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And just like that, Black Friday is gone. But certainly not forgotten as I'm willing to wager that the vast majority of the best Black Friday gaming laptop deals are still in action as we roll through the weekend and on into Cyber Monday. So, I'm still beavering away updating this page with some of the very best gaming laptops money can buy.
I've updated this page for the last time now, but we'll be continuing to curate the 👉best Cyber Monday gaming laptop deals right here👈, so come on over and check out what's occurring.
At PC Gamer, we spend our year pushing gaming laptops to the limit in testing, which means we've got a good bead on what's actually a decent price for a given machine, and are able to spot the trends as they emerge. Some laptop deals appear better than they really are but we're using our many years of experience to help you avoid that nonsense.
The most important spec for a gaming laptop is the choice of GPU, with CPU a secondary (still important) concern. You'll find mostly RTX 40-series laptops available today, most commonly the RTX 4060 or RTX 4070. There are higher-end models available in the RTX 4080 and RTX 4090, though we don't often recommend Nvidia's very top mobile chip as it's usually not great value for money.
It's also worth keeping an eye on the memory and storage included with a gaming laptop. Generally, we prefer laptops to come with at least 16 GB of dual-channel memory and a 1 TB SSD, but sometimes a really good deal on something with less cannot be ignored.
What does 'price watch' mean?
We've added a new "price watch" qualifier to all our individual deals, making it easy to see whether a price has gone up 🔼 or down 🔽 since we last checked it out. It's important to note that any deal in this guide (even if it's slightly risen in price) is still one of our top picks, as we only show you deals that are actually worth buying.
Black Friday gaming laptop deals — Quick links
- Amazon: All the Amazon Black Friday gaming laptop deals
- Newegg: Every Newegg Black Friday gaming laptop deal
- Best Buy: The full Best Buy Black Friday gaming laptop list
- Asus: Asus RTX 4070 17-inch gaming laptop for $1,300
- Alienware: m16 R2 RTX 4070 gaming laptop for $1,300
- MSI: 14-inch RTX 4070 laptop for $1,180 @ Amazon
- Gigabyte: RTX 4070 Aorus 16 laptop for $1,580 @ Best Buy
- Walmart: Asus TUF F15 15.6 inch RTX 4060 gaming laptop for $999
- Target: Manufacturer refurbs from Acer from $750
- Razer: $100s saved on RTX 40-series Razer Blade gaming laptops, with a free X-ray skin!
- Dell: G15 and G16 gaming laptops from $650
- RTX 4050 - HP Victus 15 | $651 @ Walmart
- RTX 4060 - Acer Predator Helios Neo 16 | $1,000 @ Amazon
- RTX 4070 - HP Victus 16 | $930 @ Best Buy
- RTX 4080 - MSI Vector 16 HX | $1,849 @ B&H Photo
Best laptop GPU
The RTX 4060 delivers genuinely impressive 1080p gaming performance to the sub-$1,000 laptop market and frame rates that would have been thoroughly mid-range one generation ago. You're also getting DLSS 3 and Frame Gen in the bargain.
With the same level of gaming performance as the mobile RTX 3080 of the previous generation, the RTX 4070 really delivers a frame rate experience that belies its current pricing in the gaming laptop world. These PCs are seriously affordable now.
With a great balance between power efficiency and outright gaming performance, the RTX 4080 is the best overall GPU to go into your laptop. It's up at the top end of gaming laptoppery, but it delivers the best all-round experience.
Black Friday gaming laptop deals under $1000
- RTX 4050 - HP Victus 15 | $651 @ Walmart
- RTX 4060 - Acer Predator Helios Neo 16 | $1,000 @ Amazon
- RTX 4070 - HP Victus 16 | $930 @ Best Buy
- RTX 4080 - MSI Vector 16 HX | $1,849 @ B&H Photo
$1,000–$1,500
$1,500+
Black Friday gaming handheld deals
Black Friday gaming laptop deals — UK
- Amazon: MSI RTX 4080 laptop for £1,699
- Laptops Direct: RTX 4060 gaming laptops from £750
- Overclockers: Asus RTX 4060 laptop for £900
- Razer UK: £100s off RTX 40-series Blade laptops
- Scan: Asus TUF Gaming RTX 4070 laptop for £1,100
- PC Specialist: Configurable RTX 40-series laptops
- Cyberpower: £100s off gaming laptops
- Currys: £1,199 RTX 4070 MSI machine
- Handheld gaming PC: ROG Ally for £399 at Amazon
- RTX 4060: Gigabyte G5 | £811 @ Amazon
- RTX 4070: Asus TUF F15 | £950 @ Amazon
- RTX 4080: MSI Vector 17 I £1,699 @ Amazon
Our magic Black Friday price bots are searching the web, constantly tracking down the best gaming laptop deals.
