HP Boosts Gaming Solutions for Awe-Inspiring Experiences

OMEN and HyperX unveil an ecosystem designed for seamless play and work with new OMEN and Victus Laptops, OMEN Monitors, and OMEN Gaming Hub features

News Highlights  

• Incredible performance, visuals, and portability with OMEN Transcend 16 Laptop, offering the first mini-LED screen on an OMEN laptop designed for gamers and creators.
• Powerful upgrades for new OMEN 16 and high-performance enabled on the mainstream Victus 16.
• Together, OMEN and HyperX engineer seamless audio with the world’s firstⁱgaming PCs with instant headset pairing for lowest latency audio experiencesⁱⁱ.
• Immersive OMEN monitors with nine new additions to the line-up featuring solutions for play and work.

At the 2023 Amplify™ Partner Conference, HP Inc announced its latest line-up of gaming hardware and software designed to bring gamers everything they need to enjoy the games they love. The new OMEN Transcend 16 Laptop, OMEN 16 Laptop, Victus 16 Laptop, and a vast range of stunning OMEN monitors offer casual, hobbyist, lifestyle, and hardcore gamers the power and flexibility to play and work hard. To bring everything together, new enhancements in OMEN Gaming Hub offer a variety of performance and personalisation features.

People everywhere seek devices that can adapt to hybrid play and work. Sixty-two percent of gamers prefer a PC that fits their entire life instead of being used for gaming onlyⁱⁱⁱ. With a billion new gamers entering the space in the last seven years^iv and 84 percent of them using games to connect with others with similar interests^v, gaming devices enable access to countless games and corresponding communities.

“The gaming world continues to grow in popularity, plunging more people into exciting and immersive worlds to escape, compete, and connect with others,” said Gagan Singh, General Manager of HyperX and Head of HP Gaming Strategy. “HP is enhancing and expanding a world-class ecosystem of hardware and software, designed to empower gamers and deliver the best experiences whether they’re gaming, creating, or connecting with friends and communities.”

Blazing Fast Gameplay with Cutting-Edge Power to Create  

Lifestyle gamers want hybrid devices that give them the power to play the most demanding AAA games and performance to handle most graphically intensive creative activities including multitasking, accelerate 3D models rendering, or when using powerful creative tools like Adobe software suite.  The OMEN Transcend 16 Laptop was built for gaming and creation with a cutting-edge screen, premium slim chassis, and high-end internal components.

The new OMEN Transcend 16 Laptop embraces hybrid lifestyle gaming with:

• Stunningly BrightVisuals: Immersive and perfect for content creation, the first ever mini-LED display on an OMEN device offers extreme HDR 1000 for incredible details and vibrant true-to-life color. With a 16:10 aspect ratio, lifestyle gamers can see more screen real-estate to be more productive when editing video, audio, and photography with enhanced vertical content viewing. Achieving a peak brightest of 1,180 nits^vi, HDR 1000^vii, and a 240Hz refresh rate^viii, games, creative projects, and entertaining content will look stunningly vibrant and clear, even in sunlight.
• Lavish and Portable Design: Gamers want significant power in easily portable designs. This device is the first and only OMEN Laptop to utilise a magnesium frame^ixto deliver the thinnest and lightest gaming laptop from HP^x to date at under 2.1kg and 19.9mm. Combined with a 97Whr battery pack, this gives gamers and creators a premium on-the-go experience with long lasting battery life.
• Blazing Performance:Push games and applications to their limits with up to a 13^th Gen Intel^® Core™ i9-13900HX mobile processor^xi and up to NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX™ 4070 Laptop GPUs to play the latest hits or power intensive compute work with ease. Take full advantage of OMEN Dynamic Power^xii within OMEN Gaming Hub to precisely detect real-time CPU and GPU capacity and dynamically allocate power between the two to create extra headroom and optimise performance based on the activity occurring in the game or application.
• Cool Design:The laptop stays cool while playing top titles and even under intense multi-application workloads with advanced OMEN Tempest Cooling featuring a new square vent design, yielding more air intake to significantly improve airflow and skin temperature.

Extreme Performance to Play Anything 

HP is also announcing the next generation OMEN 16 Laptop for hardcore gamers. This is the most powerful OMEN 16 yet, with a gen-over-gen improvement of 119 percent FPS in Cyberpunk 2077^xiii. It is powered by up to a 13^th Gen Intel^® Core™ i9-13900HX mobile processor or up to an AMD Ryzen™ 9 7940HS mobile processor¹¹ for ultra-fast in-game computations. Graphics powered by up to an NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX™ 4080 Laptop GPU ensures every pixel is rendered at lighting speeds on up to a QHD 240Hz display with a 3ms response time^xiv.

OMEN Transcend 16 and OMEN 16 Laptops enable users to:

• Play and Work Hard:With up to 32 GB DDR5-5600 MHz RAM and 2 TB PCIe®️ Gen4 NVMe™ TLC M.2 SSD, users will experience insanely quick load times for seamless gaming and content creation.

Answer the Call: Be it for team chat to defeat the latest boss encounter, or to talk with community members, utilise the all-new FHD^xv camera^xvi with a manual shutter door to be secure. For the OMEN Transcend 16 specifically, the addition of Windows Hello Facial recognition enables biometric identification to help make the log-in experience quick and secure.

