The main showpieces among Dell’s new gaming laptops this week were Alienware’s new RTX 3080-powered models with bleeding-edge 480Hz screens. However, the company has also started shipping a mid-level option sitting between the 15-inch G series notebooks and Alienware’s 17-inch beast. Previous Dell G15 systems all featured 16:9 1080p screens at 120Hz or 165Hz, but the new G16 raises that to a 16:10 2560 x 1600 at 165Hz. Elsewhere, the new model retains the same combination of a 12th-gen Intel processor and Nvidia RTX Ampere graphics.
While the G15s let users pick between the latest Ryzen and Intel CPUs, the G16 only comes with an i7-12700H at 4.7GHz for now. The choices for GPU are either an RTX 3050 Ti or RTX 3060 and on the storage front, a 512GB or 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD. All models come with 16GB of 4800 MHz DDR5 RAM on two 8GB sticks. Prices range from $1,400 to $1,600. All the current Dell G series notebooks could be good choices for mid-range laptop gaming at high refresh rates, with the G16 trading some performance for better image quality.
