The best AMD Ryzen laptops in 2024: 6 top picks we've tested and reviewed

The best AMD Ryzen laptops are often among the best on the market, bar none. Whether you are looking for a powerful gaming laptop, a thin-and-light business laptop, or anything in between, there's an AMD laptop for you.

AMD managed to keep pace with the massive leap in performance and efficiency that we saw from the Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite PCs in 2024, and the latest Ryzen AI chips have surpassed Intel's current offerings in battery life and overall performance. If you are in the market for one of the best AI PCs, AMD's NPU (Neural Processing Unit) aligns with both Intel and Qualcomm.

On the gaming side, there are both all-AMD options with AMD Advantage systems that run Ryzen CPUs and Radeon GPUs, or if you're an Nvidia fan, there are plenty of Ryzen and GeForce-powered gaming laptops to suit your needs.

Determining the best AMD Ryzen laptop isn't much different than deciding what makes any laptop great. We need to see solid longevity in its battery life, swift performance, punchy audio, a quality design that doesn't feel flimsy or cheap, a bright and colorful display, and a keyboard that isn't mushy. Bonuses like security or durability features, a clear webcam, and other unique additions can also help. This is then measured against the laptop's price, determining whether its quality is worth the cost.

The best overall AMD Ryzen laptop right now is the Asus Zenbook 14 OLED; for under $1,000, it gives you a beautiful OLED display, a slim and sleek chassis, and plenty of performance.

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Momo Tabari graduated with a bachelor's degree in Journalism & Media Studies at Brooklyn College and has been covering tech for four years. She has written around fifty reviews and has plenty of experience testing and critiquing laptops.

The best AMD Ryzen laptops in 2024

Best overall

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The Asus Zenbook 14 OLED is an easy pick for the best AMD laptop in 2024. For under $1,000, you get a gorgeous sharp display, solid performance, and over 11 hours of battery life.

It's all impressive at this price point, but I need to pay special attention to that display immediately. It is a 2.8K OLED touchscreen that will leave you feeling like you got away with something when you unbox it and power it on for the first time. The excellent Harman Kardon-tuned speakers flesh out the Zenbooks resume as a streaming media center when you need to watch content on the go.

If productivity is your primary concern, the Zenbook 14 OLED is up to the challenge, too, with solid performance and a fantastic keyboard that allowed our reviewer to blow past his average typing speed. For spreadsheet aficionados, the Zenbook's touchpad can convert into a number pad with a single tap.

The Asus Zenbook 14 OLED also benefits from solid Geekbench 6 performance for such an affordable laptop, managing a multi-core score of 7,785. This is a bit lower than the mainstream laptop average of 9,189

If you need more power or a bigger screen, we've got options for you on this page, but for around $800, the Asus Zenbook 14 OLED ticks all the boxes for typical laptop users, and that's why it is our pick for the best overall AMD laptop.

See our full Asus Zenbook 14 OLED UM3402Y review.

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Best gaming

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Not only is the Razer Blade 14 the best AMD Ryzen-powered gaming laptop you can buy, but we'd argue it's the best gaming laptop you can buy. The only exception would be those who need something in a budget category or want a blindingly fast 4090 GPU. Still, this laptop is a jack of all trades for many gamers, delivering powerful gaming and productivity performance, a gorgeously vivid and bright display, a sturdy aluminum chassis, punchy audio, and excellent battery life.

It lasted 8 hours and 35 minutes in Laptop Mag's battery life test, which is unprecedented considering most gaming laptops we test cannot get anywhere near the 8-hour mark. And it's packed with an AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS processor, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 GPU with 8GB of VRAM, 16GB of RAM, 1TB of M.2 PCIe SSD storage space, and a gorgeous 14-inch QHD+ 240Hz, 2560 x 1600-pixel display.

The Razer Blade 14 also absolutely crushed it in our performance tests, managing a multi-core score of 11,121 on the Geekbench 5.5 benchmark thanks to its powerful AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS processor. The SSD's 1,230 megabytes per second transfer rate also ensures you won't be left behind when moving files from one place to another.

Its display is also phenomenally bright and vivid. Its 114.3 percent coverage of the DCI-P3 color gamut is staggering for an IPS panel, and its 465 nits of brightness ensures you can take this thing on the go and game in peace without worrying about the sun ruining your experience with too much glare.

If you need something sturdy, powerful, reliable, and wonderful to look at, the Razer Blade 14 will not disappoint.

See our full review of the Razer Blade 14

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Best 2-in-1

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The HP Envy x360 2-in-1 is an excellent 2-in-1 that balances affordability with quality to provide a phenomenal productivity experience. And for those desperate to have their display take them to another world, this OLED panel will blow your mind.

