Gigabyte P55W v6

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 4 expert reviews

Excellent:

1
Good:

2
Average:

0
Bad:

1

Pros:

Gaming performance is great for the money, good input devices, long battery life
Attractive design, Beautiful display, Responsive keyboard, Strong performance, Relatively affordable
Sexy, portable chassis, Lovely, vivid display, Very comfortable keyboard, Solid graphics and performance

Cons:

Display lacks contrast, SSD is fairly slow, noisy under load
Weak audio, Runs Hot

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Last revision on July 26, 2018

Reviewers Liked

Gaming performance is great for the money, good input devices, long battery life
Attractive design, Beautiful display, Responsive keyboard, Strong performance, Relatively affordable
Sexy, portable chassis, Lovely, vivid display, Very comfortable keyboard, Solid graphics and performance

Reviewers Didn't Like

Display lacks contrast, SSD is fairly slow, noisy under load
Weak audio, Runs Hot
Lacks G-Sync support, Runs hot, Speakers are not loud enough

Expert reviews and ratings

The various editions of the Gigabyte P55W always managed to hit the sweet spot between performance and price - and version 6 is fortunately no different. The change from the GeForce GTX 970 to a GTX 1060 results in a 50 % increase in 3D performance,...

By NotebookCheck on February 09, 2017

Should I buy the Gigabyte P55W v6 Gaming Laptop?With the old 9 series mobile GPUs you had to spend a huge sum of money to get a laptop that would play the latest games on maximum settings and even then with the GTX980M you occasionally had to sacrifice...

By avforums.com on January 12, 2017

One of the biggest worries about the advent of VR gaming was the expense. Sure the headsets aren't cheap, but the PCs needed to run them, that's what will kill you. Or at least that used to be the case before Nvidia's latest generation of GPUs. The...

By Notebook Review on November 17, 2016

The Gigabyte P55W v6 is a VR-ready gaming laptop with a great display that won't break the...

By LaptopMag on August 26, 2016

Si les performances du P55W v7 sont sensiblement identiques à celles du P55W v6, le processeur Kaby Lake s'avère tout de même plus rapide que son prédécesseur sur les tests purement CPU. La bonne nouvelle, c'est que l'on y gagne également du côté de...

By tomshardware.fr on June 14, 2017