Your Graphics Research
Your Graphics Research
Laptop announced date: 10th March 2020
Last reviewed: 25th August 2020
If you adjust the spec you are looking at on a gaming laptop, the price hikes up and makes it harder to judge price to performance. Today's ASUS TUF A15 R7 4800H GTX 1660 Ti 16GB RAM 512GB M.2 laptop review is going to give us all a good sense of these sorts of values. We will take a look at what sort of performance you can expect the ASUS TUF A15 R7 4800H GTX 1660 Ti 16GB RAM 512GB M.2 laptop to return across the more demanding games of today.
Is the ASUS TUF A15 R7 4800H GTX 1660 Ti 16GB RAM 512GB M.2 good as a gaming laptop? Good
Processor - Modern AAA 2021 gaming with the Ryzen 7 4800H 8-Core 2.9GHz processor is no problem. As it meets game requirements of today it will likely hold its own against future release titles as well, this is an excellent CPU for a gaming laptop. Loaded up with plenty of processor cores, this CPU has 8, which is excellent for AAA gaming that wants extra cores for processing.
Graphics Card - This GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB Mobile graphics card is a good option for modern 2021 gaming and can run a number of AAA games smoothly. This GPU has 6GB VRAM, which is a good amount for AAA gaming but you could find other modern GPU’s that provide more.
System Memory - This laptop system memory is excellent at meeting today’s 2021 system requirements demands and with its 16GB of RAM it will certainly meet the requirements of games into the near future as well.
Screen Size - This laptop screen (15.6") in 2021 offers up a good amount of gaming screen real estate for gamers on the move, while keeping the physical laptop footprint portable. In games the physical size of the screen can help with being able to read in game menus without squinting. We would normally be aiming for 17 inch panels for a good gaming laptop dimension. However, they are heavier and bigger, so it really depends on how portable you want your laptop.
Refresh Rate - A gaming laptop wants to have a higher refresh rate to accommodate more frames per second(FPS) in the games it runs. The refresh rate is like a hard cap on the games deliverable FPS. The better the refresh rate the more FPS the laptop can deliver in games, up to the panels refresh rate hertz, and then the sharper the in game play is when the player moves about. And so considering that, this laptop is available with up to 144Hz as its refresh rate. This high refresh rate would be an excellent choice in a gamers laptop, but anything over 60Hz would be suitable.
The big one in any gaming PC is making sure the graphics card is up to the task of modern gaming. And this is of course the same for choosing the right gaming laptop as well. Therefore we will be considering this laptop’s hardware in relation to its overall price and how well it could run modern demanding or popular games like Cyberpunk 2077, Assassins Creed: Valhalla and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. This is done in relation to its native 1080p resolution at Ultra video settings to give us something to compare against other laptops. Lets compare the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB Mobile found in this laptop to today’s top 500 most demanding games. Of those games, this laptops GPU can run 491 at their minimum system requirements and then 340 games when looking at their recommended system specs.
Stepping into it, we can standardise our assessment of this ASUS TUF A15 R7 4800H GTX 1660 Ti 16GB RAM 512GB M.2 laptop review by giving every laptop a relative price to performance rating. This rating, for all laptops, will adjust over time and keep the data in this review relevant to today's expectations and inline with ever increasing game demands of modern AAA laptop gaming.
P2P rating of 10 today the ASUS TUF A15 R7 4800H GTX 1660 Ti 16GB RAM 512GB M.2. Our value to performance rating score will auto adjust as new hardware capability improves and prices drop. With a number of TUF A15 laptops in the model lineup this particular variant places at the 1st position for Price to Performance value. Laptops closer to the top place (1st) are value gaming laptop options that deliver the best performance for the laptop price.
