Gaming laptop Black Friday deals published so far
Gaming laptop Black Friday deals for 2026 have reached some stores but not others. Every price below is one a store showed on its own page when we read it on 13 November.
Dell, CyberPowerPC and three UK stores (Laptops Direct, Overclockers UK and CyberPowerPC UK) showed sale prices on gaming laptops that day. Best Buy and Amazon have published their sale dates, but no gaming laptop prices we could read.
You also get NVIDIA's own memory and power figures for each chip, what makers say about memory slots, warranty lengths, and each store's return and price rules.
| Store and laptop | GPU and its memory | GPU power stated | CPU | RAM | SSD and screen | Price as shown | Terms |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dell: Alienware 16 Aurora | RTX 5050, 8GB GDDR7 | Not stated | Core 7 240H | 16GB DDR5 ("2 x 8 GB") | 512GB; 16-inch 2560 x 1600, 120Hz | $1,349.99 (Dell "Estimated Value" $1,999.99) | Holiday Sale; 25 Xbox games included on select PCs until 31 Dec |
| CyberPowerPC: Tracer IX Edge I18S 100 | RTX 5060, 8GB GDDR7 | Not stated | Core Ultra 9 275HX | 16GB DDR5-4800 | Storage not stated; 18-inch WQXGA, 180Hz | $1,695.00 (a higher $1,932.00 shown beside it) | Early Black Friday Sale; est. ship date 30 Nov |
| CyberPowerPC: Tracer IX Edge I18S 300 | RTX 5070, 12GB GDDR7 | Not stated | Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus | 32GB DDR5-4800 | Storage not stated; 18-inch WQXGA, 180Hz | $2,279.00 (a higher $2,489.00 shown beside it) | As above |
| Dell: Alienware 18 Area-51 | RTX 5080, 16GB GDDR7 | Not stated | Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus | 32GB DDR5 (2 x 16GB CSoDIMM) | 1TB; 18-inch 2560 x 1600, 300Hz | $4,369.99 (Estimated Value $4,749.99) | As the Aurora |
All four rows were read on 13 November. CyberPowerPC's sale page adds 5% off orders of $999 and up with the code BLACKFRIDAY, $100 extra off its custom build laptops and free US ground shipping.
Stores without a price here fall into three groups, and a page that did not load says nothing about whether its sale has started:
- Dated, no gaming laptop price we could read:
- Walmart's Early Black Friday Deals, 12 to 15 November, and Black Friday Deals, 23 to 29 November (its search sent our tools to a block page).
- Amazon's Black Friday Week, 19 to 30 November, which Amazon says includes up to 30% off select laptops and gaming PCs from ASUS, Acer, Alienware, Lenovo and HP.
- Best Buy's 10 days of Black Friday deals from 19 November, after weekly early deals from 6 November; its gaming laptop listings loaded without prices for our tools.
- Page read, no Black Friday gaming laptop offer: ASUS Store USA (no prices in our read) and Costco (a gaming desktop, no laptop).
- Did not load for our tools: Newegg and the Lenovo, MSI, HP and Acer US stores, so we cannot say what they offer.
What each GPU tier cost when we checked
This ladder uses only prices that were on the stores' own Black Friday pages in each of our reads on 13 November: new laptops, in stock, the lowest price per graphics chip. It is the lowest price that was on the page in every read, not the lowest anywhere.
Laptops Direct serves more than one version of its list, so we read it three times that day.
| GPU | UK, lowest we read | UK laptop and store | US, lowest we read |
|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 5050 | £1,049.98 (was £1,249.45) | Medion ERAZER Scout 17 E1, Laptops Direct | $1,349.99, Alienware 16 Aurora, Dell |
| RTX 5060 | £1,079.97 (was £1,399.99) | Acer Nitro V15, Laptops Direct | $1,695.00, Tracer IX Edge I18S 100, CyberPowerPC |
| RTX 5070 | £1,399.97 (was £2,053.33) | Acer Nitro V 16 (8GB), Laptops Direct | $2,279.00, Tracer IX Edge I18S 300 (12GB), CyberPowerPC |
| RTX 5070 Ti | £1,899.95 (reduced from £2,199.95) | Gigabyte Gaming A16 PRO, Overclockers UK | None read |
| RTX 5080 | £2,199.95 (reduced from £2,799.95) | Gigabyte Gaming A16 Pro, Overclockers UK | $4,369.99, Alienware 18 Area-51, Dell |
| RTX 5090 | £3,199.00 (one price, with a "Save £632" label and no earlier price shown) | Medion ERAZER Beast 18, Laptops Direct | None read |
No RTX 50 laptop we read was under $1,000 or £1,000. The US column is thin because most US stores showed us no prices.
