As part of its Back to School Sale, Dell is offering the Alienware m17 R5 17″ AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX gaming laptop with RTX 3070 Ti video card for only $1199.99 after a massive $1050 in instant savings. This is currently the most powerful Alienware 17″ gaming laptop you’ll currently find for under $1200 at Dell.
Alienware m17 R5 17″ AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX RTX 3070 Ti Gaming Laptop for $1199.99
Alienware m17 R5 17″ AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX RTX 3070 Ti Gaming Laptop with 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD
The Alienware m17 R5 laptop features a 17″ 1080p 480Hz G-SYNC IPS display, AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX CPU, GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GPU, 16GB of DDR5-4800MHz RAM, and 1TB SSD. The AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX CPU boasts a max turbo clock of .4.9GHz with 8 cores, 16 threads, and a 20MB cache. This is a step up from the AMD Ryzen 7 we normally see in this price range and competes with Intel Core i9 CPUs. In other words, it’s an an excellent gaming and workstation chip.
The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti provides plenty of muscle on the GPU front. Among the RTX 30 series mobile cards, it’s only slightly less powerful than the RTX 3080. Compared to desktop variants, it’s roughly comparable to the RTX 3060. It’s capable of running any game out there on the display’s native 1080p resolution and at over 60fps, which is nice because the display is capable of refresh rates of up to 480Hz and, fortunately, is G-SYNC certified.