It's a great time to buy an RTX 5070 gaming laptop in Best Buy's huge back-to-school sale

Asus ROG Strix G16 gaming laptop on red background with price cut text overlay
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It's a great time to consider picking up a gaming laptop this week with the Best Buy back-to-school sale in full swing. Right now, for example, the retailer has some of the lowest prices I've ever seen on machines with the latest RTX 5000 series graphics cards.

First up, this Asus TUF A16 for $1,349 (was $1,699), which is an absolute steal for a machine with a brand-new RTX 5070 GPU. Despite its reasonable price tag, you get a Ryzen 9 chipset and 32GB of RAM with this configuration, making it a fantastic all-around workhorse for both gaming and productivity applications.

Today's best gaming laptop deals at Best Buy

Asus TUF Gaming A16
Asus TUF Gaming A16: was $1,699.99 now $1,349.99 at Best Buy

Graphics card: RTX 5070
Processor: AMD Ryzen 9
RAM: 32GB DDR5 RAM
Storage: 1TB SSD

This Asus TUF is one of the cheapest gaming laptops I've ever seen to carry the latest RTX 5070 graphics card. That alone should get you superb performance, but this machine also features an AMD Ryzen 9 chipset and 32GB of RAM. That means no glaring upgrades are needed to get great gaming and productivity performance right out of the box.

Gigabyte Aero X16
Gigabyte Aero X16: was $1,649.99 now $1,499.99 at Best Buy

Graphics card: RTX 5070
Processor: AMD Ryzen Al 7 350
RAM: 32GB DDR5 RAM
Storage: 1TB SSD

The Gigabyte Aero X16 is a new model that we haven't tested, but it looks to be a fantastic premium RTX 5070 gaming laptop. Specs-wise, it's not quite as strong as the Asus above, but you get a thin, lightweight design with premium build quality and an excellent 1600p display.

Asus ROG Strix G16
Asus ROG Strix G16: was $1,999.99 now $1,549.99 at Best Buy

Graphics card: RTX 5070 Ti
Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 HX
RAM: 16GB DDR5 RAM
Storage: 1TB SSD

The Asus G16 is one of our favorite higher-end gaming laptops, and Best Buy has a great price on this RTX 5070 Ti configuration right now. With a Ryzen 9 chipset, this machine melds superb performance with a beautiful premium design. The only downside? This machine only comes with 16GB of RAM, which is a relatively easy DIY upgrade, to be fair – especially with this machine's new toolless design.

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Alex Whitelock
Retail Editor

Alex is TechRadar's retail editor, specializing in deals, buying advice, and general tips on how to save our readers as much cash as possible. He's covered events like Black Friday and Amazon in some capacity for over seven years now; both in editorial and other ecommerce adjacent roles on TechRadar, T3, GamesRadar, and other Future PLC sites. Alex's expertise touches on most areas, but he has a particular love for phones, laptops, and cameras, being an avid photographer.

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