Out of all the laptop brands around, I wouldn't have thought Alienware, known for its premium machines like the $2,999 Alienware 16 Area-51, would be dishing out serious value on its latest gaming rigs. But here we are with its RTX 5060 laptop that's by far the best deal you'll find right now.
The Alienware 16 Aurora just got a $350 price cut at Best Buy, making it one of the cheapest RTX 50-series gaming laptops you can grab at $1,149. But it isn't just about that GPU, as it also boasts an Intel Core 7 240H CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM and a 1TB SSD that pushes its entry-level gaming laptop status to new heights.
With the specs it comes with under the hood, I'm amazed the Alienware 16 Aurora has dropped to a price this low. I've seen it cheaper during big sales, but only by $50, and seeing as the latest gaming laptops coming on the market with similar specs (and less) cost over $1,500, and even this RTX 4060 laptop is more expensive at $1,199, it goes to show the value this machine offers.
During my testing of the Alienware 16X Aurora, its slightly specced-up sibling that also comes equipped with an RTX 5060, I was playing games like Cyberpunk 2077 at high settings with ray tracing, Doom: The Dark Ages on Ultra Nightmare with DLSS Super Resolution and Black Myth: Wukong at high settings with frame rates at over 160 frames per second (FPS). This Aurora 16 won't be much different.
That's superb performance at this price, and for those competitive multiplayer titles, I was getting nearly 300 FPS with Marvel Rivals at Ultra settings at 1080p resolution and 240 FPS at Epic settings with DLSS 4, even with 1600p resolution, in my personal favorite, The Finals.
While its fantastic 16-inch WQXGA (2560 x 1600) LED display is an incredible deal for the price, take note that it only comes with a 120Hz refresh rate. That's the sweet spot for a vast majority of titles, but if you're after even higher frame rates for competitive games, you'll want to check out the best gaming monitors.
I know, an RTX 5060 only coming with 8GB of GDDR7 VRAM isn't much for playing games at their highest settings (I got Doom running at 7 FPS with settings cranked up). But that's not what the 16 Aurora was made for. Even still, it could pull off an applaudable 82 FPS at max settings with Nvidia's Multi Frame Gen at x4 in Cyberpunk 2077.
The Alienware 16 Aurora may be on the thicker side when it comes to portable gaming laptops, but that doesn't stop it from being an exceptional deal for anyone after RTX 50-series power that goes well past entry-level gaming performance. This is quality performance for less, and is a deal well worth jumping on.
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