The best Cyber Monday gaming laptop deal is an all-AMD affair
Put aside any notion of hardware tribalism, because the AMD Advantage is obvious in the best gaming laptop deal you'll find this year.
Asus ROG Strix G15 | AMD RX 6800M | AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX | 15.6-inch | 1440p | 165Hz | 16GB RAM | 512GB SSD | $1,699.99 $1,099.99 at Best Buy (save $600)
This is a genuinely fantastic gaming laptop deal, and you're going to need to hurry because if people have any sense they'll snap this right up. The RX 6800M is built around AMD's most powerful mobile GPU, and it's only slightly slower than the absolute quickest GPU AMD makes for laptops. We're talking around RTX 3070 Ti levels of standard gaming prowess. For just $1,100. Throw in a 1440p screen running at 165Hz and you've got one mighty machine.
What's that? Oh, just the best darned Cyber Monday gaming laptop deal, that's all. Seriously, this is an almighty machine with an RTX 3070 Ti-beasting spec for just $1,100 at Best Buy, and it's all AMD, all the time.
With an AMD pairing of the Ryzen 9 5980HX and Radeon RX 6800M, this Asus ROG Strix G15 laptop is a seriously powerful gaming machine. That's because of that rogue 'M' behind the GPU code. AMD created a lower-powered RX 6800S mobile card, but that delivers gaming performance well behind this beefier version.
- We'll carry on curating the best Cyber Monday PC gaming deals all the way through.
But it's not just the GPU and CPU combo that have grabbed my attention, though. There's that glorious 1440p 165Hz IPS screen that they're both attached to. With a graphics chip as powerful as this it's almost a waste to have it running a 1080p panel, and a 4K display is just a bit too much, which is why the rise in 1440p laptop screens is more than welcome.
Elsewhere we're talking about pretty standard components, such as the 16GB of DDR4 memory and the 512GB SSD. That's not a lot of storage space given the size of modern PC games, but the good news is there's a secondary PCIe slot inside the laptop and it's pretty easily accessible if you want to upgrade with more storage down the line.
There are still some good Cyber Monday SSD deals out there, so it's not a big miss considering the rest of the spec comes in under $1,100. And that all makes it the best Cyber Monday gaming laptop deal for my money. Or yours, for that matter.
Where are the best Cyber Monday gaming laptop deals?
- Amazon - RTX 3050 laptops from Acer and Dell starting at $650
- Asus - high-end ROG Zephyrus 14 with Ryzen 9 and RTX 3060 at Best Buy
- MSI - RTX 3080 gaming laptops up to $200 off at Newegg
- Gigabyte - up to 50% off Gigabyte gaming laptops at Newegg
- Walmart - cheap Gateway laptops. Remember them?!
- B&H Photo - up to $500 off Lenovo, Asus, & MSI gaming laptops
- Target - sub-$1,000 gaming laptops
- Staples - up to $300 off MSI gaming notebooks
- Lenovo - $1,000+ discounts on Legion laptops
- Razer - discounts on Razer Blade laptops, our favorite notebooks
- Newegg - $500+ off RTX 30 series gaming laptops
- Best Buy - save up to $500 on gaming laptops
- Microsoft - up to half price on last-gen laptops
- Dell - save over $300 on Dell and Alienware gaming laptops
- RTX 3060 - Asus ROG Zephyrus 14 |
$1,399.99$899.99 at Best Buy (save $500) - RTX 3070 - Asus TUF Dash 15 |
$1,499.99$999.99 at Best Buy (save $500) - RTX 3070 Ti - Gigabyte Aero 16 XE4 |
$1,499.99$1,309.99 at Newegg (save $190) - RTX 3080 - Asus Zephyrus G15 |
$1,999.99$1,699.99 at Best Buy (save $300) - RX 6800M - Asus ROG Strix G15 |
$1,699.99$1,099.99 at Best Buy (save $600)
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Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Death Race 2000!). He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later. When he dropped it out of the window. He first started writing for Official PlayStation Magazine and Xbox World many decades ago, then moved onto PC Format full-time, then PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3 among others. Now he's back, writing about the nightmarish graphics card market, CPUs with more cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs more capacious than a Cybertruck.