Gigabyte's Aorus Master 16 Gen 2 has taken a serious price cut in Australia, falling from A$8,999 down to A$6,599 — a A$2,400 saving on one of the most powerful gaming laptops currently available.
The machine pairs an AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D processor — 16 cores, up to 5.4 GHz boost, 128MB of 3D V-Cache, 145W TDP — with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU running up to 175W, with the whole system pushing up to 230W in Turbo Mode. It all fits inside a 19mm magnesium-aluminium chassis that weighs around 2.3kg, which Gigabyte says is 17% smaller than the previous generation. The display is a 16-inch WQXGA OLED panel running at 240Hz with a 0.2ms response time, HDR 1000 certification, and a claimed 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio. Audio comes from a four-speaker setup with Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos support.
The Aorus Master line sits at the top of Gigabyte's gaming laptop range, and the Gen 2 is the first to combine AMD's 3D V-Cache mobile CPUs with RTX 50-series graphics in this form factor. That CPU-GPU pairing is particularly relevant for open-world and simulation titles where large cache sizes meaningfully reduce frame-rate bottlenecks — the kind of workloads where a thin-and-light chassis usually forces thermal compromises. IGN hasn't reviewed the Gen 2 yet, but last year's Aorus Master 16 scored an 8/10 from reviewer Chris Coke.
At A$6,599, this is still a serious investment, but the cut makes it considerably more competitive against other flagship gaming laptops in the Australian market. If you're in the market for a high-refresh OLED gaming laptop that can also handle heavy creative workloads, this deal is worth a close look.
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