Gaming

Mirror City. The action adventure Ghostwire Tokyo is not only interesting in terms of gameplay but also technically. Hardly any other title shines with so many reflections - especially when ray tracing is active.

The Radeon RX 5500M isn't looking so hot these days. It's acceptable that budget gaming laptops aren't going to give you the best graphics. However, you'll still want to avoid certain models due to an aging GPU with poor performance relative to most others in its price category.
AMD Ryzen 5 5600H | AMD Radeon RX 5500M | 15.60" | 2.3 kg

Priorities, please! Last year, MSI started a new gaming series with the Pulse. But apparently, a new series even from an experienced manufacturer can still run into some early troubles and reveal the need for optimizations. Our extensive test shows what needs to improve.
Intel Core i9-12900H | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU | 15.60" | 2.3 kg

Katar cuts many corners. The Corsair Katar Pro Wireless is a gaming mouse that is geared towards both productivity and casual gaming. The Katar Pro Wireless suits both claw and fingertip grip styles and performs well for the price. However, the ageing innards mean that you can only extract so much from this fully wireless mouse.

Maximum performance. After two years Asus finally updates the series' case and adds an Alder Lake CPU with DDR5 RAM and RTX GPU, in our case an RTX 3060 with a full 140 W TGP. And while this might sound very promising we need to keep in mind that not all that glitters is gold, and the TUF Gaming F17 has a few flaws that we uncovered in our review. Update: Contrary to what was stated initially, there are no issues with the chassis
Intel Core i7-12700H | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU | 17.30" | 2.5 kg

Powerhouse. A Core i7 12700H CPU and a GeForce RTX 3070 Ti laptop GPU ensure that all current games can be played smoothly on a 17.3-inch screen (FHD, 360 Hz). The notebook offers room for two PCIe 4 SSDs and features a Thunderbolt 4 port.
Intel Core i7-12700H | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU | 17.30" | 2.6 kg

Not a miracle machine, but sufficient. HP's Omen 16 with AMD's Ryzen processor is sparing in its use of gaming components. Top performance thus cannot be expected, but this is not strictly necessary in the case of many popular gaming titles. Moreover, the fun does not stop upon seeing the price, even if a few weaknesses come to light in the test.
AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | AMD Radeon RX 6600M | 16.10" | 2.3 kg