HP OMEN Transcend 16 (16-u0000, 2023)

HP OMEN Transcend 16 (16-u0000, 2023) - Specs

  • Innolux CMN1625 (N160JME-GQ1)
  • Color accuracy  2.9  1.0
  • HDD/SSD
  • up to 2000GB SSD
  • RAM
  • up to 64GB
  • OS
  • Windows 11 Home, Windows 11 Pro, Windows 10 Pro, Linux, DOS, Windows 11
  • Battery
  • 70Wh, 4-cell, 97Wh, 6-cell, 70Wh, 6-cell
  • Body material
  • Aluminum, Magnesium alloy
  • Dimensions
  • 356.61 x 268.98 x 19.9 mm (14.04" x 10.59" x 0.78")
  • Weight
  • 2.09 kg (4.6 lbs)
  • Ports and connectivity
  • 1x USB Type-A
  • 3.2 Gen 1 (5 Gbps)
  • 1x USB Type-A
  • 3.2 Gen 1 (5 Gbps), Sleep and Charge
  • 2x USB Type-C
  • 4.0, Thunderbolt 4, Power Delivery (PD), DisplayPort, Sleep and Charge
  • HDMI
  • 2.1
  • Card reader
  • Ethernet LAN
  • 10, 100, 1000 Mbit/s
  • Wi-Fi
  • 802.11ax
  • Bluetooth
  • 5.3
  • Audio jack
  • 3.5mm Combo Jack
  • Features
  • Fingerprint reader
  • Web camera
  • FHD with Temporal Noise Reduction
  • Backlit keyboard
  • optional
  • Microphone
  • Dual Array Digital Microphones
  • Speakers
  • Dual Stereo Speakers, Bang & Olufsen
  • Optical drive

All HP OMEN Transcend 16 (16-u0000, 2023) configurations

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Office Work

Office Work should be used mostly by users who spend most of the time looking at pieces of text, tables or just surfing. This profile aims to deliver better distinctness and clarity by keeping a flat gamma curve (2.20), native color temperature and perceptually accurate colors.

Design and Gaming

This profile is aimed at designers who work with colors professionally, and for games and movies as well. Design and Gaming takes display panels to their limits, making them as accurate as possible in the sRGB IEC61966-2-1 standard for Web and HDTV, at white point D65.

Health-Guard

Health-Guard eliminates the harmful Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) and reduces the negative Blue Light which affects our eyes and body. Since it’s custom tailored for every panel, it manages to keep the colors perceptually accurate. Health-Guard simulates paper so the pressure on the eyes is greatly reduced.

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CPU performance

Here you can find the price/performance difference between all the CPUs that come in the HP OMEN Transcend 16 (16-u0000, 2023) series.

Results are from the Cinebench 20 Multi-core test (the higher the score, the better)

GPU performance

Here you can find the price/performance difference between all the GPUs that come in the HP OMEN Transcend 16 (16-u0000, 2023) series.

Results are for the 3DMark: Fire Strike (Graphics) benchmark (the higher the score, the better)

HP OMEN Transcend 16 (16-u0000, 2023) in-depth review

The HP OMEN Transcend 16 (16-u0000) is very similar to the Transcend 16 (u1000) but the latter is based on 14th gen Raptor Lake HX CPUs while the former relies on 13th gen chips. The 16-u0000 model is also suprecharged with NVIDIA Ada Lovelace graphics cards and the most powerful one for this HP series is the RTX 4070. The upgradability is decent - the single M.2 slot is the trade-off here. Still, the port selection is modern and the connectivity is okay - Wi-Fi 6E + Bluetooth 5.3.This thin 16-incher can be found with three different 16:10 IPS displays. The base one is a 1200p 165Hz model,[...]

Pros

  • Metal build
  • Compact for a 16-incher - 19.9 mm / 2.09 kg
  • Big cooling solution
  • High CPU clocks especially in short and medium loads - 3.50 GHz / 2.80 GHz for the P and E cores
  • Wide viewing angles and good contrast ratio of 1530:1 (CMN1625)
  • Fast panel (7.7 ms pixel response times) + 451 nits of max brightness (CMN1625)
  • 95% sRGB coverage + accurate colors with our "Design and Gaming" profile (CMN1625)
  • 2x SODIMMs
  • Comfortable input devices
  • Modern I/O with 2x Thunderbolt 4 ports
  • Good battery life given the powerful hardware (10+ hours of videos)
  • The Omen Gaming Hub app is full of useful extras
  • Advanced Optimus, G-Sync, and a MUX switch
  • CPU undervolt option
  • 1080p IR Web camera with a privacy shutter
  • Good audio quality
  • 180-degree hinge

Cons

  • Just one M.2 slot
  • Spongy lid
  • Unimpressive GPU clock after 30 minutes of gaming