If you think this Alienware RTX 4090 laptop deal doesn't look so bad we have a Black Friday Lenovo RTX 4080 deal that blows it away
By Alienware's standards, the Alienware m16 with RTX 4090 graphics for $2,599 in their Black Friday sale is a bit of a steal (note that you'll need to hit the «RTX 4090» option to upgrade from the base configuration that's linked here). After all, we're used to seeing their high-end models go for $3,000 to $4,000 or more.
But here's the thing. For just $1,899, you can have our favourite gaming laptop in the Lenovo Lenovo Legion Pro 7i with an RTX 4080 GPU that's so close in terms of gaming performance, you'll never notice the difference.
Yup, that's the weird thing about the RTX 4090 laptop chip. On paper, it monsters the RTX 4080. But constrained by the limited thermal capacity of even a desktop replacement laptop, it turns out both chips put out awfully similar performance, despite the huge price premium Nvidia charges for the RTX 4090.
Alienware m16 | 16-inch | QHD+ 240Hz | RTX 4090 |AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX | 16GB DDR5 | 1TB | $2,599.99 at Alienware
By Alienware's standards, an RTX 4090 laptop at this price point is a decent deal. It's a 16-inch model with a 240Hz QHD+ IPS display with the brand's signature spacey design and engineering. Note that you'll need to hit the «RTX 4090» option to upgrade from the base configuration that's linked here.
The one caveat to all this is that the RTX 4090 comes with 16GB of VRAM to the 4080's 12GB. In the long run, as games become ever more memory intensive, there will probably be a few games where 12GB won't quite be enough and the RTX 4080 will end up having to go out to main memory for graphics data, which hammers frames rates pretty badly.
Right now, however, 12GB is enough for all but a few fringe cases, which makes the extra $700 you need to fork out for the Alienware over the
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