Gigabyte Aorus Elite 16 AE6H (2025) 16"

The Gigabyte Aorus Elite 16 AE6H (2025) is a gaming laptop with a 20mm thin profile and physical dimensions of 357mm wide by 254mm deep, resulting in a total volume of 1,813.56 cm³. It weighs 2,300g and relies on an active cooling system rather than a fanless design. The chassis is not ruggedized and lacks weather sealing, keeping it oriented toward everyday gaming use rather than harsh environments. It does include a backlit keyboard, adding usability in low-light conditions.

The laptop features a 16″ IPS LCD panel with LED backlighting, delivering a 2560 x 1600 resolution at a pixel density of 188 ppi. Typical brightness sits at 400 nits, and the screen does not include an anti-reflection coating or touch input. The 165Hz refresh rate makes it well-suited for fast-paced content, while the system can drive up to four displays simultaneously, including the built-in screen.

The system is powered by a 24-thread CPU built on a 4nm process, with cores running at either 2.7GHz or 2.1GHz and a turbo peak of 5.4GHz; multithreading is supported across all threads in a 64-bit environment. It comes with 32GB of DDR5 RAM across two slots, expandable to a maximum of 64GB, paired with a 2TB NVMe SSD over PCIe 4.0 for flash-based storage. The discrete GPU operates at a base clock of 2,235MHz with a turbo of 2,520MHz, backed by 8GB of GDDR7 VRAM, and delivers 23.22 TFLOPS of floating-point performance alongside a texture rate of 362.9 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 121 GPixel/s. It supports DirectX 12 Ultimate but does not include XeSS acceleration.

In standardized PassMark testing, the laptop achieves an overall CPU score of 56,426 and a single-thread score of 4,723, reflecting the processor's performance across both multi-core workloads and individual thread execution. The GPU records a PassMark G3D score of 19,987, capturing its capability in graphics-intensive tasks.

The laptop offers a well-rounded port selection, including two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, two USB 4 40Gbps ports, and one Thunderbolt 4 port, while there are no USB 3.2 Gen 1, USB 2.0, or USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C ports present. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port, with no DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, or VGA connectivity available. Wired networking is covered by one RJ45 port, and the machine supports AirPlay alongside an external memory slot for expanded storage options. On the wireless side, Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) is supported along with backwards-compatible Wi-Fi 6E, 6, 5, and 4 standards, and Bluetooth 5.4 rounds out the wireless feature set.

The laptop is equipped with a 99Wh battery, sitting at the upper end of what is typically permitted for air travel. It supports sleep-and-charge on its USB ports, allowing connected devices to be charged even when the laptop is powered off or in sleep mode. A MagSafe power adapter is not included.

Audio is handled by stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos support and a 3.5mm headset jack, while two built-in microphones cover voice capture; there is no S/PDIF output or optical disc drive. The front camera is accompanied by 3D facial recognition for biometric login, though a fingerprint scanner is not present and voice commands are not supported. On the graphics side, the laptop supports both ray tracing and DLSS, enabling hardware-accelerated lighting and AI-based upscaling in compatible applications. Motion and location sensors — including a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, and GPS — are absent, and no stylus is included.

The CPU is a laptop-class processor mounted in a BGA 2114 socket with a 50W TDP, a maximum operating temperature of 105°C, a clock multiplier of 27, and an unlocked multiplier; it uses big.LITTLE technology, supports Turbo Boost version 2, includes integrated graphics, and carries 36MB of L3 cache and 40MB of L2 cache across two memory channels, with RAM speeds reaching up to 6400 MHz. Supported instruction sets include MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, and the NX bit is present for hardware-level memory protection. The Blackwell-architecture GPU features 4,608 shading units, 144 texture mapping units, and 48 ROPs, running on a 128-bit memory bus at an effective speed of 25,400 MHz for a maximum bandwidth of 405.8 GB/s; it supports double precision floating point, multi-display output, and stereoscopic 3D, but does not include LHR. Intel Resizable BAR is enabled, and the GPU is compatible with OpenCL 3 and OpenGL 4.6, while ECC memory support is also present.