What the makers' own stores show
- Dell and Alienware: the two Holiday Sale prices above, with new deals every week.
- ASUS (ASUS Store USA coupons): ROG Zephyrus, ROG Strix and TUF laptops are listed with no prices in our read and no Black Friday wording. ASUS offers ID.me discounts for military, students and teachers.
- Razer (Razer coupon page): its US page lists the Blade 14 at $2,299.99 to $2,999.99, the Blade 16 at $2,399.99 to $3,499.99 and the Blade 18 at $3,499.99 to $5,199.99 across configurations. These are Razer's own prices, not Black Friday discounts.
- Razer game offer: select RTX 50 Blades come with a free copy of CONTROL Resonant (Razer values it at $59.99) "for a limited time", with no end date shown.
- Lenovo (Legion, LOQ), MSI, HP (Omen, Victus) and Acer (Predator, Nitro): their US stores blocked our tools or did not load, so we have no prices from them.
Best Buy's dates and current offers are on our Best Buy coupon page.
When the laptop sales start and end at each store
A gaming laptop Black Friday sale now runs for weeks at most stores, not one day. These are the windows each store has published:
| Store | Published dates (2026) |
|---|---|
| Best Buy | Early Black Friday Deals and Doorbusters from 6 Nov, new deals every Friday; 10 days of Black Friday doorbusters and deals from 19 Nov; Cyber Sunday and Monday; Cyber Week Deals 1 to 6 Dec |
| Newegg | Black November 1 to 30 Nov, six new Doorbusters a day at 9 a.m. PT; Black Friday deals 19 to 28 Nov; Cyber Monday deals 29 Nov to 6 Dec |
| Walmart | Early Black Friday Deals 12 to 15 Nov; Black Friday Deals 23 to 29 Nov (stores from 27 Nov, 6 a.m. local); Cyber Monday 30 Nov to 2 Dec; Walmart+ early access to hot Deal drops from 12:01 a.m. ET on 12 and 23 Nov |
| Amazon (US and UK) | Black Friday Week and Cyber Monday deals 19 to 30 Nov, from 12:01 a.m. PST on 19 Nov in the US |
| Dell | Holiday Sale live, new deals every week |
| CyberPowerPC (US) | Early Black Friday Sale live, no end date shown; Tracer laptops est. ship date 30 Nov |
| Costco | No gaming laptop in its Black Friday list (offers valid to 30 Nov); laptop and desktop deals online on 30 Nov |
| Overclockers UK | Black Friday deals from 2 Nov; Black Friday 27 Nov; Cyber Monday 30 Nov |
| CyberPowerPC UK | Black Friday sale 4 to 30 Nov |
For stores not in this table, see our guide to when Black Friday 2026 starts.
Black Friday or Cyber Monday for a gaming laptop?
Cyber Monday is 30 November, and the windows in the table run past it at Newegg, Walmart and Best Buy. No store we read had published Cyber Monday gaming laptop prices by 13 November, so the cheaper day is not known yet.
Price protection can decide it. Newegg's Black Friday Price Protection covers only eligible badged items bought 1 to 18 November, while Best Buy's Holiday Price Match and Dell's extended Price Guarantee run to 15 January 2027, each with its own exclusions. More on the day: what Cyber Monday is and our Cyber Monday deals page.
Reading a gaming laptop listing: GPU memory, power and memory slots
Two laptops with the same chip name can differ in video memory, in the power the maker lets the chip use, and in whether you can add memory later.
