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Best Buy

This is about as inexpensive a gaming laptop gets. You won’t be able to run the latest AAA titles but can play casual games such as Fortnite and CS:GO at full HD resolution. This 15.6-inch laptop features a ninth-gen Intel Core i5 CPU, 8GB of RAM, GeForce GTX 1650 Ti graphics and a 256GB SSD. 

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This budget gaming laptop features a 15.6-inch, full HD display with a speedy 144Hz refresh rate with a 10th-gen Intel Core i5 CPU, 8GB of memory and Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Ti graphics. It’ll let you play less demanding games at 1080p and 60 fps.

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This budget gaming laptop lacks the ray tracing of Nvidia’s current RTX lineup but should let you play Fortnite and other casual games at medium settings at 1080p resolution and 60 frames per second. The Dell G5 15 earned our Editors’ Choice Award for budget gaming laptops a little over a year ago. It offers outstanding performance for the money, and it doesn’t have terrible battery life like most gaming laptops. This discounted model features an AMD Ryzen 7 CPU, 8GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD and Radeon RX 5600M graphics. The 15.6-inch display has a full HD (1,920×1,080-pixel) resolution and a speedy 144Hz refresh rate. Read our Dell G5 15 review.

Gigabyte

Move up in price and you get a more capable mobile gaming rig with RTX graphics and a fast display. This 15-inch laptop features a 10th-gen Intel Core i7 CPU, 16GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD and Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 graphics. The RTX 2060 is the budget card in Nvidia’s RTX lineup and offers excellent bang for the buck along with ray tracing, which reproduces how light behaves in the real world to give games a more photorealistic look. The 15.6-inch display features a 1,920×1,080-pixel resolution and a speedy 144Hz refresh rate.

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This 15-inch gaming laptop prioritizes pixels over refresh rate, supplying a 4K display but at only a 60Hz refresh rate powered by a 10th-gen Intel Core i7 CPU, 16GB of RAM and Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q graphics. A 1TB SSD provides plenty of room for the largest game libraries. Read our Dell G7 15 review.

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This HP gaming laptop boasts a 15.6-inch, full HD display with a 144Hz refresh rate. It gives you a 10th-gen Intel Core i7 CPU, 16GB of RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 graphics and a 1TB SSD. You also get a high degree of customization with per-key RGB backlighting.

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IMHO, this is the sleekest, best-looking gaming laptop on the market. Impossibly thin for a high-powered gaming laptop with a sleek, slab look, this 15.6-inch Razer Blade laptop also boasts a powerful, smart component lineup. This model pairs a 10th-gen Intel Core i7 CPU with Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 graphics and also supplies an ample 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD. The 15.6-inch display features a full HD resolution and a speedy 144Hz refresh rate.

MSI

Move up in price and you get a more capable gaming laptop with RTX graphics and a fast display. This 15-inch laptop features a 10th-gen Intel Core i7 CPU, 16GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD and Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q graphics. The 15.6-inch display features a full HD resolution and an ultra-fast 240Hz refresh rate.

Dell

This impossibly thin gaming laptop has a 15.6-inch display with a full HD resolution and an insane 300Hz refresh rate. It’s powered by a 10th-gen Intel Core i7 CPU, 16GB of RAM and Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super graphics. The only nitpick for this configuration is the 512GB SSD, which seems a bit meager given the high price and the other components being more high-end.

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This monster is based on a 15.6-inch display with an insane 300Hz refresh rate. Powering those speedy pixels is a 10th-gen Core i7 CPU, 16GB of RAM and GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q graphics. You also get a roomy 1TB SSD and per-key RGB keyboard backlighting.  Read our Acer Predator Triton 500 review.