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HardwareGaming LaptopsIf it’s an RTX 4080 gaming laptop you crave more than anything this Black Friday, MSI’s $1,729 rig is as cheap as it currently getsWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
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It’s a painful and now universal truth that Nvidia’s higher-spec mobile GPUs don’t come cheap. So, if you want a laptop with, say, the RTX 4080 chip for a reasonable price, you’re going to have to make compromises. In return, you’ll get stellar in-game frame rates.
Enter the MSI Vector GP68 HX 13V,yours for $1,729 with the aforementioned and rarefied Nvidia silicon from Newegg. That’s over $250 cheaper than the next most affordable 4080 portable in our current Black Friday round up.
Your first question is probably to query whether this is some hideously gimped, wattage-starved implementation of the 4080. Actually, no, MSI rates the chip at 175 W, which is a bit higher than the 150 W top spec Nvidia publishes.
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How much of a problem that latter figure is, well, that’s up to you. Personally, I’m fine with it. I’m not an esports aficionado and even with a 4080, you’re hardly going to be hitting over 144 fps much of the time at high detail settings in the latest and most demanding games.
That aside, you also get a Thunderbolt 4 port, another pair of USB-C sockets and a 90 Whr battery, which is pretty generous at this price point and bodes reasonably well for operation away from the mains.
Of course, this is not actually a svelte portable. It’s nearly 3 cm thick and clocks in a 2.67 kg. I suspect the 330 W power supply is a bit of a brick, too, and that it makes a bit of a racket under full load. But the proposition here is clear enough. The wattage spec for the RTX 4080 makes it clear enough that you’re going to get the full high-end Nvidia experience in terms of frame rates.
That also means that you’re buying into a reasonable level of longevity, at least as far as laptops go. As we’ve dicovered before, the top RTX 4090 laptop GPU often isn’t much if any faster than the 4080. So, you’re getting close to peak portable gaming PC performance for a price mere mortals have an outside chance of meeting.
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