RTX 50 laptop GPUs in NVIDIA's own figures
NVIDIA publishes a range for each laptop chip, and the laptop maker decides where in that range its design runs. From NVIDIA's laptop GPU comparison page, read on 13 November:
| Laptop GPU | Standard memory | GPU Subsystem Power (NVIDIA's range) |
|---|---|---|
| RTX 5090 | 24GB GDDR7 | 95 to 150 W |
| RTX 5080 | 16GB GDDR7 | 80 to 150 W |
| RTX 5070 Ti | 12GB GDDR7 | 60 to 115 W |
| RTX 5070 | 12GB or 8GB GDDR7 | 50 to 100 W |
| RTX 5060 | 8GB GDDR7 | 45 to 100 W |
| RTX 5050 | 8GB GDDR7 | 35 to 100 W |
These are NVIDIA's specifications, not performance results.
RTX 5070 laptops: 8GB or 12GB
NVIDIA lists the RTX 5070 laptop chip with either 12GB or 8GB of GDDR7, and both appear in this year's listings. CyberPowerPC's Tracer IX Edge I18S 300 is listed with a 12GB RTX 5070.
Every UK RTX 5070 listing we read that names the memory says 8GB: the MSI Cyborg 15 Max, the MSI Crosshair 16 HX and the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16 GU606AP at Overclockers.
The UK RTX 5070 in our ladder, Acer's Nitro V 16 at Laptops Direct, names no GPU memory in its listing line; the spec sheet on its product page gives 8GB. Check the GB before you put two RTX 5070 prices side by side, and ask the store when it is not shown.
A laptop GPU is not the desktop card with the same name
CyberPowerPC lists the desktop RTX 5070 in its Black Friday PCs as a 12GB card. NVIDIA's laptop RTX 5070 can be 8GB and runs at 50 to 100 W by NVIDIA's figures. Compare laptops with laptops; desktops have their own guide, our gaming PC Black Friday deals.
What the watts on a listing include
ASUS splits its power figures on its own spec pages. For the ROG Zephyrus G16 (2026), it lists the RTX 5070 Ti at 140 W in Manual mode, made of 115 W plus 25 W of Dynamic Boost, and at 125 W in Turbo mode (105 W plus 20 W).
For the ROG Strix G16 (2025), it lists the RTX 5080 at 175 W: 150 W plus 25 W of Dynamic Boost.
In every ASUS figure we read, the base number sits inside NVIDIA's range and the boost is added on top, which is how a listing can show 175 W for a chip whose NVIDIA range ends at 150 W.
Compare base with base, in the same mode. These are ASUS's global spec pages, so a UK or US configuration can differ.
Many listings give no figure at all, including Dell's Alienware rows, CyberPowerPC's Tracer rows and every Laptops Direct row we read. For those, look on the maker's spec page.
Memory on board or in slots, laptop by laptop
Memory soldered to the board stays at the size you buy, so 16GB on board is 16GB for the life of the laptop; slots let you add more later. What the makers' and stores' spec pages said on 13 November:
| Laptop | Memory as sold | On board or in slots | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16 (2026) GU606 (Overclockers RTX 5070, CyberPowerPC UK RTX 5090) | 32GB or 64GB LPDDR5X | On board, "No expansion possible" | ASUS spec page (global) |
| ASUS ROG Strix G16 (2025) G614 (CyberPowerPC UK RTX 5080) | 16GB DDR5 | Two DDR5 SO-DIMM slots, up to 64GB | ASUS spec page (global) |
| Alienware 18 Area-51 | 32GB, 2 x 16GB DDR5 | In modules (Dell lists CSoDIMM) | Dell configuration page |
| Alienware 16 Aurora | 16GB, 2 x 8GB DDR5 | Not stated | Dell configuration page |
| Medion ERAZER Scout 17 E1 | 16GB | Two slots, one empty, up to 32GB | Laptops Direct spec sheet (maker page not read) |
| Acer Nitro V15 (NH.U3PEK.00M) | 16GB, 2 x 8GB | Two slots, both used, up to 32GB | Laptops Direct spec sheet (maker page not read) |
| Gigabyte Gaming A16 PRO (RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5080) | 32GB LPDDR5x in the spec (the listing line says DDR5) | Not stated | Overclockers product page |
| Acer Nitro V 16 RTX 5070, Medion ERAZER Beast 16 X1 and Beast 18 rows, CyberPowerPC Tracer IX | As listed | Not confirmed (spec fields missing or contradictory) | Store spec sheets |
Storage is easier to add on some models: ASUS lists two M.2 slots for the Zephyrus G16 (2026), and Overclockers' spec for the Gigabyte Gaming A16 PRO lists two M.2 SSD slots. When you compare screens, compare them at the same resolution and refresh rate.
