HP introduced its latest gaming hardware and software designed for
today’s gamers with the powerful OMEN 16 and OMEN 17, bright and
customizable OMEN 25i Gaming Monitor, and community gaming with
OMEN OASIS4 Beta feature in OMEN Gaming Hub5. The company also
debuted Victus by HP, its next-generation mainstream-level gaming
PC portfolio, with a 16-inch laptop.
Gaming continues to be an outlet for entertainment and
connecting with friends. Two out of three people are spending more
time watching videos and gaming than they did prior to the
pandemic, with one in four gaming three to four hours more and
almost one in five gaming six to ten hours more a week6. HP’s
next-generation gaming portfolio is designed for both veteran
gamers and enthusiast explorers to be entertained, connected, and
empowered to progress in their favorite games.
“Our constant focus with gaming is to create innovative
technologies that progress the medium forward for everyone, be it
enthusiast level OMEN users or newcomers to this growing and
endlessly entertaining industry,” said Judy Johnson, Director of
Gaming and Esports, HP Inc. “We are offering a compelling entry
point for anyone who wants to game with Victus by HP, high power
and performance with new additions to our OMEN line-up, and OASIS,
a new feature for OMEN Gaming Hub, to optimize gameplay streaming
while bringing people together.”
The OMEN 16 will take center stage during the upcoming OMEN
Challenge, featuring amazing talent from 100 Thieves – including
Valkyrae, the Game Awards 2020 Content Creator of the Year – and
hosted by Ron Funches. This extravaganza of mini-games and trivia
starts at 4:00 p.m. ET, May 20, 2021 on the official OMEN Twitch
Channel.
DESIGNED AND ENGINEERED FOR PROGRESSIONSeasoned
gamers crave the latest advancements in hardware and software that
allow them to experience today’s titles at the max settings so they
feel truly immersed when they get a last second multiplayer win or
defeat that final boss. The latest additions to the OMEN ecosystem
focus on delivering new experiences that push beyond the expected
to keep gamers connected and entertained, and excited for what is
next.
OMEN 16 makes its big debut with:
- Top-Tier Performance:
Experience stunning graphics to bring the latest games to life with
up to an NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX™ 3070 Laptop GPU 8 GB or AMD RDNA™ 2
architecture-based graphics. Crush content with up to Intel® Core™
i7-11800H series processors7 or 8-core AMD Ryzen™ 9 5900HX Mobile
Processors8. Quickly use multiple apps with up to 32GB DDR4 3200
MHz and games get ultra-fast access to critical files with up to
1TB PCIe Gen 4x4 SSD9 or up to two 1TB PCIe SSDs supporting Raid
09.
- Gusts of Energy: HP’s innovations in internal
design continue to push the boundaries of what is possible with
blades that are 2.5 times as thin and have over a 200% increase in
blade count compared to the OMEN 1510. so that air flow is
increased to meet the demands of powerful internals. Meanwhile,
gaming sessions last longer from anywhere with increased battery
capacity from 52.5Whr to 83Whr11 for up to 9 hours of battery
life12.
OMEN 17 arrives in its most advanced form yet
with:
- Desktop-Grade Gaming:
Cruise through the latest AAA hits with up to an NVIDIA® GeForce®
RTX™ 3080 Laptop GPU 16 GB with a TGP maximum up to 165W and up to
Intel® Core™ i9-11900H processor7. Multitask between games,
browsers, or apps like a pro with up to 32GB DDR4 3200 MHz memory
and play faster and harder with up to 1TB PCIe Gen 4x4 SSD9 or up
to two 1TB PCIe SSD supporting Raid 09.
- Chill Blades:
Experience cooler and more comfortable play when questing through
the latest games thanks to the addition of 24 more blades13 that
are 17% thinner along with a 14%14 larger outlet open ratio, which
contributes to a -5 °C reduction in temperature on the keyboard
surface deck15 compared to the previous generation and keeps those
gamer palms feeling cozy.
OMEN 16 and OMEN 17 Laptops
packaged features:
- Immersive Visuals:
Fast paced gameplay flows brilliantly across the up to QHD16 165Hz
IPS panel with 3ms response time17 and 100% sRGB. For the first
time on OMEN Laptops, experience color accurate low blue light with
Eyesafe® display certification18 by TÜVRheinlan to keep eyes fresh
during extended gaming sessions. The bright visuals also shift to
the keyboard with up to per-key RGB lighting with OMEN Gaming Hub
Light Studio integration to achieve a look that is on point with
any gaming setup theme.
- Thermal Advances:
Efficient cooling is made simple with OMEN Tempest Cooling
Technology with Dynamic Power, OMEN Gaming Hub’s Performance
Control, and Undervolting19 managing the internals removes
guesswork for efficiently running resource heavy titles.
