Well lather me up and call me a belated Christmas turkey, there might—might—be some hope left for reasonably priced gaming PC in this RTX 50-series generation.
Assuming, that is, some of the first prices for RTX 50-series laptops are anything to go by. Asus has just revealed prices for a bunch of its new RTX 50-series laptops at its own store and Best Buy (via Wccftech), and if these initial listings bear out in reality, decent high-end mobile gaming might not cost an arm and a leg this generation.
Just an arm, perhaps—we're not talking miracles, here. I'm talking primarily about the ROG Strix G16 with an RTX 5070 Ti mobile for $1,900.
This is, dare I say it, a pretty reasonable price for a laptop with a GB205 GPU, the same as will be in the RTX 5070 desktop, albeit with a handful fewer CUDA cores.
This new G16 is $400 cheaper than an RTX 4070 version of the G16 2024 (or $100 cheaper including the current discount). To put this into perspective, the RTX 5070 Ti mobile will have 5,888 CUDA cores, versus the RTX 4070 mobile's 4,608—that's almost a 30% increase.