Best Buy Slashed This 165Hz Gigabyte RTX 50 Gaming Laptop To $949
Even though Grand Theft Auto VI is shunning the PC for now (rumor has it a PC port could emerge within the first three months of 2027), there are plenty of solid titles to occupy your time. Combined with seasonal sales at places like Steam, there is still good reason to invest in the PC. If you're looking to do that while not breaking the bank, Best Buy is offering a one-day discount that might interest you.
Gigabyte Gaming A16 Laptop Is Best Buy's Deal Of The Day
In case you were not already aware, Best Buy rotates a selection of active 24-hour discounts for its deal of the day, and today it is featuring a Gigabyte Gaming A16 laptop—it's on sale for $949.99 (save $150).
As the model name implies, it's built around a 16-inch display, which has a 1920x1200 resolution (16:10 aspect ratio) and a fast 165Hz refresh rate. Inside, it sports an AMD Ryzen 7 170 'Rembrandt' chip based on Zen 3+, which itself features 8 cores and 16 threads running at 3.2GHz (base) to 4.75GHz (max boost), as well as 4MB of L2 cache and 16MB of L3 cache.
For graphics, it wields NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5050 mobile GPU. Yes, that's an entry-level GPU, but it's discrete and based on NVIDIA's Blackwell architecture, which means access to RTX amenities like DLSS 4 and Multi-Frame Generation.
You also get 16GB of DDR5 memory, a 512GB solid state drive, Wi-Fi 6E support, NVIDIA Optimus support with a MUX switch, and USB4 connectivity.
If you're looking for a relatively affordable gaming laptop with discrete graphics, today's discount actually makes this the least expensive model at Best Buy to have a GeForce RTX 5050 GPU.
Alienware 16X Aurora With OLED Is $825 Off
Want more firepower? And how about an OLED upgrade? You can have both with this Alienware 16X Aurora that's on sale for $1,749.99 at Best Buy (save $825).
That's a completely different price bracket, but it ups the ante at practically every step starting with the 16-inch OLED display. It's a premium panel with a 2560x1600 resolution, 240Hz refresh rate, 500 nits of brightness, and G-SYNC support, so not only is the image quality better, the resolution is higher and it's faster to boot.
It's also a more modern configuration powered by an Intel Core Ultra 7 270HX Plus processor. Note the listing doesn't say "Plus," but there is no version of the 270HX that is not a Plus (Arrow Lake Refresh). In any event, it's a high-end laptop CPU with 20 total cores, up to a 5.3GHz clock speed, 36MB of L2 cache, 30MB of L3 cache, and an onboard NPU rated for up to 13 TOPS for AI workloads.
Other core specs include a GeForce RTX 5060 GPU, 16GB of DDR5-5600 RAM, and a 512GB SSD.
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