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Best gaming laptop £1,600+

16 laptops in the database fall in this band. Alienware 16X Aurora Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus scores highest at 6.3/10.

Why Alienware 16X Aurora Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus takes it

Assassin's Creed Shadows
71
Baldur's Gate 3
162
Black Myth: Wukong
73
Cyberpunk 2077
126
Dota 2
200
F1 24
268
Final Fantasy XV
161
GTA V
185
Strange Brigade
281
X-Plane 11
110

How these numbers were produced

Frame rates here are not measured by us, and we label how each one was arrived at. A figure marked measured comes from a published run on that exact machine. A figure marked representative is derived from the GPU and its power limit (TGP) and cross-referenced against published reviews - a sound estimate of what that configuration delivers, but not a measurement of that specific laptop. Unless stated otherwise, numbers are 1920x1080, High preset, upscaling off. Where a laptop ships in several power configurations we use the wattage of the exact SKU listed, because a 140W RTX 5070 and a 115W one are not the same product.