You’ll have the option of the AMD Ryzen 5 5600H processor and the Nvidia GeForce RTX3050 graphics or the AMD Ryzen 7 5800H processor and the Nvidia GeForce RTX3060 graphics. This display also has the low-blue light tech, though how much of an impact that has in the long run, if at all, isn’t something we can assess in a limited review duration. This has a 144Hz refresh rate and that simply means fast moving visuals in games as well as in media are silky smooth. That’s 300 nits brightness, which should be adequate for most indoor use, though if you do wish to enjoy a winter afternoon working under the rare sunlight, there may be some squinting needed. That’s rich and bright colours, darker black levels than traditional LCD screens can manage and good contrast levels that also help with viewing under harsh office floor lights. It’s an IPS or in-plane switching display that brings the standard advantage of this screen type to the fore. This is a large 16.1-inch display you’ll get for all the gaming fun. Lot of cooling vents at the back and on the underside, which gives the two cooling fans enough of inflow and outflow to keep this fairly cool when you’re gaming. We do feel that the arrow keys are a tad too small, individually, and these keys are very relevant while playing a game - that’ll take some getting used to. The keyboard and the palm rest area feel fine, but press down hard on the plastic body, and there’s some flex. There is some wobble of the screen that is apparent if you are typing rapidly.
The hinge for the display isn’t as well calibrated as we’d have expected. It isn’t hard to notice that there is a certain lightweight touch to the build quality at certain places. Yet, the Victus 16 does stop some distance short of the bright LED lights and the look-at-me colourful inserts that some of its rivals are happy to flaunt.Īlso Read: Three laptop deals from MSI you just can’t miss this Diwali There’s a definite dash of aggression that you’d expect from a gaming laptop and not one strictly meant for boardrooms and meetings. So much so that you’d usually see the brand logo on the lid, but here, it’s the big “V” for the Victus series. The Victus branding is front and centre on this gaming laptop. The eye-catching contours interspersed with a lot of sophistication that we have seen in the Spectre and the ENVY laptop ranges make way for the more youthful and aggressive design on the HP Victus 16. There is one thing that HP does well, and that’s the design. Gaming laptop genes, but with wider appeal It may just be a good time to bet on something that also saves you some money on the price tag, isn’t it? The HP Victus 16 gaming laptop range prices start at ₹64,900 for the AMD-powered options and ₹74,900 for the ones that have Intel chips.
The pricing tells a tale of how this unfolds. Particularly when the price tag offers a genuine advantage compared with similar specs for an Intel processor-powered alternative. You’d also hear this called “Victus for HP”. That’s because the combination of AMD’s Ryzen processors and Nvidia graphics seems to be working wonders for the HP Victus 16 gaming laptop. We could be saying this quite often in the coming years.