Holiday Gift Guide 2025: the best gifts for gamers from ROG and TUF Gaming

The odds are pretty good that you have a loved on your holiday shopping list who loves gaming. After all, 65% of Americans call themselves gamers. To give them a truly jaw-dropping present this holiday season, you might be thinking about supporting their favorite hobby with a gaming-related present. But if you’re not a gamer yourself — or if it’s been a little while since you last checked in on the PC gaming scene — you might be unsure about which gift will truly bring the holiday joy. Not to fear. In this holiday gift guide, we’ll introduce you to some of the most coveted gear from ROG and TUF gaming in 2025, covering a wide range of styles, preferences, and price points, so that you can find the best gift for that gamer in your life.

A practical, affordable stocking stuffer

We’ll kick off this holiday gift guide with an incredibly practical choice for not only gamers, but anyone who routinely transfers lots of data from one device to another. Meet the TUF Gaming A2 portable SSD enclosure.

It works like this. You pop open the TUF Gaming A2, install a standard M.2 storage drive, plug it into one of your devices via a USB Type-C cable, and you’ll have fast access to a big storage library. Being able to install your own drive gives you exact control over the speed and capacity of the drive, and many users love how it lets them repurpose an M.2 SSD from an older desktop PC or laptop. The enclosure itself is built like a tank, offering robust protection for the drive so that it’s ready to endure the bumps and bruises of life on the move. And since the TUF Gaming A2 is so compact, it’ll pack up in your loved one’s laptop bag as easily as it’ll slip into their holiday stocking.

With broad compatibility across PC, mobile devices, and the latest game consoles, the TUF Gaming A2 is perfect for anyone looking to maintain an extensive library of games. And since it’s only $59.99 (USD), it’s a wallet-friendly gift ready to make a big impact.

A powerful gaming laptop that’s ready to move

Shopping for a loved one who needs powerful PC performance that’s ready to pick up and go at any moment? Let’s get them rolling with an ROG Zephyrus laptop. This series is built from the ground up to deliver outstanding power in a slim, professional designs.

One of our favorites in 2025 is the ROG Zephyrus G16. As a 16-inch laptop, it offers plenty of screen space while still fitting easily into most satchels and backpacks. It’ll immerse your loved one into gaming worlds through its vibrant 240Hz OLED Nebula Display, while its ROG Intelligent Cooling tech will keep the potent internal components operating at comfortable temperatures without producing undue fan noise. We offer this snowy-white laptop in a variety of configurations, but for most users we think that the version with an Intel Core Ultra 9 285H CPU and a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU is an excellent choice.

Set the stage for an eye-catching white-themed PC

Many of our favorite gifts for gamers share a common theme: a white colorway. Not only are snowy white hues on-theme for the holiday season, but the pristine surfaces of this PC gear are perfect for capturing and reflecting the multicolored RGB LED illumination that so many gamers love.

No piece of gear sets the aesthetic style of a PC more than the case, and no PC case makes a bolder statement for a white-themed build than the ROG Strix Helios II.

This EATX gaming case has more than enough internal space to install the latest high-performance components on the market while leaving enough space for an easy building experience. It has wide vents in the diamond-grille design front panel, support for extra-large AIO coolers, and four pre-installed case fans for great out-of-the-box airflow. And it’s a looker, too, with its dual tempered glass side panels, integrated woven case straps, refined brushed-aluminum frame, and attention-grabbing front panel.

Game-changing ROG OLED monitor goodness for a great price

The most coveted gaming monitors on the market wield OLED panel technology to deliver supremely inky blacks, vibrant colors, and exceptional clarity in fast-paced action. One of our favorites is the ROG Strix OLED XG27AQDMG, a premium OLED gaming monitor that’s available for a mainstream price.

In a comfortably sized 27-inch frame, the XG27AQDMG gives you a 2560×1440 resolution and a fast 240Hz refresh rate. For commanding control of digital battlefields, it offers a 0.03ms response time that keeps fast-paced action crystal clear. Part of what makes it so special is the combination of a WOLED panel with a glossy coating. This pairing means that your loved one will get high-contrast, vibrant images even in rooms with high ambient light. If this monitor will see use at any time of the day, the ROG Strix OLED XG27AQDMG is an excellent choice.

