If there’s one section of PC gaming hardware that’s impressed us this year it’s been the selection of gaming laptops that have crossed our test benches over the past twelve months. It’s not just all about Nvidia’s RTX 40-series cards getting shrunk down to fit inside a notebook form factor either, as AMD has released some of the best mobile hardware it’s ever created.
Just don’t ask about its actual mobile graphics cards, because we’ve struggled to see hide nor silicon hair of one through the entirety of 2024. Even when it launched that absolute best laptop gaming CPU—finally dropping its 3D V-cache tech into mobile processors—it was paired with an Nvidia GPU in the only notebook to use it.
It’s also not just the high-end which has seen a swathe of new mobile hardware either, and we’re almost more excited about the performance now on offer in the budget gaming laptop market. In fact we’d actually recommend you completely avoid the highest of high-end hardware as the mobile RTX 4090 is often so thermally constrained that it doesn’t perform any better than a far cheaper RTX 4080 laptop.
But at the budget end you have RTX 4060 machines, and some similarly performing RTX 4050 systems, on offer for relatively little cash. And these will still come with decent SSDs and plenty of RAM, and will smash most games at 1080p with some very high graphical settings. The following are our favourite gaming laptops of the year, each with a shot at getting a coveted PC Gamer Hardware Award.
Best gaming laptop 2023: the nominees
The winner of the PC Gamer Hardware Award for the best gaming laptop will be announced on New Year’s Eve. It’s all to play for, and any one of these three is completely deserving of the crown.
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- Source: https://www.pcgamer.com/pc-gamer-hardware-awards-the-best-gaming-laptops-of-2023
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