As part of its Back to School sale, HP is offering an HP OMEN 17 RTX 4080 gaming laptop for only $1979.99. Right now there's no other place you can find an RTX 4080 laptop for under $2K. Alternatively, you can upgrade the GPU to a beastly RTX 4090 and pay $2474.99. Both configs are paired with an equally powerful Intel Core i9 Raptor Lake CPU.
HP OMEN 17" RTX 4080 Gaming Laptop for $1979.99 or RTX 4090 Gaming Laptop for $2474.99
The full specs include a 17" 2560x1440 QHD display, Intel Core i9-13900HX CPU, GeForce RTX 4080 GPU, 16GB of DDR5-5600MHz RAM, and a 512GB PCIe NVMe TLC M.2 SSD. The 13th gen Intel Core i9-13900HX Raptor Lake CPU is the most powerful mobile Intel chip available right now, both in terms of gaming and general workstation performance. It has a Turbo boost clock speed of 5.4GHz with 24 cores, 32 threads, and a 36MB cache. It's a perfect matchup with either the RTX 4080 or RTX 4090 GPUs.
The RTX 4080 mobile GPU performs about 20%-35% faster than the RTX 3080 Ti mobile. Compared to desktop variants, the mobile RTX 4080 approaches a performance level similar to the desktop RTX 3070 Ti. It's definitely more than enough power to run games on the native 1440p display at near maximum settings depending on the title. If you factor in DLSS and ray tracing, NVIDIA cards are still preferred over AMD cards in terms of of a maximum gaming performance standpoint.
If you thought the RTX 4080 was powerful, then check out the RTX 4090. The RTX 4090 is the most powerful mobile GPU ever, and by a considerable margin even compared to the 4080. It's roughly equivalent to a desktop RTX 3090 GPU. The HP OMEN 17 supplies up to 175W to the GPU which means that this is the full-powered mobile variant compared to the gimped 80W version you might find elsewhere.
