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AORUS - the premium gaming brand from GIGABYTE had launched a completely new series of RTX 30 graphics cards, including RTX 3090 Xtreme, RTX 3090 Master, RTX 3080 Xtreme, and RTX 3080 Master.

Besides excellent cooling and superior performance, LCD Edge View is another spotlight of AORUS RTX 30 series graphics cards. LCD Edge View is a small LCD located on the top of the graphics card. What could users do with this small LCD? Let’s find it out.

LCD Edge View is a LCD located on the graphics card, you can use it todisplay GPU info including temperature, usage, clock speed, fan speed, VRAM usage, VRAM clock and total card power. All this information can be shown one by one or just certain ones on the LCD.

Besides that, there are three different displaying styles available and users could choose their ideal one. However, not just GPU info but FPS (Frame Per Second) in the game or other application could be displayed through LCD Edge View.

The LCD Edge View can also show customized content including text, pictures or even short GIF animations.Users could input the preferred text to the LCD, also set the font size, bold or italic. It also supports multi-language so users could input whatever type of text they want.

About the picture, LCD Edge View allows users to upload a JPEG file to it and AORUS RGB Fusion software will let users choose which region of the picture should be shown. The support of short GIF animations is the most interesting part.

Users can upload a short animation in terms of GIF to be shown on the LCD so they can easily build up a graphics card with their own style. All of the customizations above can be done via AORUS RGB Fusion software.

There’s something more interesting with LCD Edge View: The little CHIBI.CHIBI is a little falcon digitally living in the LCD Edge View and will grow up as more time users spend with their graphics card. Users could always check their little CHIBI through the LCD Edge View and watch it eat, sleep or fly around, which is quite interactive and interesting.

In conclusion, LCD Edge View can display a series of useful GPU information, customized text, pictures, and animations, allowing users to build up the graphics card with their own style. Users can also have more interaction with their card via the little CHIBI, the exclusive little digital falcon living inside the LCD Edge View, which brings more fun while playing with the graphics card.

AORUS - the premium gaming brand from GIGABYTE had launched a completely new series of RTX 30 graphics cards, including RTX 3090 Xtreme, RTX 3090 Master, RTX 3080 Xtreme, and RTX 3080 Master.  Besides excellent cooling and superior performance, LCD Edge View is another spotlight of AORUS RTX 30 s...

AORUS - the premium gaming brand from GIGABYTE had launched a completely new series of RTX 30 graphics cards, including RTX 3090 Xtreme, RTX 3090 Master, RTX 3080 Xtreme, and RTX 3080 Master.  Besides excellent cooling and superior performance, LCD Edge View is another spotlight of AORUS RTX 30 s...

Ampere has finally landed on laptops, with Gigabyte’s 2021 refresh of the Aorus 17G in particular representing our first chance to look at how RTX 3080 performs on mobile. This refresh also brings a 300Hz display to an Aorus laptop for the first time, plus sees the return of Aorus’ mobile physical mechanical keyboard. But the GPU still steals the show here, for two particular reasons. The first is to see if mobile Ampere is enough to propel this to our list of the best gaming laptops, and the second is that this represents yet another way to buy the notoriously rare RTX 30-series of GPUs.

Still, transitioning to mobile always comes with its tradeoffs, so the question remains- does the mobile RTX 3080 live up to the reputation set by its full-size cousins, or will PC owners still be left without many ways to get their hands on the best Ampere has to offer?

Like Gigabyte’s other Aorus laptops, the 2021 refresh of the Aorus 17G unabashedly wears its gamer branding on its sleeve, with an angled hinge, copious vents and a full physical mechanical keyboard. It does look a little cluttered upon opening the lid, mostly due to all the stickers advertising this laptop’s new features, like an RTX GPU and 300Hz screen. But removing those stickers reveals a slick look that speaks to its gaming nature while still not coming across as embarrassing.

Take the lid, which has a simple matte black finish that mostly resists fingerprints and is only accentuated by a single logo in the center. And the hinge, while angled, is also pleasingly rounded. The webcam placement is questionable- it’s under the screen- but that affects usefulness more than looks and at least allows for a thin bezel.

