Gigabyte's G5 (2023) is our favourite budget gaming laptop, so when this Gigabyte G6X 9KG 2024 model arrived at my office, I was really looking forward to testing it out.
It has a similar same price as the G5 did when it first launched but the hardware inside has been given a bunch of updates to modernise it.
However, it's not quite a fair comparison, as the G5's true successor is really the Gigabyte G6. So what exactly are we getting with the added X?
Put simply, more CPU cores, more power for the GPU, and more battery capacity. We all like getting more for our money. The 9KG variant under review sports an Intel Core i7 13650HX processor, which has six P-cores and eight E-cores, for a total of 20 threads.
That's more than enough for gaming—perhaps too much, as it has a maximum power limit of 155 W. Gigabyte has paired the CPU with a 105 W GeForce RTX 4060 and it's the most powerful version of that chip we've tested so far. CPU: Intel Core i7 13650HX GPU: Nvidia RTX 4060 Memory: 32GB DDR5-4800 Storage: 1TB NVMe SSD Screen size: 16-inch IPS Resolution: 1920 x 1200 Refresh rate: 165 Hz Battery: 73 Whr Dimensions: 36.1 x 25.9 x 2.51~2.89 cm Weight: 2.5 kg (5.67 lbs) Price: $1,350 | £1,198 (16GB) Rounding off the rest of the basic specs are 32GB of dual-channel DDR5-4800 RAM and 1TB of Gigabyte's own PCIe 4.0 NVMe storage.