Gaming laptop

markwilliams82

markwilliams82

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I’ve got myself a gaming pc but my wife would like to get into the gaming world as I was showing her some of the games coming out over the next few months

She loves role playing games so the new Fable will be on her playlist

I was going to set her up next to me but rather than a pc that takes up more room which we’re lacking, I thought about a laptop

Are there good gaming laptops out there capable of playing top games? Any recommendations?

she’ll connect up to a monitor, probably 4k to mirror what I have but doubt she’ll worry about running everything at ultra settings
 
What resolution and budget are we talking? Is the laptop going to need to move at all in general?

You could also consider a NUC to mount to the back of the monitor, but given prices that might be less of a budget thing and more of a convenience thing (A laptop still has to be put somewhere and running it with the lid closed on something like gaming is not recommended).
 
Haven’t thought of a budget yet, was just an idea at the moment

Or a micro pc build maybe

Probably wouldn’t move much but would have liked to save space by having the lid closed when connected to the screen
 
Budget is critical here as anything from a ~£800 5060 equipped laptop to a ~£5000 MSI Titan (5090) will technically work. The former will struggle at 4K whilst the latter may be complete overkill for everything (settings dependant). Game, settings, resolution and FPS tolerance all matter.

For desktop comparison purposes a decent 5060 equipped laptop (i.e. one that has a decent CPU and full power GPU) will perform roughly in line with a desktop 5060 whilst a laptop 5090 (again full power with decent CPU) is more around a desktop 5070-5070Ti tier.

For context I have a Strix G614 with a Ryzen 8940HX (7950X @ 100w) and max TGP RTX 5070Ti (M). The general performance is somewhere in the 4070-5070 range thus it can happily churn its way through 1440p High/ultra settings with a little DLSS help here and there to keep in the 80+ FPS range. This laptop is in the £1500-2000 range when it comes to price, the Strix trending in the middle due to its overall feature set. Anything below a 5070Ti (M) will not be suited to AAA Games @ 1440p+ resolutions combined with High/ultra settings and wanting more than 60FPS constantly. Partly this is down to the lack of raw GPU grunt and also due to the fact they have 8GB (or less) or VRAM. There is meant to be a 12GB variant of the 5070(M), but it doesn't have any performance uplift outside of VRAM hungry games vs the normal 8GB 5070(M).

I would check out Jarod Tech on Youtube for some decent laptop overviews / reviews. He generally shows everything that matters when it comes to looking for a laptop and gives you some indication of the performance that can be expected from a given spec. Good thing to note is he will show the variance you can see between similarly spec'd devices (e.g. whether the device has a full power variant of the GPU or not (looking at your Gigabyte A16Pro...).
 
There are absolutely loads of gaming laptops out there capable of this, the budget is a massive factor when it comes to enjoyability and feature sets. Is a £5000 laptop going to be able to do it better than a £800 one? Of course it is. Similar to building PCS your budget ultimately decides what you get.
 
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