It's built with an AMD Ryzen 7 7730U processor, 16GB of RAM, 1TB of SSD storage, AMD Radeon integrated graphics, and a 15.6-inch 1,920 x 1,080-pixel OLED touchscreen. On the Geekbench 5.5 overall performance test, the Envy x360 achieved a multi-core score of 7,748. This is solid overall and puts it above the 7,469 mainstream laptop average. You can expect good but not fantastic productivity performance, especially when Intel Meteor Lake processors hit as high as 12,000.

On the Laptop Mag Battery test, which involves continuous web surfing over Wi-Fi at 150 nits, the Envy x360 lasted 9 hours and 17 minutes. We generally recommend laptops lasting between 9 and 10 hours, and the Envy x360 is technically in that range, but it is also below the category average of 9 hours and 44 minutes.

The true star of the show here is the Envy x360's 15.6-inch OLED display. While it is only 1080p, which could be a deal breaker for some, the vibrancy of its panel is glorious. It reproduced 128.1 percent of the DCI-P3 color gamut, which is seriously colorful. We typically recommend anything in the 80 to 100 percent range, with anything over just being an additional bonus. Especially considering the category average is 85.5 percent, this is fantastic. Its 378 nits of brightness is also pretty good, but admittedly in a far more normal range, as the category average is 353 nits.

Its ports selection features two USB Type-A ports, an SD card reader, an audio jack, two USB Type-C ports, and an HDMI port. We really wish it had a Thunderbolt 4 port, so that's a sacrifice you'll have to make if you plan to buy the laptop.

See our full Asus ROG Flow X16 review.

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Best for video editing

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Content creators marching under the AMD banner need look no further than Asus. Our reviewer, Stevie Bonifield said, "The Asus ProArt P16 is a stellar example of what a creator laptop should be: powerful, reliable, and stylish." This laptop is purpose-built for photo and video editing, delivering all of the performance you could possibly need in a sleek chassis.

The ProArt's AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, 32GB of RAM, and Nvidia RTX 4070 crushed the Geekbench 6 multicore benchmark with a score of 15,286. That's well ahead of its competitors like the Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i (12,141, Intel Core Ultra 9 185H), Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Ultra (13,061, Intel Core Ultra 9 185H), and Acer Swift X 14 (13,114, Intel Core Ultra 7 155H).

It's not just a paper champ either; we ran our Handbrake test on it, transcoding a 4K video to 1080p in 3 minutes and 15 seconds. That's more than twice as fast as the average premium laptop (7:58) and ahead of its content-creating competitors like the Galaxy Book 4 Ultra (4:52), Yoga Pro 9i (3:53), and Swift X 14 (5:21).

Turning to graphics performance, it took the top spot in the 3DMark FireStrike synthetic graphics benchmark with a score of 24,284. Nothing else came close, with the Galaxy Book 4 Ultra (17,255), Yoga Pro 9i (19,016), and Swift X 14 (16,596) all failing to crest 20,000.

The Asus ProArt P16 covers enough of the DCI-P3 gamut (85.5%) according to our test, which is good but not great. However, OLED panels are known to come in a little low on our current test; rest assured, it looks outstanding. Even so it edges out the MacBook Pro M3 Max (81.8%), Galaxy Book 4 Ultra (81.8%), and Swift X 14 (79.6%). However, the Yoga Pro 9i (105.7%) takes the win in this category. It has an SDR screen brightness of 356 nits, which is good, but the Yoga Pro 9i (737 nits) and M3 Max (560 nits) get much brighter.

One area that comes up a bit short for the Asus ProArt P16 is battery life. At 9 hours and 32 minutes, it isn't terrible, but it's distantly behind the Galaxy Book 4 Ultra (13:15) and the MacBook Pro M3 Max (18:05). The Yoga Pro 9i (9:51) is more on its level.

Overall the Asus ProArt P16 is a shining example of AMD performance for creators, so if that's you, don't hesitate to pick one up.

See our full Asus ProArt P16 review.

Best budget gaming

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The Asus TUF Gaming A14 is like a unicorn. This gaming laptop boasts solid performance thanks to its AMD Ryzen 7 CPU and Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 GPU, yet it still managed to last 10 hours and 4 minutes on our battery test. Gaming laptops typically call it quit at around 5 hours. Now our battery test is mixed web browsing, so you won't be able to game for 10 hours, but it's still the longest-lasting gaming laptop we've tested in years.

Claire Tabari said, "The TUF Gaming A14 is a sturdy, lightweight miracle designed to withstand accidental drops and extreme conditions," in our review of the Asus TUF Gaming A14.

It's a gaming laptop, so you want to know about the benchmarks. The Asus TUF Gaming A14 tore held its own in most of our gaming benchmarks, at or over 60 fps in Assassin's Creed Mirage (87 fps), Far Cry 6 (77 fps), and Red Dead Redemption 2 (61 fps). The lone exception was the notorious Cyberpunk 2077. However, it managed 30 fps, enough to meet our minimum playability standard.

It may not be a 4K display, but that's not what gamers want anyway. The 14-inch, 2560 x 1600, IPS, 165Hz panel delivered solid results, particularly considering the price point, covering 82% of the DCI-P3 color gamut and averaging 411 nits of brightness.

