The Best Cyber Monday Gaming Laptop Deals: Walmart and Best Buy Are the Winners

The Alienware x16 R2 is one of the thinnest gaming laptops on the market. It boasts exceptional build quality; the chassis is magnesium alloy, the lid is aluminum, the base is stainless steel, and the trackpad is glass. The RTX 4090 is still the most powerful mobile GPU, and by a very substantial margin. It's roughly equivalent to a desktop RTX 3090 GPU. It has more than enough power to run any game at high framerates on your choice of the 1900x1200 or 2560x1600 display (the default choice is 1900x1200, but you can change it to 2560x1600 without adding to the cost).

Dell is offering an Alienware m16 R2 16" RTX 4060 gaming laptop for $1,199.99 after a $300 instant discount. You'll need a decent amount of GPU power to be able to run games smoothly on the display's bumped-up QHD+ resolution. The RTX 4060 sits between the RTX 3070 and the RTX 3070 Ti, so it's definitely no slouch in terms of gaming performance. Alternatively, you can upgrade to an RTX 4070 for $200 more. The RTX 4070 mobile is on par with the RTX 3080 but with newer features like DLSS 3.0.

More Alienware Gaming Laptop Deals

The Alienware Cyber Monday Sale is already well underway with some hefty discounts on Alienware m-series and x-series gaming laptops. The m-series is Alienware's best-selling gaming laptop; it boasts excellent build quality and powerful gaming components for a very reasonable price. The Alienware x-series is a more recent model that boasts a slimmer and lighter redesign. It's the thinnest Alienware laptop ever and compares to other ultra-thin laptops like the Razer Blade.

The Walmart Black Friday Sale brings with it this excellent gaming laptop deal. Walmart is offering a Lenovo LOQ RTX 4070 gaming laptop for only $879.99. Yes you read that right. The LOQ is Lenovo's lineup of budget-oriented gaming laptops. This system features a 15" 1080p display, a low-voltage AMD Ryzen 7 7435HS CPU, GeForce RTX 4070 GPU, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD. The RTX 4070 GPU is a fully powered (115W TGP) model, not a throttled one like on some other budget laptops. Despite its low cost, this laptop will perform almost as well as the best RTX 4070 gaming laptops. You should be able to play any game comfortably on the 1080p display.

Here's another excellent gaming laptop deal from Walmart. The Asus ROG Strix G17 gaming laptop, which is equipped with a 17" FHD display, AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX CPU, RTX 4070 GPU, 16GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD, is down to $1199 shipped. That's an excellent price for an RTX 4070 equipped gaming laptop, even better for a laptop with a larger 17" display. Like the Lenovo above, the G17 is equipped with a 115W TGP RTX 4070 GPU that should be able to handle any game comfortably on the 1080p display. It's paired with a powerful, high-end Ryzen 9 CPU that effectively turns it into a mobile desktop replacement for all your workstation tasks.

Right now you can get an HP Victus RTX 4070 gaming laptop for only $929.99. That's the least expensive RTX 4070 laptop deal we've seen so far for Cyber Monday. The Victus is HP's lineup of budget-oriented gaming laptops. This model features a 15" 1080p display, a low-voltage AMD Ryzen 8 8845HS CPU, GeForce RTX 4070 GPU, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD. The RTX 4070 has a maximum TGP rating of 105W (120W with dynamic boost), which is actually quite impressive for such an affordable gaming laptop.

The MSI Katana features an upgraded AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS processor and the same RTX 4070 GPU with a TGP rating of 105W. It also has a larger 1TB SSD. It does cost about $150 more than the Victus deal above, but the CPU upgrade and the increased storage might be worth it for many people.

I had to throw this in here because I have seen very few Razer laptop deals for Cyber Monday. This laptop is nearly maxed out in gaming prowess. It boasts a gorgeous 16" OLED display with a 2560x1600 (QHD+) resolution and up to 240Hz refresh rate. You'll need a beefy GPU to run games smoothly on such a sharp display, and fortunately the Razer Blade delivers with an RTX 4080 GPU. It's also equipped with an Intel Core i9-1400HX CPU (the most powerful Intel processor).

The Acer Nitro V offers decent gaming performance at an awesome price. The RTX 4050 is a budget GPU, but it's still powerful enough to run most games at relaxed settings in 1080p. It's a lot better than any onboard graphics solution, like an Intel Arc or Iris Xe. It's well paired with a 1080p display, AMD Ryzen 5 CPU, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD.

The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 offers a combination of a smaller 14" footprint that's easier to carry around, a gorgeous OLED display with a sharp 3K resolution, and powerful components in the guise of an AMD Ryzen 9 processor and your choice of an RTX 4060 or 4070 laptop. Which you choose depends on the games you play, but the RTX 4060 model is objectively a better deal for Cyber Monday, since it costs $450 less (and I don't think the performance difference is worth that much).

