Deal | Affordable RTX 5060-powered gaming laptop scores $700 discount

Gamers on the lookout for a well-equipped gaming laptop will be pleased to note that Walmart is now offering a solid $700 discount on the Asus TUF A16 gaming laptop, featuring a powerful CPU and decent GPU.

To be precise, the TUF A16 is now available for purchase at just $1,099 for a limited time. This specific variant comes equipped with a powerful AMD Ryzen 7 8745HX APU paired with 16 GB of RAM, as well as an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPU.

While we have not reviewed this specific variant of the laptop, we did review different SKUs of this machine equipped with different generations of CPUs and GPUs.  

Therefore, it is worth noting that we found the laptop's thermal performance to be adequate, amounting to good CPU and GPU performance without the system toasting itself to death.

The 8-core, 16-thread Ryzen 7 8745HX is quite a performant part, and should be able to keep up with a modern Intel Core Ultra 5 336H in multithreaded benchmarks. In other words, the vast majority of CPU-intensive workloads should not pose much of a threat.

The RTX 5060 Laptop GPU, like its desktop counterpart (currently $469.99 on Amazon), comes equipped with only 8 GB of GDDR7 VRAM, which might prove insufficient in a few years.

Unlike the laptop's DDR5 RAM, which can be upgraded to 64 GB, the VRAM is simply not upgradeable. The 512 GB of storage is upgradeable, courtesy of the laptop's user accessible dual M.2 2280 slots.

In terms of raw performance, unsurprisingly, most demanding and modern AAA titles at 1080p with moderate settings should be perfectly playable on the laptop.

At its front, the laptop features a 1200p IPS display with a peak refresh rate of 165 Hz. According to LaptopMedia's review of the laptop, its display covers 97% and only 77% of the sRGB and P3 color gamuts, which is decent. The panel is impressively color accurate, though.

They also found that the panel peaks out at roughly 365 nits of brightness, and sports a contrast ratio of 1490:1. For fast-paced gaming, the display is perfectly serviceable. That said, creative folks who care about color reproduction and contrast might want to look for another option with an OLED or mini LED panel.

The I/O on offer is pretty good, and has been detailed below:

• Dual USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A, single USB 2.0 Type-A
• USB4, USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C
• HDMI 2.1
• 1G Ethernet
• 3.5 mm audio jack

At its current price on Walmart, the TUF A16 gaming laptop definitely brings a lot of value to the table for folks who can take advantage of the laptop's speedy display, and do not mind the lack of a high-res panel.

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