Holiday Deal Drops This Ryzen 7 9800X3D And RX 9070 PC To Under $2K
If you want to play Grand Theft Auto VI at launch, then you need a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X|S console, or even a now-ancient Xbox One via Xbox Cloud Gaming. While there is no love for the PC platform for the eagerly anticipated game's launch, it will eventually land on PC, and perhaps sooner than you think. And if you could use an upgrade, this month is a good time to shop because of seasonal deals, one of which is a discount on a potent AMD-powered gaming PC.
CyberPowerPC Gamer Supreme Packs A Ryzen 7 9800X3D And Radeon RX 9070
Pitched as an early "Holiday Deal," you can score a well-equipped CyberPower Gamer Supreme for $1,949.99 at Best Buy (save $350) right now. It's one of several marked down gaming PCs and is a solid option if you want to go all (or mostly) AMD.
On the CPU side, this thing flexes an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, which you can also find on sale for $399.99 at Newegg (save $70) with coupon code BFF36, if you prefer to go the DIY route. Either way, it's a stout Zen 5 chip with an 8-core/16-thread configuration clocked at 4.7GHz (base) to 5.2GHz (max boost).
The real highlight is not the top clock speed, but the second-generation 3D V-Cache. The 9800X3D wields 8MB of L2 cache and 96MB of L3 cache, for 104MB of total cache. Over half of the total cache is 3D V-Cache (64MB), which can help give gaming a boost.
Other specs include a Radeon RX 9070 graphics card with 16GB of GDDR6 VRAM, 32GB of DDR5-5600 memory, and a 1TB PCIe 4.0 solid state drive (SSD).
Acer Predator Neo 16 Gaming Laptop With OLED Display And RTX 5070 Ti Is $600 Off
If you prefer portability and are in the market for a gaming laptop instead, then check out this Acer Predator Neo 16 that's on sale for $2,174.99 at Best Buy (save $600).
One thing that stands out is the premium display. As configured, the Predator Neo touts a 16-inch OLED panel with a 2560x1600 resolution, 240Hz refresh rate, 500 nits of brightness, and NVIDIA G-SYNC support.
Inside, this laptop packs an Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus Arrow Lake processor, which is a 24-core chip comprising 8 performance cores clocked at 2.7GHz to 5.5GHz and 16 efficient cores running at 1.8GHz to 4.7GHz. It also has 40MB of L2 cache and 36MB of L3 cache for 76MB of total cache, and an onboard NPU capable of up to 13 TOPS for AI workloads.
You also get a GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU, 16GB of DDR5-6400 RAM, a 1TB SSD, and a decent selection of ports with Thunderbolt 4 in the mix.
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