How we price a gaming laptop
Two parts carry most of the value. The processor comes first, as it does on any laptop, and then the graphics card is added on top: an RTX 4070 adds more than an RTX 3050, and an RTX 4090 more than either. After that it’s the condition and whether the screen is 14 inches or bigger.
The brand counts too. Alienware, Asus ROG and TUF, Acer Predator and Nitro, Gigabyte, HP Omen, MSI, PC Specialist and Razer laptops are worth a fifth more than the same parts in a standard laptop. We don’t add anything for memory, storage or a fast screen.
Choose your brand for its page, with the models we see most and what we pay for each.
A Dell G15 goes through the Alienware / Dell page and a Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming through Lenovo Legion, so the graphics card is priced too.
Finding your graphics card
Right-click the Start button, open Device Manager and expand Display adapters. A gaming laptop lists two lines: the Intel or AMD graphics built into the processor, and the Nvidia or AMD card we’re asking about (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU, say). If Device Manager shows only one, the laptop has no separate card and it’s priced as a standard laptop. Our specification guide covers the processor.
