It's 2025 and the best gaming laptops are all set to change from here on out. That's because the next-generation of notebook technology has just launched and we're getting our first tastes of both Nvidia's RTX 50-series graphics silicon in laptop form, as well as Intel's new gaming laptop-focused Arrow Lake H processors.
And I think that, while we absolutely are at the very start of this new generation we might well have seen the ultimate head-to-head already, and that has given us a new winner for the title of best gaming laptop. That's the new Razer Blade 16, and it is a stunning machine that rights all the wrongs of its previously portly chassis of the past few years. It's now a gloriously slimline machine, but still utterly on point in terms of the experience you want from a powerful notebook for gaming. It's put the latest Asus Zephyrus G16 in the shade, though that's largely down to its preference for Intel over AMD CPUs and a vastly improved Razer design.
And it actually has battery life. Yes, this is the big change for gaming laptops in 2025, they actually have decent battery life. And it's not a case of them just coming with bigger batteries, either, the Nvidia GPU architecture has been designed not for more speed but for serious power efficiency. That means the Blade 16, even with an RTX 5090 at its heart, is able to deliver over two hours of gaming on that GPU. Mix in AMD's Ryzen AI 9 300-series chips and you're looking at all-day battery life for other tasks, too.
Gaming laptops in 2025 can finally be the do-anything laptops we've always wanted them to be.
Because we are still at the start of this new generation, however, we don't have a new budget champ as yet. And might not do for a little while. For the moment, our best budget gaming laptop pick remains the RTX 4060-powered Gigabyte G6X from last year. It might be getting a little old now, but it remains a great laptop with decent specs for a reasonable price. There will be new, more affordable RTX 50-series chips coming soon, but today the RTX 4060 mobile is still the laptop GPU for the budget end of the market.
💻Razer Blade 16 vs Asus Zephyrus G16 2025 edition💻
Dave has had his head in PCs and gaming laptops for a couple of decades now, and knows what makes them tick, and what makes the best gaming laptop for every budget. Whether it's about looking for the highest performance, the best value, best screen, or just the best build quality, Dave has spent time prodding and tweaking pretty much all the laptops on this list.
Recent updates
April 8, 2025: We've added a new recommendation as the best gaming laptop overall, and that's the Razer Blade 16. We wanted to wait until we'd tested the new Asus Zephyrus G16 (which was our previous pick as best gaming laptop) so we could bring you the definitive result. They're both great machines, but the Razer has solved all our issues with the previous design, and is now a far better gaming laptop than the competing Asus. As such, that is now in our Also tested section, along with the recently reviewed Gigabyte Aorus Master 16. We have also, sadly, retired the best 15-inch section with the Razer Blade 15 no longer being made and the 16-inch form factor now taking precedence. The best laptop screen section has also been nixed, purely because the new Blade 16 has that accolade, too, being genuinely the best overall pick. Finally, I have updated our how we test section, with our updated 2025 testing process.
March 17, 2025: We've tweaked the intro to reflect the fact that RTX 50-series mobile GPUs are imminent (don't worry, we'll get to them). The 'also tested' section additionally welcomes the 2025 edition of the Asus ROG Flow Z13 to the fold.
Feburary 11, 2025: We've added in some more 'also tested' entries, and checked over our recommendations—all of which remain the same.
The quick list
The best overall
Now we've seen the new Blade 16 and Asus Zephyrus G16 laptops side-by-side we can categorically say that Razer has absolutely won this round. On all counts, the newly redesigned Blade 16 is the best gaming laptop you can buy today.
The best budget
Gigabyte has created an excellent budget gaming laptop, and while the screen could be better, it offers a nice combination of components for very reasonable money.
The best 14-inch
If a 16-inch machine is still too big for your travel requirements, then the G14 is the notebook for you. It's a lovely little device with a fantastic screen, solid specs, and tons of connectivity. The design for 2024 is absolutely gorgeous, too.
The best 17-inch
The latest Aorus 17X shows that Gigabyte has been paying attention, and has delivered a beefy 17-inch machine that we'd be happy to lug about with us. It's got a great spec, the screen is sweet, and the battery life is decent, too.
