasis gives me more confidence in the durability of the machine, though it does get chipped a bit more easily than expected (chips arose mainly from the zipper on my bag while placing it in). It generally runs quite well for my research from graphcally demanding tasks, to multitasking across many programs. I wish I had some more straightforward control over small things like what the lid does upon being opened but generally, i'm satisfied with how the laptop runs. I have had a single odd OS experience (being stuck in a loop on the startup screen) but this was easily resolved with a restart. This was an issue I have encountered with other computers.

I got this laptop as an early Christmas gift! So far, everything has been running smoothly and better than I’d hoped! There was a small hiccup with the video card not being detected during the initial setup, but after going through all the available updates, the issue was resolved on its own without any necessary troubleshooting or inconvenience. One of my favorite games, Disney Dreamlight Valley, has never looked better. I was able to turn the graphic settings all the way up (MAXIMUM NVIDIA POWER!) without experiencing any stutter, lag, or graphical issues. It also runs every other game I've tried on maximum, or near maximum, display settings. Compared to my old laptop, this one is a MAJOR upgrade, no more worrying about crashing. 10/10, would recommend. Easy setup, top tier performance!

Great laptop. Very light and stealthy for a gaming laptop. The amd chip is great for a college student since it provides better battery life. Gameplay was smooth and it can run the best games on high settings no problem.

Absolutely love this laptop. I wanted a laptop for when I go on trips since dragging my pc around would be too much. It has plenty of RAM for gaming and the 1 tb SSD will last for a while for me. The screen quality is also very clear. Everything loads rather quickly. Battery life is short, especially when gaming. But when I have it plugged in while gaming, I just have the setting to stop charging at 80%. Also, make sure you get a cooling pad. You can never be too careful.

Amazing laptop for anything with a powerful AI CPU. Perfect portable gaming/in general laptop

We had the previous version of these which were great but had a few finicky issues with the fans, battery life, lack of usb ports, and graphics drivers (not unusable but a bit quirky). These have been updated to resolve all of the issues we had with our previous models - happy with the purchase so far!

Very nice build quality. Really impressed with the battery life on gaming. I get a solid hour not trying to save any. Very nice vivid screen as well

Seriously impressed with the Aero x16! For just $1049 for the 5060 version, it packs a punch against other laptops for a cheaper price. The AMD Ryzen AI 7 is amazing, powering the laptop to a full 10 hours in battery life when watching video / office work, which most gaming laptops can't even come close to. It's also nice that the charger is quite small. Only negative is that the GPU is underwatted to 75 W, not 100, which can reduce preformance in GPU specific tasks.

Overall it runs very well! I notice the sound of the fans here and I did expect more from the speakers, but that’s minor. I’ve noticed lagging a few times, but it’s never lasted long enough for me to be concerned, just enough to mention for anyone running higher performance tasks.

Incredible product. Got it on sale during Black Friday, but even if I hadn't, it would have so been worth it. I really love my little guy. I'm struggling with trying to get rid of the GiMATE stupid AI that pops up every time I open my computer, but I'll figure out how to uninstall the whole program eventually when I track it down. I really just wish there was a toggle for it. Otherwise, it runs super smoothly, it comes with like. A little cardboard stand that I prop it on when I draw on it, and it's just beautiful for my purposes. It shows detail super well and it's my perfect drawing computer.

Quite loud (in case somebody cares). Other than that, this laptop has been great! I am using it for Unreal Engine and and it loads fast (a few seconds) and it moves really smooth without having to modify scalability.

After a few weeks with the Aero X16, I’m genuinely impressed — especially for content creation and everyday work. The system boots up fast and projects a smooth, fluid experience when I’m editing video clips, organizing large photo libraries, and juggling multiple apps at once. The 16″ WQXGA display gives me plenty of screen real-estate, which makes detailed editing and color-grading much easier than on a smaller laptop. The 1 TB SSD plus 32 GB RAM means I don’t have to constantly shuffle files or worry about lag during rendering — everything feels snappy. It’s also light enough for me to toss in my backpack when I’m shooting travel footage or working remotely. For a creator like me who needs portability, power, and reliability — this machine hits the sweet spot.