As part of the Dell Black Friday Sale event, Dell 2023 Alienware Aurora R16 The RTX 4080 gaming PC can be purchased for just $1949.99 after a $550 instant discount. This is currently the cheapest Alienware (or Dell) RTX 4080-equipped gaming PC on Dell’s website. The R16 is radically different from the Aurora styling we’ve become accustomed to seeing over the past few years. In my opinion, it looks great, but more importantly, Dell claims the significantly smaller chassis runs cooler and quieter than before.
Alienware Aurora R16 RTX 4080 Gaming PC for $1949.99
R16 is the latest 2023 Alienware Aurora gaming desktop. The R16 chassis is 40% smaller in volume compared to previous versions. Features a simple yet proven airflow design. Air is drawn in through the side intake over the GPU area and his 120mm rear fan, while his generously sized 240mm all-in-one liquid cooler exhausts air from the top. A side benefit of this airflow design is that fresh air is supplied to the GPU from the outside, rather than recirculating hot air inside.
This particular configuration features a liquid-cooled Intel Core i7-13700F CPU, GeForce RTX 4080 GPU, 16GB DDR5-5600MHz RAM, and a 1TB SSD. All powered by a 1000W 80PLUS Platinum power supply. The latest generation Intel Core i7-13700F Raptor Lake CPU clocks up to 5.2 GHz with 16 cores, 24 threads, and 52 MB cache. This is a great gaming and workstation chip. The “F” in 13700F simply means that the chip does not have onboard graphics (iGPU). If you have a discrete GPU (in this case his RTX 4080) then it’s fine.
Speaking of which, the RTX 4080 is the second most powerful card on the market. On the AMD front, only the Radeon RX 7900 XTX can keep up (if you ignore DLSS and ray tracing). It’s much more powerful than previous generation cards and performs around 50% faster than the RTX 3080 Ti. It also supports DLSS 3.0 (DLSS 2.0 + frame generation), which the RTX 30 series doesn’t have, making a huge difference in performance for games that support it. It’s actually only 20% to 30% slower than the RTX 4090, but it costs several hundred dollars less. If you’re not convinced, check out our RTX 4080 review.
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