The Best Cyber Monday Gaming Laptop Deals That Are Still Live: Walmart and Best Buy Are the Winners
Cyber Monday is over, but there are still plenty of great gaming laptop deals that are still available for “Cyber Week” from Best Buy, Walmart, Alienware, HP, and Lenovo. Check out the full list below.
Here’s another excellent gaming laptop deal from Walmart. The Asus ROG Strix G17 gaming laptop, which is equipped with a 17″ FHD display, AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX CPU, RTX 4070 GPU, 16GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD, is down to $1199 shipped. That’s an excellent price for an RTX 4070 equipped gaming laptop, even better for a laptop with a larger 17″ display. Like the Lenovo above, the G17 is equipped with a 115W TGP RTX 4070 GPU that should be able to handle any game comfortably on the 1080p display. It’s paired with a powerful, high-end Ryzen 9 CPU that effectively turns it into a mobile desktop replacement for all your workstation tasks.
The Walmart Cyber Monday Sale brings with it this excellent gaming laptop deal. Walmart is offering a Lenovo LOQ RTX 4070 gaming laptop for $879.99. The LOQ is Lenovo’s lineup of budget-oriented gaming laptops. This system features a 15″ 1080p display, a low-voltage AMD Ryzen 7 7435HS CPU, GeForce RTX 4070 GPU, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD. The RTX 4070 GPU is a fully powered (115W TGP) model, not a throttled one like on some other budget laptops. Despite its low cost, this laptop will perform almost as well as the best RTX 4070 gaming laptops. You should be able to play any game comfortably on the 1080p display.
Right now you can get an HP Victus RTX 4070 gaming laptop for only $929.99. The Victus is HP’s lineup of budget-oriented gaming laptops. This model features a 15″ 1080p display, a low-voltage AMD Ryzen 8 8845HS CPU, GeForce RTX 4070 GPU, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD. The RTX 4070 has a maximum TGP rating of 105W (120W with dynamic boost), which is actually quite impressive for such an affordable gaming laptop.
The MSI Katana features an upgraded AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS processor and the same RTX 4070 GPU with a TGP rating of 105W. It also has a larger 1TB SSD. It does cost about $150 more than the Victus deal above, but the CPU upgrade and the increased storage might be worth it for many people.
I had to throw this in here because I have seen very few Razer laptop deals for Cyber Monday. This laptop is nearly maxed out in gaming prowess. It boasts a gorgeous 16″ OLED display with a 2560×1600 (QHD+) resolution and up to 240Hz refresh rate. You’ll need a beefy GPU to run games smoothly on such a sharp display, and fortunately the Razer Blade delivers with an RTX 4080 GPU. It’s also equipped with an Intel Core i9-1400HX CPU (the most powerful Intel processor).
The Acer Nitro V offers decent gaming performance at an awesome price. The RTX 4050 is a budget GPU, but it’s still powerful enough to run most games at relaxed settings in 1080p. It’s a lot better than any onboard graphics solution, like an Intel Arc or Iris Xe. It’s well paired with a 1080p display, AMD Ryzen 5 CPU, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD.
The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 offers a combination of a smaller 14″ footprint that’s easier to carry around, a gorgeous OLED display with a sharp 3K resolution, and powerful components in the guise of an AMD Ryzen 9 processor and your choice of an RTX 4060 or 4070 laptop. Which you choose depends on the games you play, but the RTX 4060 model is objectively a better deal for Cyber Monday, since it costs $450 less (and I don’t think the performance difference is worth that much).
This Lenovo LOQ gaming laptop is the least expensive laptop equipped with a discrete GPU that I’ve seen for Cyber Monday. The RTX 3050 is not the fastest GPU on the block, but it’s still better than any onboard graphics solution. It’s certainly powerful enough to run games that aren’t super demanding, like League of Legends, Fortnite, or the thousands of indie games available on Steam. If you want to play Black Myth Wukong with high settings however, you’ll need to look for something more powerful.
This Lenovo Legion Pro 7 gaming laptop offers a lot of upgrades for a very reasonable price. Unlike most laptops at this price point, it’s equipped with an Intel Core i9-14900X (Intel’s best 14th gen CPU), RTX 4070 GPU with the maximum TGP rating, 32GB of DDR5 RAM and a 2TB SSD (both double what you would normally see). The RTX 4070 mobile GPU performs on par with the RTX 3080 and should provide ample horsepower to power games on the QHD+ display.
This Lenovo Legion Pro 7 gaming laptop offers a lot of upgrades for a very reasonable price. Unlike most laptops at this price point, it’s equipped with an Intel Core i9-14900X (Intel’s best 14th gen CPU), RTX 4070 GPU with the maximum TGP rating, 32GB of DDR5 RAM and a 2TB SSD (both double what you would normally see). The RTX 4070 mobile GPU performs on par with the RTX 3080 and should provide ample horsepower to power games on the QHD+ display.
OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptops
The OMEN Transcend 14 is HP’s newest gaming laptop and was released in January 2024. It is lighter and thinner than the standard OMEN, weighing in at only 3.6lbs and measuring 0.71″ thick, and it features better build quality and materials like a premium aluminum chassis. This is also the only laptop that lets you add on a gorgeous OLED display. The OMEN Transcend is a great option for anyone who wants a slim and easily portable laptop while still being able to play games.
OMEN Transcend 16″ Gaming Laptop
Select Ultra 7/RTX 4060/16GB Option
Omen Transcend 14″ OLED Intel Core Ultra 7 155H RTX 4060 Gaming Laptop
Select Ultra 9/RTX 4070/32GB Option.
Omen Transcend 14″ OLED Intel Core Ultra 9 185H RTX 4070 Gaming Laptop
So the base configuration of this OMEN Transcend 14″ model features a 16″ 2.8L OLED display, Intel Core Ultra 7 155H CPU, RTX 4050 GPU, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD. However, this laptop can be configured to make it truly one worth fawning over. Here are some two upgraded configurations we would recommend.
Tldr; this OMEN Transcend is configurable. By upgrading the GPU, you can get potentially better deals:
- Upgrade to RTX 4060 and QHD+ OLED Display for $1279.99
- Upgrade to RTX 4070 and QHD+ OLED Display and 32GB RAM for $1859.99
OMEN Gaming Laptops
The OMEN is HP’s most popular series of gaming laptops. They offer great performance at a very affordable price point. The 2024 models are available in both 16″ and 17″ screen sizes.
OMEN 17″ RTX 4070 Gaming Laptop
HP is offering a great deal on its workhorse Omen 17″ gaming laptop. You can get it equipped with an AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS processor and an RTX 4070 GPU for only $1399.99 after a $400 off instant discount.
OMEN 16″ Configurable Laptop
Here’s one more OMEN 16″ gaming laptop that can be customized to your liking. The base configuration is equipped with an Intel Core i7-14700HX CPU, an entry-level RTX 4050 GPU, 16GB RAM, and a 512GB SSD. The 16″ display features a 1080p resolution, but you can upgrade to 1440p if you prefer.
Tldr; this OMEN is configurable. By upgrading the GPU, you can get potentially better deals:
- Upgrade to RTX 4060 for $1079.99
- Upgrade to RTX 4070 (must also upgrade to 4-zone RGB keyboard) for $1230
- Upgrade to RTX 4080 (must also upgrade to 4-zone RGB keyboard) for $2080
I’ve stumbled upon the best Razer gaming laptop deal for Cyber Monday. Right now, Amazon is offering a powerful Razer Blade 16 RTX 4080 gaming laptop for $2,499.99. That would normally be a pretty good deal for any brand of laptop equipped with a 4080 GPU, but a Razer branded laptop would usually cost cost you $3,000 or more. In his Razer Blade 16 review, Mark Knapp wrote that “the Razer Blade 16 is as elegant as a Core i9 and RTX 4090 are likely to get in a laptop, but the high price and few shortcomings work against it.” It’s a good thing we have Cyber Monday to deal with that.
Not All Laptop GPUs Are the Same
There are two important tidbits that deserve mention concerning graphics cards found in laptops. First, mobile GPU variants are not as powerful as their desktop counterparts. For example, a mobile RTX 4060 doesn’t perform as well as a desktop RTX 4060. The mobile versions are generally about one to two tiers lower in performance. Using the same example, the mobile RTX 4060 performs more similarly to a desktop RTX 4050.
Second, not all laptops feature the same performance out of the same GPU. Two laptops equipped with the same RTX 4060 GPU, for example, might perform very different in gaming. In order to roughly tell how good a GPU will be, you can look at the TGP rating. That’s basically the amount of power supplied to the GPU. A higher TGP rating means more power will be delivered, equating to stronger performance, however the wattage consumption and heat generated will be higher. Here are the maximum TGP rates for the RTX 40 series graphics cards:
- Mobile RTX 4050: 115W
- Mobile RTX 4060: 115W
- Mobile RTX 4070: 115W
- Mobile RTX 4080: 150W
- Mobile RTX 4090: 150W
Eric Song is the IGN commerce manager in charge of finding the best gaming and tech deals every day. When Eric isn’t hunting for deals for other people at work, he’s hunting for deals for himself during his free time.
Originally posted:
Dec 6, 2024 8:20 pm