Latest Best Gaming Laptops We've Reviewed In 2025 So Far
These are the top 10 gaming laptops we've benchmarked and tested ourselves.
The best gaming laptop can mean different things to different people, but it's something we spend a lot of time thinking about and testing ourselves on PC Gamer. In fact, of all the hundreds of products we prod, poke, and benchmark throughout the year, gaming laptops make up around 10% of the total we test.
So, we know our silicon onions when it comes to mobile machines for making good with the gaming. Each and every gaming laptop that crosses our path gets put through the same rigorous process, where we test gaming and productivity performance with a curated set of benchmarks, and monitor power and thermals, too. And, because we test a ton of them, we can compare each against all the gaming laptops that have gone before.
In this list right here are all the highest-rated machines we've scored over 80% so far this year, with links to their full reviews, and all the benchmarking data you could wish for. And we'll keep adding them as they keep on making good ones.
We have individually and independently tested 48 of the best gaming laptops in the past two years.
💻 RTX 5050 - Acer Nitro V 16 AI | $629 at Walmart💻 RTX 5060 - Lenovo Legion 5 | $1,000 @ Walmart💻 RTX 5070 - Gigabyte Gaming A16 | $1,180 @ Newegg💻 RTX 5070 Ti - MSI Vector 16 HX | $1,299 @ Walmart💻 RTX 5080 - MSI Vector 16 HX AI | $1,900 @ Best Buy
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"This is the first gaming laptop that has been able to deliver the sort of all-round PC experience that would have me consider ditching both my work laptop and my desktop gaming PC. And that is saying something. The Blade 16 is a genuinely lovely device, that can deliver whether plugged into a wall socket or running on its battery."
"This gaming laptop is ideal for those who want to be able to take their laptop around with them and use it for more than just gaming. Its subtle design and form factor make it very portable, and its RTX 5060 GPU has surprisingly strong gaming chops, especially with frame gen enabled. You can probably get a little better performance for cheaper, but probably not in such a great form factor and premium chassis."
"The new Legion chassis looks good, and the performance is absolutely top-notch. But it's the level of customisation that sings to me,
Source: PC Gamer
