Pc Gamer Hardware Awards 2025: All The Winners From A Bumper 12...
We've had our hands on the absolute best PC hardware the industry has had to offer in this bountiful year, and these are the winners.
1. Best gaming laptop: Razer Blade 162. Best gaming monitor: KTC H27T22C-33. Best gaming handheld: Lenovo Legion Go S SteamOS4. Best SSD: WD Black SN8100 2 TB NVMe SSD5. Best CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D6. Best motherboard: Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite Ice7. Best gaming keyboard: Be Quiet! Light Mount8. Best gaming mouse: Corsair Sabre V2 Pro Ultralight9. Best gaming headset: Razer BlackShark V310. Best gaming mic: Amazon Basics USB condenser11. Best graphics card: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT12. The wildcard: Razer Wolverine V3 Pro 8K PC
This past year has been a fascinating one for PC gaming hardware. I don't think 2025 is going to go down as a vintage year for the tech of our favourite hobby, but that doesn't mean we've been without either fantastic new toys to play with or new spins on gaming technology to throw at our games.
Inevitably the biggest thing to happen to PCs in 2025 was two whole new generations of graphics cards launching from AMD and Nvidia respectively. Both had a lot to offer and both had a heap of problems—though interestingly they were largely more to do with marketing and product positioning than actual hardware issues.
Well, I say that, but the RTX Blackwell launch was the first time in a good few GPU generations I've seen Nvidia really drop the ball on its driver support. We saw black screens and flaky cards far more often than in previous launches. On the AMD side it should have been an easy victory, but ultra-limited stock and frankly offensive price gouges really soured the RDNA 4 launch for a lot of PC gamers.
Still, here we are ready to hit 2025 and the GPUs are bountiful and largely available around their original MSRP... but maybe not for long. The spectre of the RAMpocalypse looms large over PC gaming, though thankfully not yet for the brilliant gaming laptops of this year, and the outstanding peripherals we've tested in 2025 aren't going to be hit in the same way as the doubling, tripling, quadrupling RAM prices.
Throughout the holidays we've been nominating our very favourite bits of gaming hardware that we've tested over the past year, but today I get the great pleasure of announcing which of these peak PC bits get the coveted PC Gamer Hardware Awards for 2025.
"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
Source: PC Gamer