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Hey, Jacob here, reporting for duty. I'm spending a chunk of my time this week looking out for gaming laptop and handheld gaming PC deals, from now until Black Friday and beyond.
Well, until Cyber Monday anyways. After that I'm getting a big board of cheese and crackers and putting my feet up... but we have year-long deal hubs to keep you covered once that happens.
This diminutive Asus gaming laptop is part of the company's more affordable TUF range of machines, but the new-look chassis is taking a lot of its design cues from the super premium Zephyrus line.
It's also sporting AMD's top-of-the-line new mobile processors of the Strix Point family, too. As such, the Asus TUF A14 is one of the best 14-inch gaming laptops around right now.
And with a decent discount bringing the RTX 4060 version down to $1,349 at Walmart it's really cutting through the price premium of these small form factor laptops.
Right here is the cheapest RTX 4080-powered gaming laptop we can find right now. The MSI Vector. It's a 16-inch device with a fairly standard form factor for a gaming laptop—it's not going to win any awards for sleek style. However, that's a 175 W 4080 under the hood, and the CPU might be one generation old but it's still a modern architecture and good enough.
I'd prefer a 1440p or 1600p panel for this sort of cash, but at least you'll stand a chance of hitting that 144 Hz refresh rate frequently. And since this is so much cheaper than the other RTX 4080 machine I've highlighted in the guide above, it's worth thinking about anyways. For competitive gamers that prefer speed to resolution, it might be a good fit.
A gaming laptop with ample storage is good, but you want a spare NVMe slot for easy upgrades
You can't upgrade a gaming laptop like a gaming desktop, but usually you can at least swap out the NVMe SSD and memory.
I say usually (and italicise it for good measure) because some laptops have soldered memory and single NVMe slot. I.e. the latest Asus Zephyrus G14. You can still swap out the SSD already in that laptop pretty easily, but you would need to find some way to clone it if you want to upgrade your storage.
Altogether, it's just way more of a hassle than if you had a spare slot to begin with. So, if you can find a picture of the innards of any gaming laptop you're considering, that's good to check.
Here are a handful of pictures from inside a few current generation laptops (we make sure to always take a snap of the slots so you don't have to get inside your own laptop to check):
Here's a fresh deal for ya: I've spotted this MSI Vector machine over at B&H for $1,849. Now that's over $100 more than the cheapest RTX 4080 we've spotted so far, also an MSI Vector, though I much prefer the spec on this device.
With a 1600p/240 Hz screen, it's a much better fit for that RTX 4080 mobile GPU than the 1200p/144 Hz screen on the cheaper unit.
Combine the screen with the newer, and better, 14900HX chip and double the RAM to 32 GB, you start to see why this machine is well worth that extra 100 or so bucks.
OLED or Mini-LED? We're on a Razer's edge
Sorry for the Razer-based pun—the deals season does strange things to a person. Anyways, my editor and I are trying to decide between these here two seemingly near-identical Razer Blade 16 gaming laptops.
Both come with an RTX 4080, a Core i9 14900Hz, and a price tag of near-enough $3,000. These Blade laptops don't come cheap, and arguably other companies offer similarly fetch models for less. But some people only want Razer and you can't blame them once you've used one yourself. They're really lovely. As they should be for the money.
The price isn't what we're disagreeing about, it's which one is the better deal.
On the one hand, my pick: the Mercury White option.
This comes with 2 TB of storage and a dual-mode Mini-LED screen. That means the screen can be set to either 2400p or 1200p, and the refresh rate will adjust accordingly between 120 Hz and 240 Hz. It's not a perfect system of switching on these devices but it's a neat feature if you're looking to game and work on this single device.
Plus, the one time we really rate Mini-LED screens is on gaming laptops. They're compact enough where the lighting zones actually work as intended, whereas on larger gaming monitors we're team OLED all the way.
Now for Dave's pick: the Black OLED option.
This laptop stuffs the dual-mode option for a flatly 2560 x 1600 OLED screen. That's a pretty neat trade-off, I won't lie, as 2560 x 1600 is my favourite resolution for a 16-inch laptop with a decent GPU—you can score reasonably high frame rates in game but can still surf a spreadsheet.
Now here comes the kicker: this black Blade comes with just 1 TB of SSD capacity installed. That's a bit slim pickings for a laptop that costs as much as some cars. I have often thought Razer was being pretty stingey when it came to storage on its most premium of premium laptops, and 1 TB is going to fill up very fast if you're using this device for gaming and video editing, which is pretty likely considering its spec.
Now, you can upgrade the storage in the Blade 16, as per my previous blog post on this page. You can actually see underneath the hood on the Blade 16 we reviewed earlier in the year. The issue is this laptop comes with stacked NVMe slots, meaning you have to use only single-sided NVMe SSDs. That can be done, but involves shopping around a bit to find something suitable for the right price.