Despite looking reasonably restrained for gamer gear, the Aorus is still bulky enough to draw attention. When compared to other high-end gaming laptops, its 15.9 x 10.8 x 1 inch dimensions were only matched by the Asus ROG Strix Scar 17’s 15.7 x 11.53 x 1.02 inch dimensions. The Razer Blade Pro 17, meanwhile, is far more compact at 15.5 x 10.24 x 0.78 inches, while the similarly RTX-equipped, 15-inch Alienware m15 R4 is also smaller at 14.2 x 10.9 x 0.7 ~ 0.8 (depending on model) inches.

Despite its girth, though, the Aorus is slightly lighter than its competition at 5.95 pounds. While by no means lightweight, only the Alienware’s 5.25-pound weigh-in beat it. The Scar 17 and the Blade Pro 17, meanwhile, came in at 6.28 and 6.06 pounds, respectively.

The Aorus’ size also means it has plenty of room for ports. On its left side, you’ll find two USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type A ports, an SD card reader, an RJ-45 ethernet port and 2 separate 3.5mm audio jacks, one for headphones and one for microphones. That last feature in particular is a nice upgrade from, well, pretty much every other laptop I’ve reviewed. The laptop’s right side, meanwhile, has an additional USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type A port, a single Thunderbolt 3 connection, plus connections for both Mini DisplayPort 1.4 and HDMI 2.1. You’ll also find the DC In here, but there’s no lock slot anywhere on the Aorus.

What makes the Aorus 17G’s 2021 refresh special is that it’s the first laptop we’re looking at with a mobile RTX 3080 inside. Nvidia Control Center suggested the the laptop is utilizing Max-Q technologies. The Aorus 17G is also packing an Intel Core i7-10870H CPU and 32GB of RAM. So, how does the Aorus compare to both the m15 R4, which has the same CPU and 16GB of RAM, as well as powerful Turing laptops like the Scar 17 (i9-10980H, 2080 Super, 32GB RAM) and the Razer Blade Pro 17 (i7-10875H, 2080 Super Max-Q, 16GB RAM)?

In Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, the Aorus 17G hit an average 65 fps at 1080p on its highest settings, which was slightly behind the m15 R4’s 67 fps average but slightly above the 63 fps average of both the Scar 17 and the Blade Pro 17.

In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, both the Aorus 17G and the Scar 17 had average frame rates of 86 fps, while the m15 R4 was significantly lower at 77 fps and the Blade Pro 17 hit the bottom of the ranking at 75 fps.

Far Cry: New Dawn was fairly close across all contenders save the Blade Pro 17, with the Aorus 17G scoring 92 fps, the Scar 17, hitting 95 fps and the m15 R4 lagging imperceptibly behind at 91 fps. The slowest contender here was the Blade Pro 17, with 87 fps.

I also personally played Control for about a half hour on the Aorus using DirectX12 and High settings. With ray tracing off, I tended to fall between 79 - 84 fps, and with ray tracing on its high preset lowered that to 46 - 55 fps. The computer never felt hot to the touch during this time, nor did the fans get loud. The frame rate was also stable regardless of the amount of action on screen, though I did notice that it tended to load in at 94 - 105 fps before dropping a few minutes into play, I assume as more assets get loaded.

We also ran the Aorus through our typical Metro: Exodus stress test, where we ran the game’s 1080p RTX benchmark on a loop 15 times in a row. This is to simulate a half hour of intense gaming. The laptop scored an average frame rate of 59.6 fps, with a CPU clock speed of 3.47 GHz and a GPU clock speed of 1.19 GHz. The average CPU temperature during this time was 77.32 degrees Celsius (171.18 degrees Fahrenheit) while the average GPU temperature was 75.62 degrees Celsius (168.12 degrees Fahrenheit).

We’ve seen how the Aorus 17G handles games, but what about the productivity software that gaming laptops so frequently moonlight in? The Intel Core i7-10870H and 32GB of RAM provide a solid amount of power.

In Geekbench 5.0, which is a synthetic general productivity benchmark, the Aorus 17G scored 7895 points on multi-core tests and 1,265 on single-core tests. That puts it above both the Razer Blade Pro 17’s 5776/1,179 points and the Alienware m15 R4’s 7642/1,252 points, but behind the Asus ROG Strix Scar 17’s 8708/1,290 points.

