last year Gigabyte launched the powerful AERO15 notebook for game enthusiasts and video rendering users, which won everyone's praise for its relatively light appearance and excellent performance. However, when everyone was amazed at the performance of Gigabyte AERO15, they complained about the appearance of AERO15, believing that the appearance of the notebook is too straight and lacks a sense of softness, which seems to be for those hardcore players.
This year, Gigabyte launched the NEW AERO15 OLED notebook, which not only replaced the screen with OLED, but also adopted an improved notebook mold. In addition, this notebook also uses the latest Turing architecture graphics card, which has more advantages in power consumption. Now that we have got the NEW AERO15 OLED laptop, see if it is no longer too hardcore to gain more consumer love.
Appearance configuration
A notebook gives people the first impression of A-side appearance. If A-side appearance is high, the possibility of the laptop being selected will greatly increase. The A-side of Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED laptop has undergone relatively large changes based on last year, and its appearance has also been greatly improved.
NEW AERO15 OLED notebook adopts a line design similar to an hourglass. At the same time, the carbon fiber texture in the past has also become a metal brushed texture design, which looks more tall and enhances the feel. On the upper side of the middle is AERO's logo, which can emit dazzling light after powering on.
Thanks to the material of Samsung OLED, this laptop can have ultra-narrow bezels on the B side, and the thickness of the three-sided narrow bezels is only 3mm. At present, gaming laptops are gradually pursuing lightness and full screen today, Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED laptop is undoubtedly amazing. At the same time, the Color Calibration color calibration certification logo is pasted on the lower right corner of each notebook. Obviously, each notebook has undergone color calibration before leaving the factory. Can give professional designers a better screen. At the same time, the notebook also designed a very small camera on the B side, and users can choose whether to block the camera through the physical cover, ensuring consumer privacy.
Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED notebook has a simple design on the C side. There is no fancy design from other manufacturers, and no functions should be left behind. However, the various logos and certifications in the lower right corner of the C side have attracted my attention. Through these various logos, it seems to be telling people that the best components are used in my entire machine.
Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED notebook has a full-size keyboard, adopts a standard key layout, without too many function keys. After all, the whole machine is compact enough, and if additional keys are added, it will look very cramped. In fact, the notebook's keys are very soft and will not make too noisy sound when typing. They just complete the tasks assigned to him quietly. The interval between the keys is just right, and you won't feel tired even if you work for a long time. The keyboard is equipped with a touchpad that supports Windows Precision, which can support multi-touch and gesture operations. The upper left side of the touchpad is also equipped with a press-type fingerprint recognition device that supports Windows Hello function, which is obviously for players with certain confidentiality requirements.
In order to ensure normal heat dissipation of the whole machine, the Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED notebook has also been redesigned on the bottom cover, and the heat dissipation and ventilation windows are larger, while the heat dissipation windows are a bit like Batman, more fashionable and technological.
Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED notebooks have a wide variety of interfaces, and there are all mainstream interfaces. Including USB Type-A, HDMI, card reader, 3.5mm headphones, RJ45 and USB Type-C interfaces, Gigabyte provides you with interfaces that you can think of or cannot use.
After launching the NEW AERO15 OLED notebook, Gigabyte launched the larger AERO 17 notebook, which has the same excellent configuration. At the same time, the 17.3-inch screen supports 4K resolution and 3mm ultra-narrow bezel, which is full of impact.
Compared with his elder brother Gigabyte AERO 17 notebook, the NEW AERO15 OLED notebook looks smaller and more exquisite, and the weight of only 2Kg can make people carry it more easily. This weight is almost as high as a gaming laptop. We placed the Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED notebook in the laptop bag, and obviously the backpack still has a lot of room to put on something else, even if it's a 15.6-inch laptop.
Performance
As a gaming laptop, it is obviously difficult to convince the public without excellent performance. Therefore, the Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED laptop is not compromised at all in terms of configuration, and can provide up to RTX 2080 Max-Q graphics card. The laptop we got is equipped with an Intel Core i7 9750H CPU and an NVIDAI GTX 1660 Ti graphics card. This combination can already be used with most 3A masterpiece games. However, a laptop is a comprehensive product after all. We must not only consider the performance of the CPU and GPU, but also consider the performance of other hardware, such as the performance and qualities of hard disk screens.
screen test
Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED notebook uses a 4K resolution screen, and the material is OLED.
Real-time photo shooting
Through the actual shooting of the screen by the camera, we found that the screen of the Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED notebook can truly restore the scenery in the wallpaper, and such color restoration can meet the needs of professional enthusiasts.
In addition to the brighter colors, the biggest feature of the OLED screen is that it is close to pure black at low brightness. We also compared Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED notebooks with other notebooks in dark conditions, with AMOLED having excellent displays under pure black wallpapers under extreme conditions. During the 4s exposure time, the LCD screen has seen obvious light leakage, while the AMOLED screen is close to perfect black.
We also used Spyder Elite 5 Elite Redscream to test the screen of the Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED notebook to see what level it is.
Color gamut performance
Color accuracy test
Through the test of Spyder Elite 5 Elite, Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED notebook has 100% sRGB color gamut, and the average color accuracy accuracy is 1.75. This color accuracy is at the top of all notebooks, allowing professional users to get the most accurate color display.
CPU performance - CPU-Z
CPU-Z is a household name necessary software for installation. It can be said that it is the current Tianzi No. 1 CPU recognition software. We quantify the processor performance through the tests provided by CPU-Z, and then compare it with other CPUs to understand its approximate level.
