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Gigabyte Aorus Master 16 review: powerful graphics, LOUD FANS
May 4, 2025
The Gigabyte Aorus Master 16 is a gaming laptop, and it sure looks like one. It’s an inch thick, weighs 5.5 pounds, and is awash in RGB lighting, stylized text, and curved plastic.
This Aorus Master offers powerful hardware and a lovely high-res, high-refresh OLED display. It’s the first of several laptops we’re reviewing with the GeForce RTX 5080, Nvidia’s second-fastest laptop graphics card of this generation. At $3,100, it’s actually a few hundred dollars less than similarly powerful models from Razer, Lenovo, and Asus, and over a thousand dollars less than laptops with the RTX 5090, Nvidia’s fastest GPU.
But in exchange for being a little cheaper than its direct competitors, the Aorus Master feels a little cheap, and its built-in software includes a useless AI chatbot but no custom fan controls. And those fans get loud.
$ 3100
The Good
Very good game performance from the RTX 5080 GPU
Lovely 2.5K 240Hz OLED display
Slightly less expensive than other 5080 competitors
Solid port selection
User-replaceable RAM and SSDs
The Bad
Fans can get distractingly loud
Meager battery life
Plasticky build
Included 1TB SSD storage is a little slow
GiMate software is clunky and bad, and its AI chatbot is even worse
Like the Razer Blade 16, the Aorus Master 16 comes with a 16-inch 2560 x 1600 OLED display. The Aorus’s panel isn’t quite as accurate as the Blade’s — with slightly lower color reproduction — but it’s just as bright and about as pleasing to the eye in regular use. It’s got punchy colors that aren’t oversaturated, and its 2.5K resolution and maximum 240Hz refresh rate enable games, websites, and videos to look sharp and smooth.
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