The HP Black Friday Sale Is Live: The Best Deals on Omen Gaming Laptops & PCs

HP OMEN 45L Gaming PCs

The OMEN 45L is one of the best prebuilt gaming PCs you can get. This is HP's roomiest chassis with plenty of cooling with three 120mm fans positioned at the front of the case and another three 120mm fans attached to the 360mm all-in-one liquid cooling radiator at the top of the case. This PC is equipped with a massive 1,200W 80PLUS Gold certified power supply that's big enough for even the most power-hungry of gaming PCs.

HP is offering an HP OMEN 45L gaming PC equipped with an Intel Core i9-13900K Raptor Lake CPU, GeForce RTX 4090 GPU, 16GB of DDR5 RAM, and dual storage (1TB SSD and 1TB HDD) for $2,299.99 after a $550 off discount.

The RTX 4090 is the most powerful GPU on the market. In his RTX 4090 review, Chris Coke writes, "The RTX 4090 may be huge and expensive, but holy smokes if it doesn’t blow the competition out of the water... Until the rest of the pack can catch up, between its impressive hardware specs and its DLSS 3 AI wizardry, even the $1,599 price doesn’t seem unreasonable for the unrivaled frame rates that this card can crank out."

For $900 less, HP has another OMEN 45L gaming PC on sale. This configuration is equipped with an Intel Core i7-14700K Raptor Lake CPU, RTX 4080 Super GPU, 16GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB SSD for only $2,099.99 after a $700 off discount.

The 4080 Super is a second generation card that supersedes the RTX 4080. It's Nvidia's second most powerful card and a superior GPU to AMD's Radeon RX 7900 RTX if you factor in DLSS and ray tracing performance. In our RTX 4080 Super review, Jackie Thomas writes, "If you're in the market for a 4K graphics card around $1,000, it's hard to think of any GPU that's a better purchase right now. This is the RTX 4080 that should have launched in 2022."

HP OMEN 35L Gaming PCs

New for 2024, HP touts the OMEN 35 as its "first gaming desktop designed with OMEN components." What that essentially means is that many of the parts that were originally sourced elsewhere are now designed in-house by HP. That includes the power supply unit, the case fans, and the cooling system. The OMEN 35L itself is a good looking, mid-tower chassis with a sensible airflow design; two large 140mm fans bring air in from the front and a rear 120mm fan exhausts it out the rear. Some of the higher end models are also equipped with a 240mm liquid cooler that exhaust air out the top. Overall this looks like a promising redesign that prioritizes cooling and ease-of-use.

HP OMEN 35L RTX 4060 Gaming PC

This particular OMEN 35L is equipped with an Intel Core i5-14400F CPU, RTX 4060 GPU, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD for a very respectable price of $879.99. The RTX 4060 is a great budget card for 1080p gaming. You could also run games at 1440p with relaxed graphic settings, but at that point I'd recommend upgrading to an RTX 4060 Ti or higher. Because it's a current generation card, the RTX 4060 supports DLSS 3.0, which gives you a noticeable performance boost compared to equivalent AMD cards without sacrificing visual quality.

Tldr; this OMEN 35L is configurable. By upgrading the GPU, you can get potentially better deals:

• Upgrade to RTX 4070 Super (must also upgrade to 850W power supply) for $1280
• Upgrade to RTX 4070 Ti Super (must also upgrade to 850W power supply) for $1530
• Upgrade to RTX 4080 Super (must also upgrade to 850W power supply) for $1880

If you prefer to go the AMD route, this HP OMEN 35L is equipped with an AMD Ryzen 5 8500G CPU, Radeon RX 7600 GPU, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD for an even lower price of $839.99. The AMD Radeon RX 7600 GPU is a bit less powerful than the RTX 4060 hence the lower price point, although actualy performance is roughly the same. However, if you decide to upgrade the GPU, you're actually getting lower pricing than with the RTX 4060 equipped Omen 35L. In fact, you can potentially equip this with the same RTX 4060 GPU and you would come out about $20 cheaper.