Seamless Ecosystem with HyperX  

Seamless connectivity is a critical part of any gamer’s wireless headset experience. For the first time, HyperX and OMEN together engineered the world’s first¹ gaming laptops with an embedded module for intuitive audio pairing and ultra-low latency solution via a bundled HyperX Cloud II Core Wireless Gaming Headset option². Enabled on OMEN Transcend 16 Laptop and OMEN 16 Laptop, this quick and easy configuration allows for anyone to step into a seamless gaming experience with impeccable audio out of the box.

HyperX gaming headsets, keyboards, mice, and microphones complement all the announced OMEN and Victus products for the ultimate gaming ecosystem.

High-Performance Mainstream Gaming  

Ninety percent of Gen Z reports regularly playing and engaging with games, and Generation Alpha cites gaming as making up the quantity of leisure time at 21 percent^xvii. These audiences need a device that adapts to how they play and live and the Victus 16 Laptop delivers this with high performance in a mainstream device. Elevated through OMEN Dynamic Power, users can start their gaming journeys with the flexibility for schoolwork, entertainment, and content creation.

Victus 16 Laptop empowers those starting their gaming journeys to:

• Chill Out:Victus now features HP’s robust OMEN Tempest Cooling solution on select models^xviii as well as an IR thermopile sensor to accurately manage temperatures and keep things frosty when the action in game is getting hot.
• Level Up: Playing on a Victus laptop has never been more impressive with up to 13^thGen Intel^® Core™ i7-13700HX mobile processors or up to an AMD Ryzen™ 7 7840HS mobile processor¹¹. Graphics options up to an NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX™ Laptop 4070 GPU ensures the top titles look stunning.
• Flex that Style: Coming in bold colour options in mica silver, performance blue, and ceramic white, and 1-Zone RGB keyboard option, finding the right look that fits your vibe has never been easier.

New Gaming Monitor Portfolio 

No matter how people use their monitors – for PC or console gaming, work, entertainment, or some fun content creation – HP’s new OMEN monitor line-up of monitors is offered in a wide range of sizes and features designed for today’s hybrid life.

The showpiece of the new line-up is the OMEN 27k Gaming Monitor. With one-in-four gamers using their displays plugged into a console,^xix it adds HDMI 2.1 support, allowing for seamless, easy gameplay on next-gen consoles. It also showcases OMEN’s first-ever KVM switch^xx to enable the control of multiple devices, be it a PC, laptop, or console, via one keyboard, monitor, and mouse. The OMEN 27k also delivers an ultra-premium experience including 4K^xxi resolution, color gamut up to DCI-P3 95%⁸, a fast 144 Hz refresh rate⁸, and ARGB lighting.

The OMEN 24, OMEN 27, OMEN 27q, OMEN 32q, and OMEN 32c gaming monitors all come with the industry standard 165Hz refresh rate⁸, and plug and play connectivity^xxii. The OMEN 27s and OMEN 27qs contain the same features but up to a 240Hz refresh rate⁸ to push frames in competitive play. Designed for those who want to feel widely immersed in grand-scale games and MMOs or utilise added workspace in content creation or spreadsheets, the OMEN 34c offers a 1500r curved screen with a 21:9 aspect ratio⁸.

OMEN Monitor Portfolio offers:

• Bright yet Quick: With seventy-one percent of gamers^xxiiilisting HDR as one of the most critical features in a gaming monitor, each monitor has HDR^xxiv and AMD FreeSync™ Premium^xxv, with the OMEN 27s, OMEN 27qs, and OMEN 27k feature VESA DisplayHDR™ 400⁷²⁴ for extremely vibrant colours.
• Clear, Colourful, and Loud: All monitors have at least VESA ClearMR5000 to ensure even the most action-packed moments are fluid, crisp, and free of motion blur. The OMEN 32c, OMEN 27s, and OMEN 27qs, step it up with VESA ClearMR 6000^xxvi. To personalise your gaming space with extra colour, the OMEN 27s and 27qs join the 27k in featuring ARGB lighting that is customisable in OMEN Light Studio within OMEN Gaming Hub^xxvii. For those who want to take a break from their headset, the OMEN 34c, 27s, 27qs, and 27k include 2 x 3W integrated speakers to get straight to jamming out.
• Stylish yet Comfortable: Comes with a premium look without sacrificing ergonomic features, allowing gaming and work in comfort. All new monitors feature a stand with height adjustment, tilt, and pivot, delivering on the ergonomic needs. For those who’d like to mount their monitor, they have support for VESA compatibility.

Optimise, Personalise, and Play with OMEN Gaming Hub  

All products announced today are enhanced with powerful new OMEN Gaming Hub features for optimised and personalised PC experiences for gamers and creators. Beginning with Processor Core Affinity Optimisation within OMEN Optimiser, users will experience up to a 10 percent improvement in FPS^xxviii. This adds up quickly during gameplay to create a smoother, more reliable experience. The addition of ECO Mode yields up to 20 percent longer battery life^xxix and up to a 7 dB reduction in fan noise in OMEN and Victus Laptops for quieter gaming sessions and extended battery life^xxx. Combined with other features such as Performance Mode, Network Booster, System Vitals, and an integrated Cloud Gaming solution with NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW high-performance cloud gaming service^xxxi, OMEN Gaming Hub enables your gaming devices to work better together for a more enjoyable and seamless experience.