Show Laptop Specifications
| Processor | Ryzen 7 4800H 8-Core 2.9GHz |
| Graphics Card | GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB Mobile |
| RAM | 16GB DDR4 3200MHz |
| Screen |
15.6" 1920x1080 (1080p) Available refresh rates: 144Hz |
| Storage | 512GB M.2 |
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ASUS TUF A15 R7 4800H GTX 1660 Ti 16GB RAM 512GB M.2 model range price to performance comparison table |
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| Laptop Name | Price | P2P | Difference |
| R7 4800H GTX 1660 Ti 16GB RAM 512GB M.2 | $1,149.99 | 0% | |
| R7 3750H RTX 2060 Mobile 16GB RAM 512GB M.2 | $999.99 | 7% | |
| R5 3550H RTX 2060 Mobile 16GB RAM 512GB M.2 | $1,009.99 | 9% | |
| i7-9750H GTX 1660 Ti 8GB RAM 256GB M.2 | $883.35 | 10% | |
| R7 4800H RTX 2060 Mobile 16GB RAM 1.0TB M.2 | $1,299.00 | 11% | |
| i7-9750H GTX 1650 Mobile 8GB RAM 512GB M.2 | $849.00 | 25% | |
| R5 3550H GTX 1650 Mobile 8GB RAM 256GB M.2 | $736.00 | 29% | |
| i5-9300H GTX 1650 Mobile 8GB RAM 512GB M.2 | $739.90 | 33% | |
| R5 4600H GTX 1650 Ti Mobile 8GB RAM 512GB M.2 | $999.00 | 34% | |
| R7 3750H GTX 1660 Ti 16GB RAM 256GB M.2 | $1,999.99 | 117% | |
It's good to see how this TUF A15 laptop compares to models outside of its own model range as well. If we look at the very best P2P laptop, the MSI GF65 Thin i7-9750H GTX 1660 Ti 16GB RAM 512GB M.2, our laptop has 13% worse performance difference when comparing its price to performance rating. That top laptop currently has a listed price of $909.00. Another one to consider is the 2nd placed Price to Performance laptop, the Acer Nitro 5 2020 R5 4600H GTX 1650 Mobile 16GB RAM 512GB M.2. This one has a price listed as $855.00 and our laptop gets 9% worse against its price to performance rating.
Now we will see if our laptop compares favourably against the top CPU performance focused mobile PC that is currently available. We have chosen our comparison CPU focused laptop today as the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 R9 4900HS RTX 2060 Mobile 16GB RAM 1.0TB M.2 1440p, which comes armed with the Ryzen 9 4900HS 8-Core 3.0GHz laptop CPU. This top tier CPU is currently delivering 4% better performance when benched against our own review laptop’s Ryzen 7 4800H 8-Core 2.9GHz.
Our laptop CPU beats 500 games recommended system requirements when looking at today’s top 500 most demanding games. This number changes to 500 games if we compare to the top 500 most demanding games for minimum system requirements.
When compared to the most popular games around today, against their recommended processor requirements, our laptop CPU performs as follows - Cyberpunk 2077 our laptop CPU is 59% better and then looking at Assassins Creed: Valhalla our laptop CPU is 43% better and finally compared to Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War it has a performance difference : 41% better.
One of the key hardware aspects in any laptop is certainly the graphics card. Our TUF A15 laptop’s GPU solution can be compared against a laptop that has one of the most powerful GPU’s around today, which will give us a relative benchmark. And will help us know how this laptop performs against the top end GPU laptop available today. Today’s MSI GT76 Titan i9-10900K RTX 2080 64GB RAM 2.0TB M.2 4K comes with one of the more powerful laptop graphics solutions available for game crunching at the moment, making it a good one to compare against our review laptops GPU. We will use its GeForce RTX 2080 Super 8GB to compare against our GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB Mobile card. The top end laptop’s GPU currently delivers 67% better performance when benched against our own review laptop’s GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB Mobile.
Our laptop Graphics Card, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB Mobile, can currently meet the recommended system requirements of 340 games when compared against the top 500 most demanding games right now. This number changes to 491 for the top 500 most demanding minimum system requirements.
Today’s games are getting more demanding so let's see how our gaming laptop performs against their recommended gpu system requirements. First off we have the Assassins Creed: Valhalla which currently our GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB Mobile is 10% better next let's see how well it runs against Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. We can see it is 25% better. Ok finally lets see it against Cyberpunk 2077. Here our laptop is 10% better.
This ASUS TUF A15 R7 4800H GTX 1660 Ti 16GB RAM 512GB M.2 laptop has a 15.6" physical screen size and displays 1920 pixel by 1080 pixels tall native 1080p resolution. Is this 1080p laptop good for your needs though or should you instead be looking to buy a 4K screen mobile PC rather than this? 4K laptops would likely come with a 60 FPS cap on games, set by the laptop screen’s 60Hz refresh rate. So regardless of what the hardware is capable of in the 4K laptop they couldn't push their FPS beyond that screen refresh rate. Now AAA games today when played at Ultra graphics settings and a 4K resolution likely don't have hardware capable of 60 FPS anyway. The ASUS TUF A15 R7 4800H GTX 1660 Ti 16GB RAM 512GB M.2 laptop’s monitor can be picked up with 144Hz refresh rate versions.
