HP Amplify 2025 — New Gaming, Commercial And Consumer PCs

HP’s Amplify event, which was held this year in Nashville, is always a big partner conference for HP, but it’s a venue for launching a lot of the company’s commercial and workstation products as well. This especially makes sense this year because Nvidia announced a slew of new workstation GPUs for commercial applications along with DGX Spark and Workstation; some of these chips are being incorporated into new HP models. At Amplify 2025, we even got some gaming updates from HP, which I think is an extension of the company’s quieter-than-usual CES showing this year.

I believe we’re seeing so many new PCs from HP in part to satisfy the companies looking to upgrade outdated computers from 2020 and 2021 — the height of the Covid pandemic — as well as those losing Windows 10 support.

(Note: HP is an advisory client of my company, Moor Insights & Strategy.)

HP OmniBook Series For Consumer And Gaming

The first lineup to look at is OmniBook. This starts with the OmniBook X series, which this year gets new 14- and 16-inch Flip versions along with a much larger 17.3-inch clamshell. All three laptops will ship with the latest Intel Core Ultra 200V series with up to 32GB of RAM. However, HP is also shipping a version of the 16-inch 2-in-1 Flip that will have AMD Ryzen 5 220 chips, which do not have an NPU, likely for cost reasons.

Going further down the OmniBook stack, the OmniBook 7 will also come in similar display configurations of 14-, 16-, and 17.3-inches, with only the 16-inch available as a Flip version. This is where things get confusing, since HP is offering both AI and non-AI PCs in this lineup. There are both 14- and 16-inch versions of the OmniBook 7 that do not ship with a Copilot+-capable NPU. These ship with Intel’s Core 200H series, which does not feature a 40 TOPS NPU and doesn’t carry an AI PC designation. However, the OmniBook 7 14, 16, 16 Flip and 17 all ship as AI PCs with Core Ultra 200V series CPUs. Those will all be limited to 32GB because the 200V series, codenamed Lunar Lake, has on-package memory. The AI PC models also come with multiple OLED display options, which makes sense. Finally there is the 13.3-inch OmniBook 7 Aero, which comes with an AMD Ryzen AI 300 series chip. This is also considered an AI PC, although this model is likewise limited to 32GB, likely because it’s a consumer laptop. If you’re keeping count, that’s seven different versions of the OmniBook 7 — which, if you ask me, isn’t really accomplishing HP’s whole brand consolidation strategy very well.

The OmniBook 5 series presents a slightly less confusing story with only five different versions (I’m starting to see a theme here). The OmniBook 5 comes in a 14-inch non-AI PC model and four 16-inch models, which include two non-AI PC versions. The 14-inch Flip and the 16-inch seem to be aimed at price-conscious buyers, since they feature Intel’s last-generation Core 7 100U series. The same can be said about the 16-inch non-AI PC model featuring AMD’s Ryzen 8000 series, which is also from an older generation. This seems to follow a typical N-1 strategy of offering lower-priced machines. The other 16-inch AI PCs feature a mixture of AMD’s latest Ryzen AI 300 and Intel’s latest Core Ultra 200V CPUs, all with NPUs capable of more than 40 TOPS. Both versions also offer up to a 2K 120-hertz OLED display as well.

Last but not least is the OmniBook 3 series, which sadly comes in only two variants instead of three. There are 14- and 15.6-inch versions, both of which support AI PC capabilities with Copilot+ and feature AMD’s Ryzen AI 300 series. Overall, the OmniBook series is getting a lot of silicon refreshes to build out the complete stack of OmniBook offerings from top to bottom — although I must say that having seven different versions of the OmniBook 7 is a bit confusing, especially because there are even more OmniBooks out there that have already been released.

