Hardware Overview and Organisation Performance

The hardware inside the Gigabyte Aero 15 is naught new. This laptop comes with an Intel 'Kaby Lake' Core i7-7700HQ processor, which nosotros've seen before in a broad range of gaming laptops. It has 4 cores, eight threads clocked at ii.8 GHz with a single-cadre Turbo boost frequency of three.8 GHz.

The GPU is an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 with 6GB of GDDR5 retentivity. This discrete graphics chip is essentially identical to the desktop equivalent, with 1280 CUDA cores, 80 TMUs, and 48 ROPs. It'southward clocked at 1404 MHz with a rated boost of 1670 MHz, slightly lower than the desktop GPU. Its 6GB of retentiveness is clocked at 8000 MHz on a 192-bit bus for 192 GB/s of bandwidth.

Currently, only one configuration of the Aero 15 is available. It comes with 16GB of DDR4 2400 MHz memory in a unmarried-aqueduct configuration and a 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD.

There are no surprises to how the Aero 15 performs in a range of system benchmarks. In some benchmarks which are memory bandwidth limited, the unmarried-channel configuration here does reduce the performance of the laptop, but for the nearly part performance is very similar to other Core i7-7700HQ laptops.

My Gigabyte Aero 15 was kitted out with a 512GB Samsung SM961 PCIe NVMe SSD, which is i of the fastest OEM SSDs from Samsung. As a upshot, sequential performance is fantastic, achieving over 1.v GB/s in CrystalDiskMark. Random performance doesn't hit the same marks, just information technology's all the same a very solid SSD in this regard.