Gaming laptops can cost a pretty penny. The exact price depends on what you’re looking for, but generally, most powerful options from known brands sit well over $1,000, with some even touching $2,500 and above. If a scary price tag has been holding you back from upgrading, we come bearing good news.

The more expensive version with an RTX 5080 GPU and an Intel Core Ultra 9 chip also gets a Black Friday discount ($2,299 down from $2,899) for gamers who want the best performance. The Nvidia RTX 5060 is based on Blackwell architecture and it has better ray tracing cores,

TL;DR: ASUS is launching new ROG Strix SCAR gaming laptops with prices from $1899 to $4299. Options include Intel Arrow Lake or AMD Ryzen 9000HX CPUs and GPUs like the RTX 5090. The flagship SCAR 18 features an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX, RTX 5090, 32GB RAM ...

The GPU can run esports titles such as Valorant, League of Legends and Counter-Strike at competitive frame rates over 144fps, matching the display’s refresh rate. Creative tasks like video editing, 3D modeling and AI image generation also benefit from GPU acceleration and greatly speed up rendering times compared to integrated graphics.