RTX 5070 Ti gaming laptop deals have been a little difficult to come by in recent months. Not only are there fewer of these rigs out on the market compared to RTX 5070 configurations, but their in-between pricing can sometimes butt up against RTX 5080 configurations. Best Buy has your back this weekend, though, with a $400 saving on one of the more affordable RTX 5070 Ti models on the market.
The Asus ROG Strix G16 is down to $1,599.99 on these yellow-label shelves right now, down from its original $1,999.99 MSRP. Considering even the best gaming laptops will still happily charge you over $2,000 for an RTX 5070 Ti GPU, that's a fantastic offer. It's more in line with where I'd expect to see an RTX 5070 version these days, and even beats current sale prices on the weaker GPU.
Who else is about this weekend? The next best RTX 5070 Ti gaming laptop deal I've found this weekend sits on the Acer Predator Helios Neo 16S AI. It's dropped all the way from $1,899.99 to $1,879 at Best Buy.
This is an upgrade to a QHD OLED display running at 240Hz, so you've got a little more room to push that GPU. Plus, that 32GB RAM is going to be a sigh of relief compared to the Strix. Still, we're only saving a little over $20 here and Best Buy has done better than that in the past.
After that, you're mostly looking at RTX 5070 options, with a significant drop down to 8GB VRAM compared to the Ti's 12GB. Even then, most of this weekend's gaming laptop deals have these weaker systems at higher prices than the ROG Strix. The Asus TUF A16, for example, does double your RAM again, but offers similar specs for $1,649 (was $1,699.99) at Best Buy. Meanwhile, the HP Omen Transcend 14 shrinks your screen size (though does come with an OLED panel and an Intel Core 9 285H processor) for $1,949.99 (was $2,039.99).
Should you buy the Asus ROG Strix G16?
I completed my Asus ROG Strix G16 review back in June and it went straight into my roster of the best Asus gaming laptops. I tested a vanilla RTX 5070 version of the system, with an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor, 32GB RAM, and a QHD display. That rig will set you back $2,399, though, nearly $1,000 more than today's offer.
Still, I was impressed with the generational jump in performance I noted from that RTX 5070 GPU, and your experience with the Ti will be even better. Not only that, but with a clean design and a satisfying keyboard it's been built to last.
I'd recommend this particular offer to anyone looking to play at high settings in QHD. My test rig struggled to hit 60fps under these conditions in more demanding titles like Cyberpunk 2077 and Horizon: Zero Dawn Remastered, but with the extra VRAM headroom this configuration is far more likely to make it.
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