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HP’s branding is missing connected its caller gaming laptops (and gaming monitors) announced astatine CES 2026 — HP-owned HyperX has gotten a big promotion successful its place. This switch is the biggest artistic alteration successful the Omen lineup (the logo is connected the lid and connected the screen’s bottommost bezel). In different words, not overmuch is different connected the extracurricular compared to 2025’s models. But location are immoderate spec strides worthy noting crossed the lineup.
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The Omen 15, which replaces the Victus 15, has a 15.3-inch 16:10 facet ratio show that starts astatine 1,920 x 1,200 but tin beryllium configured pinch up to a 3K 120Hz OLED screen. Every configuration has a four-zone RGB backlit keyboard that boasts an 8K polling complaint (all caller models announced coming tin beryllium configured pinch this keyboard for an added cost), and you tin opt for the latest Intel aliases AMD-based processors. The Omen 15 sports 2 user-accessible RAM ports and ships pinch 8GB DDR5 RAM by default. As for graphics, this exemplary starts pinch Nvidia’s RTX 5050 but tin spell up to the 5070 (8GB VRAM for each GPU option).
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The Omen 16 tin besides beryllium configured pinch Intel aliases AMD processors (only the AMD units connection 2 slots of user-serviceable RAM), pinch the action of Nvidia’s RTX 5060 aliases 5070 (both are 8GB VRAM variants). This exemplary boasts a 16-inch 16:10 facet ratio surface that has the aforesaid starting solution arsenic the Omen 15, but tin beryllium configured pinch up to a 2.5K 165Hz OLED surface (it has a somewhat little screen-to-body ratio compared to the 15, astatine 87 percent compared to 91 percent). This exemplary is disposable successful achromatic aliases white.
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Lastly, there’s the Omen Max 16 that has supercharged specs compared to the guidelines Omen 16. Its top-end 2.5K OLED surface tin spell up to 240Hz, and the graphics paper offered starts astatine the 5070 Ti and includes the 5090 for those who want the highest level of capacity imaginable successful the lineup. You tin opt for AMD aliases Intel here, but your prime impacts wide RAM velocity and amount possible. The priciest Intel models support up to 64GB of DDR5-6400 RAM, while the AMD models support up to 48GB DDR5-5600, but some models let for user-replaceable memory. Like the Omen 16, this one’s disposable successful achromatic aliases white.
HP hasn’t announced pricing aliases an expected motorboat model for immoderate of these laptops.
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