The best gaming laptop
Our favorite config:
We tested: AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 | RTX 5090 | 32 GB | 2 TB SSD
✅ You want a slimline PC equivalent of a gaming MacBook: The Razer Blade laptops have long been the embodiment of PC gaming power in a black MacBook form factor… that is until the past couple of generations. Now it's been slimmed down, the cooling has been improved, and it's an all-day machine.
✅ You want a quiet laptop: Despite housing up to an RTX 5090, the Blade 16 is surprisingly quiet even at full chat, and can game quite happily quietly, too.
✅ You're after genuine gaming laptop battery life: While not totally unprecedented, the Blade's PCMark 10 over two hours of uptime is impressive, but what's more impressive is that actual experience of gaming on battery now. It's slick, effective, and no longer restricted to 30 fps.
✅ You want the best laptop screen: There is no other gaming laptop that can match the Blade's stunning OLED display. It was the best last generation and so far we've yet to see any other device beat it.
❌ You're after a budget option: Even though Razer has tried to be far more aggressive on price this time around, there is no cheap Blade 16. This is a premium gaming laptop, and you will have to pay for that experience.
❌ You just want top perf and don't care about noise: There will absolutely be faster RTX 5090 laptops that let the fans go to top speeds, and provide an enormous chassis to deliver the ultimate cooling performance. But they will be big, loud laptops and won't match the experience of using the Blade.
🪛 The 2025 edition of the Razer Blade 16 is easily the best gaming laptop I've ever tested. It's a machine that's perfectly sized and setup for PC gaming in modern times, but also one that delivers an unprecedented level of gaming prowess away from a power socket. It's a do-anything notebook that can be your one PC to rule them all.
The new Razer Blade 16 is the best gaming laptop I've ever used, and I've been messing around with them professionally for the best part of 20 years now. But it's not about the fact I've been using an RTX 5090-powered version, and that it's simply the fastest, most powerful machine I've had the pleasure of toasting my lap. Because it's not. The real kicker, the real reason why this is the best gaming laptop is because the experience of actually using the device itself is a genuine pleasure—whether that's gaming, productivity, or just general laptopery.
The interesting thing about this new generation of gaming laptop GPU is that Nvidia hasn't—too some disdain around the internet—made the RTX 50-series notably faster than what went before with the Ada mobile GPUs. The RTX 5090 in this Blade 16 is barely any faster than the RTX 4090 of the previous generation, and I've had RTX 5080-powered machines in my hands that delivered the same frame rates; sometimes even better.
What Nvidia has done with the mobile form of the RTX Blackwell GPU architecture is make it far more efficient and effective in a laptop form factor.
So yes, it's not about the performance, it's about the experience. Which sounds like a thoroughly unsatisfying way to recommend a gaming laptop, but do give me a chance to explain. High-performance gaming laptops are rarely the sorts of mobile devices that you would want to use day-in-day-out to use for all your computing needs.
They're often super chonky, super loud, and deliver atrocious battery life. The Blade 16 is the antithesis to all of those failings, with a chassis that is has a 30% reduction in overall volume and uses a smart "thermal hood" which sits over the fans and heatsink, giving some extra space to shift air around without making the overall feel of the machine anywhere near as thick as the Blade 16 has been. We're getting back to the slimline feel of the original Blade 15 and that is a welcome return to form.
That cooling hood, and improved overall thermal design, means the Blade 16, even at full volume, doesn't get its fan noise up to the same level as something like the new Asus Zephyrus G16 or the Gigabyte Aorus Master 16 I've checked out. It is still noticeable, and you're not going to want to sit in a library with the fans on full, but it has none of the turbine whoosh of the Gigabyte or the whine of the Asus.
And even when you rein the fans in, knocking the cooling performance down a notch or two, the thing will still deliver great frame rates. Partly that's where Nvidia's new Multi Frame Generation party trick comes into its own on mobile, allowing you to dial the hardware down while still enjoying high frame rates at the same time.
That also helps on battery when you're gaming, as does the GPU architecture's ability to quickly shift gears in terms of the frequency and power draw, within the timing of a single frame, even. That efficiency delivers a huge difference in gaming away from the plug, and Nvidia's new BatteryBoost tech helps, too. Now, it will crush the in-game settings if you allow it to optimise them on its own, but it also comes with a context-aware algorithm that will drop the frame rate to 30 fps when it sees there's limited action on screen. Think something like an inventory or dialogue screen.
