If you figured Amazon Prime Day would be a good time of year to upgrade your gaming laptop, then you guessed correctly. Surprisingly however, Amazon isn’t necessarily the best retailer with the best Prime Day gaming laptop deals. I’ve rounded up the best laptop deals I’ve seen so far and these include some pretty incredible price drops from the likes of HP (Omen), Dell (Alienware), and Walmart alongside Amazon. Frankly, some of these prices seem almost too good to be true, but rest assured all of these retailers are absolutely legitimate.
Alienware Aurora 16 RTX 5060 Gaming Laptop for $1,099.99
The best budget gaming laptop deal for Prime Day
As part of its Black Friday in July Sale, Dell has dropped the price of the Alienware Aurora 16 gaming laptop equipped with an GeForce RTX 5060 mobile GPU for just $1,099.99 with free delivery. That is a big $400 discount from its official launch price and currently the best deal I can find on an RTX 5060 equipped laptop from any brand and any retailer. If you’re specifically looking for a gaming laptop at the $1,100 or below price point, you’d be hard pressed to find a better deal during Prime Day. The RTX 5060 is about 15%-20% more powerful than the RTX 4060 that replaces, making it a perfectly capable GPU for most games at up to 1600p. It approaches the performance of the RTX 4070 and overtakes it in games that support DLSS 4 with multi-frame generation.
HP Omen Max 16″ RTX 5080 Gaming Laptop for $1,640
HP’s Black Friday in July sale is technically unaffiliated with Prime Day, but they do run concurrently. As part of this sale, you can pick up an HP Omen Max RTX 5080 laptop for a rock bottom price of $1,639.99 shipped after 20% off coupon code “LEVELUP20“. It features a 16” 1920×200 display, Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX CPU, RTX 5080 GPU, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD. The RTX 5080 mobile GPU is roughly 15%-20% more powerful than the RTX 4080 mobile GPU that it replaces. It also happens to be about 5% more powerful than the RTX 4090, which was the previous generation’s flagship card. This GPU should be able to run new and upcoming games at high framerates. I would suggest upgrading the display to a 2560×1600 OLED panel for $190 (minus 20% off). The RTX 5080 GPU can definitely handle it.
HP Omen Max 16″ RTX 5090 Gaming Laptop for $2,480
If for whatever reason an RTX 5080 GPU is not good enough for you, then HP has also discounted its Omen Max 16 RTX 5090 Gaming Laptop to just $2,479.99 shipped after you apply 20% off coupon code “LEVELUP20“. That is easily best price for an RTX 5090 gaming laptop anywhere by well over $1,000, and that’s being conservative. The RTX 5090 is currently the most powerful mobile GPU available with tons of VRAM and DLSS 4 support. In terms of raw performance, it’s actually only about a 10% improvement over the RTX 5080. However, it does have considerably more VRAM (24GB vs 16GB), which is useful for creative professionals and anyone who uses generative AI.
Alienware Area-51: New Style, More Power, Better Cooling
New for 2025, the Area-51 is Alienware’s highest end gaming laptop, which means it boasts the best build quality and the highest performance. It features an all-metal body with an magnesium alloy chassis and upgraded cooling to tackle the latest and greatest heat generating components, including more fans and bigger cutouts enabling greater airflow, generous use of copper, and a new thermal interface material to better transfer heat away from the core components. Dell claims that the laptop can handle a higher power ceiling of up to 240W TDP without raising acoustics.
Design-wise, the Area 51 accentuates its smooth contours, with rounded edges and soft corners replacing the squared off design you’d see in most other laptops. The hinges are also mostly internally positioned so that they’re near invisible. As befits an Alienware laptop, there are ample customization options for RGB LED lighting.
Asus ROG Strix G16 Gaming Laptop Deals
Asus’ new 2025 lineup of ROG Strix G16 laptops now feature the latest Intel Core Ultra Arrow Lake-S processors and Nvidia Blackwell GPUs. In terms of build quality, it is similar to its predecessors. The laptops are built with a plastic composite body and metal lid for durability and aesthetics. The cooling system keeps noise levels down during intense gaming and Asus uses liquid metal instead of standard thermal compound for heat transfer. The ROG Strix G16 can be equipped with up to an RTX 5080 GPU with an unthrottled 175W of TGP for maximum performance.
MSI Katana and Vector Gaming Laptop Deals
MSI’s new lineups of Katana and Vector gaming laptops are also on sale for Prime Day. The Katana is the more entry-level of the two with an all-plastic chassis and a lower TGP rating on its GPUs. The Vector is a mid-range laptop with a metal lid and outer keyboard deck and a plastic composite bottom chassis. More importantly, the GPU in the Vector laptop is unthrottled for maximum performance, with the RTX 5070 Ti being supplied with 140W TGP.
MSI Thin RTX 4060 Gaming Laptop for $649
If you’re looking for a capable gaming laptop at the lowest price possible, look no further than this Walmart deal for Prime Day. The MSI Thin is a 15″ laptop equipped with an AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS processor and RTX 4060 GPU for a mere $649. It’s the least powerful laptop in this roundup, but it will still hold its own quite well in most games at the display’s native 1080p resolution. And let’s also not forget that it’s also the least expensive laptop in this roundup by over $400.
Eric Song is the IGN commerce manager in charge of finding the best gaming and tech deals every day. When Eric isn’t hunting for deals for other people at work, he’s hunting for deals for himself during his free time.