Warranty and battery cover by maker and store
Cover changes by maker, model and store, so read it on the row, not the brand:
- Razer: every Blade comes with a "1-year manufacturer's warranty" and a "2-year limited battery warranty".
- Dell: both Alienware configurations list 12 months of mail-in hardware service as the base warranty, and Dell offers Alienware Elite Care at "2 years for the price of 1".
- Overclockers UK: 1 year on its MSI Cyborg 15 rows and the ASUS V16, 2 years on the MSI Crosshair 16 HX and its ASUS ROG and Gigabyte rows, and "2 year warranty (1 year battery)" on its own OcUK Pinnacle.
- Laptops Direct: 2 years on the Medion ERAZER rows that state it, including the Beast 18 in the ladder, and 1 year on the Acer Predator Helios rows and on the two Acer Nitro laptops in the ladder.
A second year of cover can be worth more than a small price gap, so put it in the comparison.
How real is the saving on a gaming laptop?
Reference prices on laptop listings
The higher figure beside a sale price means different things at each store. Dell's "Estimated Value" is its estimate from industry data, including prices other retailers have offered, and Dell adds that this retailer data "may not be based on actual sales".
Laptops Direct shows an earlier price beside the current one, and Overclockers writes "Price reduced from ... to ...".
Those figures move. On 10 November Laptops Direct showed Acer's RTX 5070 Nitro V 16 at £1,399.97 beside £1,799.98; on 12 and 13 November it showed the same £1,399.97 beside £2,053.33.
Its RTX 5060 ASUS TUF A16 went from £1,399.97 on 10 November to £1,562.97 on 12 November and £1,510.76 on 13 November, and its RTX 5090 Medion ERAZER Beast 16 X1 Ultimate went up from £2,999.98 to £3,249.97 between 12 and 13 November.
Overclockers' ASUS V16 went from £1,099.99 to £1,399.99 with no reduction shown, and was out of stock on 13 November. Judge the price you pay against other stores' prices for the same model, not the saving figure.
Our guide to whether Black Friday deals are real goes further.
Open-box and refurbished laptops
Best Buy's Price Match Guarantee excludes open-box and refurbished items, and Overclockers' price promise leaves out B-grade and refurbished ones. Laptops Direct's Black Friday page lists a refurbished RTX 5070 Ti MSI Vector 16 HX at £1,616.03 among the new laptops, labelled "Refurbished". If you buy one, check its condition grade, warranty and return terms.
Return windows and price promises for laptops, by store
| Store | The rule that matters for a laptop | Returns | More |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best Buy | No competitor price match 19 to 30 Nov; Holiday Price Match on its own price for most purchases from 30 Oct to 31 Dec, through 15 Jan; open-box and refurbished excluded | Most purchases 30 Oct to 31 Dec returnable to 15 Jan 2027 (31 Jan for Plus and Total members) | Best Buy Black Friday guide |
| Newegg | Black Friday Price Protection on eligible badged items bought 1 to 18 Nov, refunds by 8 Dec; Doorbusters and third-party promotions excluded; refunds over $1 only | Eligible purchases 1 Nov to 31 Dec returnable to 31 Jan 2027 (Extended Holiday Returns badge) | Newegg Black Friday guide |
| Walmart | Some items come from marketplace sellers; check who the seller is before you buy | 30 days for consumer electronics, PC components and most marketplace sellers | Walmart Black Friday guide |
| Costco | No gaming laptop in its Black Friday list | Computers returnable within 90 days of receipt | Costco Black Friday guide |
| Dell and Alienware | Extended Price Guarantee and competitor price match to 15 Jan 2027 or 30 days from the invoice, whichever is later, for dell.com purchases 1 Nov to 29 Dec | The same purchases returnable to 15 Jan 2027 or 30 days from the invoice, whichever is later | Dell return policy |
| Overclockers UK | Black Friday Price Promise on items in its Black Friday categories during 2 Nov to 1 Dec; claims by 30 Nov; Flash Deals excluded | UK 14-day right to cancel (see the UK section) | Overclockers price promise terms |
| Amazon | Black Friday Week 19 to 30 Nov | See our Amazon guide | Amazon Black Friday guide |
Every store's rules in one place are in our guide to Black Friday returns and price matching.
