PC World - USA (2020-03)

88 PCWorld MARCH 2020

REVIEWS HP PAVILION GAMING L APTOP

Day-to-day use is unlikely to tax a CPU as

hard as HandBrake, and short-burst

performance is less impacted, as evidenced

by our Cinebench testing below.

The HandBrake results are interesting,

though, if only because there’s a clear

relationship

between the Omen

and Pavilion lines.

These really are two

flavors of the same

laptop, one aimed

low-end and one

high-end, with

some minor overlap

in the middle.

I do wish we’d

tested an HP Omen

with a GTX 1660 Ti

so we could do

further direct

comparisons. Alas,

the Omen 17 we

tested (go.pcworld.

com/om17) in

November

contained a full-size

RTX 2070, a high-

performance

powerhouse.

The GTX 1660 Ti

is a humbler card,

somewhere

between the power

of the last-gen GTX 1060 and the RTX 2060,

and without the ray-tracing capabilities

provided by the latter. It handily beats out the

GTX 1650, though—important, given that it’s

a lower-cost option for the Pavilion Gaming

Laptop. You’re much better off with a GTX

HP Om(Core i7-9750H) en 17

Dell G7(Core i7-9750H)

M(Core i7-9750H)SI GS65 Stealth 9SD

HP Pavilion 15 Gam(Core i7-9750H) ing Laptop

Acer Nitro 5 15

(Core i5-9300H)

Acer Nitro 7

(Core i7-9750H)

3DMark FireStrike Extreme 1.1 Graphics

(Demo mode off)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

8,908

4,161

6,496

7, 0 0 9

4,064

6,005

Cinebench R15.038

(All threads)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

1,204

1,247

1,153

1,088

993

Multi-threaded Single-threaded

MSI GS65 Stealth 9SD

(Core i7-9750H)

Dell G7

(Core i7-9750H)

HP Omen 17

(Core i7-9750H)

HP Pavilion 15 Gaming Laptop

(Core i7-9750H)

Acer Nitro 7 (Core i7-9750H)

Acer Nitro 5 15^766

(Core i5-9300H)

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