Deck out an ROG Xbox Ally X with these gaming accessories

One of the hottest PC gaming gifts this holiday season is the ROG Xbox Ally X. This PC gaming handheld allows you to play all your Windows 11 PC games in a handheld format that’s built for gaming on the couch, on a plane, or anywhere that the mood strikes.

But perhaps the gamer on your shopping list has already secured one of these coveted PC gaming handhelds. In that situation, consider boosting their experience with some key peripherals. For gaming outside their home, they’ll want a headset or earbuds, so consider the ROG Delta II gaming headset. Available in either black or white, this headset blends impeccable comfort with immersive audio. Tri-mode connectivity keeps it flexible for play with PCs, consoles, smartphones, handhelds, and more, and the soundstage is tuned for pinpoint precision. Every footstep, spell cast, or guitar riff lands exactly as intended.

The ROG Xbox Ally X has a key trick up its sleeve. Back at home, you can hook up a monitor and peripherals and use it just like a desktop gaming PC. A great option is the ROG Harpe II Ace, a gaming mouse that offers esports-grade precision in a lightweight, minimalist shell. Built in collaboration with professional players, it makes every move feel effortless.

Your loved one will need a keyboard to go with that mouse, so take a look at the ROG Azoth X mechanical keyboard. It has more than enough visual style to make a big splash as a holiday gift, and it backs up that aesthetic statement with premium typing and gaming experiences. Featuring stellar-themed ROG keycaps that are semi-translucent on three sides, a customizable OLED display, and a cool white colorway, this custom gaming keyboard will proudly distinguish itself on any desk or blend into a snowy battlestation with ease.

Boost their gaming power with a new graphics card

Perhaps you’re shopping for a gamer who hasn’t upgraded their desktop PC in a couple years. Let’s bring their PC gaming experiences to the next level with a new graphics card.

Here’s a card that’s ready to deliver years of gaming experiences: the TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 5070 Ti White Edition. It’s draped in frosty white with metallic accents, setting your loved one up for a showcase PC. Its generous 16GB of GDDR7 empowers it to handle any game on the market at high resolutions, while key cooling innovations ensure cool-running, long-lasting performance.

Give the gift of great networking

Too many gamers these days struggle with poor wireless networking. They deal with WIFi dead zones, networking interference, and networks congested with more devices than their aging routers were built to handle. That puts them in a position where they’d rather run Ethernet cables across their home or apartment rather than take advantage of the convenience of a wireless connection.

This holiday season, let’s fix all that in one fell swoop. The ROG Strix GS-BE18000 uses cutting-edge WiFi 7 tech to deliver seamless, low-latency connections across the board. Your loved one can use the ROG-exclusive Gaming Network to easily prioritize the traffic of their gaming devices. This router offers 20G of wired capacity, too, ensuring a great connection for all devices with room to grow.

ROG Carnyx gaming microphone

If you’re shopping for a loved one who plays squad-based multiplayer games, a good microphone is a key component of their arsenal. To ensure that their voice is heard loud and clear, let’s set them up with a new gaming microphone.

The ROG Carnyx brings studio-grade clarity to any setup, capturing every word with crisp detail and rich tone. This professional cardioid condenser gaming microphone delivers natural and rich sound through its 25mm condenser, and it ensures clean recordings thanks to its high-pass filter, built-in pop filter, and metal shock mount. Whether your loved one is deep in competitive comms or starting a streaming journey, your loved one will enjoy the Carnyx’s elegant design and broadcast-quality sound.

A motherboard that’s ready for the holiday season

Here’s a tried-and-true approach for holiday shopping for a gamer: build a PC together. It doesn’t matter whether it’s you or them that’s the veteran builder. The time you spend together making a plan, picking parts, and assembling the PC will create memories that you’ll never forget, and the end result will be a PC that takes their hobbies, work, entertainment, and everyday computing to new heights.

With this approach to holiday gift-giving, we don’t actually recommend surprising your loved one with an unannounced PC component or two. It’s very likely that they’ll have preferences that you might not know about. But we will point out that you can very much stay on the holiday theme with your component choices. All along in this guide, we’ve been focusing on white-themed PC parts, and we’ll do the same here. The ROG Strix X870-A Gaming WiFi, to name just one example, provides a platform that’s ready for the most sought-after AMD CPUs on the market, and it’s draped in luscious white and silver accents.