This is the least you’ll pay for a great gaming laptop this Cyber Monday

We’ve seen quite a few PCs hit our roundup of the best Cyber Monday gaming laptops deals, ranging from truly budget models with older hardware to premium models with the latest processors and graphics cards. It can be tough to figure out where the sweet spot of performance and price truly rests; you don’t want to go too cheap and get something that can’t keep up to your games of choice, but you also want to exercise the room you have in your budget.

The best Cyber Monday Dell deals have seen a steady rotation of Alienware and Dell gaming laptops, but this G15 model caught my eye. It has an 11th Gen Intel Core i5-11400H CPU, NVIDIA RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU, 512GB M.2 PCIe SSD, 8GB of DDR4-2933MHz RAM, and a 15.6-inch FHD display with 120Hz refresh rate and 250 nits brightness.

This is modern hardware that should be able to keep up to your needs. No having to worry about an older system not being able to cut it with games just released, as the 3050 Ti is capable of hitting smooth FHD frame rates with modern games. Regularly priced well above $1,000, it’s down to $784 at Dell.

Dell G15 gaming laptop | $435 off

This G15 model has an 11th Gen Intel Core i5-11400H CPU, NVIDIA RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU, 512GB M.2 PCIe SSD, and 8GB of DDR4 RAM. The 15.6-inch display has a 120Hz refresh rate and 250 nits brightness. This model hits the sweet spot between “on sale” and “too cheap,” delivering modern gaming performance at a great price.

$784 at Dell

This Dell G15 model isn’t going to be the cheapest gaming laptop you’ll find — that likely belongs to the $499 MSI GF63 at Walmart — but it is likely one of the cheapest that can perform well with games that require a lot of resources. The Core i5-11400H CPU has six cores and a Turbo clock up to 4.5GHz, and the NVIDIA RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU will handle FHD gaming quite well.

You won’t be able to fully max out all in-game settings with some truly demandings titles, but you also won’t have to sit by and watch your friends enjoy new games while your underpowered PC whimpers next to your desk. The laptop has a couple of USB-A 2.0 ports, one USB-C 3.2, one USB-A 3.2, HDMI, RJ45 Ethernet, and a 3.5mm headset jack. It also comes with Windows 11 pre-installed.