Best Gaming Laptops 2025: Tested, benchmarked and reviewed

Whether you want to take your rig on the road, carry it to the couch, or just save space on your desk, a gaming laptop packs PC graphics performance into a compact, portable form factor. The market is loaded with choices that come with screens ranging from 14 to 18 inches graphics cards that can handle a variety of resolutions and options for any budget, from entry-level up to maxed out, multi-thousand dollar rigs The best gaming laptops often come with fancy RGB lights, high refresh rate panels and, sometimes, even mechanical keyboards.

To help you choose the right gaming laptop, we test many models each year, benchmarking them in popular games like Cyberpunk 2077 and Red Dead Redemption 2.
For those on a tight gaming budget, we also have dedicated pages for the best gaming laptops under $1,500 and the best gaming laptops under $1,000.

We’ve started testing the latest components for 2025, including Intel’s latest Core Ultra CPUs and Nvidia’s “Blackwell” mobile GPUs. While we’re always excited for the next generation of gaming notebooks, those RTX 50-series GPUs haven’t made our list yet. Our review of the Razer Blade 16 revealed some driver issues that we’re waiting for Nvidia to fix. We’re testing more and hope to see those updated soon so that we can add more new picks to this page.

We’re also seeing a renaissance in integrated graphics in gaming handhelds, which might lead some companies to see how far they can push systems without discrete GPUs altogether. That means over the next few months, we should see a bunch of refreshed gaming laptops for playing on the go.