We can always lower the game’s displayed screen resolution to something like 1080p or 1440p which is below the 4K laptop’s native pixel count. This will get a more stable game experience, increasing a game’s FPS that might be needed across a number of modern AAA games on a 4K laptop. However, getting away from the laptop’s more native 4K resolution, will take away in-game graphics definition. Not an ideal situation, playing blurry games on your new 4K laptop. If your 1080p laptop has the hardware to run today’s AAA games comfortably at 4K, then plug your laptop into your desktop 4K monitor, when you are at home for some serious gaming sessions. As that desktop monitor probably isn't 60Hz restricted and is physically larger than the relatively small 17inch laptop screen size. We do just that here, with a 27inch 144Hz Nvidia GSync 1440p desktop monitor and an Alienware 51M laptop sporting a desktop RTX 2080.
However, you could be after watching 4K streaming content on your laptop, while on the move. Then perhaps the 17inch laptop screen and 4K resolution is going to net a more enjoyable experience than a 1080p alternative.
As you can probably gather from the information above, its probably not worth the extra cash for a 4K laptop if gaming is your Laptop purpose. 1080p is likely plenty and has enough alternative gaming options for when you want better resolution. It feels like you might not get what you were after if you picked up a shiny new 4K laptop, then was needing to lower game resolution, while getting blurry in-game experience and achieving a max 60FPS when you could push the hardware into better frame rates.
Today’s well priced 1440p desktop monitor we have found is a ASUS ProArt Display PA278QV 27 inch 1440p 75Hz 5ms IPS that has a 75Hz refresh rate and priced at $299.00. We have seen this desktop 1440p monitor recorded at a low price on 26th Dec 2020, where we saw it was costing $269.99.
The 4K Asus Predator XB273K 27 inch 4K GSYNC IPS 1ms 144Hz display is our current suggestion if you wanted to grab a desktop monitor. With a $829.99 price at the moment it also has a 144Hz refresh rate. The cheapest we have tracked this 4k monitor was for the price of $549.99, on 13th Nov 2020.
[Note - check that monitor display connectors are compatible between a monitor and a laptop before purchase]
If you are looking to view 4K streaming content, while keeping yourself mobile with your laptop, then maybe a 4K resolution panel would be a better experience than the normal 1080p. In general, we think it's probably not worth the extra money for any visual gains you might not spot, without a direct comparison, especially if you are thinking to game on your laptop as well.
As you can probably gather from the information above, it's probably not worth the extra cash for a 4K laptop if gaming is your Laptop purpose. 1080p is likely plenty and has enough alternative gaming options for when you want better resolution. It feels like you might not get what you were after if you picked up a shiny new 4K laptop, then was needing to lower game resolution, while getting blurry in-game experience and achieving a max 60FPS when you could push the hardware into better frame rates.
The gaming mouse with today’s best price to value that would go well with the ASUS TUF A15 R7 4800H GTX 1660 Ti 16GB RAM 512GB M.2 laptop is the Kayinuo M738 Gaming Mouse 3200DPI wired 6 Buttons. Its current price is $12.99. Today's best value and good quality mouse has enjoyed a price reduction of $46.98, and provides another reason for us to suggest it to compliment this laptop. Our lowest price tracked for this mouse was marked down at $11.99, which we spotted on 15th Aug 2020.
| Quality | Mouse | Price (USD) | Check Regional Pricing |
| * | Kayinuo M738 Gaming Mouse 3200DPI wired 6 Buttons | $12.99 | |
| ** | PICTEK Gaming Mouse 7200DPI wired 7 Buttons | $15.99 | |
| ** | Redragon M711 Cobra | $19.99 | |
| *** | Cooler Master MM710 | $39.99 | |
| *** | Logitech G502 SE Hero | $48.99 |
If you are looking for a good value headset to go with your ASUS TUF A15 R7 4800H GTX 1660 Ti 16GB RAM 512GB M.2 laptop, then the HyperX Cloud Stinger is our favourite today, of those we are price tracking. Currently it’s priced at $49.72. Out of interest our lowest price tracked on this headset was on 12th Mar 2020 where we saw it for $25.98.