Every year, the best gaming laptops get a whole lot better. The latest laptops are more portable than ever, yet somehow don’t sacrifice any gaming performance in order to slim down. It’s really rather impressive, and even the thinnest designs sport all the fancy features that high-end gaming PCs do. We’re talking multicore CPUs, high-end GPUs, and speedy NVMe SSDs. You can even find heaps of RAM and super-high refresh screens under the hood.
In 2022, the latest notebooks come sporting new Intel 12th Gen or AMD Ryzen 6000-series processors. And these are gradually replacing previous generation models today. There are also new Nvidia RTX 30-series GPUs—the improved RTX 3070 Ti and RTX 3080 Ti—that show there’s still more performance to be wrought from the familiar laptop chassis of yesteryear.
Stealth GS66
MSI $3,000
More F-117 Nighthawk than ninja
You might be surprised by the silicon within the MSI Stealth GS66’s slender chassis. It’s the same slimline chassis MSI has been using for its GS66 machines for