The WD Blue SN5000 is a single-side drive available in large capacities, though it's not the quickest around.
Here's a pretty wicked RTX 4070 laptop for $1,180.
The Slim comes with a Ryzen 7 7735HS, which is an eight-core processor and plenty powerful for a gaming laptop. It also includes the Radeon 680M integrated GPU, which has 12 CUs for reasonably decent performance. I say reasonably, as it'll be nothing close to the performance of the RTX 4070 inside this machine, but for indie games on the move, it's a good battery saver.
The RTX 4070 runs at a 140 W TGP, which means it should be able to perform as expected for its core count and not be overly limited by power constraints.
So far, so good. There's no letting up with the screen, either. It is a 16:10, 2560 x 1600 number, with a 350 nit peak brightness all from an IPS panel. It's also FreeSync Premium rated to keep screen tear away.
Does there have to be a catch? Well, yes, unfortunately there is. It might not be a dealbreaker, but it does sting a little. This laptop only comes with a single stick of DDR5 RAM. Just one lonely 16 GB stick. With one fewer channel, the system cannot utilise the RAM to its fullest, which may or may not have an impact on performance. Generally, we'd expect some sort of performance hit for a single stick, though it really depends on the application.
You could add in another stick down the line, though it's best to grab a kit for maximum compatibility and replacing the lot. You can probably get away with just buying another matching 16 GB stick, however.
So, hey, it's a bit frustrating on an otherwise solid laptop for the money.
Do you need an 'AI PC'?
No.
That was easy, wasn't it?
What makes a PC an 'AI PC' is an NPU. This is a specialised block on a chip that's dedicated to accelerating AI workloads. Intel's latest Lunar Lake chips, AMD's Ryzen AI series, and Qualcomm's Snapdragon Elite series all come with NPUs baked into the silicon, thus qualifying laptops with them as 'AI PCs'.
However, there really isn't much to do with an NPU that's of direct benefit to PC gamers right now. They're mostly used to accelerate local AI operations, and a lot of AI operations are still done in the cloud. You might get some local image processing or image generation from an NPU, and Copilot Plus PCs require it, but that doesn't mean the NPU is actually all that useful just yet.
That's because graphics cards are also mighty AI processing machines—that's why Nvidia is selling them by the truckload right now. So any PC, or laptop, with a decent GPU inside it actually already has some impressive AI-chomping ability. This will soon be recognised by Microsoft as Copilot Plus worthy, too.
So, whether the NPU has some uses or not, I wouldn't go out of your way to buy a gaming laptop with one just yet. As a PC gamer, I've struggled to really get much out of any laptops I've tested with an NPU.
There are other RTX 4060 machines on sale in the crush of Black Friday gaming laptop deals, and we've found three for under $800. But only one of them is truly worth your money. The Dell G15, for $800 at Dell itself is a classic Black Friday deal; we're always seeing them on offer around sales events, but that doesn't make this one any less appealing.
The RTX 4060 GPUs in the other machines are running at far lower power levels than the 140 W chip inside the Dell. That's the full wattage, and will have a big impact on the relative gaming performance against the 45 W and 75 W GPUs of the MSI and Acer machines our Andy has scouted this week.
This is a perfect example of what you really need to dig into when shopping for a new gaming laptop. The same graphics chip can have vastly different power levels that will impact both the heat they generate (manufacturers will use lower wattages to fit chips into thinner chassis), so it pays to check into the specs sheet to see what rating a given GPU is given.
What better way to ring in Black Friday proper than a deal on our pick for the best gaming laptop.
The ROG Zephyrus G16 is currently discounted down to $1,600 at Best Buy, including Intel's top Meteor Lake Core Ultra 9 185H chip and an all-important RTX 4070.
With an OLED screen and a wonderfully sleek chassis, this machine massively impressed both Andy and I in testing. I had the Ryzen AI HX 370 model, Andy the 14th Gen Intel. This isn't just favouritism on my part, but the AMD model is the best choice of those two. While we haven't tested the Core Ultra model of the Zephyrus ourselves, we have tested the Core Ultra chips. It should perform really well in a sleek chassis such as this, and will keep up with the RTX 4070.
The performance of this laptop is a little lower for its sleek chassis. I found that to be a fair trade-off in my testing for how lovely it is to actually use day-to-day, both between gaming and work.
The main downside with this deal is that it's on a model with only 16 GB of RAM. That's soldered LPDDR5 which means you can't upgrade down the line. That sorta sucks, I'd much prefer 32 GB or at least room to upgrade it myseelf, so something to consider before you buy.
There's also the fact you can buy an RTX 4070 for much less, though the Zephyrus does feel like a different class of laptop to many chunkier gaming machines out there—that will appeal to some more than others.
Steam Deck price drop!