The speed at which the GPU can pull things back means the RTX 50-series is able to deliver both excellent frame rates on battery while still delivering genuine gaming time away from a power source.
It's worth noting the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 isn't just twiddling its thumbs, either. The AMD silicon is definitely helping with efficient battery usage, too, and offers a quality iGPU for when you're running less demanding games and want to take the discrete GPU out of the equation and really max out gaming battery life.
I will say that the Arrow Lake H CPUs are more powerful in gaming terms, and if there's a title, such as Baldur's Gate 3, which is heavily CPU-limited, then the Intel machines do pull ahead. But, they are also louder and have lower battery life numbers.
Then there's the actual machine itself. I've already noted how much slimmer the chassis design is, but it's still feels beautifully rigid—even if it is still a total fingerprint magnet—but the keyboard is soooo much better now, too. The extra travel really makes it a pleasure to type on, in a way not a lot of chiclet keyboards are. The vast trackpad from previous Blades remains, and it's just as responsive as ever, so long as your digits aren't either too dry or too sweaty.
And that screen. Oh my, there has not been another laptop screen that has impressed so much as the 1600p OLED in the Blade. Yes, it's the same as last year, but there has been no other panel that can match it. We've had other 1600p OLED panels side-by-side with it and the Blade's is absolutely best—and there aren't a ton of actual OLED panel manufacturers so there must be something to Razer's tuning and electronics going on here.
All told, the Blade 16 is the do-anything gaming laptop I've always wanted. It can game like a champ on the latest games at high resolution and frame rates, it can even do it on battery, and will do it quietly, too. But it can also be a productivity notebook I've been able to use in my day-to-day work away from the plug with no concerns about scrabbling around for a charger. It's the best gaming laptop around today, and there's going to have to be something special if another manufacturer wants to topple it.
Read our full Razer Blade 16 (2025) review.
The best budget gaming laptop
Our favorite config:
We tested: Intel Core i7 13650HX | Nvidia RTX 4060 | 32 GB DDR5-4800 | 1 TB NVMe SSD
✅ You want solid 1080p gaming performance: With a decent RTX 40-series GPU at its core and a speedy 1080p screen, the G6X offers a simple, straightforward gaming experience.
✅ You want plenty of storage: The spare NVMe SSD slot within the G6X is easily accessed. Just a couple of screws to expand your storage even further.
❌ You want silence: The fan noise on the G6X is noticeable. Like, really noticeable. That's the same as most gaming laptops, though this is definitely not on the quieter end of the spectrum.
❌ You like a detailed screen: The 16:10 aspect ratio helps a bunch here, but it's still only just over a traditional 1080p resolution. That means a lot less pixels compared to 1440p or 4K.
🪛 The Gigabyte G6X (2024) might not make a major splash with its standard specification, but it's a healthy balance of performance, power and price. That's what counts for the best budget gaming laptop.
The best budget gaming laptop is the Gigabyte G6X (2024). It takes the place of the Gigabyte G5 we had in this spot previously, mostly because it offers more affordable gaming performance but with newer, improved parts inside.
The model we reviewed contains a Core i7 13650HX, which is not actually Intel's most recent mobile gaming processor generation. However, that's an omission I'm happy to make. They're mostly the same and the six P-cores and eight E-cores on this Core i7 are plenty for your needs.
That chip is combined with a 105 W RTX 4060—that's actually a large power budget for this GPU, and that shows in the performance it delivers, as evidenced in the benchmark charts below. What's more, it's a small dose faster than the outgoing Gigabyte G5 KF I've replaced in this spot—those hardware changes do count for something in games.
Let's talk about the screen. It's a full 16 inches in size, with a 16:10 aspect ratio, 1920 x 1200 pixels, and a refresh rate of 165 Hz. It's pretty darn good, in other words.
Importantly, that screen is a good fit for the hardware beneath it. Though it does suffer from a bit of the case of the blands—that is to say, it's a bit dull and overly dark. These budget laptops often tend to suffer this fate and the G6X is no different to its predecessors on this point. Ultimately, I'd call it "perfectly average."
The noise from the fans when they're running at full bore is also quite average, which means this laptop is rather loud. That's just part of the parcel with a gaming laptop, but more so these affordable models.
