This Best Buy discount might be the best Black Friday gaming laptop deal so far – save $500 on the Asus TUF A16 with RTX 5070

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With Black Friday closing in fast, the deals are piling up – and there's no better time of year to buy new tech. For those on the prowl for a new gaming laptop this year, I've found what I think might be the single best-value deal I've seen so far: the Asus TUF Gaming A16, now just $1,199.99 (was $1,699.99) at Best Buy.

Now, at more than a thousand bucks, that's not exactly a cheap device, but the key thing to focus on here is the GPU: this model of the TUF A16 packs an Nvidia RTX 5070, and based on my deals research this Black Friday sales season, it might be the single cheapest laptop with that GPU right now. Similar models from the likes of MSI and Gigabyte can be seen close to that price on Amazon, but those laptops were cheaper to begin with, too; this $500 discount looks unbeatable.

Today's best Asus TUF Gaming A16 deal

Asus TUF Gaming A16
Asus TUF Gaming A16: was $1,699.99 now $1,199.99 at Best Buy

Display - 16-inch
Processor - AMD Ryzen 9
GPU - Nvidia RTX 5070
RAM - 32GB
Storage - 1TB

A fantastic 30% discount on a powerful gaming laptop, this is one of the top deals I've seen this Black Friday. The Asus TUF A16 packs some impressive internal specs centered around an Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, all backed up by a speedy 165Hz refresh rate FHD+ display.

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Considering that the Asus TUF Gaming A16 only has a 1200p display, there's basically no way you won't be able to breach the holy grail of 60 frames per second in virtually any game with this laptop. The RTX 5070 grants access to both Nvidia's DLSS 3 upscaling technology and Multi Frame Generation for boosting your framerate even further – all but the most demanding titles probably won't even need those.

The TUF A16 also features 1TB of high-speed storage, great for downloading numerous games at once – just so long as those games aren't all SSD hogs like Destiny 2 or Ark: Survival Evolved, anyway. Game devs, can we work on install package optimization, please?

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Christian Guyton
Christian Guyton
Editor, Computing

Christian is TechRadar’s UK-based Computing Editor. He came to us from Maximum PC magazine, where he fell in love with computer hardware and building PCs. He was a regular fixture amongst our freelance review team before making the jump to TechRadar, and can usually be found drooling over the latest high-end graphics card or gaming laptop before looking at his bank account balance and crying.


Christian is a keen campaigner for LGBTQ+ rights and the owner of a charming rescue dog named Lucy, having adopted her after he beat cancer in 2021. She keeps him fit and healthy through a combination of face-licking and long walks, and only occasionally barks at him to demand treats when he’s trying to work from home.

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