Woot is selling Gigabyte’s Aero X16 gaming laptop for $1,399.99, according to a listing on the Amazon-owned outlet site. The listing describes the price as 33% below list, putting a current-generation Nvidia mobile GPU and 32GB of memory into a bracket where many gaming laptops still ship with less generous parts.
The configuration listed by Woot includes an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 laptop GPU, AMD’s Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor, 32GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD and a 16-inch 2560 x 1600 WQXGA display. Woot’s deal page is available here.
The CPU is the more notable wrinkle. Tom’s Hardware said it previously covered an Aero X16 deal using AMD’s Ryzen AI 7 350 at $1,389. This Woot configuration swaps in the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 for $10 more, according to Tom’s Hardware. The HX 370 is a 12-core chip with 24 threads and boost clocks of up to 5.1GHz, compared with the 8-core Ryzen AI 7 350 used in Tom’s Hardware’s earlier testing.
What the hardware actually gets you
On paper, the Woot model is aimed at people who want one machine for games, schoolwork and heavier desktop chores. The RTX 5070 handles the graphics side, while 32GB of DDR5 gives the laptop more breathing room for multitasking than the 16GB configurations still common in cheaper gaming notebooks. Tom’s Hardware also noted that 32GB of DDR5 memory alone is worth nearly $400 at current prices.
The 1TB SSD covers storage, and Gigabyte’s chassis leaves room for later upgrades. According to Tom’s Hardware, the Aero X16 has two SODIMM memory slots and two M.2 drive slots, so RAM and storage are not sealed into a dead-end configuration. The laptop measures 0.65 inches thick and weighs 4.18 pounds.
The display is a 2560 x 1600 panel with a refresh rate of up to 165Hz. Tom’s Hardware said the machine is not using an OLED display, and its review of the related HX 350 version faulted the screen and performance relative to that model’s price at the time.
The benchmark caveat
The cleanest read on the deal comes with an asterisk: Tom’s Hardware’s productivity testing was done on the Ryzen AI 7 350 version, not the exact HX 370 model in Woot’s current listing. Tom’s Hardware said the HX 350 version delivered solid Geekbench 6 results and argued that the 12-core HX 370 should improve performance, including in games. That is an expectation, not a benchmark result for this exact discounted configuration.
Tom’s Hardware’s review of the Aero X16 praised its productivity performance, battery life and upgrade options, while criticizing its display and performance at the previous price. In the site’s battery testing, the Aero X16 lasted nearly an hour longer than the next closest rival, according to Tom’s Hardware.
For games, Tom’s Hardware reported that the Aero X16 exceeded 100 frames per second in Shadow of the Tomb Raider at 1080p and reached 64 frames per second at its native 2560 x 1600 resolution. That does not make it the fastest gaming laptop available, but it gives the Woot price useful context: the discount is doing a lot of the work here.
This story draws on original reporting from Tom's Hardware.
