HP Omen 17 Review: A Value-Priced Mobile Gaming Beast
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ATTO's disk benchmark gives us an idea of how well the system's SSD performs with sequential read and write operations of differing sizes. This system has a 256GB Samsung PM981 NVMe solid state drive with PCI Express 3.0 support. It's rated to deliver up to 2,800MB/s of sequential read performance and up to 1,100MB/s of sequential write performance.
In our benchmark run, the SSD's sequential read performance peaked at 2.74GB/s, which is in striking distance of its advertised maximum speed. On the write side of the equation, it peaked at 1.44GB/s, coming in a bit faster than its rated top speed.
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Cinebench tests the CPU and GPU independently and provides a glimpse into the system's throughput. The test is based on Maxon’s Cinema 4D modeling software that’s used in movie production studios.
The Omen 17 posted a single-core score of 142.18 and a multi-core score of 984 in Cinebench R15, the latter of which is slightly below the Omen X 2S and Alienware m15 R2, all of which are running the same Core i7-9750H processor. That's likely due to the Omen 17 throttling more aggressively than the other two with heavy CPU workloads.
We see a similar disparity in multi-core performance in Cinebench R20, when comparing against the Alienware m15 R2, though the single-core score notches a victory.
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Geekbench 4 is a cross-platform benchmark that simulates real world processing workloads in image processing and particle physics scenarios. We tested the Omen 17 in Geekbench 4’s single and multi-core test workloads.
The Geekbench 4 results play out the same way. Single-core performance is strong, but when tapping multiple cores and threads on more taxing workloads, the quick throttle on this laptop dings performance a tad, compared to other laptops with the same processor.
