But with so many laptops to choose from, things can get pretty complicated. To help you pick your perfect gaming laptop, we've compiled a list of the top gaming laptops, including our top picks from popular brands including Alienware, Acer, Lenovo, MSI, Razer, Dell and more. Over the course of a year, we review over laptops covering every price point and use case.
But in order to make our best gaming laptops list, the system needs to score at least 4 out of 5 stars on our reviews and deliver on the things shoppers care about most. Over the course of our evaluations, we focus on overall and gaming performance. We're also checking for design, keyboard, audio and display quality and especially value. The Alienware m17 R4 is currently our top gaming laptop. A formidable mixed of power, endurance and design, the m17 is a force to be reckoned with.
The laptop has recently been refreshed with an overclockable Core i9 10th Gen octa-core Intel processor and Nvidia's new GeForce RTX GPU, making it an undeniable powerhouse on both the multitasking and gaming fronts. Budget-conscious gamers will want to take a closer look at the new Dell G5 15 SE.
It's also got a great battery life and a slew of ports. It's a good gaming laptop overall. One of the few convertible gaming laptops out there, the notebook weighs a scant 2.
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If power and super high refresh rates are paramount, the Alienware m17 R4 is the best gaming laptop for you. The laptop gives you all the bells and whistles: the ray tracing, superior multitasking performance, a light show that would make the aliens in Close Encounters of the Third Kind feel inadequate. And with it comes a whole host of new improvements, including Ray Tracing 2. See our full Alienware m17 r4 review. Dell's cheapest gaming laptop is back and better than ever.
Combine that with great battery life, with plenty of ports and a relatively comfortable and you have a badass gaming machine. However, the G3's affordable price does come at the cost of a relatively dull Still, the G3 15 is one of the top gaming laptops you can get at its price point. See our full Dell G3 15 review. Oh, and this one has a webcam. It's easily one of the best gaming laptops you can buy.
From its performance and inch display to its battery life and clicky keyboard, this baby is worth considering if you're on the market for a gaming laptop. On the Laptop Mag battery test, the Zephyrus M16 lasted 6 hours and 34 minutes, putting it on a par with competing systems.
Overall, the Zephyrus M16 is a truly badass gaming laptop worth your time and money. The Lenovo Legion 5 Pro proves what's possible when two opposing forces come together for the greater good. Those forces are AMD and Nvidia, and the greater good is the gaming community. The Legion 5 Pro flaunts one of the best keyboards I've ever used. Paired with a comfortable typing experience is a bright and vivid inch display, a generous selection of ports and decent battery life. Best of all, the Legion 5 Pro is priced aggressively.
And what it lacks in flashy aesthetics, it makes up for with a gorgeous inch QHD display. And despite harnessing so much power, the Legion 5 Pro delivers respectable battery life.
Read our full Lenovo Legion 5 Pro review. Imagine what an all-AMD system can do. The result? You also get a lot of nifty tech focusing on balancing performance and power efficiency, with butter-smooth graphics and over 10 hours of battery life.
Alienware continues to raise the bar of what a gaming laptop can and should be. Need more? The svelte powerhouse also boasts a revamped cooling system to keep things running at optimum performance and powerful speakers. It also lasted over four hours on our battery test, which is pretty good for a gaming laptop of this caliber.
See our full Alienware X1 review. Asus has done it again. The XG Mobile is the proverbial trap card, transforming it into the dark magician of gaming laptops. It looks like the third time's the charm for Asus. In addition, you have a comfortable keyboard and a cool ROG Keystone - a magnetic encrypted key that unlocks custom lighting effects for the laptop as well a piece of storage that's locked on your hard drive. The Strix Scar III is quite the impressive gaming laptop, offering strong performance, a Hz panel, long battery life, a clicky keyboard and decent speakers.
The laptop easily barreled through our battery of tests and even managed to last over 5 hours on our battery test. Acer Predator Triton SE is a gaming laptop that's easy to carry and a serious looker to boot. It brings to the table an increasingly common inch frame with a aspect ratio display housed in a relatively compact package. Better yet, the keyboard is comfortable to use during long gaming sessions despite the laptop's thin frame.
Under the hood, this gaming rig brings the latest Nvidia RTX graphics and Intel Core 11th Gen processors, a combo that helps it punch well above its weight. That design language is in contrast to brands like Asus and Alienware where the RGB lighting on and the keys and the accents feel a bit too aggressive. The Legion 5i Pro is less glamorous but the design still conveys that this is a gaming laptop. The white colourway is what sets the gaming notebook apart from the competition.
Aside from these, the only other notable design element is the illuminated Y logo which is centred on the lid — it glows light blue when the laptop is plugged in, but there is no way to change its colour.
