A budget gamer for $1,200: HP Victus 15 RTX 5050 laptop review

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With the RTX 5050 version of the Victus 15, HP is offering one of the most affordable gaming laptops based on Nvidia's Blackwell architecture. We put the 15-inch model through its paces and discuss all its pros and cons in this article.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/A-budget-gamer-for-1-200-HP-Victus-15-RTX-5050-laptop-review.1147790.0.html

[Only 8 GB VRAM]

Only 8GB VRAM, this is not enough anymore (don't care how good the device is otherwise). U don't believe me? Just see e.g. Hardware Unboxed on YouTube (they were one of the first who exposed this. U probably didn't know, but Aussies have a big PC community, may be that's also why - and they [Hardware Unboxed] are honest) or this very recent news:

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According to the report, recent sales of 8GB models have been weak, while the 16GB version has been selling at a steady pace. With many recent games using close to or above 8GB of VRAM even at 1080p settings, some users are avoiding the lower-capacity model. This has also been visible across AMD products in the same segment, where 8GB cards have been sitting in stock while 16GB versions move faster.

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The sRGB coverage of only 64% is super nasty (and equivalently the Display P3 coverage of abysmal 43%).

[Only 8 GB VRAM]

Wait, if you can, for next year' Refresh, which will use 3 GB per GDDR7 chip, instead of the current 2 GB (8 GB VRAM will then become 12 GB VRAM). The 5090 Laptop with its 24 GB VRAM is only a 5080 GPU chip (=256-bit) in disguise, otherwise it would only have 16 GB VRAM: See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_RTX_50_series#Mobile, the same GB203 chip is being used for 16 GB and 24 GB configs: 256-bit / 32-bit per chip = 8 GDDR7 chips, once with 2 GB per chip (=16 GB VRAM) and once with 3 GB per chip (=24 GB VRAM). This is common knowledge.