The Aorus 5SE: A Powerhouse Laptop for Gaming and Emulation
As I put the Aorus 5SE to the test, one thing became clear: this laptop is designed for serious gaming and emulation. With its 14-core, 20-thread Intel Core i7-12700H processor and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card, it's more than capable of handling demanding games at high resolutions.
One of my first tests was running Elden Ring at 1080p maximum settings with ray tracing enabled. I was pleased to find that the laptop handled the game smoothly, without any noticeable stuttering or frame drops. The frame rate was a constant 60 FPS, and even when I tried to increase the resolution to 1440p, it maintained a smooth performance. This level of performance at high resolutions is exactly what gamers want, and the Aorus 5SE delivers.
I also checked out Doom Eternal at 1080p with nightmare settings on, and was impressed by the laptop's ability to maintain a high frame rate even in this demanding game. The average frame rate was an impressive 164 FPS, making it one of the smoothest gaming experiences I've had on a laptop. With this level of performance, it's clear that the Aorus 5SE is designed for serious gamers who want the best possible experience.
In addition to its gaming capabilities, the Aorus 5SE also excels in emulation. I tested out the Simu Wii U emulator at 1080p with Vulcan API enabled, and was happy to see it run smoothly without any issues. I also tried out Breath of the Wild, which ran perfectly at 1080p with Vulcan API enabled as well. The laptop's powerful processor and graphics card made short work of even the most demanding games.
But emulation isn't just about running games on a laptop - it's also about running console emulators. I tested out some Xbox 360 emulation using the Zinnia emulator, and was able to run Forza 2 without any issues. The frame rate was high and smooth, with an average of over 60 FPS.
Finally, I tried out some PS3 emulation using RP CS3, which is one of the more challenging emulators to use. However, thanks to the laptop's powerful hardware, it ran smoothly at 1080p with Vulcan API enabled. The frame rate was a consistent 60 FPS, making it a great option for those who want to run PS3 games on their laptop.
In terms of cooling and power consumption, the Aorus 5SE performed well. I set the laptop to Performance mode, which changed the fan curve at idle from 39 degrees Celsius to an average of 73 degrees Celsius during gaming. However, this was still relatively low, especially considering the laptop's powerful hardware. The maximum temperature I saw in a 10-minute Cinebench stress test was 93 degrees Celsius, but this is not uncommon for high-end laptops.
Battery life is also an important consideration for any laptop. With a 99-watt-hour battery and an RTX 3070 graphics card, the Aorus 5SE can drain the battery in about 55 minutes when running games at full power. However, under normal use, with just web browsing, email checking, and document editing, the laptop can easily last for 8 hours or more.
Overall, I'm extremely impressed with the Aorus 5SE. It's a powerhouse of a laptop that's designed for serious gamers and emulation enthusiasts. With its powerful processor, graphics card, and cooling system, it's able to handle even the most demanding games at high resolutions without any issues. And with its long battery life, it's a great option for those who want a laptop that can keep up with their active lifestyle.
For those interested in learning more about the Aorus 5SE, I'll leave some links to my full review and more information on my channel in the description below. If you have any questions or comments about this review, feel free to leave them in the comments section as well.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at the all new aorus 5se gaming laptop from gigabyte i've been wanting to get my hands on this laptop for a little while now and you know it really comes down to the specs this thing's packing and for me really the cpu 14 cores 20 threads and this does offer some absolutely amazing performance when it comes to gaming and my personal favorite emulation this is the brand new 2022 model with a 15.6 inch ips display as you can see on the back of the lid here we do have that aorus logo got plenty of io here when it comes to being a laptop and recently i've noticed that a lot of manufacturers have been slacking on the i o even on their higher end gaming laptops but this one here looks like we've got plenty to work with it's also got a three zone rgb backlit keyboard and a massive track pad this is a glass cover trackpad and it's super smooth i do like the keyboard layout here but i do wish these keys had a little more throw i mean for what it is it does feel fine and one thing i actually didn't notice till uh testing this out for a little while is actually on it for a couple hours before i even noticed it did have a webcam it's right down here underneath the screen with a little privacy slider and you know i've noticed that a lot of these newer laptops coming out don't have webcams built in but they've managed to slam an hd webcam right here when it comes to io over here on the left hand side we have full size hdmi 2.1 a mini 1.4 displayport one usb 3.2 gen1 port a 3.5 millimeter audio jack and gigabit ethernet i was kind of expecting this to have 2.5 gigabit ethernet built in out of the box it does have wi-fi six but this is only gigabit over here on the left hand side moving over to the right hand side we have our power in and this comes with a 230 watt power brick full size sd card reader one thunderbolt 4 port and two more usb 3.2 gen 1 