If you're waiting for Black Friday to pick up an all-new gaming laptop sporting the latest specs, there's no need. You can now find an RTX 5070 machine with a massive discount, making it cheaper than an RTX 5060 laptop — and it's now even less than the last time I spotted it.
In what is the best deal I've seen on an RTX 5070 gaming laptop all year, the Gigabyte Aero 16X is now $450 off at Best Buy. That's down from its usual $1,649 cost, taking it all the way down to $1,199. You'd be hard-pressed to find a laptop of this caliber this cheap, and it even beats a deal on one of the best gaming laptops on the market with an RTX 5060: the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 now at $1,349.
This Aero 16X was already a steal when it was last discounted for $350, but it's now a real bargain for those after a gaming laptop upgrade featuring RTX 50-series power. Along with its other impressive specs, including an AMD Ryzen Al 7, 32GB of RAM and 1TB SSD, this deal is hard to miss out on.
Finding an RTX 50-series gaming laptop for a great value price doesn't come often, especially when it boasts an RTX 5070. Previously, I've seen the Alienware 16X Aurora drop to an (at the time) incredible $1,649 during Prime Day sales, but this Gigabyte Aero 16X has knocked that price down way further.
This mid-ranger bumps up its performance with some powerful specs under the hood, too. With its AMD Ryzen Al 7 350 CPU for snappy, power-efficient performance, a gamer-ready 32GB of DDR5 RAM and good space on its 1TB SSD, this gaming laptop packs plenty of heat to crank up graphics and still achieve high frame rates.
That's also thanks to Nvidia's DLSS 4 and multi-frame gen tech, which pushes the system even further in games like Cyberpunk 2077, Doom: The Dark Ages and even the very demanding Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. You can even expect frame rates to jump close to 200 FPS at 1440p with high settings with DLSS turned on.
Now, I'd like to have more video memory than the 8GB VRAM the RTX 5070 laptop GPU delivers, but at this price, you're still getting a gaming rig that can handle demanding titles. In fact, customers for this Gigabyte Aero 16X have noted that it's "an excellent gaming laptop hindered in performance by Nvidia's lack of VRAM."
That said, it still "has a ton of gaming power," and I'd agree, considering my time with the Asus TUF Gaming A18 with an RTX 5070. With that machine (that also came with less RAM at 16GB), while running the benchmark test in Cyberpunk 2077, with Nvidia DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation x4 and High settings with ray tracing turned on, the A18 achieved an average of 200 FPS.
This Gigabyte Aero 16X looks to be no different, and with its 4.6-star customer rating, this gaming laptop with an RTX 5070 is a steal now that it's down to just $1,199. If you're after even more gaming laptop deals, check out this Razer Blade 14 with an RTX 5070 that's now $400 off.
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