Laminated flooring will shrink and caused grout in between pieces as most of it are clip on. To remove the gap you need to remove quite a number of them to fix the gap issue.

Vinyl tiles are thinner 3mm normal one and 4.5mm higher grade. However we cant really compare it to real tiles or mable as this are synthetic material.

IF you want contact i can pm you my contact as i am planning to do it on my bedroom