The best Asus gaming laptops 2020

The best Asus gaming laptops have mastered the art of balancing power and price. While many incredibly powerful gaming laptops out there will cost you an arm and a leg, Asus’ answer to all your gaming needs are affordable portables boasting the best performing hardware, gorgeous displays and svelte builds.

You can, therefore, count on the best Asus gaming laptops to see you through your favorite PC games without burning a hole in your pocket. Whether it's the most demanding PC games you play or older titles that are absolute classics, you’ll find that these gaming laptops will help you slay your opponents and make it to the top of the leaderboards. And, many of them are compact enough to afford you hours of gaming while on the road.

To help you find your ideal match, we gathered the best Asus gaming laptops on the market. Whichever one you choose will be worth the investment, though some are perhaps better than others, depending on what you’re looking for. With a bit of luck and our exclusive price comparison tool, you might even score the best deal for your budget.

The Asus Zephyrus G14 may be designed like a gaming laptop, but it’s proven itself a more than capable all-around laptop. Whether you are serious about your gaming or need a powerful laptop for productivity or content creation, this Asus laptop delivers incredible performance as well as an amazing battery life, a fast screen, and a thin and light chassis that makes it super portable. It’s not the cheapest option out there, but you have to pay a premium for quality. And, if you’re an AMD fan, you’ll certainly appreciate the processor under its hood.

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If you travel a lot, but you don’t want to be separated from the best PC games when you do, finding a thin and light Asus gaming laptop like the Asus ROG Zephyrus S GX701 is a dream come true. Rocking up to an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080, there isn’t a AAA game out there that will be out of reach. Plus, it’s so thin, light and stylish that you’ll want to take it everywhere you go.

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Asus ROG Zephyrus S GX531GX

Maybe you’re not in the market for a full-on workstation, but would prefer a notebook that runs Windows 10 Pro which can cut through heavyweight computing tasks, yet is actually designed to be a very capable machine for gaming? Then look no further than this Asus Zephyrus laptop.

The GX531GX comes packing an Intel Core i7-8750H six-core CPU backed with Nvidia RTX 2080 Max-Q graphics. It can also cram in up to 24GB of system RAM, yet this notebook is also nicely slim and portable – Nvidia’s Max-Q technology helps there, of course.

With all this power at your fingertips, you can tackle heavyweight computing tasks such as video editing, and relax playing the latest and greatest shooter when all the work is done. However, as is always the case when high performance meets portability, you’re going to pay a considerable asking price.

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When you go out looking for an Asus gaming laptop, you’ll find plenty of budget options and a lot of extremely expensive devices. However, the Asus ROG Strix Scar Edition is the best of both worlds, bringing performance on par with the best gaming PCs without setting you back thousands of dollars. It’s not the slimmest laptop in the world – not even the slimmest laptop on this list, but in terms of hardware, you’re getting exactly what you’re paying for, and we can’t complain about that.

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Asus ROG Strix GL502

While the Asus ROG Zephyrus S GX701 is undoubtedly the best gaming laptop Asus has ever made, its high price means it just won't be for everyone. Luckily, there are a number of great Asus gaming laptops that are more affordable. Take the Asus ROG Strix GL502, for example, which offers excellent performance at 1080p.

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Sometimes a thin and light gaming laptop just isn’t going to cut it. Sure, they’re fun to carry around to play games on the subway or something, but when you need to pull out the big guns, a thick desktop replacement like the Asus ROG G703 is going to be your best bet. This beast only comes with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 and can be packed with up to 64GB of RAM so you’re going to cut through everything without a problem. As long as you have the cash, this is the most powerful Asus gaming laptop you’ll find anywhere.

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Asus ROG Strix Hero III

The Asus ROG Strix Hero III takes the limitations of its predecessor and improves on them considerably, most notably the thermal performance thanks to its 3D Flow Zone. There’s a lot going for this Asus gaming laptop too, including its great speakers, number pad on the keyboard and the wraparound RGB light bar for a more immersive gaming experience. But perhaps the best features of this gaming laptop are the ROG Keystone, which unlocks customized effects and game-specific profiles when docked, and the 1080p display that rocks 144Hz to 240Hz refresh rate. Round those out with 9th-generation Intel Core processors and the best budget to mid-range Nvidia graphics cards for gaming, and you’ve got one incredible machine.

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Asus ROG Zephyrus M — The Asus Zephyrus M manages to keep things reasonable. (Image Credit: Asus)

We here at TechRadar love a thin and light gaming laptop, the ability to bring the best PC games on the road without having to compromise on performance is a win. And, while many super thin gaming laptops come with an extremely heavy price increase, the Asus Zephyrus M manages to keep things reasonable. We haven’t been able to get our hands on it for testing but, trust us, this isn’t a gaming laptop you’re going to want to pass on. It has yet to be refreshed with Nvidia RTX graphics, and while that’s a bummer, it does mean that you’ll likely find some sweet deals.