ports when it comes to the specs for the cpu we've got the intel i7 12700h 14 cores 20 threads with a max turbo up to 4.7 on the performance cores and 3.5 on the efficiency cores the gpu is an rtx 3070 laptop edition with 8 gigabytes of gddr6 ram 16 gigabytes of ddr4 running at 3200 megahertz and this is running in dual channel it's not soldered to the board so you can upgrade this very easily this came with one pre-installed 512 gigabyte nvme ssd it's a 4.0 drive but it does have two slots in here so just like we can easily upgrade the ram we can also add more storage when it comes to the display it's a 1080p 144 hertz ips and you know getting into this i thought it would be a little higher at least 1440p still looks absolutely amazing and for what we have here dual two watt stereo speakers and it does support dts x a 99 watt hour battery and this runs windows 11 right out of the box but you know if you want to install linux on it you can always go that route i've been using this laptop as my daily driver for the past two weeks and i haven't run into any issues with it i do love this trackpad super smooth here like i mentioned i wish the keys did have a little more throw to them but i've gotten used to using it i just use a mechanical keyboard on my desktops and moving over to a laptop is just a bit different and when it comes to performance we have plenty of power with that 12700h i mean you want to get some work done you can do 4k video editing on this you want to do some photo editing or you could turn it in low power mode and just use it as an everyday desktop for school work web browsing email checking basically anything goes on this laptop with this gpu and cpu combo but it's a gaming laptop after all and i really want to get into it so in this video we're going to run some benchmarks we're going to test out some pc games because like i mentioned as i'm making this video i personally think that alder lake is the way to go if you want to get high end emulation out of the way and keep in mind through all of the benchmarks and gaming that we're going to see in this video i was in performance mode otherwise known as gaming mode with this laptop first up for the benchmarks we've got geekbench 5 single core 1746 multi 11 955 really great scores here for a mobile chip but this thing does burn some power i mean it's one of the alder lake chips which are notorious for higher wattage i also ran cinebench r23 we got a total multi-core score here of 13 873 and it's no surprise i mean it's beating out all of the other you know 7th gen 8th gen and 9th gen intel chips taking a look at 3d mark fire strike total score 24 621 and the final benchmark here is time spy with a very impressive 10 786 so yeah i mean just judging by these gpu and cpu scores we've got a really nice little gaming laptop on our hands but these are synthetic benchmarks and now it's time to test out some real world gaming okay so first up we have god of war we're at 1080p ultra settings and remember i mean we've only got a 1080p display on this i kind of wish it was 1440 because uh you know with this setup here we do have some really good 1440p performance but with this game set up the way it is with no dlss we're at ultra settings here 1080p we get an average of 84 fps not bad at all and it's definitely playable here we have eldon ring 1080p maximum settings and yeah i mean it's running into constant 60 when i initially started up i did see it kind of fluctuating between 59 and 60 but you'd never notice that if you didn't have a frame counter on very smooth performance here at 1080p maximum settings with elden rain checking out doom eternal at 1080p with nightmare settings on and going into this i just went straight to nightmare we could take it up at least one more notch here no problem at all because we're actually getting an average of 164 fps the way it is this is just one of those games that really makes me want to have a higher resolution screen with this unit now remember we do have mini displayport out and hdmi so connecting this to an external higher resolution monitor or tv is super easy this is one of those games that would perform really well at 1440p and even 4k cyberpunk 2077 1080p with rtx set to ultra no dlss unfortunately with the rtx 3070 laptop edition it's just not going to run it with rtx set to ultra unless we turn dlss on so with it set to quality we're still at rtx ultra 1080p we can get an average of 62fps now it's time to move over to some emulation and i've said it before when alder lake was initially released these are the best chips for emulation amazing single core and multi-core performance and this mobile chip is no different here we have simu wii u emulator 1080p vulcan back in with bayonetta 2. i also tested out breath of the wild at 1080p and with that vulcan back in you're not going to have any issues running those games at all checking out some xbox 360 emulation using the zinnia emulator i've got vsync off and that's why our frame rate is so high but here's forza 2 running really really well now we're burning a lot more power here with vsync off because it does need to get those higher clocks on the cpu and gpu but i wanted to see how far we could push it and by the end of this run here we had an average of fps and finally we've got some ps3 using rp cs3 1080p vulcan back in one of the harder ones to emulate here you definitely need higher core clocks more cores and threads and we definitely have them here with this laptop now there are other games that seem a little harder to emulate than skate 3 but they're not fully compatible with the rp cs3 emulator so no matter what i run