HP Omen 35L review: but seriously, it’s all fun and games

HP’s latest iteration of its popular Omen 35L gaming PC offers plenty of creative rendering power.

HP Omen 35L gaming PC
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Our Verdict

HP has loaded this Omen 35L gaming PC with the latest tech, and it will help anyone who renders, edits or encodes to save time in their workloads. While it might light up like a Christmas tree, it’s not aggressively styled and looks good perched on the end of a studio desk. It’s expensive, but the capability it will bring makes it well worth the outlay. You can even use it to play games.

For

  • Nicely built, compact tower PC
  • Extremely powerful
  • Surprisingly quiet

Against

  • Can get expensive
  • SSD a little slow
  • Only one Thunderbolt 4 port

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Workstation PCs built to churn through rendering (and, increasingly, AI) tasks don’t have to be boring beige boxes. A gaming PC is often built with the kind of pixel-pushing prowess in mind that designers and editors can harness, which makes HP’s Omen 35L an interesting proposition. It has one of the very latest Intel processors on-board, along with the kind of NVIDIA graphics board that gamers have been drooling over. It will power through video processing, resizing and reencoding, as well as driving big, high-res monitors, and it will look good while it does it.

Key specifications

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CPU:Intel Core Ultra 7 265K
NPU:Intel AI Boost
Graphics:Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super 16GB
Memory:32GB DDR5-6000
Storage:2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD
Screen size:n/a
Screen type:n/a
Resolution:n/a
Refresh rate:n/a
Colour gamut (measured):n/a
Brightness (measured):n/a
Ports:1x USB 3.2 Type-C 10Gbps (front), 2x USB 3.2 Type-A 5Gbps (front), 1x 3.5mm audio (front); 1x Thunderbolt 4, 2x USB 3.2 Type-C 10Gbps, 2x USB 3.2 Type-A 5Gbps, 4x USB 2.0, Ethernet, audio (all rear)
Wireless connectivity:Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, 2.5Gb Ethernet
Dimensions:8.27 x 16.06 x 16.14 in
Weight:32lbs
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Header Cell - Column 0 Header Cell - Column 1 HP OMEN 35L
GEEKBENCH 6CPU Single-core:3019
Row 1 - Cell 0 CPU Multi-core:19397
Row 2 - Cell 0 GPU OpenCL:245,249
CINEBENCH 2024CPU single-core:131
Row 4 - Cell 0 CPU multi-core:1806
Row 5 - Cell 0 GPU:26,194
UL PROCYONAI Image Generation (Stable Diffusion 1.5)4308
Row 7 - Cell 0 Office Productivity Benchmark:274,000
Row 8 - Cell 0 Battery Life Benchmark:n/a
TOPAZ VIDEO AIEnhancement:117.67
Row 10 - Cell 0 Slowmo:337.48
Row 11 - Cell 0 Combined:1,992.79
ON1 RESIZE200% resize time:7135ms
PUGETBENCH for PHOTOSHOPOverall:8924
Row 14 - Cell 0 General:90.3
Row 15 - Cell 0 Filter:88.2
PUGETBENCH for DAVINCI RESOLVEOverall:9742
Row 17 - Cell 0 GPU Effects:104
Row 18 - Cell 0 Fusion score:87.5
Row 19 - Cell 0 AI score:101
Row 20 - Cell 0 H.264 encoding:112fps
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[Product name] score card
AttributesNotesRating
Design:Looks good, with a smooth white finish and tidy cabling4/5
Features:Only one Thunderbolt 4 port, but well kitted out5/5
Performance:You'll need a 4090 or 5080 card to beat this PC5/5
Value:It's a lot of money, but you do get a lot of performance for your outlay3/5
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The Verdict
8.5

out of 10

HP OMEN 35L

HP has loaded this Omen 35L gaming PC with the latest tech, and it will help anyone who renders, edits or encodes to save time in their workloads. While it might light up like a Christmas tree, it’s not aggressively styled and looks good perched on the end of a studio desk. It’s expensive, but the capability it will bring makes it well worth the outlay. You can even use it to play games.

Ian Evenden

Ian Evenden has been a journalist for over 20 years, starting in the days of QuarkXpress 4 and Photoshop 5. He now mainly works in Creative Cloud and Google Docs, but can always find a use for a powerful laptop or two. When not sweating over page layout or photo editing, you can find him peering at the stars or growing vegetables.

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