The Black Friday gaming laptop sales must be starting early as this RTX 4080 gaming laptop is already down to $1,599
MSI Vector | RTX 4080 | Intel Core i9 12900HX | 16GB DDR5-4800 | 1TB SSD | 1200p | 144Hz | $2,099$1,599 at Newegg (save $500)
This is the most affordable RTX 4080-based gaming laptop I've found, possibly at any time this year. It's not some hobbled GPU implementation either, using a 175W design of the graphics card to give you the full gaming performance. It's certainly not the most beautiful laptop you will see, nor the slimmest (though that helps keep it cool), and I'd rather a higher refresh rate panel and a bit more RAM, but it's a great price for an otherwise high-spec gaming machine.
Price check: Amazon $2,090.87
We've been monitoring the best Black Friday gaming laptop deals in the run-up to the big sales event in a couple weeks, and this is the single best deal I've seen on a gaming laptop so far. For $1,599, you score this MSI Vector GP68HX gaming laptop with an RTX 4080 stuffed inside, and the rest of the laptop looks ace too.
The RTX 4080 is the highest performing laptop GPU that we'd recommend here at PC Gamer. That's because we've tested heaps of both RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 machines, and often find that there's never enough between them to recommend the best of the best, the RTX 4090. The RTX 4080 is a much better value proposition, as this laptop proves.
This isn't some pale imitator of an RTX 4080, either, it's a full 175W version stuffed in the MSI Vector. That's right up there with the most performant RTX 4080s we've tested this year, such as in the Asus ROG Strix Scar 16 and Acer Predator Helios 16.
You can also turn on DLSS and Frame Generation with this RTX 40-series GPU, which will push performance quite a bit in supported games. You'll get one of those for free with this laptop—an Alan Wake 2 code
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