- Expand, Last, Fast: Expansion is quick and
simple with single-panel access to the SSD and RAM by way of
Phillips-head screws at the base of both laptops to make hardware
swaps a breeze. Online gaming does not miss a beat with Wi-Fi
6E20and a built-in 1x Thunderbolt 421 port provides one universal
port for hassle-free connectivity. Optional Intel® Optane™ memory
H20 with solid state storage offers a personalized computing
experience with a new level of performance and large storage
capacity options for gamers22.
- Greener Gaming: HP extends its leadership for
offering the world’s most sustainable PC portfolio23 with the most
sustainably engineered OMEN laptops yet, Energy Star certified24,
and EPEAT Silver registered®21,22, both laptops use recycled
aluminum for the keyboard surface, speaker boxes with a combination
of post-consumer recycled and ocean bound plastic, and keycaps
utilizing recycled plastic. Laptops are packaged with outer boxes
and fiber cushions that are 100% sustainably sourced and
recyclable.
EVERY JOURNEY HAS A BEGINNINGEach gamer has a
meaningful origin story that explains their entrance into PC
gaming. Victus by HP was created to introduce gamers to an
accessible, yet elevated, gaming experience built with OMEN’s DNA.
As the younger sibling to the pro-ready OMEN brand, Victus aims to
help anybody from any background outplay the ordinary in their
quest to find out what type of gamer they are.
As the first entrant in the Victus line, the Victus by
HP 16 comes with a distinctive lifestyle design featuring
three striking color options in mica silver, performance blue, and
ceramic white, all with a standard backlit keyboard printed with
the memorable font found on OMEN devices. Other features
include:
- Powerfully Compact:
The 16-inch display features options up to QHD16 165 Hz17 and
Eyesafe®18 low-blue light and fits snug atop a design that boasts a
nearly 15-inch footprint for practical everyday portability. Pixels
have never moved faster with graphics powered by up to an NVIDIA®
GeForce® RTX™ 3060 Laptop GPU 6 GB and AMD Radeon RX 5500M.
Lightning-fast speed and responsive gameplay with options up to
Intel® Core™ i7-11800H series processors7 or 8-core AMD Ryzen™ 7
5800H Mobile Processors8 along with up to 32 GB DDR4 3200 MHz
memory.
- Chill Drives: Wide
rear vents add a visual flair on top of enhanced thermal efficiency
which is bolstered by five-way airflow and a four-heat pipe design
to help keep things running cool when the action gets hot. With a
single SSD up to Gen4 1TB PCIe storage7 or Dual SSD supporting RAID
09 storage options as well as optional Intel® Optane™ memory22 are
quick and simple for gaming and other activities.
- Ultimate Control:
Ships with OMEN Gaming Hub preinstalled to take advantage of
powerful internal features like Undervolting19, Performance Mode,
Network Booster, and System Vitals help games run sublime while
accessibility to other features, such as Coaching, Rewards, and the
OMEN OASIS Beta raise gaming experiences in new and exciting
ways.
BUILT FOR COMPLETE IMMERSIONOMEN 25i
Gaming Monitor makes waves as the first ever OMEN gaming
monitor to feature HP Eye Ease with Eyesafe® certification18 to
reduce eye strain while playing. This hardware enabled low-blue
light solution is built right into the display. There is no need to
adjust settings or fret about a compromised color experience thanks
to a 30% reduction of excessive blue light compared with a standard
LCD display27. This monitor is designed with a host of innovative
features including:
- Stunning Sights: Crisp
action explodes off the screen at 165 Hz refresh rate and 1ms
response time with overdrive17 while AMD FreeSync™ Premium Pro
technology28 and NVIDIA® G-SYNC® Compatibility29 yield low latency
with wide adaptive refresh rate30 ranges without screen tearing
regardless of your GPU. Witness a more lifelike, vibrant, and
colorful experience than ever before thanks to IPS panel technology
with VESA DisplayHDR 400, DCI-P3 90%, 400 nits brightness, and true
8-bit color.
- Next-Gen Software:
Shadow Vision makes a splash in OMEN Gaming Hub to enhance image
details in a game’s darkest dungeon. Edge Precision corrects sharp
images for smooth and crisp angles in game, while the Dynamic
Crosshair –the world’s most customizable3 – lets a gamer build the
perfect reticle to zero in on targets. Experience the world’s first
Game Remastered Mode31 to relive old school PC games or hook up a
console via HDMI to experience the first integrated solution in a
monitor that applies enhancement filters to lower resolution games
so you can experience classics like never before.
