4. ASUS ROG Zephyrus G15

Best ASUS Laptop For PUBG

  AMD Ryzen 7 4800HS

  16GB DDR4

  NVIDIA RTX 2060 6GB

  1TB PCIe NVMe SSD

  15.6″ Full HD 144Hz

  5.07lb

  4 hours

This laptop is just as powerful as the Acer Predator above. The AMD Ryzen 7 8400HS , though less powerful than the 10th Core i7, has been shown to be more powerful than the 9th Core i7 9750H in multithreaded perforamnce (it has 8 cores) and single clock speed (by %4).

The great difference between the Acer Predator is the 240Hz display which makes the cost jump to 1600$.

Whether or not the ability to see pretty much every framerate that the GPU can output at low-ultra settings is really up to you! For picky competitive gamers it might be worth it.

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5. CUK MSI GP65 Leopard

Best Gaming Laptop for PUBG PC

  Core i7-10750H

  16GB DDR4

   NVIDIA RTX 2070 Full (Non-Max Q)

  512GB PCIe NVMe SSD

  15” full HD 144Hz IPS

  5.14lb

  3 hours

This is the most expensive laptop on the list for those of you who have no budget.

The 2070RTX is what makes a big difference here and the only GPU along with the 2080RTX to pull off +100 FPS at ultra settings with the game. 

There are several 2070 laptops but I chose this one because it’s a known brand and it’s cheaper than most 2070RTX laptops.

Now again the only downside is the display’s refresh rate which are way too for medium settings because you’ll be getting +150FPS but enough for ultra because you won’t past 110FPS. 

If you were planning to play it on medium settings with +200FPS and be able to see every framerate on your display, then you’re going to have to pay a lot more than 1500$. 

Laptops with a 2070RTX GPU and a 240Hz display cost around 2000$ and a 300$ can go as high as 2800. 

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What is the best laptop for PUBG mobile emulator? 

Playing PUBG mobile on a PC is an entire different ballgame. Long story short, you can play it on any laptop with 2GB RAM. But I suggest you grab a modern laptop with at least 4GB RAM because it has to run Windows 10 and Win10 is very resource intensive for old/low RAM machines. Check out this site for more details.

Here I’m listing a bunch of laptops for PUBG with price, the cheapest ones have no Windows 10 so you’ll have to get yourself a new copy of Win10 on your own.

Note that all these laptops will have the same performace with PUBG mobile, your gameplay will be hugely affected by your sensitivity than hardware. Well that, the finding the best android OS for PUBG Mobile  as well as getting the best PUBG emulator for low end laptops or those with 4GB or 2GB RAM.

Check out this post to get the best sensitivity for pubg mobile on a laptop.

What is the best budget laptop for PUBG mobile though?

I think that will be Acer Aspire 5 without Windows 10 Home on it. If you can’t get a copy of windows 10, then the HP on the table is definitely the cheapest gaming laptop for PUBG mobile. 

How to Buy the Best Laptop For PUBG PC

Among all the games I’ve played and written about on this site:  OverWatch, Fornite , CS, CoD.

Player’s Unknown Battleground is definitely the trickiest to find a laptop or computer for. But if you go through this guide, you should be able to find yourself the best laptop for PUBG PC for your money, whether you are in India or Pakistan or Argentina, anywhere! Laptop specs are universal across the world.

The main reason is that it also has a mobile version so people assume  it must be able to run on a entry level laptop too. That may be true for the mobile version being played through an emulator but certainly not for the full PC version.

If you do run it on an entry <500$ laptop, you’ll just be hitting 15-20fps for which case you might as well go back and play it on your phone dude.

So it can’t really be played on any machime out there, you can easily double check this by looking the official requirements.

Offical Minimum Requirements

• OS: 64-bit Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10.
• Processor: Intel Core i5-4430 / AMD FX-6300.
• Memory: 8 GB RAM.
• Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB / AMD Radeon R7 370 2GB.
• DirectX: Version 11.
• Network: Broadband Internet connection.
• Storage: 30 GB available space.

