As part of a Dell Flash Sale, Dell has dropped the price on its flagship Alienware m18 R2 gaming laptop to $3299.99, a savings of $700. The Alienware m18 “R2” model was released in January of 2024; this is Dell’s highest-end gaming laptop and features the newest 14th gen Intel Core i9 processor paired with the best-in-class GeForce RTX 4090 GPU. This is an absolute monster of a gaming laptop that performs better than most dedicated desktop gaming PCs.
Alienware m18 R2 RTX 4090 Gaming Laptop for $3299.99
This Alienware m18 config is equipped with an 18″ 2560×1600 (QHD+) display, Intel Core i9-14900HX CPU, GeForce RTX 4090 GPU, a whopping 64GB of DDR5-5200MHz RAM, and a generous 4TB of NVME SSD storage. The latest Intel Core i9-14900HX is the most powerful mobile Intel CPU on the market right now. It boasts 24 cores and 32 threads with a max turbo clock speed of 5.8GHz. It improves on the previous generation Intel Alder Lake CPU with more cores, a bigger cache, and support for faster RAM.
The GeForce RTX 4090 is still far and away the most powerful mobile GPU, and by a pretty huge margin. It’s roughly equivalent to a desktop RTX 3090 / RTX 4070 Ti GPU. In real world terms, this GPU is more than capable enough of handling any game at the display’s native QHD+ resolution. It should be able to push 60+ fps even with all settings turned up and, potentially, with ray tracing enabled. Since this is an RTX 40 series card, it also features DLSS 3.0 for even better performance in games that support it.
One of the biggest advantages of a larger form factor that comes with an 18″ laptop, besides the bigger screen and keyboard (this one has a full-sized numpad), is the better cooling. The Alienware “Cryo-Tech” cooling system features a large vapor chamber, seven heatpipes, and four slim fans that work in tandem to keep your laptop cool even during intense gaming sessions.
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