Price When Reviewed
1550 Euro
When it comes to decently equipped gaming laptops, the price normally hovers around $1,300 to $2,000. Usually, these models have a GeForce RTX 4060 on board. Well, this configurable version of the HP Victus 16 for $1,799 comes with an RTX 4070 and promises better gaming performance in this price range. HP also combines the GPU with a powerful AMD processor.
The 16-inch laptop sits in a sturdy black plastic case. Its RTX 4070 has a TGP of 120 watts, less than the top model of this GPU, which is allowed to draw up to 140 watts in total. With 4,608 shaders, 36 ray tracing cores, and 144 tensor cores, however, it’s better equipped than the RTX 4060. The graphics memory is 8GB in both variants. Like all GeForce 40-series GPUs, the RTX 4070 also supports DLSS 3 with Frame Generation.
The processor is also striking in the Victus 16. HP uses a current Ryzen 7 7840HS. This Phoenix CPU uses eight Zen 4 cores with SMT while other notebooks in the price range of the HP Victus 16 with an AMD CPU usually use the 7735HS. This Rembrandt refresh has eight cores of the predecessor architecture Zen3+.
We performed all tests in “Performance” mode. You set the different modes as well as fan control and keyboard illumination in the Omen Gaming Hub tuning software.
| HP Victus 16-s0077ng: Equipment | |
| Processor | AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS |
| Clock speed | Standard clock: 3.8 GHz; Turbo clock up to 5.1 GHz |
| Cores / Threads | 8 / 16 |
| RAM | 16 GB DDR5-5600 (exchangeable) |
| Graphics card | Nvidia Geforce RTX 4070 |
| Graphics memory | 8 GB GDDR6 |
| GPU: Clock speed / TGP | 1605 MHz (standard), 1980 MHz (boost) / 120 Watt |
| Drive | NVMe SSD Kioxia XG8 (PCIe 4.0 x 4) |
| usable capacity | 952.96 GB |
| Format | M.2 2280 |
| Network: LAN / WLAN / Bluetooth | Gigabit / WiFi 6 (Mediatek MT7921) / 5.3 |
| Operating system | Windows 11 Home |
| Display: Diagonal / Resolution / Format | 16.1 inch / 1920 x 1080 / 16:9 |
| Dot density / refresh rate | 138 ppi / 144 Hz |
| Weight: Notebook (with battery) / power supply unit | 2378 / 732 grams |
| Battery: Capacity | 83 Wh |
| Connections left | 1x Type-A USB 3.2 Gen 1, 1x audio, 1x LAN |
| Connections right | 1x Type-C (USB 3.2 Gen 1, Displayport 1.4, Power Delivery), 2x Type-A USB 3.2 Gen 1, 1x power |
| Further features | Front camera (1080p) |
HP Victus 16: The perfect combination for high fps
When it comes to 3D speed, the Victus 16 benefits not only from the RTX 4070, but also from the low resolution of its 16-inch display. It only shows Full HD with 1920×1080 instead of WQHD resolution.
In the 3DMark benchmark, the RTX 4070 is on par with an RTX 3080 from the previous generation. The advantage over an RTX 4060 is just under 20 percent in the Time Spy test to just under 30 percent in the Port Royal ray tracing test. However, the gap upwards is considerable. An RTX 4080 is over 50 percent faster than the RTX 4070.
Here’s what’s so striking. In 3D Mark, the RTX 4070 in the HP notebook does not show worse graphics performance than the same model with 140 watts when used on an Intel platform, despite the lower TGP, because with a power-hungry Raptor Lake CPU from the HX series at its side, the Nvidia GPU cannot always exhaust the possible power consumption.
For comparison, a Core i7-13700HX needs around 96 watts for just under 21,000 points in Cinebench R23 while the AMD processor only allows itself 60 watts for over 16,000 points. For a result that is almost 30 percent better, the Intel CPU requires 60 percent more power.
The advantage of a lower resolution is clearly evident in the gaming tests. In slightly older games, the HP Victus always delivers playable frame rates even with maximum details and ray tracing. In Shadow of the Tomb Raider (SOTTR), the notebook achieves 147 fps in ultra-high and 107 fps with activated ray tracing shadows in ultra-quality. In Dirt 5, it is 82 fps and 70 fps respectively in ultra-high and with ray tracing.