Anyways, If you do find a laptop with similar specs, you’d just average 40-50 fps. Capping to 70fps and dropping 25 fps during intense game play. That doesn’t look too bad right? But it’s all at low settings with everything off.

If you try to go for medium or higher settings for which the game was intended to be played with, you’d definitely drop into the teens and make end game pretty much unplayable.

Recommended Minimum Requirements

To play the game at higher settings and still pull off buttery smooth framerates we recommend:

• CPU: 3.5+ Processor (preferably 4GHz)
• RAM: 16 GB RAM DDR4
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB-6GB / AMD Radeon RX 560X 4GB
• SSD: PCIe or SATA III

This will get you around at least 45 fps during intense fights , averaging at about 70 fps and maxing out at 100fps in free zones. 

CPU

Another reason people assume PUBG can be played on a potato is that the official requirements mentions a dinosauric CPUwhich leads most gamers to believe the game is not very hardware demanding. Going with the minimum official requirements might make it playable (as we mentioned before)  if and only if...people didn’t skip over the graphics card.

Back to CPUs, the Intel Core i5-4430 / AMD FX-6300 are pretty obselete CPUs. We are in the 10th generation now and Ryzen CPUs have even taken over Intel CPUs, these are completely different times.

Even if you go by those old CPU’s clock speeds (~3.0GHz), one of the weakest processor on entry level laptops (Core i3 and Ryzen 3 processor) can hit higher than that. That’s why you should take that recommendation with a spoon of salt.

Here’s a list of the current CPUs, you are going to find on laptops today.

Intel

Clock Frequency vs Number of Cores

The only thing you should be lookin at when buying a CPU for gaming is clock frequency and completely ignore the number of cores (unless you plan on streaming at the same time).

Purple:These are way too much and are only useful if you want to hit the highest FPS possible (+150FPS) at medium( Note that you need a display with +144Hz to actually see those framerates).

Red:You should totally avoid these unless you are on a budget or don’t mind playing at the lowest settings with your FPS dropping into the teens during intense game play.

Blue/Green:Far better than the latter two imo. Not too powerful but not too weak either. This is enough for competive gaming and depending on the GPU you have, you may be able to get into the +100fps zone as long as you pick up the right GPU (medium settings).

Gray:Although some of these guys are fast.They are found on laptops with weak specs(integrated GPUs/ 4GB RAM,etc). So they’re only useful for the mobile version of PUBG played through an emulator.

AMD vs Intel

The comparison is not so easy. You can’t just say Intel is better because it has more “clock frequency” on the label. They may do in theory but the reality of the situation is completely different especially in the laptop world.

Intel Chips are quite big and need a lot of cooling to hit their advertised clock speeds so if they are not given enough space (as they have in a thick and heavy laptop) chances are that it may perform as the label claims so they might run slower than an AMD processor.

Assuming space and heat are not an issue though, CPU performance does favor Intel on PUBG though. But how much more frames will you get? Possibly +10 fps. It’s a matter of opinion whether or not, that increase is actually worth it.

After you get one of the purple/blue CPUs you should worry about the rest of the build, going for AMD will save you a lot of money though the problem is that they’re hard to find on laptops.

Definitely go for AMD if you’re buying a desktop especially for streaming and running other stuff simultanously because AMD has more cores than Intel and has much budget friendly processors.

What GPU do you recommend?

The GPU is the hardest choice. Not only are there so many choices on laptops but it also depends on what other games you want to play and what your budget is.

But if you are not nitty picky about settings and just want to play competitively across ALL games (with a few exceptions like CoD) I  recommend any of the following: 

• RX580, Vega 56 
• Nvidia GTX 1660Ti and RTX2060.

*This recommendation still holds true for desktops/PCs.

RAM

This is something we are not so sure because we’ve seen RAM having an impact in some cases and not in others and by this I mean having 8GB vs 16GB of RAM.