The design of this laptop is pretty standard stuff, too. Though it's decisively less 'gamery' than some. A single zone of RGB LEDs illuminates the keyboard and there's room for a reasonably big trackpad. Within the chassis, you can easily access the spare NVMe slot should you wish to bolster your storage above 1TB, which you probably will, and this machine comes with two DIMM slots. In our review model, these were accommodating 32 GB of DDR5-4800—though you could save some cash on the 16 GB model and get by in games just fine. It wouldn't be difficult to swap out for a higher-capacity kit down the line.
Overall, the Gigabyte G6X offers exactly what we ask for in a budget gaming laptop. You could happily game on one right out of the box, though it's an easily upgradeable platform if required.
Read our full Gigabyte G6X (2024) review.
The best 14-inch gaming laptop
Our favorite config:
We tested: AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS | Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 | 32 GB LPDDR5X | 1 TB NVMe SSD
✅ You want a laptop for work and play: The G14 is good-looking enough to carry around to your very important meetings yet still has plenty of performance in-game.
✅ You want an OLED screen: It's all the rage nowadays, but the G14's OLED panel makes everything pop on-screen. It makes taking pictures of the screen easier, too. Games naturally look amazing.
❌ You would like the option to upgrade: The G14 sacrifices an upgrade path for its plucky new shell. That means soldered memory and just a single SSD NVMe slot. Darn.
🪛 Asus' Zephyrus G14 is deservedly one of the best gaming laptops around today. The newer 2024 model comes with many improvements over the previous one, including a lovely all-metal chassis and OLED panel. It's quite an upgrade on an already impressive machine.
The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 (2024) is the best 14-inch gaming laptop, taking the spot from the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 (2023). That might make it seem like the newer model was a shoo-in for the top position in this guide, but actually, there have been some serious design changes and improvements made to the newer model. Those which make it entirely deserving of a top spot all on its own.
The G14 2024 comes with a new all-metal chassis that is quite simply lovely. It's the chassis that has finally convinced a few of us in-office to look beyond the Razer Blade, which is famed for its all-metal construction. The metal build on the Zephyrus feels great, looks great, and importantly trims down the footprint of the Zephyrus G14 to an even more travel-friendly size. It's just 1.63 cm at its thickest point.
Now before we get to the other good bits, it's worth saying that the shrunken form factor has led Asus to sacrifice the single removable SO-DIMM slot found on previous years' G14 models. There's no longer an upgrade path for the memory. That said, 32 GB of LPDD5X is included as standard on all the available models at the time of writing.
That should see most people through for years to come, but I understand some users won't like the lack of options here. Also while you can replace the SSD, there's only one NVMe slot available, which can make transfers a pain, as you'd need to make a complete switch, SSD for SSD.
If you're still with me, let's talk about one of the G14's best features: the OLED screen. If it looks good in the gallery images above, it looks even better in person. Excellent breadth of colour and contrast make for a stunning display for gaming. The increased resolution of 2880 x 1800 and slightly larger aspect ratio at 16:10 help to prevent that compact screen from feeling too closed-in.
A surprising plus point on the G14 is its speakers, which have seen significant improvement year-on-year. There are now four tweeters and two woofers built into the G14, split on either side of the keyboard, and they sound genuinely good. Our Andy was also impressed with the Zephyrus G16's speakers, which have similarly been zhushed up with the latest laptop.
For a compact 14-inch gaming laptop, which remains one of the more desirable form factors around, there's no beating the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 2024.
Read our full Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 (2024) review.
The best 17-inch gaming laptop
Our favorite config:
We tested: Intel Core i9 14900HX | Nvidia RTX 4090 | 32 GB DDR5-4800 | 2x 1 TB SSD
✅ You actually want to game unplugged: This is a gaming laptop that I can actually call portable since you can use it unplugged for a good hour and 20 minutes. That's far longer than most gaming laptops we've tested recently.
✅ You want a big-screen lappy: That's what the 17-inch form factor is all about, and this Gigabyte delivers the big screen with the components inside to drive it.
❌ You need crisp 4K visuals: Gamers who are also movie buffs or do high-fidelity design work on the go, might consider the Lenovo Legion 9i instead as it comes with a much more impressive panel.
❌ You need a lot of USB Type-C ports: The Aorus 17X only comes with a single one, and for those with no dock to split that 100 watts for charging several peripherals, you might want to consider something with more ports.
