This RTX 5070 gaming laptop is a little low on GPU power but at $1,200, it's a lot of low on price

by adminApril 16, 2026042

With DRAM and flash memory being so outrageously expensive these days, finding a well-specified gaming laptop with a sensible price tag is nigh on impossible. But if you’re willing to wave goodbye to certain aspects, you can get a decent amount of bang for your buck, which is precisely the case with this RTX 5070, now down to $1,200 at B&H.

Powering all the pixels in that panel is a GeForce RTX 5070 discrete GPU, with 4,608 CUDA cores and 8 GB of VRAM. The desktop card equivalent of Nvidia’s mobile chips is essentially one tier down, so this one is roughly the same as an RTX 5060 Ti. However, as this Acer laptop sports a very slim chassis, the GPU’s power limit is capped at 85 W.

That’s the worst aspect of this deal, because while a lower limit is great for preventing thermal problems and noisy fans, it’s not so great for letting the GPU run at its full potential. Despite all those shader cores, you’re potentially looking at RTX 5060 or lower levels of performance, depending on the game.

Given the beefy resolution of the display, you’ll also probably be gaming with DLSS 4.5 upscaling enabled all the time, but that’s okay, as it does a far better job of anti-aliasing than TAA does anyway.

As for the rest of the rig, it’s all perfectly fine for the money. The central processor is a zippy little Intel Core 7 250H that has six P-cores and four E-cores, for a total of 16 threads. As expected, you only get 16 GB of DDR5 memory, but at least it’s dual-channel stuff, and pleasingly, there’s even a 1 TB SSD in there (with a spare M.2 slot for more storage).

This Acer laptop deal isn’t perfect, but it’s considerably cheaper than most RTX 5070 gaming laptops out there, so if you’re happy to lose a bit of GPU performance, then you’ll be saving quite a bit of cash.