The new XMG NEO 16 (E23) laptop has appeared in a review video from Jarrod’sTech, where the pricing for the base unit and GPU upgrades was revealed. Unsurprisingly, the gaming laptop itself is quite expensive, but XMG has treated the refreshed NEO 16 with a specifications list that would make many gamers salivate: 2,560 x 1,600 IPS display with up to 240 Hz refresh rate, up to 64 GB DDR5 RAM, 24 -core high-end Raptor Lake CPU, RTX 40 series dGPU, and the aforementioned liquid metal cooling system. As stated earlier, the SKU with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU costs €2,199 (US$2,362).
While only an additional €375 (US$403) is required to fit the XMG NEO 16 (E23) with an RTX 4070 unit, things start looking much different when it comes to choosing one of the higher-end Nvidia GPUs for the next-generation laptop An extra €1,050 (US$1,128) has to be coughed up for a NEO 16 with an RTX 4080 while a whopping €1,687 (US$1,812) is added to the base price for a unit sporting the RTX 4090 Laptop GPU. This leaves the NEO 16 price list for the European market looking like this (all variants come with the Intel Core i9-13900HX):
- XMG NEO 16 with RTX 4060 (8 GB GDDR6/115 W TGP): €2,199 (US$2,362)
- XMG NEO 16 with RTX 4070 (8 GB GDDR6/115 W TGP): €2,574 (US$2,765)
- XMG NEO 16 with RTX 4080 (12 GB GDDR6/150 W TGP): €3,249 (US$3,491)
- XMG NEO 16 with RTX 4090 (16 GB GDDR6/150 W TGP): €3,886 (US$4,175)
It’s a giant leap to take from buying a gaming laptop that costs just under the equivalent of US$2,500 to one that costs a considerable amount over the equivalent of US$4,000. But, of course, there is a big difference between the GeForce RTX 4060 and the RTX 4090, with the former sporting 3,072 CUDA cores compared to the latter’s monstrous 9,728 cores. Whether it’s enough of a performance difference to justify the additional €1,687 (US$1,812) for an RTX 4090 laptop will have to be decided by the individual customer. Pre-orders for the XMG NEO 16 (E23) commence at 15:00 CET on February 1.
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