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The 140W RTX 3070 in the widely recognized Gigabyte A5 X1 is strongly supported by AMD’s Ryzen 9 5900HX.

So far this year, Gigabyte has been an outstanding Black Friday gaming laptop hero, with excellent deals on many different machines. This $1,599 RTX 3070 laptop is priced at the same price as some RTX 3060 laptops we have seen in retail stores. It is a perfect example.

However, although we have made important contributions using the graphics chip at the core of gaming laptops, this is not the only thing that has an impact on performance. The remaining specifications of the Gigabyte A5 X1 are also very prominent.

In addition to the high-quality Nvidia GPU, there is also the top AMD mobile processor Ryzen 9 5900HX. This is an eight-core 16-thread Zen 3 CPU with a clock frequency of up to 4.6GHz. The 5000 series AMD chips are a bit like apocalypse, showing how far the company has come. This is an excellent all-round CPU, yes.

The laptop screen is also impressive. The A5 X1 uses a 1080p IPS panel with a lightning fast refresh rate of 240Hz. Together with the RTX 3070, it becomes an excellent gaming monitor. I would say that this Gigabyte machine is not thin and light, but is equipped with a relatively thick chassis. It weighs 4.68 pounds, which is quite impressive, but it also means that it has enough space to cool a 140W GPU.

GIGABYTE A5 X1 | 15.6-inch | Ryzen 9 5900HX | RTX 3070 | 1080p | 240Hz | 16GB RAM | 512GB Solid State Drive | $1,799 Newegg $1,599 (save $200) This is the cheapest RTX 3070-based one we have found so far The machine, the rest of the packaging also makes it one of the best machines. AMD CPU is an eight-core stunner, and 240Hz screen is also a support. Our only problem is the slightly stingy 512GB SSD.

But it is also equipped with 16GB of DDR4 memory and a healthy 512GB SSD. However, I suggest that this is probably the weakest part of the specification, and you will soon fill up 0.5 TB with the latest PC game size.

If you want to expand storage on this super attractive system, you can be sure that both internal and external SSDs will have Black Friday SSD discounts. So, this should not be too worrying.

Dave has been playing games since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug in Colecovision, and a code book for Commodore Vic 20 (Deathmatch 2000!). He built his first gaming PC at the age of 16, and finally completed a bug fix for the Cyrix-based system about a year later. When he threw it out the window. Decades ago, he first started writing for the official PlayStation magazine and Xbox World, then turned to PC Format full-time, then PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3. Now he is back, writing about the nightmarish graphics card market, with more CPU cores than it feels, gaming laptops that are hotter than the sun, and SSDs that are more spacious than Cybertruck.

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