The Steam Deck is just $337 over on Steam, and you won't beat that for a handheld gaming PC right now. That's for the 512 GB model, too. The 64 GB version is even cheaper at $296.65, though I would recommend going for the bigger capacity.
The Deck is less powerful than some other Windows-based designs but you don't feel it's lacking power when you're playing Vampire Survivors, Balatro, Hades or any other handheld-friendly title. That's partially because the resolution is just 1280 x 800, whereas those other ones are 1080p.
The Steam Deck's best feature has to be SteamOS. This Linux-powered interface is absolutely awesome, and we're still waiting for it to launch officially on other devices.
This is a US deal, and there's no such luck on a price reduction in the UK.
Check out our Steam Deck review for more.
The spec of this HP gaming laptop is about the same as every other somewhat affordable RTX 4060 gaming laptop. EXCEPT it has a 1 TB SSD. That alone puts it ahead of the rest of the gaming laptops under $1,000.
Soldered vs SO-DIMM—what's the deal?
If you've read through all of the deals on this page and you're not already familiar with the two most common types of memory on a gaming laptop, you might be wondering what we mean with phrases like 'soldered' and 'SO-DIMM'.
Let's start with SO-DIMM memory. This is the most common type of system memory (RAM) you'll find on a modern gaming laptop. These are removeable sticks of RAM, much like those on a standard gaming PC, though slightly squished to be more ameniable to the compact laptop form factor. SO-DIMM tends to be DDR5 memory now, which means speeds upwards of 5,000 MT/s are pretty standard these days.
Soldered memory is what we'd call any type of memory that's, well, soldered to the motherboard. Usually LPDDR5X in modern systems. It's not removeable in the traditional sense as it's attached to the motherboard directly, and doesn't come on any sort of separate stick (though with a heatgun, anything is removeable).
Soldered memory is used to save space—a laptop chassis can usually be thinner without SO-DIMMs and SO-DIMM slots.
So, which is best?
Good question, but I think I'm going to take the easy way out and say it depends on what machine you're buying. If you're grabbing a thin-and-light with 32 GB or more of RAM from the get-go, such as an ROG Zephyrus G16 (our best gaming laptop pick) you might be sorted for speedy memory and never feel the need to change it for the duration of that laptop's life. Though if you have less than 16 GB, you'll want the option to upgrade down the line. Even 16 GB might be nice to swap-out later on, though be honest with yourself if that's something you'd be keen to do.
This is the absolute cheapest RTX 4060 gaming laptop I've found, and it's actually a pretty impressive one. The Lenovo LOQ machines were a bit of an oddity when they first launched; they were meant to be the more affordable alternative to the company's Legion laptops... except they weren't actually cheaper.
Odd.
Anyways, it's Black Friday now, and everything's on sale it seems, and suddenly the LOQ is good value. Actually, I'd go as far as to say it's great value. There isn't another $700 gaming laptop that I've seen which would be as good a machine as this.
The build quality is excellent, the GPU has a TGP of 105 W—which isn't the highest, but certainly not the lowest, looking at you Mr. 45 W MSI—and the AMD Zen 3+ CPU will do a job, too. It feels like a smartly specced, well-built gaming laptop, that is a bit of a bargain.
My only notes are that the screen on the LOQ I tested wasn't brilliant and this 144 Hz IPS does seem a mite dim at 300 nits, and one other slight concern is that the 16 GB of DDR5-4800 memory isn't listed as to whether it comes in two sticks or one. That's important, because of late Lenovo has been using a single stick to cheap out on 16 GB configs, and that instantly halves the available memory bandwidth.
Oh, and that 512 GB SSD is a bit miserly, but that's not a tough, or expensive upgrade down the road.
Ah, there it is. I was wondering when this one would show it's chonky little face. The Asus TUF F15 pops up a lot around these times, showing up all the other RTX 4070 gaming laptops by hugely undercutting them and offering itself up with a huge discount.
This is a lot of laptop for under a grand, and you can find the Asus TUF F15 for $1,000 at Best Buy.
Morning! Black Friday may be over, but I'm still going to be picking my way around the various retailers to figure out which laptops are still live and which have vanished from the shelves never to be seen again. Okay, that might be a little over dramatic, but there will likely be some that have either gone out of stock or have lost their tempting little discounts.
And I'm going to be here making sure I'm still bringing you the best gaming laptop deals around.
There are quite a few deals still hanging on, but some have gone out of stock, and others have increased in price. Perhaps that's in preparation of new pricing come Cyber Monday, but there is at least one exception. This powerful RTX 4080 MSI Vector 16 HX has dropped $200 overnight and is now $1,799 at B&H Photo.
There is another RTX 4080 machine from MSI that's $50 cheaper, but this one has the top-end Intel CPU, twice the DDR5 ram allotment, and a 2560 x 1600 display capable of a 240 Hz refresh rate.
It's a far better machine than the $50 price delta might suggest.
