Benchmarks: Vitals and Battery Life
Given the hardware that's under the hood, Gigabyte does well in the temperature stakes. Our Aero 15 OLED review unit didn't become uncomfortably hot throughout the benchmarks, however while the laptop doesn't get obnoxiously loud under load, the fans are always clearly audible, making the Legion 7i noticeably quieter during regular use.
We use a pair of PCMark 10 benchmarks to gauge battery life; Modern Office, which intermittently uses the writing, web browsing and video conferencing workloads from the main PCMark 10 benchmark; and Gaming, which uses the common Fire Strike test to stress the GPU until the battery is drained.
In order to make the results comparable between laptops, each system is configured with a purpose-built power plan, wireless radios disabled, and screen brightness set as close to 200 nits as possible using a calibration device.
Battery life ultimately falls in line with expectations of a modern laptop outfitted with 10th Gen Intel hardware. Almost six hours of office use is solid if not spectacular.
