This easy-to-miss deal at Walmart gets you an RTX 5070 gaming laptop for just $1,099

MSI Katana 15 gaming laptop on purple background with lowest price text overlay
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The Walmart Labor Day sale has some superb deals this week, and one of the best I've seen is easily this MSI Katana 15 gaming laptop for just $1,099 (was $1,499).

That may seem a little pricey for a laptop, but this particular configuration features not just an RTX 5070 graphics card, but also a superb Intel Core i7-14650HX chipset. It's rare to see a gaming laptop with specs this good for this price – especially considering the RTX 5070 is one of the latest cards from Nvidia.

With such powerful specs, you can expect a superb gaming experience with this machine right out of the box. It does only come with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD, but the RAM in particular is a very easy (and cheap) upgrade that you can do yourself without much hassle. If you do so, then you'll have a great machine that should last a few good years down the line.

Cheap RTX 5070 gaming laptop deal at Walmart

MSI Katana 15 gaming laptop
MSI Katana 15 gaming laptop: was $1,499 now $1,099 at Walmart

Graphics card: RTX 5070
Processor: Intel Core i7-14650HX
RAM: 16GB
Storage: 1TB

Walmart has just listed a huge price cut on this MSI Katana 15 gaming laptop – just in time for Labor Day. At $1,099, this is one of the cheapest machines I've ever seen to carry a higher-end RTX 5070 graphics card, and you also get a superb 14th-gen Core i7 chipset for good measure. While you'll likely want to upgrade to 32GB of RAM to unleash this laptop's full potential, this is a fantastic bang-for-the-buck 1440p gaming machine.

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Walmart is currently throwing in a free copy of Battlefield 6 with this machine as part of a tie-in with the Intel Gamer Days event. That's just the cherry on top here, though, as this machine is wildly good value regardless of the freebie or not. For the record, this MSI Katana easily meets the recommended requirements for Battlefield 6, so you can expect smooth frame rates for sure.

Note, it's not just Walmart offering excellent gaming laptop deals over Labor Day. If you're interested, I've rounded up a few alternative options to check out just below.

Other gaming laptop deals to check out today

Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 RTX 5070 Ti
Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 RTX 5070 Ti: was $2,399.99 now $1,999.99 at Best Buy

Graphics card: RTX 5070 Ti
Processor: AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX
RAM: 32GB
Storage: 1TB

Powered by Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti and one of AMD's best mobile processors, the Ryzen 9 AI HX 370, the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 [2025] is one of the best gaming laptop purchases you can make this Labor Day. Gaming performance is a breeze even without using DLSS 4, with the addition of top-tier speakers and a lightweight design that will leave you surprised by how much power it packs.

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Alienware  16 Aurora Gaming laptop
Alienware 16 Aurora Gaming laptop: was $1,499.99 now $1,099.99 at Dell

Graphics card: GeForce RTX 5060
Processor: Intel Core Ultra 7 240H Series 2
RAM: 32GB
Storage: 1TB

Dell's Labor Day sale includes some very, very enticing deals on gaming laptops. Case in point - this Alienware 16 Aurora. This is one of the more budget-oriented machines from the brand, but you're still getting a powerful Ultra 7 chipset and a brand-new RTX 5060 graphics card. With $400 off, you're getting a really solid 1080p gaming machine here for the money.

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Alienware  16X Aurora Gaming laptop
Alienware 16X Aurora Gaming laptop: was $1,999.99 now $1,649.99 at Dell

Graphics card: GeForce RTX 5070
Processor: Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX
RAM: 32GB
Storage: 1TB

Looking for something a little more powerful? My other favorite gaming laptop deal at Dell today is for this upgraded Aurora 16X. With an Ultra 9 and RTX 5070 graphics card, this one is all set for smooth frame rates at 1440p resolution for a few years. It's not cheap, but a $350 price cut definitely makes this a very competitive choice right now in the mid-range gaming laptop deals market.

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Alex Whitelock
Deals Editor

Alex is TechRadar's deals editor, specializing in getting our readers the best bang for the buck on the tech that we know and love. He's a dab hand at covering retailer events like Black Friday and Amazon Prime Day having over seven years of e-commerce experience at Future PLC; including bylines at our sister sites T3 and GamesRadar. Alex's expertise touches on most areas of TechRadar but he has a particular love for phones, laptops, and cameras, being an avid photographer. Outside of work, you'll find him indulging his love for street and travel photography, at home working on music, or down at the local climbing gym.

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