The Acer Nitro 5 was the fastest at 1,240.65 MBps, followed by the HP Omen 15’s 968 MBps and the Asus TUF Gaming 17’s 596.39 MBps. The HP Victus 15 copied 25GB of test files at an average speed of 741.24 MBps. The Asus TUF Gaming 17 took the longest at 10:36. Meanwhile, the Acer Nitro was fastest at 5:59, barely beating the HP Omen’s time of 6:01.
The Victus took 8 minutes and 9 seconds to transcode a 4K video to 1080p in Handbrake. Finally, the HP Omen 15 (Ryzen 4800H, reviewed in 2020) achieved a 1,206 single-core and 7,976 multi-core scores. The Asus TUF Gaming 17 (Intel Core i5-12600H) hit 1,354 single-core and a 9,148 multi-core score. Meanwhile, the Acer Nitro 5 (Intel Core i5-12500H) reached a single-core performance score of 1,652 and a 9,148 multi-core performance score. On Geekbench 5.4, an overall performance test focused on the CPU, the HP Victus 15 earned a single-core score of 1,588 and a multi-core score of 6,902. Although the Victus 15 expectedly underperformed during most gaming benchmarks on high settings, it kept up better with the pack in some of our productivity tests. We tested the HP Victus 15 with an Intel Core i5-12450H, 8GB of DDR4 RAM and 512GB of SSD storage. Productivity Performance on the HP Victus 15 The GPU ran at an average speed of 1,487 MHz and a temperature of 80.5 degrees Celsius (176.9 degrees Fahrenheit). The temperature of the CPU averaged 83.9 degrees Celsius (183.02 degrees Fahrenheit), and HWInfo reported some CPU thermal throttling in the middle of the test. The game ran at an average of 45 frames per second, staying consistent throughout.ĭuring the stress test, CPU speeds came in at an average of 3.8 GHz on the performance cores and 3.0 GHz on the efficiency cores. However, we could not use the RTX feature this time and had to run the title on medium settings. On gaming laptops, we usually stress-test by running the Metro Exodus benchmark on RTX settings 15 times, simulating about half an hour of gameplay. But we could benchmark the title at medium, and it looked fantastic running at 54 fps. We could not benchmark Shadow of the Tomb Raider under very high settings (as we usually run it) because the HP Victus’ GPU could not handle it. This game would also have to be turned down. Others like the Asus TUF Gaming 17 reached 36 fps, while the HP Omen and Acer Nitro output 43 and 45 frames per second. The 2020 Omen reached 36 fps.įinally, on the Borderlands 3 benchmark (badass settings), the HP Victus reached 26 fps, the weakest of the bunch yet again. Meanwhile, the Acer Nitro hit 39 frames and the Asus TUF Gaming 17 outperformed them all with 46 fps. On the Red Dead Redemption 2 benchmark (medium settings), we saw the HP Victus with the weakest performance of the bunch at 24 fps, suggesting you'd need to turn the game to lower settings to make it playable. and the Acer Nitro had the best performance at 79 fps. The HP Omen 15, (which we reviewed in 2020 and are using for historical context) and its GTX 1660 Ti with a Ryzen 7 4800H, achieved the same 61 fps as the Nitro.ĭuring the Far Cry New Dawn (ultra settings) benchmark in 1080p, the HP Victus reached 54 fps, which came out with better performance than the Asus TUF Gaming 17’s 50 fps. The Acer Nitro 5, with its RTX 3050 Ti, ran the game at 61 fps, while the RTX 3050 Ti-powered Asus TUF Gaming F17 achieved 55 fps. When we ran Grand Theft Auto V’s benchmark at very high settings, the HP Victus delivered 39 fps at 1080p resolution. I couldn't use DLSS, which would lessen the burden on the GPU, with a GTX 1650 - that's reserved for higher end GPUs. The game ran at around 42 frames per second, only dropping to the 30-fps range during intense action. While playing Control (medium settings) at 1080p, I was impressed with its relative smoothness. However, you’ll probably have to turn the settings down to medium for most games. Although the Victus sports a GTX graphics card, it can still play less-demanding contemporary titles at the highest settings. Our configuration of the HP Victus 15 came with an Intel Core i5-12450H and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 with 4GB of GDDR6 RAM.