The fast end
What is the fastest gaming laptop you can buy?
The quickest machine we hold comparable figures for is the Schenker XMG Neo 16 A25, averaging 201fps across our five-game suite at 1080p High with upscaling off.
But you probably can't buy it. It has no UK listing we can confirm. The fastest machine you can actually put in a basket is the Medion Erazer Beast 16 X1 Ultimate at 173fps, £4,884.
The fifteen quickest, measured the same way
Every machine below was averaged over the identical five games, so the column means something. Frame rates are sourced, not ours — see how we do this.
| # | Laptop | GPU | Power | Mean fps | UK price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Schenker XMG Neo 16 A25 | RTX 5090 | — | 201 | no UK listing |
| 2 | Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 | RTX 5090 | 175W | 180 | no UK listing |
| 3 | Lenovo Legion 9 18IAX10 RTX | RTX 5090 | — | 180 | no UK listing |
| 4 | MSI Raider 16 Max HX | RTX 5090 | 175W | 176 | no UK listing |
| 5 | Medion Erazer Beast 16 X1 Ultimate | RTX 5090 | — | 173 | £4,884 |
| 6 | Schenker XMG Neo 16 E25 RTX 5090 Laptop | RTX 5090 | 175W | 171 | no UK listing |
| 7 | Asus ROG Strix Scar 16 | RTX 5090 | — | 165 | no UK listing |
| 8 | Aorus MASTER 16 | RTX 5090 | — | 163 | £6,007 |
| 9 | Asus ROG Strix G16 | RTX 5080 | 175W | 163 | no UK listing |
| 10 | Acer Predator Helios 18 AI | RTX 5080 | — | 158 | £3,103 |
| 11 | Medion Erazer Beast 18 X1 | RTX 5080 | — | 157 | £2,499 |
| 12 | Alienware 16X Aurora Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus | RTX 5070 Ti | — | 157 | £2,569 |
| 13 | Medion Erazer Major 16 X1 | RTX 5070 Ti | 140W | 155 | £2,770 |
| 14 | MSI Crosshair A16 HX | RTX 5070 | — | 154 | no UK listing |
| 15 | Razer Blade 16 Core Ultra 9 | RTX 5090 | — | 152 | £5,000 |
It's the GPU, and then it's the power limit
Averaged across every laptop we hold a full suite for. The gap between the best and the mean inside a single tier is the part most spec sheets hide: two laptops with the same GPU are not the same laptop, because the wattage the chassis will actually let it draw differs.
| GPU | Laptops | Mean fps | Best fps |
|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 5090 | 11 | 166 | 201 |
| RTX 5080 | 4 | 150 | 163 |
| RTX 5070 Ti | 8 | 143 | 157 |
| RTX 5070 | 15 | 132 | 154 |
| RTX 5060 | 6 | 122 | 136 |
| RTX 5050 | 5 | 103 | 111 |
Machines we can't rank yet
These carry a current-generation GPU and real measured figures, but their reviews used a different slice of the test suite, so putting them in the table above would mean comparing a mean over five games against a mean over three or four. That isn't a ranking, it's an illusion — so here they are with the figures we do hold, stated for what they are.
- Lenovo Legion Pro 7i 16 Gen 10 — RTX 5080, averages 180fps across the 4 core games its review does cover
- Alienware 16 Area-51 Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus — RTX 5080, averages 168fps across the 4 core games its review does cover
- Alienware 16X Aurora, RTX — RTX 5070, averages 148fps across the 4 core games its review does cover
- Alienware 16 Area-51 — RTX 5080, averages 145fps across the 3 core games its review does cover
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.