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The best 14-inch gaming laptops

Razer Blade 14 and 15 compared.
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The 14-inch laptop has become increasingly popular, offering a slightly larger display without requiring a significantly larger chassis. Nowhere is that more true than in gaming laptops, where some gamers want portability as much as they want power.

The following are the best 14-inch gaming laptops you can buy today, with the Razer Blade 14 topping the list. It's a portable powerhouse with a spectacular design, but it's not the only game in town. We also feature its most important competitors, each of which has strengths that earned it a place on this list.

Razer Blade 14
Razer Blade 14
The best 14-inch gaming laptop
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Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 2022
Asus ROG Zephyrus G14
Tiny but built for gamers
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Acer Predator Triton 300 SE
Acer Predator Triton 300 SE
All play and some work
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Alienware X14
Alienware X14
An insanely thin gaming machine
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Razer Blade 14

Pros
  • Gaming performance is excellent
  • Colorful, 1440p display
  • Surprisingly small
  • Cheaper than Razer Blade 15
  • Great battery life
Cons
  • Warm surface temperatures
  • Thick bezels

Why you should buy this: It's not only the best 14-inch gaming laptop, it's one of the best, period.

Who's it for: Anyone who doesn't want to sacrifice gaming performance for portability.

Why we chose the Razer Blade 14:

The Razer Blade 14 has everything you want in a great gaming laptop — high-end components, outstanding thermal design, and displays with fast refresh rates. What it doesn't have is the bulk. In fact, it doesn't have any of the trappings of a typical gaming laptop, rather sporting an elegant conservative design that works as well for businesspeople as gamers.

Inside, though, it's all power. It equips a superfast AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX eight-core/16-thread CPU mated with a Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti. Those are incredibly powerful components for a machine that's just 0.66 inches thick and weighs just 3.92 pounds. Mated with up to a 165Hz QHD (2560 x 1440) display, you have a machine that can run your favorite titles at 1440p and maxed-out graphics.

There's a reason why we've rated the Razer Blade 14 not just the best 14-inch gaming laptop but the best laptop, period. It takes everything that's great about Razer's larger machines and squeezes it into a much more portable chassis.

Razer Blade 14
Razer Blade 14
The best 14-inch gaming laptop
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Asus ROG Zephyrus G14

Pros
  • Excellent gaming machine
  • Thin, small, and light
  • Game-changing CPU performance
  • Responsive touchpad
  • Unique lid design
Cons
  • Noisy at idle
  • Mushy keyboard
  • No webcam

Why you should buy this: It's one of the smallest gaming laptops, and it looks like one.

Who's it for: Anyone who wants a portable gaming machine with a gamer's aesthetic.

Why we chose the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14:

Just because you want a highly portable gaming laptop doesn't mean you don't want a laptop that sports a true gamer aesthetic. The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 is one of the smallest gaming laptops around, and it has just enough accents and aggressive venting to show off its gaming roots. And the optional AniMe Matrix Display on the lid adds some real panache with animations, useful functionality, and minigames.

Inside the current model, you'll find the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS CPU and the AMD Radeon RX 6800S GPU. That's good for 1440p gaming at decent graphical settings, which works well given the 120Hz 16:10 WQXGA (2560 x 1600) IPS display. 16GB of DDR5 RAM and 1TB of solid-state drive (SSD) storage round out the specifications.

At just 0.73 inches thick and 3.64 pounds, this is a gaming laptop that's easy to carry from place to place. And it will look its best when fulfilling its primary purpose.

Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 2022
Asus ROG Zephyrus G14
Tiny but built for gamers
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Acer Predator Triton 300 SE

Pros
  • Small, portable design
  • Stays cool and quiet when not gaming
  • Smooth 1080p, 144Hz gaming
  • Good battery life
Cons
  • Limited configurations available
  • Not as fast as the Zephyrus G14

Why you should buy this: It's a gaming laptop first, but it can also get work done.

Who's it for: Anyone who wants a gaming laptop that can also get work done.

Why we chose the Acer Predator Triton 300 SE:

We liked the Predator Triton 300 SE in large part because not only is it a smaller, more portable gaming machine, but Acer tuned it to run cooler and quieter. That made it more suitable for getting some work done, which adds value to the machine.

Since our review, Acer has updated the laptop to 12th-generation Intel CPUs and upgraded the thermal design. It's available with up to the RTX 3070 Ti GPU, and so when coupled with the 16-inch WQXGA (2560 x 1600) 16:10 240Hz display, it should be able to run modern titles at 1440p and high graphics.

We'll have to wait to see if the Predator Triton 300 SE is as good a working machine as the previous model. But even if it's not, it's still an excellent 14-inch gaming machine that belongs on this list.

Acer Predator Triton 300 SE
Acer Predator Triton 300 SE
All play and some work
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Alienware X14

Pros
  • Incredibly thin
  • Advanced cooling system
  • Reasonable pricing
  • Intel 12th-gen CPUs
Cons
  • Limited to RTX 3060 GPU

Why you should buy this: It's a powerful gaming laptop in an insanely thin chassis.

Who's it for: Anyone who wants a gaming laptop that will slip into the tightest possible space.

Why we chose the Alienware X14:

According to Dell, the Alienware X14 is the thinning 14-inch gaming laptop in the world. That's no surprise, given that it comes in at 0.58 inches thick. And it still features Alienware's Cryo-Tech cooling technologies to keep the machine working as fast as possible.

It's not the fasting gaming laptop around, but that's not surprising given the thin chassis. It can be configured with up to a Core i7-12700H CPU, 32GB of LPDDR5 RAM, a 4TB PCIe 4.0 SSD, and an RTX 3060 GPU. The sole display option is a 14-inch Full HD 144Hz IPS display with NVIDIA G-Sync support, although you'll likely have to turn down the graphics a bit if you want to take advantage of the display's full refresh rate.

The Alienware X14 is an attractive laptop that's the thinnest around. It's for moderately serious gamers who are more worried about the laptop's girth than its maximum frame rates.

Alienware X14
Alienware X14
An insanely thin gaming machine
Mark Coppock

Mark Coppock is a Freelance Writer at Digital Trends covering primarily laptop and other computing technologies. He has significant experience in Windows, macOS, laptop hardware, and other technologies around mobile computing. He has been writing about technology since 2015, and has been a professional in the technology industry since 1995.

Mark graduated from Indiana University in 1991 with a degree in Marketing, which along with an interesting in PCs parlayed into a 25-year career in sales, marketing, and sales engineering across a number of companies in Indianapolis, Indiana and Chicago, Illinois. After stepping away from marketing, Mark entered into writing with a gig at the now-defunct Winbeta.org site. He has been writing for Digital Trends since 2016, and has reviewed almost 300 laptops. You can find many of his reviews in various Digital Trends best-of lists, such as the best laptops and best laptop 2-in-1s.

Generally speaking, Mark has been a geek since MS-DOS gave way to Windows and the PalmPilot was a thing. He’s translated his love for technology into a long career aimed at helping people use technology to enhance their lives.

When he’s not writing, you’ll find him in Southern California reading and watching science fiction, taking photos with his family, and obsessing over Indiana University basketball.

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