HP preps new Omen Max gaming laptop powered by AMD's new Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 'Strix Point' APU

HP is about to expand its Omen Max gaming laptop family with a new member that features AMD's new Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 "Strix Point" APU and up to NVIDIA's new flagship GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU.

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AMD's new Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 "Strix Point" APU features 12 cores and 24 threads of Zen 5c processing power, with performance close to the HX 370 APU but with a beefier NPU for AI workloads. We've got up to 55 TOPS of AI workload power compared to 50 TOPS from the HX 370 chip.

Inside, the new HP Omen Max gaming laptop features a higher-end 16-inch display with IPS and OLED panel options, up to 64GB of RAM, and storage-wise we've got Gen5 and Gen4 SSD support. HP uses its in-house Tempest Cooling Pro thermal system, as well as Omen AI performance tuning tools, which include the Unleashed Mode that increases the TDP limits.

HP's new Omen Max gaming laptop, which mixes the AMD Strix Point APU with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series Laptop GPU, is the company's first such combination within its premium gaming laptop family, as the company already has a model that uses Intel processors and NVIDIA RTX 50 series Laptop GPUs.

I've just recently gone hands-on with HP's new ZBook Ultra G1a 14 workstation laptop that uses AMD's more powerful "Strix Halo" APU and its far more powerful integrated RDNA 3.5-based Radeon 8050S GPU, an impressive piece of kit -- with its major letdown being the expensive pricing -- but it seems HP is moving in the direction of adding AMD APUs to its gaming laptops, mixed with more powerful GPUs (especially when it's up to the flagship RTX 5090 Laptop GPU.