PLAY, WATCH, CHAT, AND SHARE
TOGETHEROMEN Gaming Hub is evolving to
address the needs of today’s gamer as a centralized solution for
everything from optimizing your gaming PC, customizing your
hardware, and enhancing the gaming experience. User research shows
91% of gamers prefer sharing streams to small parties of 1-20
people, with 61% stating that sharing live gameplay experiences is
important, and 49% having a desire to share webcams32. With this
insight, OMEN Gaming Hub added OMEN
OASIS, currently in beta, to provide
gamers with quick and simple access to gameplay streaming with
their friends.
OMEN OASIS is a downloadable and easy to use
add-on to OMEN Gaming Hub designed to optimize sharing gameplay,
game nights, or watch parties with your friends. It features up to
a 16-person invite-only party, so inviting your friends is easy and
intuitive, and everyone can join in on the fun. Friends can
communicate with either high-quality voice or simple text chat. Now
with OASIS, gamers can share their real-time gameplay in high
definition and low latency.33
For more information about the OMEN ecosystem of gaming PCs,
displays and accessories, visit: omen.com
PRICING AND AVAILABILITY34
- OMEN 16 is expected to be available this June via HP.com and
Best Buy for a starting price of $1049.99.
- OMEN 17 is expected to be available this June via HP.com and
other retailers for a starting price of $1,369.99.
- Victus by HP 16 is expected to be
available this June via HP.com and other retailers for a starting
price of $799.99.
- OMEN 25i Gaming Monitor is expected to be available this July
via HP.com and other retailers for a starting price of
$349.99.
- OMEN OASIS is available in Beta today in the US and coming soon
to the rest of the world.
About HPHP Inc. creates technology that makes
life better for everyone, everywhere. Through our product and
service portfolio of personal systems, printers and 3D printing
solutions, we engineer experiences that amaze. More information
about HP Inc. is available at hp.com.Speaker enclosure contains 5%
ocean bound plastics. 100% outer box packaging and corrugated
cushions made from sustainably sourced certified and recycled
fibers.
©Copyright 2021 HP Development Company, L.P. The information
contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only
warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the
express warranty statements accompanying such products and
services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an
additional warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or
editorial errors or omissions contained herein.
- Laptops manufactured with recycled
aluminum material in product cover. Percent of recycled aluminum
varies by product.
- Based on HP's internal analysis of a
gaming cross hair that can be built using 5 customer customizable
shapes for up to 25 shape combinations using 8 different colors as
of Jan 5, 2021.
- OASIS is available as a free download
from the Microsoft Store. Internet service required and not
included.
- Supported Devices: All Windows 10 based PCs (RS3 or later) will
be supported by OMCC. This app should not install on any PCs which
is not Windows 10 (RS3 or later). Support language: English/Arabic
(ar)/ Chinese-S (zh-cn)/ Chinese-T (zh-tw) Croatian (hr)/ Czech
(cs)/ Danish (da)/ Dutch (nl)/ Finnish (fi)/ French (fr)/ German
(de)/ Greek (el)/ Italian (it)/ Japanese (ja)/ Korean (ko)/ Latvian
(lv)/ Lithuanian (lt)/ Norwegian (no)/ Polish (pl)/ Portuguese
(Portugal) (pt-pt)/ Russian (ru)/ Serbian (sr)/ Slovak (sk)/
Slovenian (sl)/ Spanish (es)/ Swedish (sv).
- HP Gaming D&A and Personas Research, August 2020.
- Multi-core is designed to improve performance of certain
software products. Not all customers or software applications will
necessarily benefit from use of this technology. Performance and
clock frequency will vary depending on application workload and
your hardware and software configurations. Intel’s numbering,
branding/and or naming is not a measurement of higher performance.
Quad-core is 4 cores and Hexa-core is 6 cores.
- Multi-core is designed to improve performance of certain
software products. Not all customers or software applications will
necessarily benefit from use of this technology. Performance and
clock frequency will vary depending on application workload and
your hardware and software configurations. AMD’s numbering is not a
measurement of clock speed.
- Single Gen4 and 2x TB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD with RAID 0
configurable on Intel SKU only, top AMD config is 1TB PCIe Gen3x4
SSD.
- OMEN 16 0.2T with 97 pieces of fan
blade; OMEN 15 0.5T with 47 pieces of fan blade. Note: Listed
numbers are compared to OMEN 15; results might be varied by
different configurations. Dimension will be varied by
specifications. Actual product thermal solution varies by
configuration and may vary from image depicted.
- Actual battery Watt-hours (Wh) will
vary from design capacity. Battery capacity will naturally decrease
with shelf life, time, usage, environment, temperature, system
configuration, loaded apps, features, power management settings and
other factors.
- Based on HP Internal video playback
testing in Apr 2021 with the new OMEN 16. New OMEN 16 configuration
with Intel Core i7-11800H, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, 32GB RAM.
