While all eyes are on the release of the desktop RTX 4070 this week, gaming laptops carrying this exceptional graphics card have been slowly becoming more available over the past month or so.
There are, in fact, some great value choices cropping up now for those looking to jump on the RTX 4000 series bandwagon. So far, these two listings at Amazon are offering the best value in both the US and the UK, in my opinion:
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(opens in new tab)Other notable RTX 4070 gaming laptop deals this weekend include this MSI Katana 15 for $1,479 at Newegg (opens in new tab) and this MSI Katana for £1,498.49 at Amazon UK (opens in new tab). These are both OK choices, too, in my opinion, but they don't quite offer the same value as the above choices due to their 12th gen Intel Core i7s.
Are these RTX 4070 gaming laptops good value?
Yep, they're pretty good if you want to be an early adopter. As always, you'll get a better deal if you sit it out until these machines are a little older, as that's when we'll start to see the real price cuts. Black Friday in November is a particularly good time to get discounts on gaming laptops, for reference. If you don't want to wait until then, however, then we think these RTX 4070 gaming laptops are shaping up to be a decent mid to high-end choice.
On paper, the RTX 4070 affords around the same amount of raw power as an RTX 3080 but offers the crucial advantage of both power efficiency and support for Nvidia's latest DLSS 3 with Frame Generation tech. Right now, DLSS 3 isn't supported by that many games, but you can expect that list of compatible titles to grow quickly now somewhat affordable RTX 4000 series cards are becoming available.
When it does become widely available, you can expect a fairly significant jump in performance in your current library of games. For context, here's a video showing DLSS 2 versus DLSS 3 frame rates in Cyberpunk 2077.
From this, we can clearly see a significant bump from the second-gen DLSS to the latest version - from around 70 to 80 FPS to 120 to 130 FPS. While this is still an early benchmark, this jump in performance could see the RTX 4070 serving as a very strong 1440p gaming GPU for a good few years down the line. It's also enough for us to recommend the latest series chip, even though RTX 3080 gaming laptops are getting heavy discounts right now.
If you're looking for something a bit cheaper, we've rounded up a few options from our main cheap gaming laptop deals page just below.
More gaming laptop deals this week
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(opens in new tab)You can look forward to upcoming bargains at the 2023 Memorial Day sales event.
