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Imagine playing the latest and greatest games at 4K resolution… on a laptop. Those days are now a reality, as long as you’re willing to pay a hefty price. Fortunately, occasional deals arise for these premium laptops, too. From now until April 30, B&H Photo is offering the MSI Raider 18″ gaming laptop, featuring an AMD Ryzen 9 X3D CPU and GeForce RTX 5080 mobile GPU, for $2,599 with free delivery after a $500 off instant discount. This is a really powerful gaming laptop that compares performance-wise to a current generation gaming desktop PC.
Save $500 Off the MSI Raider 18″ RTX 5080 Gaming Laptop
The Raider 18 is MSI’s flagship gaming laptop. For starters, it features a massive 18″ Mini-LED display with a resolution of 3840×2400, which is actually more pixels than a 4K TV. You’d need pretty powerful components to play games at this resolution, and fortunately this configuration delivers with an AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D CPU, GeForce RTX 5080 GPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 2TB SSD. Inputs include two Thunderbolt 4 ports, HDMI 2.1 port, three USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, and a 2.5Gb ethernet port. Wireless connectivity options include Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4.
The AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D is the most powerful laptop gaming CPU
The AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D processor is a recently released cutting-edge Zen 5 CPU with 16 cores, 32 threads, and a max boost clock of 5.4GHz. This is an X3D processor with AMD’s 3D-V-Cache technology specially tailored for gamers. It easily outperforms any other mobile CPU in gaming. There is no better processor to pair with the 5080.
The RTX 5080 is more powerful than the previous generation’s flagship RTX 4090
The RTX 5080 mobile GPU is roughly 15%-20% more powerful than the RTX 5070 Ti. Compared to previous generation GPUs, it’s actually slightly more powerful than the RTX 4090. With DLSS 4.5 enabled, you should be able to run supported games at 60fps or higher even on the MSI’s 4K+ display, including Pragmata and Crimson Desert.
You don’t need to worry about paying high RAM and SSD prices
The rest of the specs include 32GB of DDR5-5600MHz RAM and a 2TB SSD. Both the RAM and SSD are user-upgradeable if you plan on adding more once the prices of flash-based memory and storage drop to more reasonable levels.
Eric Song is the IGN commerce manager in charge of finding the best gaming and tech deals every day. When Eric isn’t hunting for deals for other people at work, he’s hunting for deals for himself during his free time.