Windows 10 battery life will vary depending on various factors
including product model, configuration, loaded applications,
features, use, wireless functionality, and power management
settings. The maximum capacity of the battery will naturally
decrease with time and usage. See www.bapco.com for additional
details.
- OMEN 17: 0.3T with 83 pieces of fan
blade; Last gen OMEN 17: 0.35T with 59 pieces of fan blade.
- OMEN 17 outlet open ratio: 79.8%; Last
gen OMEN 17 outlet open ratio: 70%
- One hour testing on the same
environment, same power delivery and same acoustic environment gen
to gen comparison: New OMEN 17 41.4 degree on C deck and last gen
OMEN 17 46.4 degree on C deck.
- Quad HD (2560x1440) content is required
to view Quad HD images.
- All performance specifications
represent the typical specifications provided by HP's component
manufacturers; actual performance may vary either higher or
lower.
- Eyesafe® display options: QHD 165Hz,
FHD 144Hz).
- Only available on Intel SKU. The
Undervolting feature provided by OMEN Gaming Hub is based on APIs
provided by Intel Extreme Utility (XTU) for voltage
adjustment.
- Available in select Intel models only.
The WW 6GHz spectrum usage will still not be approved yet in
Q2,2021, except US. Configure may vary by different countries,
please contact with HP local contact for more info.
- Only available on Intel ® with NVIDIA
GeForce® RTX™ 3060 and above for OMEN 16.
- Intel® Optane™ memory is a smart,
adaptable system accelerator for PCs with an Intel® Core™
processor. Intel® Optane™ memory system acceleration does not
replace or increase the DRAM in your system.
- Applies to HP PCs, Workstations, and
Displays manufactured after January 2019. Based on most Gold and
Silver EPEAT® registrations by meeting all required criteria and
achieving 50-74% of the optional points for EPEAT® Silver and
75-100% of the optional points for EPEAT® Gold according to IEEE
1680.1-2018 EPEAT®. Status varies by country. Data is as of May 26,
2020. Visit www.epeat.net for more information.
- Based on U.S. EPEAT® registration
according to IEEE 1680.1-2018 EPEAT®. EPEAT® status varies by
country. Visit www.epeat.net for more information. Please check
more info about Energy Star and EPEAT from appendix slides.
- Only available on OMEN 16.
- OBP usages differ from model, OBP only
applied on speaker housing on Ceramic White models.
- Arnault E, et al. Phototoxic Action
Spectrum on a Retinal Pigment Epithelium Model of Age-Related
Macular Degeneration Exposed to Sunlight Normalized Conditions.
PLOS ONE. August 23, 2013.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0071398. [Accessed December 3,
2019].
- FreeSync™ Premium Pro is only available
when it is connected on Display Port or HDMI with HDR capabilities
and game support. FreeSync is an AMD® technology enabled on FHD,
QHD and HDR displays and is designed to eliminate stuttering and/or
tearing in games and videos by locking a display’s refresh rate to
the frame r ate of the graphics card. HDR does not require HDR
monitors; driver can be set in native mode when FreeSync Premium
Pro supported content is detected. Otherwise, HDR content requires
that the system be configured with a fully HDR-ready content chain.
Mandatory low framerate compensation and at least 120Hz refresh
rate, AMD Radeon Graphics and/or AMD A-Series APU-compliant
monitors with DisplayPort/HDMI Adaptive-Sync required. AMD 15.11
Crimson driver (or newer) required to support FreeSync over HDMI.
Adaptive refresh rates vary by monitor. More information is
available at www.amd.com/freesync.
- NVIDIA validated VRR testing with
GeForce GTX 10-Series, GeForce GTX 16-Series and GeForce RTX
20-Series graphics cards, VRR range at least 2.4:1, 60Hz-144Hz, VRR
enables by default. See NVIDIA
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/g-sync-ces-2019-announcements/
for more details.
- Supports Adaptive-sync with NVIDIA®
GeForce® graphics cards and AMD Radeon graphics cards. FreeSync™
certified. Compatible with NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 10 series, GTX 16
series and newer graphics cards.
- Based on HP's internal analysis of
monitors marketed to gamers that have resolution enhancement for
legacy games as of Jan 5, 2021).
- Spectate Gaming Habits, April
2020.
- Specifications may vary depending on
configuration.
- Pricing from HP.com, subject to change without notice. Retailer
pricing may vary.
NVIDIA, GeForce, Surround, and the NVIDIA logo are trademarks
and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the U.S. and
other countries.AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, Ryzen, Radeon, and
combinations thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices,
Inc.
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Dane Dyche, HP (Gaming & Esports)
dane@hp.com
www.hp.com/go/newsroom
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