So keep in mind that, for example, an RTX 5090 laptop card doesn’t come anywhere near the performance of a desktop 5090. We try to test a wide range of gaming laptops, as well as regular laptops, and these are the ones we confidently recommend. What we’re looking for How we test Collapse Our gaming laptop testing involves a mix of synthetic benchmarks and experiential testing (playing a bunch of graphically-intensive games). Storage Collapse Some gaming laptops still start with a 512GB SSD, but with how big modern games can be, you really want 1TB or more. You just can’t do this on other gaming laptops, and it’s part of what makes the ROG Flow special.