Dell Drops $600 Off Alienware's Most Powerful Radeon Gaming PC for Prime Day - IGN
This is probably the least expensive "super high-end" gaming PC available.
For Prime Day, Dell is offering a great deal on an Alienware gaming PC equipped with the most powerful AMD GPU on the market. Right now this Alienware Aurora R16 RX 7900 XTX gaming PC is down to $1799.99 after a $600 instant discount. This is a great deal for anyone looking to get a tremendously powerful gaming PC that can run 4K games at well over 60fps, even at max settings, without having to overpay for an NVIDIA GPU.
This Alienware Aurora R16 gaming PC features an Intel Core i7-14700F CPU, Radeon RX 7900 XTX GPU, 16GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB NVME SSD. The Intel Core i7-14700F Raptor Lake Refresh CPU boasts a max clock of 5.4GHz with 20 cores, 28 threads, and a 33MB cache. If you plan to use this PC as a gaming rig, then an i7 is a better choice than an i9. Performance is nearly identical because games cannot utilize the extra cores that the i9 has.
The Radeon RX 7900 XTX is AMD's most powerful GPU, and it gives the GeForce RTX 4080 a run for its money. When you look at raw benchmarks (without ray tracing or DLSS), the RX 7900 XTX is neck and neck with the 4080 in performance. This card won't break a sweat in 4K gaming, even at 60+ fps. Where Nvidia has the advantage is with DLSS supported games and overall ray tracing performance. However keep in mind that an Alienware RTX 4080 gaming PC will usually run you over $2000, even on sale. Some games are better optimized for Radeon cards and/or don't support DLSS, like Starfield, Red Dead Redemption 2, Jedi Survivor, and Resident Evil 4 Remake, and Dead Island 2, to name a few.
In our Radeon RTX 7900 XTX review, Bo Moore writes "AMD makes an excellent showing with its first RDNA 3 graphics cards, and the RX 7900 XTX is a strong competitor - especially when it comes to price for performance compared to Nvidia's latest and greatest GeForce RTX 40-series cards. Nvidia still holds the crown in ray tracing scenarios and in games that benefit from DLSS - and it's not even close in those cases - but AMD's own FSR technology has helped shrink the gap, and often wins out in pure rasterization workloads. If you want the absolute best visuals and performance, Nvidia still wins out, but for good old-fashioned frames at slightly more reasonable prices, AMD is hard to beat."
The R16 is Alienware's current 2024 desktop PC design. It's 40% smaller in volume compared to previous iterations. It features a simple yet proven airflow pattern; air is drawn in through the side intake vents over the GPU area and a 120mm fan at the front of the case, and exhausts by way of a 120mm rear fan and two 120mm top fans. A 240mm radiator for the all-in-one liquid cooling system is mounted to these top fans. Some configurations don't actually include the liquid cooling system, but we rarely include them in this roundup. That's because Alienware's liquid cooling solution is far superior to their stock air cooling and is easily worth the price premium.
In most cases, we would say that Black Friday has the best deals of the year. Dell, however, is quite the opposite. Historically, Black Friday hasn't always been the best time to buy an Alienware computer. The best time of year to score Dell deals are usually Memorial Day and during September and October, right after the back-to-school rush but about a month before actual Black Friday. Either way, the deals that are going on right now are quite good. Some of them are the best prices of the year (like the RTX 4070 Ti PC) and some are not.
For more Prime Day related content, head over to our Prime Day megapost to see our cherry-picked list of all the best deals.