Although the notebook is made of plastic, I liked the Legion 5i Pro for its excellent build quality. Since this is a high-performance gaming laptop, Lenovo has added four vents on each side of the notebook and a big ventilation grill on the bottom area that keeps the device cool when running graphics-heavy games. The laptop remains quiet while doing regular computing work, but the fans crank up when you start playing games.
The Legion 5i Pro has plenty of ports and most of them are located on the back of the notebook. The SDXC slot for transferring photos and videos from a camera is missing, however. The inch display on the Legion 5i Pro is beautiful. The aspect ratio squeezes more screen, so a bit less scrolling when reading The Indian Express. Photos and videos popped up with bold colours, while the text looked clear. If you want to play games at a high refresh rate, the Legion 5i Pro also supports a Hz refresh rate.
The benefits of a high refresh screen are also visible when scrolling down web pages or flipping through a photo gallery. The model I tested lacked a touchscreen, but it did support Dolby Vision. Interestingly, the small area that houses the webcam is elevated above the display. The Max-Q 3. But it's not Nvidia Ampere's power without compromise, however. MSI has had to be a little parsimonious about its power demands to pack something as performant as an RTX into an 18mm thin chassis.
But it is still an astonishingly powerful slice of mobile graphics silicon. It can get a little loud, but thankfully, you have the benefits of all the Nvidia Max-Q 3. This includes Whisper Mode 2. The GS66 also comes with an outstanding Hz p panel, which perfectly matches the powerful GPU when it comes to games. Sure, you'll have to make some compromises compared to an RTX you might find in a hulking workstation, but the MSI GS66 Stealth is a genuinely slimline gaming laptop.
Yes, it's expensive, but this is the pinnacle of high-end gaming. There's absolutely no question you can buy a much more sensible gaming laptop than this, but there is something about the excesses of the ROG Strix Scar 17 that make it incredibly appealing. It feels like everything about it has been turned up to 11, from the overclocked CPU—which is as beastly as it gets—to the gorgeously speedy Hz screen. Asus has pushed that little bit harder than most to top our gaming laptop benchmarks. And top the benchmarks of the best gaming laptops it does, thanks in the main to the GeForce RTX that can be found beating away at its heart.
This is the W version of Nvidia's top Ampere GPU, which means it's capable of hitting the kind of figures thinner machines can only dream of. The inch chassis means the components have a bit more room to breathe compared to the competition too, and coupled with the excellent cooling system, you're looking at a cool and quiet slice of gaming perfection. This extra space has allowed Asus to squeeze an optomechanical keyboard onto the Scar 17, which is a delight for gaming and more serious pursuits.
Best gaming PC : the top pre-built machines from the pros Best gaming laptop : perfect notebooks for mobile gaming. It may not be the best gaming laptop, but it's one of the best value machines around. The new and improved Helios has a Hz IPS screen and smaller bezels, putting it more in line with sleek thin-and-lights than its more bulky brethren of the previous generation.
The only real drawback is the diminutive SSD, although the laptop has slots for two SSDs and an HDD, which makes upgrading your storage as easy as getting a screwdriver. Read our full Acer Predator Helios review. When it comes to gaming, the obvious answer is the graphics card, but that's where things have gotten a little more complicated recently.
With GPU performance now so dependent on cooling, you have to pay attention to what wattage a graphics card is limited to and what chassis it's squeezed into. As we said at the top, an RTX confined in an 18mm chassis will perform markedly slower than one in a far chunkier case with room for higher performance cooling. That really depends on what you want to do with your laptop.
An 8-core, thread AMD Ryzen chip will allow you to do a whole load of productivity on the road, but honestly, it will have little benefit in gaming. That's one of the reasons Intel has launched its Tiger Lake H35 chips; they're quad-core, 8-thread CPUs, but they're clocked high to deliver high-end gaming performance when paired with something like the RTX This will arguably have the most immediate impact on your choice of the build.
Picking the size of your screen basically dictates the size of your laptop. A inch machine will be a thin-and-light ultrabook, while a inch panel almost guarantees workstation stuff. At inches, you're looking at the most common size of the gaming laptop screen. We love high refresh rate screens here, and while you cannot guarantee your RTX will deliver fps in the latest games, you'll still see a benefit in general look and feel running a Hz display.
The standard p resolution means that the generally slower mobile GPUs are all but guaranteed high frame rates, while companies are slowly drip-feeding p panels into their laptop ranges. A p screen offers the perfect compromise between high resolution and decent gaming performance.
At the same time, a 4K notebook will overstress your GPU and tax your eyeballs as you squint at your inch display. Your guess is as good as ours.
He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later.
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