The Best Gaming Laptops In The World Learnonlinee
It used to be that the best gaming laptops were those that had Intel Core i7 processors, 8GB of RAM and any discrete graphics imaginable. Gaming laptops were so few and far between that it wasn’t a matter of whether they were good or not. Instead, the only question that lingered was, “Can it run Crysis?”
Gaming laptops have come a long way in recent years. No longer is a massive jet engine or two required to cope with the heat output of mobile graphics chips. As such, notebooks have slimmed down considerably to offer desktop-class graphics in an actually-portable form factor.
This is thanks in large part to Nvidia's Pascal GPUs. The 10-series of graphics cards are more powerful and efficient than ever. With higher clockspeeds and lower temperature output than previous generations, it's now possible to pack GTX 1060 and 1070 GPUs into laptops that measure around or sometimes less than an inch thick. Even better, those 10-series cards aren't tuned-down mobile variants but rather every bit as powerful as their desktop counterparts. Taking things a step further, Nvidia's new Max-Q design philosophy does sacrifice a bit of performance to get power draw even lower. These systems are thin, light, and quiet, yet still powerful. You'll find our favorite pick in that category here, and we have a dedicated Max-Q buying guide as well.
Hailing in Coffee Lake to the world of the best gaming laptops, the MSI GS65 packs a ton of power into a very unassuming package. Rocking an 8th-generation Intel Core i7-8750H CPU and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 GPU, there’s nothing that can stand in the way of this laptop. And, what’s better, thanks to its subdued design, you’ll be able to bring this power out wherever you go without having to hide your nerdy pastimes.
Just as impressive, laptop screens are getting closer and closer in feature set to their desktop counterparts. Features such as high refresh rates, 1440p or 4K resolutions, and G-Sync technology are no longer limited to the tabletop form factor. And perhaps best of all, a modest combination of these features and performance can be had at non-insane price points.
Not really, no. While the new Core i7 and Core i9 processors that we tested performed incredibly on CPU benchmarks, on gaming tests, they were mostly neck and neck with laptops running 7th Gen Intel processors.
For example, the Core i9-wielding Aorus X9, paired with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080, ran Rise of the Tomb Raider at 1080p and Very High settings at 73 frames per second, tying the Razer Blade Pro with a Core i7-7820HK CPU and the same GPU. Both had the same 32GB of RAM. The Alienware 17 R4, with the same CPU and GPU as the Blade Pro but 16GB of RAM, ran the game at 62 fps.