them on i'm always going to run into some issues but when it comes to skate 3 this is a compatible game and it's one of the harder ones to emulate and as you can see we're at 60fps 1080p on this laptop so overall i think the aorus 5se is a great performing laptop plenty of power here 14 cores 20 threads and that rtx 3070 can handle anything at 1080p ultra settings when it comes to average cpu temps the cooling system in here actually did a really great job like i mentioned i've got this set to performance mode which does change the fan curve at idle 39 degrees celsius average gaming we're only up to around 73 and that's at 1080p with those ultra games we were just checking out and the maximum i got this to hit in a 10 minute cinebench stress test was 93 degrees celsius another thing i wanted to talk about was battery life now with this we've got a 99 watt hour battery but we've also got a 12700h and an rtx 3070. at full boat you can kill this battery in about 55 minutes that's what i got playing god of war 1080p ultra settings but under normal use just using it as an everyday laptop you can get up to eight hours of battery life out of this unit setting it up in low power mode and in low power mode we still have plenty of power for 4k video playback email checking you want to do some document editing you'll be good to go there but just keep in mind i mean if you really want a game on a gaming laptop keep your power supply handy that's just how it is but that's gonna wrap it up for this one i really appreciate you watching and if you're interested in learning more about the aorus 5se i will leave a few links in the description and if there's anything else you want to see running on this rig be it more emulation more games or different operating system let me know in the comments below but that's it for this one like always thanks for watching youhey what's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at the all new aorus 5se gaming laptop from gigabyte i've been wanting to get my hands on this laptop for a little while now and you know it really comes down to the specs this thing's packing and for me really the cpu 14 cores 20 threads and this does offer some absolutely amazing performance when it comes to gaming and my personal favorite emulation this is the brand new 2022 model with a 15.6 inch ips display as you can see on the back of the lid here we do have that aorus logo got plenty of io here when it comes to being a laptop and recently i've noticed that a lot of manufacturers have been slacking on the i o even on their higher end gaming laptops but this one here looks like we've got plenty to work with it's also got a three zone rgb backlit keyboard and a massive track pad this is a glass cover trackpad and it's super smooth i do like the keyboard layout here but i do wish these keys had a little more throw i mean for what it is it does feel fine and one thing i actually didn't notice till uh testing this out for a little while is actually on it for a couple hours before i even noticed it did have a webcam it's right down here underneath the screen with a little privacy slider and you know i've noticed that a lot of these newer laptops coming out don't have webcams built in but they've managed to slam an hd webcam right here when it comes to io over here on the left hand side we have full size hdmi 2.1 a mini 1.4 displayport one usb 3.2 gen1 port a 3.5 millimeter audio jack and gigabit ethernet i was kind of expecting this to have 2.5 gigabit ethernet built in out of the box it does have wi-fi six but this is only gigabit over here on the left hand side moving over to the right hand side we have our power in and this comes with a 230 watt power brick full size sd card reader one thunderbolt 4 port and two more usb 3.2 gen 1 ports when it comes to the specs for the cpu we've got the intel i7 12700h 14 cores 20 threads with a max turbo up to 4.7 on the performance cores and 3.5 on the efficiency cores the gpu is an rtx 3070 laptop edition with 8 gigabytes of gddr6 ram 16 gigabytes of ddr4 running at 3200 megahertz and this is running in dual channel it's not soldered to the board so you can upgrade this very easily this came with one pre-installed 512 gigabyte nvme ssd it's a 4.0 drive but it does have two slots in here so just like we can easily upgrade the ram we can also add more storage when it comes to the display it's a 1080p 144 hertz ips and you know getting into this i thought it would be a little higher at least 1440p still looks absolutely amazing and for what we have here dual two watt stereo speakers and it does support dts x a 99 watt hour battery and this runs windows 11 right out of the box but you know if you want to install linux on it you can always go that route i've been using this laptop as my daily driver for the past two weeks and i haven't run into any issues with it i do love this trackpad super smooth here like i mentioned i wish the keys did have a little more throw to them but i've gotten used to using it i just use a mechanical keyboard on my desktops and moving over to a laptop is just a bit different and when it comes to performance we have plenty of power with that 12700h i mean you want to get some work done you can do 4k video editing on this you want to do some photo editing or you could turn it in low power mode and just use it as an everyday desktop for school work web browsing email checking basically anything goes on this laptop with this gpu and cpu combo but it's a gaming laptop after all and i really want to get into it so in this video we're going to run some benchmarks we're going to test out some pc games because like i