Black Friday gaming laptop deals in the UK
UK stores have published more gaming laptop prices than US ones so far. Three Black Friday gaming laptop pages showed prices on 13 November:
- Laptops Direct: about 40 listings, with its cheapest RTX 50 laptop at £1,049.98, and up to 12 months 0% credit.
- Laptops Direct maker offers on marked rows: a free copy of Mavrix and a wireless controller with Acer laptops (valid 29 September to 31 December 2026), and Intel x Erazer "pick 2 of 7 games" with Medion laptops (valid 5 November 2026 to 31 January 2027, redeem by 15 March 2027).
- Overclockers UK (Overclockers UK discount codes): 14 gaming laptops, with GPU memory and warranty on each row and a free gift on most; finance available. Its Gigabyte rows were the lowest UK RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5080 prices we read.
- Overclockers' Black Friday Price Promise: it refunds the difference if an item in its Black Friday categories drops further on Black Friday, but its terms also say products bought before Black Friday are not eligible, so read them first.
- CyberPowerPC UK: three laptops in its 4 to 30 November sale: MSI Crosshair 16 HX (RTX 5060) at £1,599.00 (was £1,749.00), ASUS ROG Strix G16 (RTX 5080) at £2,599.00 (was £3,099.00) and ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16 (RTX 5090) at £4,679.00 (was £5,149.00).
- Currys (Currys discount codes): its site blocked our tools, so we have no prices from it. Its Black Friday Price Guarantee covers products with its Black Friday deal tag; dates and terms are in our Currys Black Friday guide. Business buyers can use Currys Business.
- Argos, John Lewis and Very: no gaming laptop offer read; the first two explain their price promises in our Argos and John Lewis guides.
- Ebuyer (Ebuyer discount codes) did not respond to our tools, and Box, Laptop Outlet and Scan showed us no Black Friday gaming laptop page on 10 November, so we have nothing from them to report.
Amazon's UK Black Friday Week runs 19 to 30 November. Dates for other UK stores are in our UK Black Friday guide.
Cancelling a laptop you configured to order
An online seller in the UK has to tell you that you may cancel within 14 days of delivery without giving a reason (gov.uk guidance for sellers).
The Consumer Contracts Regulations exclude "goods that are made to the consumer's specifications or are clearly personalised" (regulation 28(1)(b)). A laptop built to your own choice of parts may fall under that exclusion, so check the seller's terms before you pick custom options.
For UK offers, start with our Laptops Direct discount code page.
Which laptop offers to pass on
We have not tested these laptops, so we do not rank them. Read these listings twice:
- GPU memory that NVIDIA does not list for that chip. Two ASUS TUF A16 rows at Laptops Direct say "RTX 5060 6GB" and "RTX 5050 6GB"; NVIDIA lists 8GB for both. Ask the store first.
- No GPU power anywhere, on the listing or on the maker's spec page.
- Older RTX 40 chips at RTX 50 prices. On 13 November Laptops Direct listed an RTX 4060 MSI Cyborg 15 AI at £1,099.00 on the same page as an RTX 5060 Acer Nitro V15 at £1,079.97.
- 16GB on board with no slot, if you plan to keep the laptop for years.
- Open-box or refurbished units at Best Buy, if you are counting on its price match.
- Bundles priced on the store's own value of the extras, such as Dell's "a $500 value" for its 25 Xbox games.
