If you’re tempted to treat yourself to a new gaming laptop for Black Friday, then you’re in luck. This Asus deal is unbeatable for the specs, fitted with one of Nvidia’s latest GPUs, along with a ten-core Intel processor, all for less than £800 and reaching a record low price on Amazon.
That’s because this 16-inch Acer V16 gaming laptop is priced at just £799, down from as high as £1,199 just a few months ago, according to Camelcamelcamel’s data. For your money, you’re getting the mobile version of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060, with 8GB of VRAM and 3,328 CUDA cores. It also supports DLSS 4, including ray tracing with multi-frame generation in games that support it.
You’re also getting the Intel Core Ultra 240H CPU with this rig, which features those 10 cores we mentioned. Those 10 cores are split into six performance cores, which are great for gaming, along with four efficiency cores, which are good for multi-threaded task work. It has a typical 2.5GHz clock speed, but it does boost up to 5.2GHz, where needed.
A 16-inch display, with a 144Hz refresh rate, gives this Acer V16 laptop a decent amount of screen real estate to work with. It’s a boost from 1080p, too, with a max 1,920 x 1,200 screen resolution on a 16:10 aspect ratio. While you might have to lower your graphics presets at 1200p in the most demanding modern games to get the best frame rates, they should remain playable.
With a budget-friendly laptop like this one, you’re usually expecting a compromise – less RAM or storage, for instance. That isn’t the case here, as you’re getting a 1TB SSD with Gen 4 speeds, along with 16GB of DDR5 SODIMM RAM, which you can upgrade at a later date (once RAM prices stabilise) to 32GB.
This £799 Acer V16 is the cheapest gaming laptop with an RTX 5060 that you can buy right now, thanks to Black Friday, with other models costing £150+ more. If you’re looking for solid gaming performance on this screen’s native 1200p display, you won’t find a better option than this one on a budget right now.
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