In Handbrake, where we track how long it takes laptops to transcode a 4K video down to FHD, the Aorus 17G jumped down to third place, with a time of 8:33. That’s slower than the Scar 17’s 7:06 and the m15 R4’s near-identical 7:07, but still beats the Blade Pro 17’s 9:31.

The Aorus 17G was also in third place in our file transfer test, where we test the rate at which laptops can move 4.97GB of files. The Aorus did so at 845.02 MBps, which was about on par with the Blade Pro 17’s 844 MBps. That’s a far cry from the 1570.76 MBps score from the Scar 17 or even the m15 R4’s 1,055 MBps.

Aside from its GPU, another key innovation for the Aorus 17G is its 300 Hz IPS-level display. I tested this screen in two separate ways. First, I watched a trailer for Wandavision (one with color and widescreen, don’t worry), and second, I played Overwatch on it.

In Wandavision, I was impressed by the color quality and even the depth of blacks, but found viewing angles and reflectivity to be a big problem. While vertical viewing angles were almost complete, the screen’s image washed out whenever I strayed more than 45 degrees away from it horizontally. More problematic than this, though, was glare. I had to be certain my screen was pointing away from light, or else my image would reflect back at me even within perfect viewing angles.

Looking at our benchmarking results, I was surprised to see that the Aorus 17G actually covers less of the DCI-P3 color spectrum than competitors. It tops out at 79% versus the Scar 17’s 88.5% score, the Razer Blade Pro 17’s 84.1% score and the Alienware m15 R4’s whopping 149.5% score (thanks to a slower OLED screen). This is something I didn’t notice much in practice, though while my colors didn’t come across as flat, neither were they especially vivid.

The same pattern applied to brightness. The Aorus 17G had 300 nits of average brightness, while the Scar 17 had 336 nits, the Blade Pro had 304 nits and the m15 R4 had 362 nits. 300 nits of brightness was plenty for my purposes, and was a welcome increase over the unfortunately-dim 243 nits I saw on my last Aorus laptop.

While not new to the Aorus line, another key way this laptop differentiates itself from the competition is the inclusion of a full physical mechanical keyboard. It’s got a number pad and full-size keys, plus an easy to read Arial font and media controls baked into its Fn row. Full per-key RGB and clicky low profile Omron switches with 2.5mm of key travel and a 1.6mm actuation point make the gaming implications obvious, so I tested this in both general typing and Overwatch.

The Aorus 17G has the type of battery life you’d expect from a high-powered gaming laptop, which is to say "not much." It clocked in at 4:42 during our battery life test, which continuously streams video, browses the web and runs OpenGL over Wi-Fi tests at 150 nits of brightness. That’s about on par with the Razer Blade Pro 17’s 4:41 hours of battery life and longer than the Alienware m15 R4’s 4:01 battery life, but still falls short of the ROG Strix Scar 17’s 5:25 battery life.

We tested the Aorus 17G’s heat after 15 minutes of streaming video on YouTube, and found that it stays cool during non-gaming use. Its touchpad was the coolest touchpoint on the laptop at 71.4 degrees Fahrenheit (21.89 degrees Celsius), while the center of the keyboard (between the G&H keys) was slightly hotter at 75.2 degrees Fahrenheit (24 degrees Celsius). The bottom of the laptop generally hit 81.9 degrees Fahrenheit (27.72 degrees Celsius), but the center of the bottom, which is just below the vents, did hit 85.5 degrees Fahrenheit (29.72 degrees Celsius).

The Aorus 17G suffers from what we like to call a “nosecam.” Placed below the screen rather than above it, this webcam has the unfortunate tendency to look directly up your nose. The idea here is usually to save bezel space, but we have to wonder if the unflattering angle is worth it? You can rectify it a little by stretching in uncomfortable ways, but if you’re looking directly at your screen, be prepared to show off your nostrils, your chin and pretty much everything a good selfie avoids.

Quality is mixed, with accurate color and decent shadows, but fuzzy texture. On the plus side, the Aorus 17G’s webcam does come with a sliding privacy cover.

The Aorus 17G comes gracefully free of bloat, with the only examples we could find being standard Windows pre-installs like Microsoft Solitaire Collection and Spotify. In addition to these, you’ll also find utility apps like Nahimic Companion, Intel Graphics Command Center and Thunderbolt Control Center. These let you adjust and customize your audio and display as well as check what’s attached to your Thunderbolt ports.