🪛 The Gigabyte Aorus 17X is a powerful, effective big-screen beauty that absolutely delivers on the specs at its heart. For serious content creators the lack of a 4K panel might be an issue, but if you're looking for a desktop replacement for gaming, this latest Aorus laptop is a great option.
The Gigabyte Aorus 17X is the best 17-inch gaming laptop we've tested in recent times. Not because it's the outright fastest—but because it's the one I'd actually want to own myself. There's a big difference between a super-powerful gaming laptop that is all about the power, and one that is able to get the balance just right.
And Gigabyte has been paying attention to that in recent times and is actually delivering a new version of its Aorus 17X that has been created with the end user in mind, and not just as the person who has to sit and listen to a turbine whine of fans while the damn thing sounds like it's going to take off.
This is still one of the problems with gaming laptops, and specifically an issue with Asus' Strix Scar 17 X3D which held this position in our guide for so long. It's a very, very powerful machine, capable of posting the most outstanding gaming performance—thanks to that mix of 3D V-cache on the Zen 4 processors and the RTX 4090 GPU—but you are going to need some equally very, very good noise cancelling headphones.
That's not necessarily been an issue during our testing of the Aorus 17X and, as Katie says in our review: "I'd take the Aorus' quiet wins over the Strix Scar's unnecessarily power-hungry performance."
The other issue with the 3D V-cache version of the Strix Scar 17 is that it's not easy to find, and less so at a decent price. Again, this is where the Aorus 17X has it beat, the price, especially of the almost-as-powerful RTX 4080 version is so much cheaper and you're not going to really feel the miss of a few fps here and there once you're running at 1440p.
You might look at those 1080p numbers below and worry about the delta between the Strix and the Aorus, but that delta gets a lot smaller when you boost the resolution up to the screen's 2560 x 1440 native, and then it becomes far less of a concern. Especially when you can actually hear yourself think at the same time.
Though that screen is one of the things that might have you considering something higher up the laptop food chain, potentially even looking up a hulking Razer Blade 18. However, you will have to spend the mega-bucks if you do want a good 4K panel inside your big-screen laptop. This 1440p 240 Hz display is good, though not as stellar as the Nebula displays of the smaller Asus ROG machines or the stunning OLED the Blade 16 sports.
There is also a lack of USB Type-C connectors to consider, too. If you're picking this for content creation, and the multiple Type-A ports aren't doing it for you, then a good Type-C hub will be in order. But if you're looking for a well-balanced, big-screen gaming laptop, with a decent battery life and effective cooling, then the Aorus 17X is the one to beat right now.
Read our full Gigabyte Aorus 17X review.
How we test gaming laptops
For the new generation of gaming laptops we have changed our notebook testing suite for the new machines coming through in 2025. Part of that is bringing in more up to date games, but also ensuring that we're capturing both gaming at a consistent, comparative 1080p resolution as well as at each machine's native resolution.
We have also included a 'real-world' benchmark for games where that makes sense in our reviews, where we utilise both Quality upscaling as well as frame generation where available. We also test without so that we can get a bead on how the hardware performs, but this metric allows you to see what sort of frame rates you can get in standard gaming.
As well as games, we use the industry standard 3DMark benchmarks of Time Spy Extreme, Port Royal—for ray tracing performance—and the storage benchmark to see how the system will work in terms of slick game loading.
We track both gaming temperatures, using Nvidia's Frameview application while capturing both average and 1% Low frame rates, and we also capture thermals of both CPU and GPU while engaging in more productivity lead testing.
On that count we run Cinebench 2024 for CPU-based rendering, 7zip 24.07 for general CPU performance, Blender 4.2.0 to test both CPU and GPU rendering performance, and Procyon to test a machine's AI image generation capabilities.
Finally, we use the PCMark 10 Gaming battery life benchmark to allow us to get a standard number for how long a machine will stand up to the rigours of modern gaming.
But we also run some experiential tests on a given system, which will involve using it as a day-to-day PC for work and play, ensuring we get a read on how well a machine performs across different use cases. We also check out a system's panel—we use Lagom's LCD test images to help discern things like black levels and white saturation as well as general desktop and gaming testing to see how it feels to use a laptop's screen.
