![]() ![]() The Omen 16 transcoded a 4K video to 1080p in 4 minutes and 25 seconds, crouch-sliding past the category average (4:34) and the Blade 14 (4:45). ![]() On the GeekBench 6 overall performance test, the Omen 16 scored 11,525, crushing the average mainstream gaming laptop (7,580). HP is rocking out with an AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS processor and 16GB of RAM, which was more than enough to juggle a couple dozen Google Chrome tabs and a handful of 1080p YouTube videos without an issue. However, it fell short of the Blade 14 (114 fps) and EON16-S (115 fps). It beat the category average (95 fps) and the Strix G17 (104 fps). Meanwhile, the Omen 16 battled it out on the Shadow of the Tomb Raider benchmark (Highest, 1080p) to come out with 107 fps. It even managed to stay neck and neck with the Strix G17 (103 fps) and Blade 14 (102 fps), but the EON16-S pulled slightly further ahead with 106 fps. On the Assassin's Creed Valhalla benchmark (Ultra, 1080p), the Omen 16 nailed 101 fps, trumping the category average (85 fps). Packed with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 GPU with 8GB of VRAM, the Omen 16 carried me through Cyberpunk 2077 as I dashed through a building to neutralize my target unseen with a single katana strike at 82 frames per second on Ultra settings. HP Omen 16 (AMD 2023) gaming, graphics and VR Firing my shotgun at the enemies above sounded metallic but hollow - it wasn’t as thick and heavy as I would have liked it to be. However, the ambient music would occasionally overtake the dialogue, so you might have to get yourself in the settings and do some sound mixing. In Cyberpunk 2077, the dialogue and approaching vehicles were decently loud and clear. However, the vocals were crisp and at the forefront of everything. The electric guitar was bright and the drums were thick, but occasionally the two would get a little muddled in the track. ![]() I listened to Kami Kehoe’s “SLEEP WHEN IM DEAD,” and the opening vocals blasted through the speakers with an oomph. With a pair of Bang & Olufsen speakers, the HP Omen 16 popped off with a loud audio, but occasionally lost the important sounds. Windows gestures like two-finger scrolling and three-finger tabbing worked fine. Similarly, it offers little-to-no resistance, although its clicker is shallow and soft. The 3.3 x 5.1-inch touchpad is smaller than the one found on its sibling, but there’s more than enough room to operate. From there you can customize your lighting profile. We can find the Light Studio in the Omen Game Hub, although it’s not installed by default, so you’ll have to do that. The Omen 16 sports four-zone key lighting, one of the zones being the WASD keys. The lack of texture on the keys threw me off, but once I got used to it, it wasn’t too bad. I typed out 83 words per minute on the typing test, which is above my usual 78-wpm average. Like its sibling, the keys aren’t clicky - in fact, they feel a bit mushy, and a bit small, but it’s well-spaced enough. ![]() HP Omen 16 (AMD 2023) keyboard and touchpad However, the Blade 14 was the brightest, at 465 nits. It was even brighter than the Strix G17 (279 nits) and the EON16-S (326 nits). It was on a par with the Strix G17 (76.8%), but the Blade 14 (114.3%) and Origin EON16-S (83.5%) had more colorful displays.Īt 336 nits of brightness, HP got over the category average’s 334-nit hump. The high refresh rate was smooth enough to keep track of the dashing cyberpsychos across the street.Īccording to our colorimeter, the Omen 16 covered 76.9% of the DCI-P3 color gamut, which is slightly below the average mainstream gaming laptop (78.9%). In the darker corners of warehouses and buildings, I could still make out the silhouette of cameras and enemies around corners. The capitalist pillars around City Center oppressed the sky above with bright advertisements, lulling me into a state of submissiveness. Night City came to life when I played Cyberpunk 2077. And darker scenes like the dimly lit hallway were still bright enough to make out the details on the grenade tossed to the floor. The forests that the protagonists waded through were lush and vibrant. In the trailer for Freelance, John Cena’s veiny forearms were sharp enough to make me question my masculinity. ![]()
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