Best gaming laptop under $1,500

Our picks for the best gaming laptop under $1,500, ranked by review score.

Sub-$1,500 gaming laptops force one big trade-off: GPU wattage versus everything else. At this price you are hunting an RTX 5060-class card behind a decent 144Hz+ IPS panel, and cooling quality is what separates the good machines from the throttlers. We have not yet scored a laptop that clears our bar at this tier — picks land here as reviews do.