There are a few versions of the HP Victus 15 floating around, but the one we’re reviewing here has an AMD Ryzen 7 processor and an Nvidia GeForce 3050Ti GPU, which would be enough to put it firmly in the best budget gaming laptops bucket even if it didn’t have just 8GB of RAM. This limitation isn’t going to hold it back too badly in the world of gaming, where games that actually use 16GB of memory are rare, but creative apps editing huge documents are going to munch through it pretty quickly, putting a question mark over its performance in that sector.
Luckily, it has price in its favour, being available for less than £900 as part of HP’s budget gaming line. The AMD processor (actually an APU with integrated graphics) has enough cores to keep the likes of Photoshop happy, while the separate RTX 3050Ti graphics chip offers enough punch for accelerated effects rendering.