The Aorus 17G has two different configurations, one with an RTX 3080, dubbed the Aorus 17G YC and one with an RTX 3070, listed as Aorus 17G XC. We reviewed the 3080 configuration, which is $2,699. Both configurations are otherwise identical, each packing an Intel Core i7-10870H, up to 64GB of DDR4-2933MHz RAM (our unit had 32GB) and 1TB of SSD storage. They also both have the same 17.3 inch 300HZ IPS-level display.

I’m of two minds on the 2021 refresh of the Aorus 17G. While I was hoping for a laptop equipped with a mobile RTX 3080 to far outperform its 2080 and 2080 Super cousins, what I instead got was a machine that was largely on par with them in performance. However, the Aorus 17G is also about $1000 cheaper than its competitors, even with the same CPU and memory/SSD loadouts.

Which brings us to the display. This is the first Aorus with a 300Hz option, and it’s just as responsive and satisfying as you’d think. The tradeoff here is that the screen is limited to FHD, and while it is IPS-level, its color and brightness don’t quite hit the peaks of its competitors. The 2021 refresh of the Aorus 17G also sees the return of its physical mechanical keyboard, though its featureless keycaps and awkward height leave it a little more useful for gaming than typing.

While I’d love to see an Ampere laptop pushing out significantly more frames than the competition, I have to compare it to what we have benchmarks for right now. And doing that, it’s still plenty enticing. The Aorus 17G gives you similar power to what you may find in a Asus ROG Strix Scar 17 G732 or Razer Blade Pro 17 for almost $1,000 less, plus a 300 Hz screen and a physical mechanical keyboard.

That said, we have recently reviewed another Ampere laptop, the Alienware m15 R4, which comes with a mobile RTX 3070 as opposed to a 3080. The upside here is that the Alienware lets you choose between a 300Hz screen or a 4K OLED, which drops the refresh rate to 60Hz but far eclipses the Aorus on color and brightness. You’ll also gain some performance on Handbrake and file transfer speed, but will generally be weaker on gaming. At $2,499 against the Aorus’ $2,699 (or $2,099 if you go for the RTX 3070 configuration), it’s up to you if those seem like worthwhile tradeoffs.

It’s been a while since NVIDIA announced its new GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards and we actually have our eyes set on a very particular model from Gigabyte which we’ve finally able to get our hands on –  introducing the AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 XTREME 10G. From the looks of it, it’s pretty obvious that the AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 XTREME 10G is the flagship model that is equivalent to the MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Suprim X and ROG Strix Gaming GeForce RTX 3080.

In this review, We will take a look at the benefits and performance we can expect from the AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 XTREME 10G just to see whether if the flagship model is worth paying extra for.\

Starting off with the packaging, we can see a new design for the AORUS cards this time, featuring a mechanical like AORUS logo and the XTREME label for the AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 XTREME 10G. The box is unusually thick as compared to pretty much all of the AORUS cards we’ve tested in the past, which adds a somewhat premium feel to the overall unboxing experience.

While it depends on how you look at it, I personally find that this is a rather interesting development for AORUS, which seems a little confusing at first but I’m kind of looking forward to seeing how things will develop and what direction Gigabyte has planned for AORUS branding in the near future.

Inside the box, you’ll find the usual paper documents such as the user’s manual, warranty guide, the AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 XTREME 10G, and the decorative accessories. The black AORUS eagle robot figurine is a limited edition item from what we heard and can only be obtained by special means.

At first glance, we can see that the AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 XTREME 10G is equipped with a triple-fan cooler that comes in a similar fashion as the previous AORUS card design – yes, that unusual looking shroud with exposed heatsink and fans. Gigabyte is using a different fan blade design this time with an overlapped arrangement and alternate spinning middle fan for better coverage to improve the cooling performance.

Personally, I think that the thickness is the main highlight for this card and it’s probably one of the thickest I’ve seen to date. Equipped with a really thick heatsink measuring at 70mm height, the AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 XTREME 10G will easily take up 4-slots clearance on your expansion slots, even thicker than the triple-slot RTX 3090 Founders Edition. Though you can expect some beefy cooling performance from this card, judging at the size of the heatsink itself.