HP’s Commercial And Workstation Computers

For HP, “commercial and workstations” also includes desktops and professional laptops. Among the desktops, there are All-in-One PCs, Tower, Small Form Factor and Mini models. At the Amplify event, HP announced the ProStudio 4 G1i and the EliteStudio 8 G1i desktops. The ProStudio 4 G1i features Intel Core 5 CPUs and AMD graphics inside of a 23.8-inch display. HP says this is intended for SMB frontline professionals, while the EliteStudio G1i is intended for enterprise and SMB professionals, IT managers and back-office employees. The EliteStudio G1i also comes in 23.8- and 27-inch sizes and features Intel’s Core CPUs with 13 TOPS of NPU performance. I don’t know when Intel decided to use the Core Ultra designation for CPUs with NPUs under 40 TOPS, but I don’t like it.

The EliteDesk 8 series comes in Tower and SFF configurations, which means the Tower version is just a traditional tower size with up to the same Intel Core 9 200 series CPUs with 13 TOPS NPUs. There are also four different discrete graphics options from AMD, Intel and Nvidia, including the AMD Radeon RX 6300 2GB, Intel Arc A380 6GB, Nvidia A400 4GB and Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 8GB. To be candid, these configurations are kind of all over the place, especially considering how different they are in RAM configurations and that at least three of these four options are consumer graphics cards being used in commercial desktops. That said, this is clearly an entry-level offering, so this probably gets a pass. The SFF tower offers the same CPU and GPU options but removes the Intel Arc card and swaps out the RTX 3050 for an A1000 GPU. The ProDesk 4 series also offers very similar CPU and GPU configurations across its Tower and SFF configurations with support for fewer SSDs, which makes it the true entry point for the desktop series.

Finally for the commercial desktops are the Mini versions of the EliteDesk PCs; to me, these feel more compelling than the traditional towers. The EliteDesk 8 Mini G1a features AMD’s latest Ryzen AI 300 series CPUs and offers up to 64GB of RAM via two SODIMMs in a very compact and slim form factor with integrated graphics. The Mini G1i features Intel’s Core CPUs with a chassis similar to the AMD offering. Like the EliteDesk machines, the ProDesk 4 and 8 Mini models offer the same configurations but with fewer tiers of Intel’s CPUs. That said, the EliteDesk 8 Mini G1a with AMD ships with a Ryzen 200 series processor, which uses AMD’s last-generation CPU cores and doesn’t feature an NPU. This is also likely done to keep costs down since not all enterprises or SMBs feel they need AI at the low end.

HP also announced new EliteBook and ProBook 8, 6 and 4 series laptops, each with Intel and AMD offerings. The commercial offerings are almost as immense as the OmniBook lineup, with four different versions of the EliteBook 8 G1i — a 13-inch and 13-inch Flip, 14-inch and 16-inch. Each version comes with four or five display options, but all of them are LCD. These all include Intel’s Core Ultra 5 and 7 processors, U and H series 2, which enable up to 64GB of RAM but also come with only a 13 TOPS NPU. The G1a comes in three variants — 13-, 14- and 16-inch — and features AMD’s Ryzen 200 series, which has a 16 TOPS NPU and older Zen 4 CPU cores. These also offer up to 64GB configurations, even though I think the real loss here is the lack of Copilot+ support. Displays are similar to the Intel variants. In addition to these, HP is also shipping Copilot+-capable systems with Intel CPUs in 14- and 16-inch configurations and AMD CPUs in 13-, 14- and 16-inch configurations. Intel’s configurations are limited to 32GB, while AMD’s go up to 64GB. All of the above models still ship with LCD panels.

The EliteBook 6 series is much simpler, with a 14-inch G1a featuring AMD’s Ryzen AI 300 5 and 7 Pro and non-Pro series. There is also the EliteBook 6 G1q, which is powered by a Qualcomm chipset and offers up to 64GB of RAM. It appears that this Qualcomm version will ship with three different tiers of the Qualcomm X series: X Elite, X Plus and X. This laptop will also be the first to carry HP’s new Go service. This one-click service is designed to give the user and the IT department a significantly easier onboarding process for 5G connectivity, including getting the best possible service in the area where the user resides with multi-carrier automatic switching that covers AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon. It will also switch automatically between secure Wi-Fi and 5G, depending on the IT department’s configuration and security needs. The plan is also very reasonably priced, starting at $19 per month, and should significantly simplify the connected PC experience by making HP the party responsible for the experience from end to end. There are also five more EliteBook 6 series laptops with both AMD and Intel configurations that offer non-Copilot-capable CPUs.