mentioned as i'm making this video i personally think that alder lake is the way to go if you want to get high end emulation out of the way and keep in mind through all of the benchmarks and gaming that we're going to see in this video i was in performance mode otherwise known as gaming mode with this laptop first up for the benchmarks we've got geekbench 5 single core 1746 multi 11 955 really great scores here for a mobile chip but this thing does burn some power i mean it's one of the alder lake chips which are notorious for higher wattage i also ran cinebench r23 we got a total multi-core score here of 13 873 and it's no surprise i mean it's beating out all of the other you know 7th gen 8th gen and 9th gen intel chips taking a look at 3d mark fire strike total score 24 621 and the final benchmark here is time spy with a very impressive 10 786 so yeah i mean just judging by these gpu and cpu scores we've got a really nice little gaming laptop on our hands but these are synthetic benchmarks and now it's time to test out some real world gaming okay so first up we have god of war we're at 1080p ultra settings and remember i mean we've only got a 1080p display on this i kind of wish it was 1440 because uh you know with this setup here we do have some really good 1440p performance but with this game set up the way it is with no dlss we're at ultra settings here 1080p we get an average of 84 fps not bad at all and it's definitely playable here we have eldon ring 1080p maximum settings and yeah i mean it's running into constant 60 when i initially started up i did see it kind of fluctuating between 59 and 60 but you'd never notice that if you didn't have a frame counter on very smooth performance here at 1080p maximum settings with elden rain checking out doom eternal at 1080p with nightmare settings on and going into this i just went straight to nightmare we could take it up at least one more notch here no problem at all because we're actually getting an average of 164 fps the way it is this is just one of those games that really makes me want to have a higher resolution screen with this unit now remember we do have mini displayport out and hdmi so connecting this to an external higher resolution monitor or tv is super easy this is one of those games that would perform really well at 1440p and even 4k cyberpunk 2077 1080p with rtx set to ultra no dlss unfortunately with the rtx 3070 laptop edition it's just not going to run it with rtx set to ultra unless we turn dlss on so with it set to quality we're still at rtx ultra 1080p we can get an average of 62fps now it's time to move over to some emulation and i've said it before when alder lake was initially released these are the best chips for emulation amazing single core and multi-core performance and this mobile chip is no different here we have simu wii u emulator 1080p vulcan back in with bayonetta 2. i also tested out breath of the wild at 1080p and with that vulcan back in you're not going to have any issues running those games at all checking out some xbox 360 emulation using the zinnia emulator i've got vsync off and that's why our frame rate is so high but here's forza 2 running really really well now we're burning a lot more power here with vsync off because it does need to get those higher clocks on the cpu and gpu but i wanted to see how far we could push it and by the end of this run here we had an average of fps and finally we've got some ps3 using rp cs3 1080p vulcan back in one of the harder ones to emulate here you definitely need higher core clocks more cores and threads and we definitely have them here with this laptop now there are other games that seem a little harder to emulate than skate 3 but they're not fully compatible with the rp cs3 emulator so no matter what i run them on i'm always going to run into some issues but when it comes to skate 3 this is a compatible game and it's one of the harder ones to emulate and as you can see we're at 60fps 1080p on this laptop so overall i think the aorus 5se is a great performing laptop plenty of power here 14 cores 20 threads and that rtx 3070 can handle anything at 1080p ultra settings when it comes to average cpu temps the cooling system in here actually did a really great job like i mentioned i've got this set to performance mode which does change the fan curve at idle 39 degrees celsius average gaming we're only up to around 73 and that's at 1080p with those ultra games we were just checking out and the maximum i got this to hit in a 10 minute cinebench stress test was 93 degrees celsius another thing i wanted to talk about was battery life now with this we've got a 99 watt hour battery but we've also got a 12700h and an rtx 3070. at full boat you can kill this battery in about 55 minutes that's what i got playing god of war 1080p ultra settings but under normal use just using it as an everyday laptop you can get up to eight hours of battery life out of this unit setting it up in low power mode and in low power mode we still have plenty of power for 4k video playback email checking you want to do some document editing you'll be good to go there but just keep in mind i mean if you really want a game on a gaming laptop keep your power supply handy that's just how it is but that's gonna wrap it up for this one i really appreciate you watching and if you're interested in learning more about the aorus 5se i will leave a few links in the description and if there's anything else you want to see running on this rig be it more emulation more games or different operating system let me know in the comments below but that's it for this one like always thanks for watching you\n"