- Marketplace sellers whose return rules differ from the store's, and Newegg Doorbusters bought for price protection, which excludes them.
Gaming laptop or gaming PC this Black Friday?
As the GPU section shows, the same chip name is not the same part in a laptop and a desktop. A laptop makes sense if you need to carry it or want one machine for play and work; a desktop if you play at one desk and want to change parts later.
In the UK, the cancellation point above applies to either if you configure it to order. Desktop prices are in our gaming PC Black Friday guide, and consoles in our Black Friday gaming deals guide.
How we read these prices
- Prices, dates and terms were read on each store's own pages on 13 November 2026 from our US server (the 10 and 12 November figures from our earlier reads), and Laptops Direct prices were checked against the page's own product data. GPU figures are NVIDIA's; other details come from the spec pages named in each row.
- Sites that blocked our tools or did not load are named. We did not get around any block, and we quote no price we could not read.
- We have not tested these laptops. Prices change daily, so check the store before you buy.
- Written by the SavingArena Editorial Team. More offers are on our Black Friday deals page and in our Black Friday deals hub.
More Black Friday tech guides
- Black Friday laptop deals for everyday and work laptops
- Gaming PC Black Friday deals for prebuilt desktops
- Best Buy Black Friday dates, doorbusters and price match
- Black Friday electronics deals by category
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick answers to what readers ask about this topic.
When do gaming laptop Black Friday deals start in 2026?
They have started at several stores. Dell's Holiday Sale and CyberPowerPC's Early Black Friday Sale were live on 13 November, Newegg's Black November runs all month, Best Buy's and Amazon's main Black Friday deals run from 19 November, and Walmart has dated its Early Black Friday Deals 12 to 15 November and its Black Friday Deals 23 to 29 November. In the UK, Overclockers' Black Friday deals began on 2 November and CyberPowerPC UK's on 4 November; Black Friday itself is 27 November.
Is Black Friday or Cyber Monday better for a gaming laptop?
We cannot say yet: none of the stores we read had put Cyber Monday gaming laptop prices online by 13 November. Newegg's Black Friday Price Protection covers only eligible badged items bought 1 to 18 November, while Best Buy's Holiday Price Match and Dell's extended Price Guarantee run to 15 January 2027, within each store's exclusions.
Does Best Buy have gaming laptop deals on Black Friday?
Best Buy runs 10 days of Black Friday doorbusters and deals from 19 November, after weekly early deals from 6 November, but its gaming laptop prices did not load for our tools on 13 November. From 19 to 30 November it does not match competitors' prices, its price match excludes open-box and refurbished items, and most purchases from 30 October to 31 December can be returned until 15 January 2027.
Can you get an RTX 50 gaming laptop under $1,000 on Black Friday?
Not among the prices we read on 13 November. The cheapest RTX 50 laptop on a US store's own page was Dell's RTX 5050 Alienware 16 Aurora at $1,349.99, and the cheapest in the UK was the RTX 5050 Medion ERAZER Scout 17 E1 at £1,049.98 at Laptops Direct. Best Buy, Walmart and Newegg prices did not load for our tools, so lower prices may exist there.
Do Alienware laptops go on sale for Black Friday?
Dell's Holiday Sale listed the Alienware 16 Aurora (RTX 5050) at $1,349.99 and the Alienware 18 Area-51 (RTX 5080) at $4,369.99 on 13 November, beside Estimated Value figures of $1,999.99 and $4,749.99, which Dell builds from retailer data it says may not be based on actual sales. Dell.com purchases from 1 November to 29 December can be returned until 15 January 2027 or 30 days from the invoice date, whichever is later. Alienware desktops are covered in our gaming PC guide.
Which gaming laptop Black Friday deals are worth buying?
We have not tested these laptops, so we do not rank them. An offer worth a look states the GPU's memory and power, matches NVIDIA's memory figures, says whether the memory sits in slots, carries the warranty you want and comes from a store whose return and price rules suit you; the section on offers to pass on lists the warning signs.












































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