It's also important to check the actual gaming frequency of both a laptop's GPU and CPU, to see how a given slice of silicon performs given the thermal constraints of different notebook chassis.
Personally I also like to always write a review of a given laptop on the machine itself. That gives you a good feel about both the trackpad and keyboard, as well as the ergonomics of the chassis design, too.
We then bring all of that subjective and objective data together alongside the price to decide how well each machine we test stands up against all the other gaming laptops we've looked at in our combined decades of PC hardware testing.
Also tested
The above gaming laptops are the ones we recommend you spend your hard-earned cash on if you're looking for a new machine, but they aren't the only ones we've reviewed. We regularly test different gaming laptops to make sure we're recommending only the absolute best.
These are the machines we've looked at recently that didn't make the cut...
How to spot the best deal
Where are the best gaming laptop deals?
In the US:
Amazon - RTX 3050 laptops from Acer and Dell starting at $650
Walmart - cheap Gateway laptops. Remember them?!
B&H Photo - up to $500 off Lenovo, Asus, & MSI gaming laptops
Target - sub-$1,000 gaming laptops
Staples - up to $300 off MSI gaming notebooks
Lenovo - $1,000+ discounts on Legion laptops
Newegg - $500+ off RTX 30 series gaming laptops
Best Buy - save up to $500 on gaming laptops
Microsoft - up to half price on last-gen laptops
Dell - save over $300 on Dell and Alienware gaming laptops
In the UK:
Amazon - save on Asus, Razer, and Acer gaming laptops
Dell - Alienware and Dell Gaming laptops with up to £500 off
HP - Save £450 on HP Omen laptop powered by an RTX 3070 Ti
Overclockers - gaming laptop deals and components
Ebuyer - RTX 3060-powered gaming laptop for just £799.98
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FAQ
What's the most important gaming laptop component?
When it comes to gaming, the obvious answer is the graphics card, but that's where things have gotten a little more complicated recently. With GPU performance now so dependent on cooling, you have to pay attention to what wattage a graphics card is limited to and what chassis it's squeezed into.
As we said at the top, an RTX 4080 confined in an 18 mm chassis will perform markedly slower than one in a far chunkier case with room for higher-performance cooling.
Which GPU is best for a laptop?
We've done a host of testing and you can check out our Best graphics card for laptops guide for all the details, but we think the overall best GPU for gaming laptops is the Nvidia RTX 4080 mobile. It can sometimes outperform RTX 4090 GPUs that have been jammed in the wrong kind of laptop chassis, and is starting to become more and more affordable.
If you're on a more limited budget, our pick as the best budget GPU for gaming laptops is the Nvidia RTX 4060 mobile. It has more of the graphics silicon to deal with the ray tracing good stuff, even if the RTX 4050 can often post similar rasterised gaming figures.
Should I worry about what the CPU in a gaming laptop is?
That really depends on what you want to do with your laptop. An 8-core, 16-thread AMD Ryzen chip will allow you to do a whole load of productivity on the road, but honestly, it will have little benefit in gaming. As long as the CPU has at least six cores and 12 threads, and they're clocked high enough, it will be more than enough to deliver high-end gaming performance when paired with something like the RTX 4070.
What screen size is best for a gaming laptop?
This will arguably have the most immediate impact on your choice of the build. Picking the size of your screen basically dictates the size of your laptop. A 13-inch machine will be a thin-and-light ultrabook, while a 17-inch panel almost guarantees workstation stuff. At 15 inches, you're looking at the most common size of the gaming laptop screen.
Are high refresh rate panels worth it for laptops?
We love high refresh rate screens here, and while you cannot guarantee your RTX 4060 will deliver 300 fps in the latest games, you'll still see a benefit in general look and feel running a 300 Hz display.
Should I get a 4K screen in my laptop?
Nah. 4K gaming laptops are overkill; they're fine for video editing if you're dealing with 4K content, but it's not the optimal choice for games. The standard 1080p resolution means that the generally slower mobile GPUs are all but guaranteed high frame rates, while companies are slowly drip-feeding 1440p panels into their laptop ranges.
A 1440p screen offers the perfect compromise between high resolution and decent gaming performance. At the same time, a 4K notebook will overstress your GPU and tax your eyeballs as you squint at your 15-inch display.
