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.

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.

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.

• Asus ROG Strix Scar 17 — RTX 4090, averages 199fps across the 3 core games its review does cover
• Lenovo Legion Pro 7i 16 Gen 10 — RTX 5080, averages 180fps across the 4 core games its review does cover
• Alienware m18 R1 — RTX 4090, averages 179fps across the 3 core games its review does cover
• Lenovo Legion 9 — RTX 4090, averages 178fps across the 3 core games its review does cover
• Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 2023 — RTX 4090, averages 177fps across the 3 core games its review does cover
• Razer Blade 16 2024, RTX — RTX 4090, averages 176fps across the 3 core games its review does cover
• Eurocom Raptor X17 — RTX 4090, averages 173fps across the 3 core games its review does cover
• Razer Blade 16 Early 2023 RTX — RTX 4090, averages 173fps across the 3 core games its review does cover