PRICE £2,249 (£2,699 inc VAT)
from scan.co.uk
The Gigabyte Aero 17 HDR XC has much in common with its brother opposite. Aimed at creative professionals, Gigabyte sticks with the same one-two punch of Core i7-10870 H processor and Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3070 graphics – although a mere £1,500 extra upgrades you to a Core i9-10980HK, GeForce RTX 3080, 64GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD.
Before committing £4,199, we’d hold out for an 11th-generation version of the Core i9. Based on the Tiger Lake architecture, these chips should give even more single-core performance than their tenth-gen equivalents: the Aero’s 1,185 in Cinebench R23, 1,278 in Geekbench 5 and 179 in our photo-editing test are all fine results, but Ryzen 5800H machines are roughly 10% faster.
To test the GPU, I…
