Don’t sit there and tell me you don’t want a gaming laptop. If you’re reading this you’ve been after one for ages, I bet, and this is it. This is the big discount you’ve been waiting for to get your foot in the portable gaming door: the 16-inch Asus TUF A16 for just $700. That’s a saving of $400 against its usual price of $1,100, and it’s a darn sight more gaming chops than I’d normally expect for this kind of price.
At $700 you wouldn’t usually get a dedicated GPU in a laptop, let alone one that consistently outperforms Nvidia’s low-end RTX 4060.
Packing a Radeon RX 7700S GPU and Ryzen 7 7735HS CPU combo, this all-AMD machine will see you through nicely at mid to low graphics settings. It’s not going to top any benchmark charts, but this is one dangerous little laptop for the price. On top of its mean interior, there’s a 165 Hz gaming panel that should keep everything nice and smooth when you’re hitting those high frame rates in competitive online gaming.Â
Of course it’s not all peaches and cream at this price: You’re looking at 16GB of DDR5-4800 memory which isn’t the speediest DDR5 on the market, but at least both RAM slots are fully accessible so you can upgrade it if you feel so inclined. Same goes for the slightly disappointing 512GB included SSD. But thankfully Asus has had the common decency to give us a whole extra M.2 slot for adding more storage. That was kind of them. Still, at just $700 I would probably have let that one slide. If you feel so inclined, maybe grab an NVMe SSD in the sales just in case.Â
This one should do:
