For just $750 here's a high-spec all-AMD gaming laptop with a rare Radeon GPU that will smash any RTX 4050 machine
Asus TUF A16 | Radeon RX 7600S | AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS | 16GB DDR5 | 512GB SSD | 16-inch | 1200p | 165Hz | $1,099.99$749.99 at Best Buy (save $350)
For a gaming laptop with close to RTX 4060-level gaming performance the TUF A16 feels like a genuine bargain. That 512GB SSD is a bit miserly, but everything else seems like excellent value for money. That RX 7600S GPU is a rare AMD mobile GPU, and sits above the RTX 4050 and a bit below the RTX 4060 in terms of performance. For a $750 gaming laptop, that's a good place to be.
Price check: Amazon $1,179.99 | Newegg $1,069.99
It's a rare thing indeed to find an all-AMD gaming laptop. Rarer still to find one that costs less than $800 with the latest generation of red team hardware inside it. Enter Asus with this 16-inch TUF A16 machine for just $750 at Best Buy.
The Radeon RX 7600S is a Navi 33 GPU with 1792 shaders and 28 compute units, but the raw performance sees its average 3DMark Time Spy score sitting just below an RTX 4060 and confidently above an RTX 4050. And for a lot less than you'll find an RTX 4050 gaming laptop retailing for right now.
Okay, that might change around the end of the month when we're expecting a slew of Black Friday gaming laptop deals to land, but even if you do find an RTX 4050 notebook for this price I'd still be recommending this red team machine. It's not even just the GPU which punches above its weight; the Ryzen 7 7735HS is a quality little bit of Zen 4 silicon.
It's an eight-core, 16-thread chip that will boost up to 4.75GHz and offers a healthy amount of multi-threaded performance for the money. It's comparatively light on the cache front compared with the mighty Ryzen 7 7840U you'll find in the latest Framework AMD Mainboard, and doesn't have
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