And well, yes! It has

the brand new Intel 10th generation chips,

as well as the RTX 2070 Super graphics.

What I'm really excited about is what possibly could be

the greatest keyboard ever put on a gaming laptop.

Really the highlight here is absolutely

this custom OMRON mechanical keyboard.

And of course, gaming PCs have been taking advantage

of mechanical keyboards for very long time.

However, this is the very first time

that I've actually seen a mechanical keyboard in a laptop.

And it is something special.

With 2.5 millimeters of key travel.

While it is not quite as deep of a throw

as what you would get with a standard mechanical keyboard,

you get all of that tactile feel.

So there's sort of a progressive click down

and then you actually hear the spring compress

and you do get the keystroke.

It means that not only do the keys pop up faster,

but well I mean, come on.

If you ever used a mechanical keyboard,

you know the advantages.

To take a closer look,

I decided to pop off a key

and give you a little bit of an inside look at what

the key switch looks like.

All I can confirm is there is a little spring as well as,

of course, a little plastic mechanism as well as something

to kinda give you a nice clear RGB look.

But the downside is, is that...

I broke the switch.

So if you would like to confirm,

that your laptop has a mechanical switch,

I would recommend, don't touch it.

Don't try to take out the key cap, it's fine.

Of course, there's more to this laptop than just

the excellent mechanical keyboard.

As this is the very first laptop I've had in the studio with

the brand new 10th generation Intel Core H processors.

Now in Intel parlance H series means

that this is their sort of,

high end gaming laptop variety SKUs.

And it's a little different.

So unlike 10th generation on something like the XPS 13

that I daily every day,

which is a much lower wattage part.

This is actually a continuation of

the 9th generation which means

that it is similar, I suppose.

It is very, very similar because it's still based on

that older Skylake architecture.

Now running it through benchmarks, it is a clear step up.

And this is the first time they brought

eight cores to an i7,

which means that this is actually roughly on par

with last generation's Core i9.

What is not is a major step forward.

And it really does need to be a major step forward,

because when you look at it side by side with

the Zephyrus G14, which I've recently done a video on,

which of course is powered by

the brand new Ryzen Mobile 4000 series.

It's not a particularly fair fight.

Now when you put these two side by side,

while of course they do compete in different weight classes,

this is a thinner 14 inch laptop

versus a much thicker 15 inch design.

But one of the most important things here

is just to see how far the AMD has pushed the envelope on

the Zen side of things.

So if I fire up Cinebench on both laptops,

what you'll see is that while yes,

Intel does have a single thread advantage.

They can push up to 4.7 gigahertz.

Pretty much sustained on this design.

When you load up both systems

with a very heavy eight core workload,

what you'll find is that right now

the Aorus is sitting at...

I did it again!

With my Windows fixed, which you can see.

This guy sits at around 3.4 gigahertz on all eight cores

with a quite loud fan,

because it needs a lot of power to hit that.

Whereas this guy is chilling at 3.7 gigahertz

with no stress.

A lot of that does come down to the fact

that AMD are of course using

a more advanced seven nanometer process on

the Zephyrus as well as well specifically with

the 4000 series of Ryzen.

And there's also the fact that this Ryzen 4000 series

is taking advantage of the Zen 2 core.

Which not to get too far into nerd town,

but it's simply a higher performing core right?

The IPC is much much more powerful than

the Skylake base of the 10th generation Core H processor.

With all that being said, this is a step up.

It is certainly a more powerful laptop

and has certainly a more powerful 10th Gen chip

than we had last time around.

And if it was in a vacuum, it would be great.

Unfortunately, it's not in a vacuum and AMD

is absolutely caught up in a big way.

Feel free to check out my video on the Zephyrus,

if you wanna know more about it.

But this really does put things into perspective.

It is very, very fast.

However even 10th Gen isn't

the only brand new thing with this Gigabyte laptop.

As we also have

the brand new NVIDIA RTX Super graphics on board.

And specifically, this is taking advantage of

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

Super Max-Q graphics,

which I feel like

NVIDIA took a page outta Samsung's book on that one.

But essentially, this is a super version of

the current RTX 2070 cards.

But the main thing to keep in mind is

that just with the original launch of

the RTX series for laptops,

you can't just look at the label right?

