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Alienware 18 Area-51 RTX 5080 (2025)
Alienware 18 Area-51 RTX 5080 (2025) is a desktop replacement released in January 2025. Key specs: graphics card GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop, GPU power (TGP) 175 W, processor Core Ultra 9 275HX, screen size 18″.
7.7Score
Graphics7.4
Overall performance7.6
Display7.5
Memory & storage4.2
Battery & portability4.3
Features & cooling9.4
price range$5,300–6,600Reference price converted from EUR
- Released
- January 2025
- Brand
Alienware- Popularity
- #193 of 1,608
GeForce RTX 5080 LaptopGraphics card
175 WGPU power (TGP)
Core Ultra 9 275HXProcessor
18″Screen size
300 HzRefresh rate
32 GBRAM (up to)
96 WhBattery capacity
4.34 kgWeight
Spec guide
How it ranks among desktop replacements of 2025
GPU power (TGP) · 175 WTop 11%Screen size · 18″Top 10%Refresh rate · 300 HzTop 5%RAM (up to) · 32 GBBottom 42%Battery capacity · 96 WhTop 23%Weight · 4.34 kgBottom 1%
Compared with desktop replacements released in 2025. Bars show the share of models it beats.
compared with other desktop replacements
Why is 18 Area-51 RTX 5080 (2025) a good choice?
Refresh rate: 300 Hzbetter than 86% of desktop replacements
GPU power (TGP): 175 Wbetter than 70% of desktop replacements
3DMark Steel Nomad Light: 26,775better than 76% of desktop replacements
Thickness: 24 mmbetter than 87% of desktop replacements
CPU cores: 24better than 72% of desktop replacements
Video memory: 16 GBbetter than 70% of desktop replacements
Weak points
RAM (up to): 32 GBworse than 95% of desktop replacements
Weight: 4.34 kgworse than 99% of desktop replacements
SSD (up to): 2,000 GBworse than 83% of desktop replacements
Specifications
Full specifications
Graphics
- GPU maker
- NVIDIA
- GPU power (TGP)
- 175 W
- Video memory
- 16 GB
- GPU shader cores
- 7,680
- GPU compute (FP32)
- 42 TFLOPS
- 3DMark Steel Nomad Light
- 26,775
Display
- Screen size
- 18″
- Resolution
- 2560 × 1600
- Refresh rate
- 300 Hz
- Brightness
- 500 nits
- sRGB coverage
- 100%
- Response time
- 3 ms
- DCI-P3 coverage
- 96%
- Pixel density
- 168 ppi
- Aspect ratio
- 16:10
- G-Sync / FreeSync
- Yes
- Advanced Optimus
- Yes
- MUX switch
- Yes
- HDR
- Yes
- Touchscreen
- No
Memory & storage
- RAM (up to)
- 32 GB
- RAM (base)
- 32 GB
- RAM speed
- 6,400 MHz
- Max. supported RAM
- 96 GB
- RAM slots
- 2
- Upgradable RAM
- Yes
- SSD (up to)
- 2,000 GB
- SSD (base)
- 2,000 GB
- M.2 SSD slots
- 3
- SSD interface
- PCIe 5.0 x4
Battery & power
- Battery capacity
- 96 Wh
- Power adapter
- 360 W
- USB-C charging (Power Delivery)
- Yes
Design & cooling
- Weight
- 4.34 kg
- Thickness
- 24 mm
- Width
- 410 mm
- Depth
- 320 mm
- Body material
- Aluminium
- Colours
- Green
- Cooling fans
- 4
- Vapor chamber cooling
- Yes
- Liquid metal (CPU)
- No
- Fan noise (max. load)
- 55.9 dB
Ports & wireless
- Thunderbolt or USB4
- Yes
- USB-C ports
- 2
- USB-A ports
- 3
- HDMI
- HDMI 2.1
- HDMI 2.1
- Yes
- (Mini) DisplayPort
- No
- Ethernet port
- Yes
- SD card reader
- Yes
- 3.5 mm audio jack
- Yes
- Wi-Fi standard
- Wi-Fi 7
- Bluetooth
- 5.4
Keyboard & camera
- Backlit keyboard
- Yes
- Numeric keypad
- Yes
- Webcam
- 1,080p
- IR camera (face login)
- Yes
- Fingerprint reader
- No
Audio
- Speakers
- 4 speakers
- Dolby Atmos
- Yes
Specs are collected from manufacturers and open databases and normalised to one format; check details with the seller before you buy.
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