ASUS ROG Strix 16 Will Be Your Next Price-To-Performance Gaming Laptop For Prime Day 2023 Thanks To Its RTX 4060 And $1,129 Price Tag
The majority of RTX 4000 series gaming laptops are not exactly priced competitively, but for Prime Day 2023, all that has changed, starting with the ROG Strix G16 from ASUS. It is not just priced at an incredible $1,129.99, but it is also powered by some next-generation hardware that portable gamers would love to make it their daily driver. The star of the show is no doubt the RTX 4060 GPU with 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM, but the specifications of the graphics processor do not matter as much as two things; support for DLSS 3.0 and Frame Generation.
While we will get around to those aforementioned technologies, let us discuss the other specifications of the gaming laptop, starting with the 16-inch FHD 165Hz panel. The build quality of the ROG Strix 16 is predominantly plastic, but it is well-made, according to various reviews. The RTX 4060 is supplemented by the Core i7-13650HX, which features a total of 14 cores and 20 threads. The 14-core configuration includes six performance cores and eight efficiency ones.
The CPU and GPU are cooled using a tri-fan solution, engineered from scratch by the talented team stationed at ASUS. Alongside this, you get 16GB of DDR5 RAM operating at 4800MHz and 512GB of PCIe Gen 4 SSD. Luckily for you, both the RAM and storage can be upgraded later if you feel that both have become limitations for you. The reason why you want an RTX 4060 GPU in a gaming laptop is because support for DLSS 3.0 and Frame Generation increases the overall performance and these are technologies only supported by NVIDIA’s latest family of graphic processors.
The ports selection of the gaming laptop is also stacked, with a combination of USB-A, 2.5G LAN, HDMI 2.1, USB-C, and Thunderbolt 4 added to give the ROG Strix G16 maximum versatility. There is also Wi-Fi 6E support, assuming that matters to you, along with a 4-zone-RGB keyboard and plenty of customization options. Before Prime Day 2023, the price of this gaming laptop would hover around the $1,500 – $1,600 range, but now, it has become one of the best-value purchases to get right now.