Apart from the RGB bling, you’ll also find a customizable display at the side of the card (aka the LCD Edge View). This is definitely a much better (and reasonable) inclusion as compared to the RGB LEDs on the fan blades which you can find on the previous generation AORUS RTX 20 series cards. The display can be configured to show custom Text or animated GIF or to display the GPU temperature, depending on how you want your system to look like.

The power requirement is pretty similar to what NVIDIA has advertised for its RTX 3080 but the AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 XTREME 10G here will require a total of three PCIe 8-pin power connectors to run. Unless you’re going to push the card to a much higher clock with a custom modification to bypass the power limit set by NVIDIA, it’s very unlikely for the GPU to draw more power from the extra PCIe 8-pin.

Like many of the RTX 30 series graphics cards you’ll find nowadays, the AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 XTREME 10G also features the cutout at the back of the card. The design is similar to what NVIDIA has done on their RTX 30 series Founders Edition cards, allowing the heat from the GPU to exit your system more efficiently by channeling the hot air to the top compartment of your system and allow the exhaust fans to do the rest.

As for the display output, the AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 XTREME 10G has plenty to offer, PLENTY OF ‘EM. Unlike the reference RTX 3080, the AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 XTREME 10G has a total of six display outputs (3 x DisplayPort 1.4 and 3 x HDMI 2.1), more than what many of us asked for, but it’s definitely something that enthusiasts with multi-display setup will find useful for their setup.

For this test, we’ll be comparing the AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 XTREME 10G against the RTX 3090 Founders Edition just to see how far can an overclocked RTX 3080 go against the RTX 3090. We’ve done two sets of tests under three different resolutions (1920×1080, 2560×1440, and 3840×2160), with and without ray tracing enabled, for a better comparison.

For the base performance, the AORUS RTX 3080 XTREME 10G seems to have the advantage with the higher than average boost clock but it’s still not enough to overtake the RTX 3090 in most case, as the performance difference gets more significant as we scale the resolution all the way up to 4K. Though the RTX 3090 is more of a card for content creators who will benefit more from the extra beefy 24GB worth of VRAM, or those who just simply want the best (and bragging rights) for their system.

The RTX 3080 is still a powerful card for 4K gaming and a reasonable one to go for if you have enough budget to go for one, unlike the RTX 3090 that will cost you almost twice the cost of the non-flagship RTX 3080. Similar performance with the much more affordable RTX 3080 EAGLE OC, but it will require some tuning and there’s no guarantee you can achieve the exact performance as the AORUS RTX 3080 XTREME 10G can deliver, right out of the box.

At 1440P and 4K resolution, the performance difference in ray-tracing is much more significant, with and without DLSS enabled. Even with the extra boost clock right out of the box, the AORUS RTX 3080 XTREME 10G is still not powerful enough to handle these RTX games at the highest preset and ray-tracing ultra if you want to game on 4K. Though it’s pretty much the same situation for the RTX 3090 and going with high preset on the ray-tracing option is probably the best option for now, unless you can afford another RTX 3090 and run them in SLI.

Despite having a very beefy looking cooler, the idle temperature for the GPU remains similar to most of the RTX 3080 we’ve seen, which is at 42-43ºC. The load temperature for the AORUS RTX 3080 XTREME 10G is exactly the same as the RTX 3080 EAGLE OC at 68ºC but if we look at the difference in boost clock and power draw, the extra thick cooler is definitely doing its job even though it might not seem like it.

We’ve tested a number of RTX 3080 since NVIDIA launched its RTX 30 series graphics cards and honestly, there’s nothing we can complain about when it comes to the performance because it’s just simply a very powerful card that’s totally worth the price of $699 (excluding flagship models with premium price). The only thing we can complain about at the current time is the limited stock availability and crazy high resell price from the scalpers around the world.

The AORUS RTX 3080 XTREME 10G is pretty much a buffed up RTX 3080 equipped with a gigantic cooler and 200MHz higher boost clock. It’s probably one of the best performing RTX 3080 in the market if you manage to find one, but it’s not exactly the kind of RTX 3080 I will look into because of the RM 5,199 price tag as a flagship model. It is equipped with plenty of nice features i.e the customizable LED display, beefy cooler, 3 x HDMI and 3 X DisplayPort, as well as the premium goodies which I can see how hardcore AORUS fans would want to get their hands on one if budget allows.