Gaming Laptops with the Lowest Latency

How long does it take between a mouse click and when an action actually takes place in a game? This is known as click-to-photon response, and is an important metric for competitive gamers.

I already measure a gaming laptop’s screen response time, but that’s only part of the story.

These results focus on total system latency, and includes everything that happens between clicking the mouse and a gunshot firing in Counter Strike. For this reason, results may be higher or lower depending on the actual specs inside the laptop. The results here are for the CPU+GPU+Screen configurations listed only.

Test Settings

• All graphical settings are set to lowest.
• Screen resolution is set to 1080p full screen mode, even if higher resolution is available for comparable results.
• FPS limit in game is set to 9999.
• For Counter-Strike 2, Reflex is enabled, but FSR is disabled.
• If the gaming laptop has a screen overdrive mode, it is enabled.
• The highest performance mode available in the laptop’s control center software is used for best results.
• If available, optimus is disabled with the MUX switch.
• Testing is done using NVIDIA’s LDAT tool. Results are averaged from 100 gunshots in game.

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Counter-Strike 2

CS2 was released in September 2023, and we have used it to test every gaming laptop we’ve had in for review since this time – but you can find our older CS:GO results below.

Results are sorted by fastest to slowest in milliseconds, but you can click the headings to sort the data how you like. A lower standard deviation means that results are more consistent, while a higher result means results are more varied. You can click the results to open my raw LDAT results, which lets you see the distribution of results better.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Here’s our older CS:GO data, which ranges between 2021-2023. Please note that these results are not fairly comparable to the above CS2 data, which is a newer game. CS:GO results are only comparable with CS:GO results, and CS2 results are only comparable with CS2 results.