It is of course not the most powerful laptop but it is the best you can buy at a reasonable price. This HP Victus 15.6 is the most affordable option for you. Now Best Buy is offering the HP Victus 15 (Model: 15-fa0031 dx) just at $549 which is almost a price down of $250 dollars from its previous price and it was considered to be one of the best gaming laptops under $1500. 

The hardware inside the HP Victus 15 consists of an 8-core 12th Generation Intel i5-12450H processor having 4 P-cores and 4 E-cores with 12 threads and a max turbo frequency of 4.40GHz. This processor is enough to run any latest game and it won't be a bottleneck for the GPU. 

As far as graphics is concerned, the Victus 15 is powered by Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 mobile GPU with 4GB of GDDR5 VRAM. This is a modest GPU that does not let you play modern AAA titles such as Cyberpunk 2077 with all sliders maxed. But without any problem this chip can handle most of the games at medium settings only with a boost clock of 1560MHz.  

For the screen, it has a 15.6-inch IPS panel with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 (FHD) and a refresh rate of 144Hz. The high refresh rate makes this a great low-priced choice for Esports gamers as well. 

The other features of this laptop include Bang & Olufsen audio for its twin speaker setup, a backlit keyboard for low-light gaming and also a decent selection of ports. There's also an HDMI 2.1 output and 3x USB 3.0 ports comprising 2x USB 3.0 Type A, and 1x USB 3.0 Type C. 

So, we can conclude that this is an impressive budget gaming laptop and especially at such a low price like this.