If you want to actually game on the go, the Asus TUF 14 has more going for it than just the battery life; it will actually fit in your bag and not cause you lower back problems from hauling it around in your bag. Weighing just 3.2 pounds and measuring 12.24 x 8.94 x 0.67~0.78 inches, it's about as thin and light as a gaming laptop gets.

We do recommend buying a gaming mouse. The touchpad was disappointing, but that's a small concession and something gamers typically prefer even if the laptop has an outstanding trackpad.

The Asus TUF A14 claimed its place among the laptops with the best battery life and it deserves a close look if you are looking for an affordable AMD Ryzen powered gaming laptop.

See our full Asus TUF Gaming A14 review.

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Best gaming handheld

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The Asus ROG Ally is among our most beloved gaming devices in recent years, providing a new balance between affordability, portability, and power. When I reviewed the Ally in August of last year, I had no clue how deeply the device would impact my daily gaming habits. Since receiving the device, most games I've completed have been on the Ally. I even started keeping a list of every one of them.

The Ally is built with an AMD Ryzen Z1 or Z1 Extreme, depending on which model you choose, with the former retailing for $599 (it often drops to $399 on Best Buy) and the latter at $699. Beyond these differences, each features 16GB of RAM, 512GB of SSD storage, and a 7-inch, 1920 x 1080-pixel IPS display. Thankfully, it's a surprisingly decent display in such a small device, managing 76.1 percent coverage of the DCI-P3 color gamut and a phenomenally bright 465 nits of brightness, which is necessary for taking the device on the go.

And even though this is a small, handheld device, it doesn't mean it's not capable in its processor performance. On the Geekbench 5.5 overall performance benchmark, it achieved a score of 10,614, which is immensely impressive, and it will have no issue handling demanding tasks even when not gaming.

As most of my gaming in recent months has been done on the Asus ROG Ally, I've come to learn its most significant weaknesses and strengths. While it is a powerful device with great hardware and a solid physical design, Windows 11 can be an absolute mess. You'll experience frustrating slowdowns, difficulty in navigation, and just trying to get anything done is a pain in the butt. We're hoping Microsoft develops a handheld-friendly version of the OS soon.

See our full Asus ROG Ally review.

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How to choose the best

AMD Ryzen laptops can be used for any number of reasons, including gaming, productivity, business, and more. So here's what you should look out for when picking a great laptop.

Budget: What you get for your money

You can find decent laptops for under $500, but you will spend up to $1,000 or more for most laptops on this list. If you have no issue with that, you can still save some money with our best overall pick, which manages to stay under that. If you'd like to go above and beyond, you can spend anywhere from $2,000 to $4,000 on some of our other picks.

Design: 2-in-1 or Clamshell?

More and more of today's laptops are 2-in-1s with screens that either bend back 360 degrees or detach so you can use them as tablets. If you like the idea of using your laptop in slate mode for drawing, media consumption, or just standing up, a 2-in-1 could be for you. We even have a foldable laptop on the list for those wanting to get fancy. However, you can often get better features or a lower price with a traditional clamshell-style laptop.

Battery Life: 9+ Hours for Portability

Unless you plan to use your laptop only on your desk, battery life matters. Even within the home or office, having plenty of juice enables you to work on the couch or at the conference table without being chained to the nearest outlet. We recommend getting a laptop that lasted over 9 hours on the Laptop Mag Battery Test for the best portability. The longest-lasting laptops endure anywhere between 10 and 15 hours. If you're gaming, you'll be hard-pressed to find anything that lasts this long.

HOW WE TEST AT LAPTOP MAG

We put AMD Ryzen laptops through extensive benchmark testing — both synthetic and real-world — before they are handed to our reviewers. We evaluate each aspect of the computer, including its performance, battery life, display, speakers, and heat management.

Our benchmark testing uses a Klein K10 colorimeter to detect the laptop's display's brightness and sRGB color gamut. For performance testing, we run the laptop through a gauntlet of benchmarks, including Geekbench 6.1/6.2 and 3DMark professional graphics tests.

To determine real-world performance, we task the laptop to convert a 4K video to 1080p resolution and duplicate a 4.97GB multimedia file. Our real-world graphics test is Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Gathering Storm benchmark with high settings at 1080p resolution. Gaming laptops play a library of games at high settings to see how their discrete GPUs keep up.

We also run heat tests by playing a 15-minute full-screen video and measuring temperatures in different areas of the laptop. Last but not least, our battery test consists of continuous web surfing over Wi-Fi at 150 nits of brightness. For MacBooks and premium Windows 11 laptops, a runtime of over 9 hours is considered a good result, whereas gaming laptops and workstations that can stay powered longer than 5 hours deserve praise.

These tests are complemented by extensive hands-on testing from our reviewers, who critique everything from the laptop's materials to the feel of its touchpad.

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