AMD Ryzen 3000U Gaming Laptops w/ NVIDIA GTX 16 GPUs now in India

A while back AMD announced the Ryzen 3000 mobile lineup and also allowed OEMs to pair the CPUs with NVIDIA’s GTX 16-series (Turing) GPUs, paving way for a new breed of gaming laptops available for as low as $999. Till now most of these portable gaming rigs were fitted with Intel chips and started at a minimum of $1300-1400. After the global launch a few months back, these AMD-NVIDIA gaming notebooks are now also available in India. The cheapest variant sells for 63K.

Acer Nitro 5 AN515-42

Price: ₹49,990 (Prev-Gen)

The Acer Nitro 5 packs an AMD Ryzen 5 2500U CPU and a Radeon RX 560 (4GB) GPU, making it the cheapest gaming laptop at just 50K. The Polaris based GPU should be just fine for casual gaming and the accompanying Ryzen processor gives Intel’s i5s a run for their money, all the while costing lesser.

Specs:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2500U Processor 3.60 GHz (boost)
• GPU: AMD Radeon RX 560X 4 GB GDDR5
• RAM: 8GB DDR4 RAM
• Storage: 1TB HDD 5400RPM
• Laptop weight: 2.7kg

ASUS TUF Gaming FX505DT

Price: ₹62,990.00

The new Asus TUF Gaming lineup is selling like hotcakes thanks to its hybrid NVIDIA-AMD configuration that gives it just the right balance of price and performance. With a Ryzen 5 processor and the GeForce GTX 1650 4GB, boasting the new Turing architecture, it‘s one of the most potent gaming laptops in this price range. It also comes with a 512GB NVMe based SSD for lighting fast loading times.

Specs

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3550H Processor 3.70 GHz (boost)
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4GB
• RAM: 8GB DDR4 RAM
• Storage: 512GB NVMe SSD
• Laptop weight: 2.2kg

Related:

AMD is Targeting the Ryzen 7 3700X and Radeon RX 5700XT toward Intel Skylake and NVIDIA GTX 10 Series Users

ASUS TUF Gaming FX505DT

Price: ₹77,889.00

The higher-end variant of the Asus TUF series comes with an AMD Ryzen 7 3750H and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650. The 512GB SSD is swapped out in favor of a smaller 256GB NVMe in addition to a traditional 1TB HDD. The memory and display are the same as the other model, and so are the aesthetics.

Specs:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3750H Processor 4.00 GHz (boost)
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4GB
• RAM: 8GB DDR4 RAM
• Storage: 256GB NVMe SSD+1TB HDD
• Laptop weight: 2.2kg

Further Reading:

• NVIDIA: Turing is More Power-Efficient Than the AMD Radeon RX 5700 GPUs
• H/W Level Ray Tracing for AMD Radeon GPUs Coming in 2020