One of my favorite gaming laptops gets serious golden date cuts

This is not yet It’s a good year for Prime Day gaming laptop trading. We’ve been collecting the best Prime Day deals throughout the week (and blogging in real time throughout the event), with lots of outdated, pre-stage laptops flooding the virtual Amazon Store shelves, most of which aren’t discounted enough to come out with the new RTX 50 series graphics.

The rough diamond has a diamond, though – this is the laptop I recently tested, the Asus Rog Strix G16. This is one of the best gaming laptops you can buy. But hold on, as there are many configurations being sold and are often sold on the technical side.

The biggest discount is the lower end configuration. It includes an RTX 4070, 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB of storage, which is physically the same as the model I tested and is impressed. It has a discount of 22%, reducing the price to $1,800, the lowest price I’ve ever seen.

Now, there is also an RTX 4060 configuration that costs $1,360 and can retail for 20% reduction. It has the same storage space and display except that it only has 16 GB of RAM. This is a very reliable deal for the price. Importantly, both laptops come with a 2560 x 1600 resolution monitor and a 240 Hz refresh rate.

Of course, these are the last generation of Nvidia GPUs. However, as well documented, the addition of the newer RTX 50 series does not improve the original performance as we would have hoped. One of the biggest limitations is in VRAM. The RTX 5070 and 5060 still have only 8GB of VRAM. The limitations of these GPUs are not addressed, which may cause certain performance issues in some modern AAA titles. You can get 12 GB of VRAM in the RTX 5070 TI, but generally you won’t find a gaming laptop for that GPU for $2,000. NVIDIA may have said we can buy them for $1,600 when they were announced, but this has not played in the past few months. For example, I tested the AMD version of this laptop with the RTX 5070 Ti, but it costs $2,500.

But for Priend Day, Amazon sells a brand new version of the ROG Strix G16, the RTX 5070 TI, for $2,000. This is a retail price of $400. It has a slightly simplified shape on previous models and comes with a new toolless design that allows you to easily access upgrades or swap RAM or storage. I haven’t reviewed this new model myself, but I did see it at CES earlier this year, and the toolless system is really neat.

For more suggestions, check out the full list of the best Prime Day laptop deals we have encountered so far.

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