At the very bottom of the stack are the ProBook 4 series with a mixture of Intel, AMD and Qualcomm processors. These all come in 14- and 16-inch versions, with the Qualcomm version the only one that comes in a 14-inch model — but also the only one to have an NPU capable of supporting Copilot+ features. At this low price point, the Snapdragon X CPU with Copilot+ seems like the best configuration among all the competition. I believe that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X entry-level CPU is probably its most competitive offering simply because the Intel and AMD offerings use older CPU designs and lack a competitive NPU. Heck, there’s even a version of the G1iR that offers an Intel 13th Gen Core 5 1334U processor — which is two generations old — in a brand-new notebook.

The HP Z Workstation lineup had a huge presence at CES in the form of the ZBook Ultra G1a and the Z2 Mini G1a, which are both powered by AMD’s “Strix Halo” Ryzen AI Max 300+ processors. Following that, HP announced the HP ZGX Nano AI Station G1n, which is the company’s own version of the Nvidia DGX Spark. The company also announced the ZGX Fury AI Station G1n, which is HP’s take on the DGX Station desktop for AI development. This will be powered by Nvidia’s GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip, which I talked about in my GTC 2025 coverage. HP also adopted Nvidia’s new RTX Pro Blackwell graphics cards for its new desktop and mobile workstation portfolio.

The new ZBook Fury G1i will come in 16-inch and 18-inch form factors and feature Nvidia’s RTX Pro 5000 graphics, which comes with up to 24GB of VRAM. Intel’s Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200 series CPUs will power these laptops, so they should deliver desktop-like performance in a laptop form factor. Speaking of desktops, the Z2 Tower G1i will be the first of HP’s desktops to offer the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPU with 96GB of GDDR7 memory. HP upgraded its configuration of this desktop to support the 600-watt version of the RTX Pro 6000 GPU, because there is also a lower-wattage “Max-Q” variant that uses just 300 watts — but is also not as performant.

HP Gaming With Omen At HP Amplify

HP also made some additional gaming announcements at Amplify 2025 for its Omen gaming brand. The company did make some Omen announcements at CES 2025 in January, but it definitely felt like some things were missing; in particular, some models needed to be updated to the latest CPUs and GPUs from AMD, Intel and Nvidia.

At Amplify, HP updated the Omen 16 Slim — HP’s thinnest gaming platform and sleekest design — with Intel’s Core Ultra 9 processor and the Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU. It also updated the Omen Transcend 14 with the same CPU and GPU options, which gives that model a 25% performance boost over the last generation.

HP also announced the HyperX Cloud III S Wireless headset, which touts a 120-hour battery life along with HyperX-tuned acoustics. This is a welcome update to one of HyperX’s most popular gaming headsets. It also supports HyperX’s 2.4-gigahertz low-latency connectivity, which is now integrated into new HP Omen PCs — and means no dongles for those gamers. The addition of Bluetooth 5.3 and a second microphone for phone calls makes this an even more capable headset.

My Analyst Take On HP Amplify 2025

It’s clear that HP has built up the product lines that match its simplified brand nomenclature. While I do believe there might be too much complexity across the OmniBook and EliteBook series, it’s quite easy to understand which side of the business each one falls on. I am probably most excited about the new Z series workstations and the EliteBook 6 with HP Go 5G connectivity.

HP is clearly getting ready for the new refresh cycle with many of its PCs, and we’re seeing AMD gain momentum at HP in terms of designs at all levels of the product stack. While I don’t particularly love seeing older chip architectures get launched in new PCs, I do understand the logic for making these PCs more price-competitive. All in all, I am excited to see these products when they do come out, especially since I am a real sucker for connected 5G PCs.

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