Gaming Laptop Market Report 2025

This Gaming Laptop market report delivers an in-depth analysis of the market’s key characteristics, including size, growth potential, and segmentation. It provides a detailed breakdown of the market across major regions and leading countries, highlighting historical data and future growth projections. The report also examines the competitive landscape, market share insights, emerging trends, and strategic developments shaping the market.

The gaming laptop market size has grown strongly in recent years. It will grow from $16.14 billion in 2024 to $17.64 billion in 2025 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.3%. The growth in the historic period can be attributed to growth in the number of PC gamers, rise in disposable income, rise in social media platforms, rise in cloud gaming services, and rise in the number of game developers.

The gaming laptop market size is expected to see strong growth in the next few years. It will grow to $24.86 billion in 2029 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9%. The growth in the forecast period can be attributed to rising consumer spending for video gaming-related equipment, increasing adoption of the internet, growing demand for gaming laptops among youths and professional gamers, increasing popularity of gaming, and expanding prevalence of remote work. Major trends in the forecast period include technological advancements in gaming laptops, cloud gaming, innovative cooling solutions, integration of VR, and lightweight designs.

The increasing prominence of esports is expected to drive the growth of the gaming laptop market in the future. Esports involves competitive video gaming through structured tournaments where individuals or teams compete at a professional level. The rise of esports is fueled by factors such as growing audience engagement, significant investments and sponsorships, and its appeal to younger demographics. Gaming laptops, with advanced processors, high-performance graphics cards, and high refresh rate displays, provide the smooth gameplay and responsiveness essential for competitive gaming. For example, in May 2024, Esports News UK reported a 140% increase in revenue from UK gaming events and venues, reaching £10.3 million in 2023, up from £4.35 million in 2022. Consequently, the growing prominence of esports is driving the expansion of the gaming laptop market.

Major companies in the gaming laptop market are advancing new technologies, such as Ryzen artificial intelligence (AI), to enhance resource management, reduce power consumption, and extend battery life. Ryzen AI, integrated into Ryzen processors, is designed to optimize performance and operational efficiency. For example, in April 2024, Acer Inc., a Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer, introduced the Nitro 14 and Nitro 16 gaming laptops. These high-performance devices are built for gaming and productivity. The Nitro 14 features a 14-inch WQXGA display, while the Nitro 16 has a 16-inch WQXGA screen. Both models are equipped with powerful AMD Ryzen 8040 Series processors and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 graphics cards. They are well-suited for intensive gaming and multitasking, offering high refresh-rate screens, AI-driven enhancements for better audio and visuals, and advanced cooling systems.

In May 2023, Samsung Display, a South Korea-based display technology company, formed a partnership with Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. The collaboration, details of which were not disclosed, is intended to enhance the premium laptop and gaming markets by equipping MSI's new Stealth 16 Mercedes-AMG Motorsport gaming laptop with high-quality 16-inch UHD+ OLED screens. Micro-Star International Co. Ltd., a Taiwan-based computer manufacturer, specializes in designing, manufacturing, and selling gaming laptops.

Major companies operating in the gaming laptop market are Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, Dell Inc., Lenovo Group Limited, HP Inc., Toshiba Corporation, ASUSTeK Computer Inc., Acer Incorporated, Micro-Star International Co. Ltd, Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd, Razer Inc., Clevo Co., CyberPowerPC, EVGA Corporation, Eurocom Corporation, Origin PC Corporation, Digital Storm Limited, Sager AG, Metabox Pty Ltd, Utopia Computers Ltd, Wired2Fire Ltd, Schenker Technologies GmbH, Eluktronics Inc.

North America was the largest region in the gaming laptop market in 2024. Asia-Pacific is expected to be the fastest-growing region in the forecast period. The regions covered in the gaming laptop market report are Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East, Africa. The countries covered in the gaming laptop market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, South Korea, UK, USA, Canada, Italy, Spain.

Gaming laptops are high-performance portable computers designed specifically for gaming. They feature powerful graphics processing units (GPUs), fast processors, and advanced cooling systems to manage graphically intensive applications. These laptops often include customizable RGB lighting and high-refresh-rate displays to enhance the gaming experience and immersion.

Key components of a gaming laptop include processors, peripherals, random access memory (RAM), graphic cards, storage, and display size. Processors are crucial as they perform all the computing tasks. Gaming laptops are distributed through both offline and online channels and are used for various purposes, including household, commercial, and more. They cater to different users such as professional gamers, hardcore gamers, casual gamers, and others.

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The gaming laptop market consists of sales of ultra-portable gaming laptops, entry-level gaming laptops, and high-end gaming laptops. Values in this market are ‘factory gate’ values, that is, the value of goods sold by the manufacturers or creators of the goods, whether to other entities (including downstream manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, and retailers) or directly to end customers. The value of goods in this market includes related services sold by the creators of the goods.

The market value is defined as the revenues that enterprises gain from the sale of goods and/or services within the specified market and geography through sales, grants, or donations in terms of the currency (in USD, unless otherwise specified).

The revenues for a specified geography are consumption values that are revenues generated by organizations in the specified geography within the market, irrespective of where they are produced. It does not include revenues from resales along the supply chain, either further along the supply chain or as part of other products.

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