Tldr; this OMEN 35L is configurable. By upgrading the GPU, you can get potentially better deals:

• Upgrade to RTX 4060 for $850
• Upgrade to RTX 4070 Super (must also upgrade to 850W power supply) for $1250
• Upgrade to RTX 4080 Super (must also upgrade to 850W power supply) for $1650

So the base configuration of this HP OMEN 16" model features a 16" 1080p display, Intel Core i7-14700HX CPU, RTX 4050 GPU, 16GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD. However, this laptop can be configured to make it truly one worth fawning over. Here are some two upgraded configurations we would recommend.

Tldr; this OMEN Transcend is configurable. By upgrading the GPU, you can get potentially better deals:

• Upgrade to RTX 4060 and QHD+ OLED Display for $1429.99
• Upgrade to RTX 4070 and QHD+ OLED Display for $1639.99

HP is offering a great deal on its workhorse HP Omen 16" gaming laptop. You can get it equipped with an Intel Core i9-14900HX processor (Intel's best mobile CPU) and an RTX 4070 GPU for only $1399.99 after a $620 off instant discount. Even better than that, you can upgrade the GPU to an RTX 4080 in the customization page for an extra $400, bringing the total to $1,799.99. That would be the lowest price for Black Friday for an RTX 4080 equipped gaming laptop.

Tldr; this OMEN is configurable. By upgrading the GPU, you can get potentially better deals:

• Upgrade to RTX 4080 for $1749.99

Here's one more HP OMEN gaming laptop that can be customized to your liking. The base configuration still packs in a powerful Intel Core i7-14700HX CPU, an entry-level RTX 4050 GPU, 16GB RAM, and a 512GB SSD. The 16" display features a 1080p resolution, but you can upgrade to 1440p if you prefer.

Tldr; this OMEN is configurable. By upgrading the GPU, you can get potentially better deals:

• Upgrade to RTX 4060 for $879.99
• Upgrade to RTX 4070 (must also upgrade to 4-zone RGB keyboard) for $1030

Not all laptop GPUs are the same, even if they share the same name.

There are two important tidbits concerning graphics cards found in laptops. First, mobile GPU variants are not as powerful as their desktop counterparts. For example, a mobile RTX 4060 doesn't perform as well as a desktop RTX 4060. The mobile versions are generally about one to two tiers lower in performance. Using the same example, the mobile RTX 4060 performs more similarly to a desktop RTX 4050.

Second, not all laptops feature the same performance out of the same GPU. For example, the RTX 4060 found in the HP OMEN is generally more powerful than the RTX 4060 found in the HP OMEN Transcend, although there are exceptions (as seen in the example below). To make things even more complicated, the same laptop model can be equipped with GPUs of varying TGP ratings. For example, the OMEN Transcend "u1xxx" has a better performing RTX 4060 GPU than the one found in the OMEN Transcend "fb0xxx." Very confusing!

In order to roughly tell how good a GPU will be, you can look at the TGP rating. That's basically the amount of power supplied to the GPU. A higher TGP rating means more power will be delivered, equating to stronger performance, however the wattage consumption and heat generated will be higher. Here are the maximum TGP rates for the RTX 40 series GPUs:

• Mobile RTX 4050: 115W
• Mobile RTX 4060: 115W
• Mobile RTX 4070: 115W
• Mobile RTX 4080: 150W
• Mobile RTX 4090: 150W

More Black Friday Gaming PC Deals

HP isn't the only retailer with great Black Friday deals on gaming laptops and gaming PCs. Dell has an Alienware Black Friday Sale going on, for example, that has comparable deals to the ones from HP.

Eric Song is the IGN commerce manager in charge of finding the best gaming and tech deals every day. When Eric isn't hunting for deals for other people at work, he's hunting for deals for himself during his free time.