PUBG has really highly detailed and huge maps with high viewing distances so it’s safe to assume that it does read a lot of data which has to be processed constantly

Although that may be true for any other game out there including WoW, Fornite and so on…it definitely becomes more important with the type of gameplay that PUBG has.

Anyways because RAM is actually the second biggest contributor to good FPS after CPU, we’ll have to get into details even though it may not matter much for laptops I am sure there are a few people out there with desktop rigs reading this.

Speed

PUBG needs fast RAM (3000MHz). The fastest RAMs are simply the latest ones. They come in generations and you only have to choose between two of them because the rest of them become obsolete.

In fact, this may not be a problem in laptops because they all come equipped with the latest one: DDR4. However, there are some odd balls that are still using DDR3.

If you are getting a AMD CPU be it on a laptop or desktop you better make sure that the specifications have the number 4 next to RAM or whatever the latest is by the time you read this. AMD CPUs work a lot better with fast RAM.

Storage

Storage speed isn’t really a huge factor for this game.

It will only be a factor if your PC doesn’t have enough RAM and starts using your storage as “virtual memory” .  You can’t really rely on your storage  to make up for RAM because it is super slow whether or not it’s a fast storage.

SSD(Solid State Drive)

The fastest storage are  SSDs and there are two types: PCIe NVMe and SATA III. Most laptops today have a PCIE NVMe and a few rare ones will try to cut down prices by having either a SATA III or an HDD.

Getting a SATA III is okay if you’re on a budget but you should definitely avoid an HDD. The SSD has way too many advantages (outside of gaming and FPS increase) that you just can’t miss:

A few of them are:

– Booting up your machine in seconds.
– Launch your game in less than one.
– It will also help a bit with loading screens during the game.

Display

IPS vs TN

IPS displays have better viewing angles and usually have more colors. Most gaming laptops have full HD, no wait, all gaming laptops or in fact any laptop with a “dedicated GPU” has a FHD resolution these days. The problem is that some manufacturers try to cut down on prices by giving you a TN display which is unacceptable for gaming and something to watch out for if you suddenly find a nice deal on a laptop.

Refresh Rates

Your display needs to have the same refresh rates as the numbers of FPS you’re GPU/CPU is outputting if you want to see every framerate.

If you’re aiming for 100+FPS then you need a 120Hz laptop display.

Refresh rates might be the only real thing you should watch out for when checking the specs of  a laptop’s display. Why?

Because if you buy a laptop with a monster like CPU and a decent GPU which can both output +100 FPS on a game and your laptop only has 60Hz refresh rates,  you’re only going to experience gaming as if you only 60FPS. The refresh rates set the limit of how much framerates per second your eyes will see.

But that may not be something to worry about too much with PUBG because it’s not easy to go past 80FPS with the game at medium to high settings. But if you’re going all out with a CPU/GPU you should also make sure you have more than 144Hz refresh rates because you’ll definitely go past 120FPS.

There’s still an advantage of having more FPS than your display can output, it will mitigate the screen tearing issue if your laptop doesn’t have G-Sync/Free-Sync technology.

MacBooks

If you got a MacBook, you can still play PUBG . You just have to download GeForce Now for Mac and sign up for a free NVIDIA Account. You’ll be asked to log into your steam account and after that you can install PUBG!

MacBook Air/MacBook Pro

However it’s not going to be pleasant . most MacBooks have an integrated “Intel Iris Plus” GPU or whatever, but it’s still not enough for PUBG.

MacBook Pro 16

The MacBook Pro 16 on the other hand has a GPU/CPU combo that will give you 100FPS at Medium Settings. You can buy three gaming laptops with the price of one though.

Past Models

Past MacBooks, as long as they have a dedicated GPU, will give you the same FPS as any Windows Laptop with a MX250 or as much as a 1050Ti would.

Just as important as getting the right hardware to play the game smoothly at decent settings is finding the right settings to squeeze out every big of FPS or viewing distance.  Now there are tons of posts about this but I found this one the most useful: best pubg settings for fps

Comments?

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