Asus is charging $4,799 for an RTX 5080 gaming laptop that costs more than last year’s RTX 5090 model
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Asus listed the 2026 ROG Zephyrus G16 with an RTX 5080 at $4,799. The 2025 model with a more powerful RTX 5090 sells for $4,599 on Amazon.
Asus has quietly added an RTX 5080 configuration to the ROG Zephyrus G16 (2026) in the US, and the price is $4,799. That is $200 more than the 2025 ROG Zephyrus G16 with a more powerful RTX 5090 GPU and 64GB of RAM, which is currently available on Amazon and Newegg for $4,599. A newer laptop with a weaker graphics card costs more than its predecessor with a stronger one.
The new model pairs Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5080 with Intel’s Core Ultra 9 386H, the first Panther Lake processor to ship in a gaming laptop. It comes with 64GB of LPDDR5X RAM, a 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD, and a 16-inch 2.5K OLED display running at 240Hz with 1,100 nits peak brightness....
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