Deal Alert: Alienware m15 RTX 3070 Gaming Laptop for $1260 at Dell, RTX 3060 for $990

For a limited time, Dell is offering an Alienware m15 R5 15″ AMD Ryzen 7 5800H gaming laptop with RTX 3070 video card for only $1259.99, down from its original $2100 price point. This is absolutely the lowest price we’ve ever seen for an Alienware RTX 3070 equipped laptop. What makes it even more impressive is that this laptop is quite a bit more powerful than most other RTX 3070 laptops you’ll find from other brands, for reasons explained below.

Alienware m15 R5 RTX 3070 Gaming Laptop

This Alienware m15 laptop is equipped with a powerful AMD Ryzen 7 5800H 8-core processor, 16GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD, and of course the RTX 3070 video card. The AMD variant of the Alienware m15 laptop has proven to be more powerful than the Intel variant, so if maximum performance is what you’re after, this is the config that you want to get.

The RTX 3070 found in this laptop has a TDP rating of 125W (115W + 10W dynamic boost), which is higher than the RTX 3070 TDP rating you’ll find in most other gaming laptops. Higher TDP means more power is supplied to the graphics card, and that directly equates to better performance in games. Most laptops are willing to sacrifice gaming performance in order to conserve power and reduce heat, allowing for thinner laptop designs with more basic cooling. Alienware laptops, however, prioritize gaming performance first and foremost. The video cards are more powerful, the proprietary “Cryo-Tech” cooling is more effective at cooling the components, and the main tradeoff is more weight. At around 5.5lbs, it’s still considerably lighter than any of its predecessors.

Alienware m15 R6 RTX 3070 Laptop with Upgrades

For $240 more, you can upgrade to this Alienware m15 R6 model, which boasts a 15″ 2560×1440 (QHD) display and 1TB of SSD storage. The processor is different too; you get an 11th gen Intel Core i7-11800H processor instead of the Ryzen 7, which is more of a sidegrade than an upgrade. The RTX 3070 used in the newer R6 laptop still has the same TDP rating (115W + 10W dynamic boost) so games will perform well.

Alienware m15 R6 RTX 3060 Gaming Laptop

The RTX 3060 is more powerful than the previous generation’s RTX 2070 video card (and more on par with the RTX 2070 SUPER). The RTX 3060 in the m15 R6 has a TDP rating of 125W (115W + 10W dynamic boost). That makes it more powerful than the RTX 3060 video cards found in most other gaming laptops, which usually have under a 100W TDP rating. That’s a big win for this laptop considering the fact that you probably won’t find a RTX 3060 laptop from any other brand for a cheaper price.

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