Just because this has a 2070 Super Max-Q,

it doesn't mean that you have

a guaranteed level of performance.

Cause it could be running at 85, 115 watts

or anywhere in the middle.

And of course this is nothing revolutionary, right?

I mean, obviously you need solid cooling

and a good system to support the chips that you have inside.

However with these RTX chips, and of course,

the super being even more powerful,

it means that you're going to expect

to see pretty wide variances

and the performance of one 2070 Super laptop over another.

Now all that being said,

Aorus have actually done a very good job with this system.

As the 2070 Super inside actually boosts to,

at least in benchmarks,

above 2080 Max-Q spec.

Which technically it shouldn't,

but I believe this is probably running on

the higher end of that TDP.

Regardless though,

it's just one of those things where yes,

the super chips are more powerful,

but it's not a huge difference.

But you should really pay attention

to each individual laptop.

Don't just look at it and say,

"Oh, it has the same i7 and 2070 inside.

When the actual results

and the actual performance may be very different.

Also, a side note about

the Aorus specific tuning with this laptop.

They're taking advantage of the Microsoft Azure Cloud AI,

which to be completely honest with you,

I don't know exactly how much

the cloud component of this really makes a difference.

However, if you right click

on this little gaming and professional icon here

and turn on the learning,

you actually see a significant performance boost.

Now essentially what this is doing,

is this is dynamically adjusting not at

the power but also the cooling,

between your CPU and your GPU.

So for example, if you're not maximizing your processor,

then actually it may allocate a little bit of

that juice over to your graphics card, or vice versa.

And while it doesn't make a huge difference on

the processor performance,

I've actually seen a pretty noticeable gain in

the graphics by turning that on.

And it has the side benefit of giving you

the ability to not really have to worry about switching in

and out of like different power modes,

like going up to performance or battery saving or whatever,

as it should pretty much handle everything by itself.

And that's actually ultimately very important.

Because if for example,

I turn the fan up to the maximum mode,

you can hear that it is incredibly, incredibly loud.

Like so loud to the point where,

yes, this technically should be faster.

But when you actually turn on the AI mode,

the fan runs slower and it's more powerful.

I'm turning that off. That's just obscenely loud.

Of course there's a whole lot more to talk about what

the Aorus besides just the spec inside,

as it has a really solid 240 hertz panel.

However that's just become like,

'Oh yeah, you know gaming laptops with 240 hertz'.

And of course it's a 15.6 inch display,

and it is 1080p.

What you're getting here,

is honestly a fairly well calibrated display.

So they are really proud of the fact

that not only is it Pantone Validated,

but each individual laptop is color calibrated at

the factory.

So of course for the 240 hertz display,

I have to try to actually game at that resolution.

So we're going to give CS GO a try,

which is of course running at full max out 1080p settings.

We could lower it a little bit if we want.

Right now we're getting 170 FPS.

Oh that is very smooth.

One of the things about

these super high refresh rate displays,

is not only just the fact

that they run at a high frame rate,

but oftentimes they have very low latency

and they have very little ghosting, right?

So as I move back and forth,

obviously you can't see this because it's YouTube video,

but it looks very clear and smooth.

Okay, well, I die the same.

Of course.

Yeah, we're staying pretty consistent at 183 FPS.

Let me actually turn some settings down a little bit

and see if I can get us to a locked 240.

I'm gonna stay with pretty much

everything turned down at 1080p.

Oh!

Okay.

By turning all my settings down,

I just crashed my game.

Cool!

That, that's fine.

I'm not...

I will say it's actually kinda hard to hit 240.

I guess maybe I could turn the resolution down.

But the thing is, I have 180 frames per second.

So I don't really care.

This is a really nice gaming experience though.

It is so smooth.

And that mechanical keyboard really does add to

the experience, right?

I mean, obviously with a gaming laptop,

you never really expect to have like

the greatest experience in the world with a keyboard

and oftentimes you may even plug in

a mechanical keyboard yourself.

But having that built in,

actually does make a big difference.

Next up, we have a modern game which is truly cutting edge

and demanding on all hardware.

And that is F1 2019.

I'm a liar.

That's actually not that difficult to run,

but you know what it is?

It's this game I've been playing a lot lately.

So I'm gonna try it here.