Game on! Score this RTX 5050 gaming laptop for just $549 at Walmart

With the holidays right around the corner, there's never been a more compelling time to upgrade your laptop and right now I've found an epic laptop deal on a budget gaming rig that can help you get RTX 50-series gaming power for cheaper than ever.

For a limited time, you can get the Acer Nitro V 15 Gaming Laptop with RTX 5050 for just $549 at Walmart, which is $380 off the usual $929 asking price.

Acer Nitro V 15 w/ RTX 5050: was $929 now $549 at Walmart

This Acer Nitro V 15 is a budget gaming laptop that has a cutting-edge GPU in the form of an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 laptop GPU, a Core i5-13420H CPU, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD. That's budget hardware but it's good enough to play most games at good to great framerates on the 15.6-inch 1080p 165Hz display.

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Although we love this deal, it's worth remembering that this is still a budget gaming rig, so you should keep your expectations in check when playing the best PC games. You can expect most games will run very well at 1080p, but you will likely have to rely on Nvidia's performance-enhancing DLSS tech in order to achieve high framerates in modern games.

But thanks to the Core i5-13420H CPU, Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 laptop GPU, and 16GB of RAM you can count on great performance in many games, though you won't be able to store many on the 512GB SSD.

That said, let me remind you that you're getting components in this gaming laptop that are generally as good or better than what you get in the Xbox Series X or PS5. You also get three free months of Xbox Game Pass when you buy this laptop, which means you get three months of access to a service full of free games you can try on your new laptop to see what you like best.

And not only do you get the far broader PC game catalog to play on this laptop via Steam, Xbox Game Pass and other PC game platforms, you also get a fully functional Windows 11 laptop that can handle whatever work you need to do as well as light photo/video editing.

Just don't expect great battery life. While we haven't had a chance to test this specific model of Acer Nitro V 15, the other Acer Nitro V gaming laptops we've tested in the past have (like almost all gaming laptops) reliably only lasted a few hours while surfing the web on battery and 1-2 hours while gaming without being plugged in. That's why I recommend you pack the charger if you take this thing on the go with you.

This is probably the lowest price I've ever seen a gaming laptop go for with a modern Nvidia RTX 50-series GPU inside, so if you want a taste of the next generation of PC gaming this might be one of the most affordable ways to get started.