HP Spectre x360 16 RTX 4050
Specifications
Primary Camera: 9.2 MPix HP Wide Vision IR Camera with Shutter
Price comparison
Average of 6 scores (from 8 reviews)
Reviews for the HP Spectre x360 16 RTX 4050
The GeForce RTX 4050 GPU runs laps around the integrated Arc 8 configuration. However, CPU throttling bugs are holding back the dGPU configuration from being even better.
Source: Laptop Mag
The 2024 HP Spectre x360 16 is a powerful, premium 2-in-1 that earns its high price with stellar performance and a sleek chassis design. This is a do-it-all device that can go from productivity tasks to gaming with ease. The inclusion of an Nvidia RTX 4050 discrete GPU takes performance up a notch, which is great for gaming as well as content creation. Overall, the Spectre x360 16 thoroughly impressed me. The large OLED display renders everything in bright, colorful detail and the speakers are some of the best I’ve ever heard on a laptop. If you’re looking for one of the best 2-in-1 laptops, this one deserves your attention.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 05/29/2024
Rating: Total score: 90%
Source: PC Mag
The 2024 reboot of the HP Spectre x360 16 is the latest in a successful string of premium laptops, marked by a luxurious design and a premium 1800p OLED touch screen. Features like AI-enhanced hardware and software, an excellent 9MP webcam, and clever new touchpad gestures all add appeal, but those high points carry less weight at this price. More a concern: Competing systems simply outpaced the Intel Core Ultra processor in this implementation. Even with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 giving the laptop a visual boost, its performance never quite keeps pace with the like-priced pack. The premium design and features count for a lot. But the performance isn't category-leading, making this Spectre a worthwhile choice for many, but not the standout leader on all fronts that you might have hoped for, given past x360 efforts.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 05/05/2024
Rating: Total score: 70%
Source: Ben G Kaiser
Comparison, online available, Very Long, Date: 04/09/2024
Source: Ben G Kaiser
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 04/05/2024
Source: CNet
Yes, its size is a bit awkward as a handheld tablet and the RTX 4050 upgrade may not bring you the graphics performance you desire, but the HP Spectre x360 16 remains a versatile and well-designed two-in-one. Its audio-visual output is excellent and makes the system a great pick for general home use when you aren't using the giant OLED display for creative endeavors.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 03/17/2024
Rating: Total score: 84%
Source: Matthew Moniz
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 02/15/2024
Foreign Reviews
Source: Les Numeriques
FR→ENSingle Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 05/13/2024
Rating: Total score: 60% performance: 80% display: 100% mobility: 100% workmanship: 100%
Source: CNet France
FR→ENSingle Review, online available, Medium, Date: 03/25/2024
Rating: Total score: 80%
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NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU: Mid-range graphics card for laptops based on the Ada Lovelace architecture. Offers 6 GB of GDDR6 VRAM (96 Bit) and is configurable with a TGP of 35 - 115W (+ Dynamic Boost).
With these GPUs you are able to play modern and demanding games fluently at medium detail settings and HD resolution.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Ultra 7 155H: A high-end Meteor Lake chip that debuted in December 2023. This 1st Gen Core Ultra processor has come to replace 13th generation Core chips; it has 16 cores (6 + 8 + 2) and 22 threads at its disposal. Its Performance cores, of which there are 6, run at up to 4.8 GHz while its Efficient cores, of which there are 10 (8 main cores plus 2 extra ones found in the Low Power Island) run at up to 3.8 GHz. The integrated AI Boost NPU offers two Gen 3 engines for hardware AI workload acceleration. This laptop processor's Base power consumption is 28 W while its Turbo power consumption is supposed to stay within 115 W. » Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
16.00":
15-inch display variants are the standard and are used for more than half of all laptops.
The reason for the popularity of mid-sized displays is that this size is reasonably easy on the eyes, often allows high resolutions and thus offers rich details on the screen, yet does not consume too much power and the devices can still be reasonably compact - simply the standard compromise.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.HP: Founded in 1939, the US company is a major server and printer manufacturer and one of the leading IT companies in the world. Until 2015, the company was called Hewlett-Packard Company. After a split, the computer division was renamed HP Inc.
In 2023, HP had an approximate market share of 22% of global PC sales, making it number 2 after Lenovo.
79.18%: This rating is not earth-shattering. This rating must actually be seen as average, since there are about as many devices with worse ratings as better ones. A purchase recommendation can only be seen with a lot of goodwill, unless it is about websites that generally rate strictly.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
