ASUS TUF Gaming 15.6" FX505DV-EH54 Stealth Black 2020

Great GPU trapped in an aging chassis. The RTX 2060 still has legs, but the Ryzen 5 3550H is a bottleneck that'll frustrate you in modern games.

The RTX 2060 is the star here, landing in the 77th percentile for GPUs in our database. That's genuinely impressive for a laptop at this price point. But the Ryzen 5 3550H sits way down in the 18th percentile for CPUs, and you'll feel that bottleneck in CPU-heavy games and everyday multitasking. The 16GB of RAM is fine, but it's in the 26th percentile, which tells you most gaming laptops these days ship with more or faster memory. The 512GB NVMe SSD is about average, nothing to write home about.

The Lenovo Legion 5i 83F00008US is the obvious alternative if you want a modern gaming laptop with a better CPU and newer GPU. The HP OMEN Transcend 14 is lighter and has a much better display, though it costs more. If you're on a tight budget and find this used for cheap, the MSI Raider offers similar performance with better build quality. The Apple MacBook Pro M4 Pro is in a completely different league for creators, but it's also triple the price and won't run most PC games natively.

At $925 USD, this is a tough sell in 2024. The RTX 2060 is still capable, but the CPU is ancient by modern standards. You can find newer laptops with RTX 3050 or 3060 GPUs and much better processors for similar money. The 120Hz screen is the main saving grace, but it's not enough to overcome the aging platform.

The ASUS TUF Gaming FX505DV is a weird mix of old and new. You get an RTX 2060, which is still a solid 1080p gaming GPU, but it's paired with a Ryzen 5 3550H that was already showing its age when this thing launched. The 120Hz screen is nice, but the 250 nits brightness means you won't want to use it near a window. It's a budget gaming laptop that punches above its weight in some areas and trips over its own feet in others.

If you're buying new, skip this. The Ryzen 5 3550H is a bottleneck that'll annoy you in anything CPU-intensive, and the dim screen is a dealbreaker for anyone who works near windows. Get a Lenovo Legion 5i or HP OMEN with a newer CPU instead. If you're a VR user, the lack of DisplayPort is a hard no, look at the MSI Raider or anything with a proper video output.

The ASUS TUF FX505DV was a decent budget gaming laptop when it launched, but time hasn't been kind to it. The Ryzen 5 3550H is a real bottleneck, and the dim screen and lack of DisplayPort are annoying compromises. If you can find it used for under $600, it might be worth it for the RTX 2060 alone. Otherwise, save your money for something newer.