This Lenovo LOQ gaming laptop is the least expensive laptop equipped with a discrete GPU that I've seen for Cyber Monday. The RTX 3050 is not the fastest GPU on the block, but it's still better than any onboard graphics solution. It's certainly powerful enough to run games that aren't super demanding, like League of Legends, Fortnite, or the thousands of indie games available on Steam. If you want to play Black Myth Wukong with high settings however, you'll need to look for something more powerful.

This Lenovo Legion Pro 7 gaming laptop offers a lot of upgrades for a very reasonable price. Unlike most laptops at this price point, it's equipped with an Intel Core i9-14900X (Intel's best 14th gen CPU), RTX 4070 GPU with the maximum TGP rating, 32GB of DDR5 RAM and a 2TB SSD (both double what you would normally see). The RTX 4070 mobile GPU performs on par with the RTX 3080 and should provide ample horsepower to power games on the QHD+ display.

This Lenovo Legion Pro 7 gaming laptop offers a lot of upgrades for a very reasonable price. Unlike most laptops at this price point, it's equipped with an Intel Core i9-14900X (Intel's best 14th gen CPU), RTX 4070 GPU with the maximum TGP rating, 32GB of DDR5 RAM and a 2TB SSD (both double what you would normally see). The RTX 4070 mobile GPU performs on par with the RTX 3080 and should provide ample horsepower to power games on the QHD+ display.

So the base configuration of this HP OMEN 16" model features a 16" 1080p display, Intel Core i7-14700HX CPU, RTX 4050 GPU, 16GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD. However, this laptop can be configured to make it truly one worth fawning over. Here are some two upgraded configurations we would recommend.

Tldr; this OMEN Transcend is configurable. By upgrading the GPU, you can get potentially better deals:

• Upgrade to RTX 4060 and QHD+ OLED Display for $1429.99
• Upgrade to RTX 4070 and QHD+ OLED Display for $1639.99

HP is offering a great deal on its workhorse HP Omen 16" gaming laptop. You can get it equipped with an Intel Core i9-14900HX processor (Intel's best mobile CPU) and an RTX 4070 GPU for only $1399.99 after a $620 off instant discount. Even better than that, you can upgrade the GPU to an RTX 4080 in the customization page for an extra $400, bringing the total to $1,799.99. That would be the lowest price for Black Friday for an RTX 4080 equipped gaming laptop.

Tldr; this OMEN is configurable. By upgrading the GPU, you can get potentially better deals:

• Upgrade to RTX 4080 for $1749.99

Here's one more HP OMEN gaming laptop that can be customized to your liking. The base configuration still packs in a powerful Intel Core i7-14700HX CPU, an entry-level RTX 4050 GPU, 16GB RAM, and a 512GB SSD. The 16" display features a 1080p resolution, but you can upgrade to 1440p if you prefer.

Tldr; this OMEN is configurable. By upgrading the GPU, you can get potentially better deals:

• Upgrade to RTX 4060 for $879.99
• Upgrade to RTX 4070 (must also upgrade to 4-zone RGB keyboard) for $1030

There are two important tidbits that deserve mention concerning graphics cards found in laptops. First, mobile GPU variants are not as powerful as their desktop counterparts. For example, a mobile RTX 4060 doesn't perform as well as a desktop RTX 4060. The mobile versions are generally about one to two tiers lower in performance. Using the same example, the mobile RTX 4060 performs more similarly to a desktop RTX 4050.

Second, not all laptops feature the same performance out of the same GPU. Two laptops equipped with the same RTX 4060 GPU, for example, might perform very different in gaming. In order to roughly tell how good a GPU will be, you can look at the TGP rating. That's basically the amount of power supplied to the GPU. A higher TGP rating means more power will be delivered, equating to stronger performance, however the wattage consumption and heat generated will be higher. Here are the maximum TGP rates for the RTX 40 series graphics cards:

• Mobile RTX 4050: 115W
• Mobile RTX 4060: 115W
• Mobile RTX 4070: 115W
• Mobile RTX 4080: 150W
• Mobile RTX 4090: 150W

Will the Deals Change for Cyber Monday?

In my experience, many of the same deals we saw on Black Friday will return for Cyber Monday 2024, including deals that were sold out or expired. Retailers usually release their hottest selling items in batches so that every sale event has at least some inventory reserved. That said, I also expect plenty of new, never before seen deals. Traditionally, Black Friday was known as the "retail holiday," where the best deals were found in-store, and Cyber Monday was known as the "online holiday," where the best deals were online only. Although today the lines have blurred, it is still true that many online only retailers still consider Cyber Monday the sale event of the year instead of Black Friday. Expect some amazing sales to come out of online-only sites like Amazon, Newegg, Dell, HP, Lenovo and several online-only deals from traditional retailers like Best Buy, Target, and Walmart. In fact, Amazon has taken the preemptive and already switched over to Cyber Monday.

Eric Song is the IGN commerce manager in charge of finding the best gaming and tech deals every day. When Eric isn't hunting for deals for other people at work, he's hunting for deals for himself during his free time.