In terms of single-threading performance, the performance of the Intel Core I7-9750H is almost the same as that of the Intel Core i7-7700K, while in terms of multi-threading performance, the Intel Core I7-9750H with 6 cores and 12 threads is much better than the 7700K.
CPU performance - Cinebench R20
Compared with CPU-Z, Cinebench R20 is more inclined to the practical application of the CPU, and the rendering of images also tests the heat dissipation performance of the entire machine in the high-frequency environment of the CPU, for example, will it cause frequency reduction.
In the CineBench R20 test, Intel Core I7-9750H achieved a score of 2248 points, which meets the performance you should have.
GPU test - 3DMark
As the first choice for graphics testing, 3DMark is undoubtedly the trump card in the testing software, and we also test the graphics performance of Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED notebooks through 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme and Time Spy.
3DMark FireStrike Extreme
TimeSpy
Whether it is 3DMark FireStrike Extreme or 3DMark TimeSpy, the GTX 1660 Ti graphics card equipped with a Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED laptop can achieve the desired score.
hard disk performance - CrystalDiskMark
I won’t say much about hard disk testing. CrystalDiskMark is undoubtedly the most objective hard disk testing software at present. It can not only test sequential reading and writing, but also test 4K random reading and writing.
Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED notebook is equipped with Intel 760P SSD, which continuously reads nearly 2500MB/s and writes at 1260MB/s, which belongs to the upper-middle level of the SSD industry.
Game and software test
No one buys a game notebook just to run the score screenshots and post them on social networking websites, and more to play games. Therefore, actual game tests can better detect the game performance of the notebook. And this is also a laptop for professional enthusiasts. We also tested the performance of Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED laptop under professional software.
"Tomb Raider: Shadow"
1080P resolution
2160P resolution
"Assassin's Creed Odyssey"
1080P resolution
2160P resolution
2160P resolution
Whether it is "Assassin's Creed Odyssey" or "Tomb Raider: Shadow", they have very strict requirements on the overall performance of the system, especially the graphics card performance. The GTX 1660 Ti graphics card used by Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED laptop can still achieve a result that can reflect its strength at 1080P resolution.
It’s just that at 4K resolution, the graphics performance of the GTX 1660 Ti is really too strong, and BenchMark also ran down reluctantly. If you force it to play, you don’t expect to get an excellent gaming experience. Therefore, if you want to use the Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED laptop to play games, it is recommended to play at 1080P resolution, although it uses a 4K resolution screen.
Adobe Premiere
Adobe Premiere is a software with good editing screen quality, good compatibility, and can collaborate with other software launched by Adobe.
Thanks to the Intel Core i7-9750H processor, we have no sense of lag when using Pr to process videos. The video editing process is very smooth, and the video files can be exported and rendered quickly. It is also not difficult for Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED laptop to process videos.
cooling and battery life
Currently, gaming laptops pay no less attention to cooling than hardware piles. After all, heating of laptops has always been a difficult problem, and they cannot use various black technology cooling like desktop computers. Once overheating, no matter how powerful the hardware is, it will not be able to exert its due strength.
Many laptops with strong performance always encounter the difficult problem of cooling. So how can Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED laptops give us a satisfactory answer?
We used the famous copying software AIDA64 to test the Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED notebook. After about an hour of copying, the CPU core temperature of the notebook reached 90 degrees. At this time, the Intel Core i7 9750H was stable at around 3.0GHz, and the frequency did not continue to look downward. However, such results also show that the turbo frequency of the notebook cannot be maintained at a high frequency level for a long time. At the same time, under the heavy pressure test of AIDA64, the Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED notebook also emits a certain amount of noise. Although it is not very big, you can still hear it after listening carefully.
At the same time, we also used an infrared imager to detect the temperature of Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED notebook. We found that the hottest place in the whole machine is located in the middle and upper part of the keyboard, and the temperature is 39.8℃, which is already a pretty good result among thin and light gaming laptops.
The 94.24Wh lithium battery also gave Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED laptop a very good battery life. We used PCMark 10 to test this laptop, and the test score was around 6.5 hours. In addition, the office continued from morning to night. It took about 8 hours to shut down the laptop automatically. Obviously, while improving the hardware performance, Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED laptop still maintained excellent battery life.
internal structure
We have simply disassembled the Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED notebook. Just remove all the screws on the D side and pry them. There are no painful designs such as hidden screws under the rubber pad or hidden screws under the keyboard. The internal layout of Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED is relatively simple, and each component is clear at a glance.
Intel 760P SSD
94.24Wh lithium battery
Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED is covered with a metal heat-smoothing plate to ensure heat dissipation effect. In addition, the notebook uses dual memory, forming a dual channel, which leads to higher memory bandwidth. At the same time, the notebook also has a heat dissipation sticker on the Intel 760P SSD to ensure the heat dissipation of the SSD.
summary
As a new generation notebook launched by Gigabyte in the second half of 2019, Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED notebook is undoubtedly amazing.
At the same time, the emergence of Gigabyte NEW AERO15 OLED notebooks has made consumers realize that there is no insurmountable gap between gaming notebooks and traditional design notebooks, and Gigabyte has also actively integrated these two different types of notebooks together. Whether it is excellent screen quality or factory color calibration, Gigabyte hopes to tell players that this notebook is not only an entertainment product, but can also be used as a productivity tool.
