The RTX 5060 variant of this 14-inch OLED gaming laptop is down to $1,480 already, making it a tempting travel companion for gamers on the go

RTX 5060 laptops are a thing now, but I’ve been trawling the listings all morning and struggling to come up with something I’d recommend for the cash. We haven’t had a chance yet to test out an RTX 5060 mobile machine, but chances are it’s not much more powerful than the RTX 4060 mobile of old, with the obvious caveat of added DLSS 4 and Multi Frame Generation.

This HP Omen Transcend 14, though, tickles my tastebuds in the right kinda way. It’s a laptop our Dave previously enjoyed in RTX 4060 form, primarily thanks to its gorgeous thin and light chassis in combination with a truly excellent 120 Hz OLED screen.

For $1,479.99 at Best Buy right now, you too could have a supremely portable, lovely-framed little gaming laptop, except this time with the brand-spanking-new RTX 5060 mobile GPU. Before you go pulling the trigger, however, there is the odd drawback to be aware of.

For a start, while HP’s website makes the TGP of this particular variant gloriously unclear, I’d be willing to bet it’s got the same 65 W max of the previous models. That’d make this a low-power version of Nvidia’s budget mobile GPU, which will likely struggle to push a huge number of frames to its 1800p 120 Hz OLED display at native.

Here’s where Multi Frame Generation may save the day, however. While it’s got a tendency to add unwanted levels of latency with a low-powered GPU, this little machine has a better chance of pumping lots of pixels (AI-generated or otherwise) than the earlier RTX 4060-equipped version, which I’d say makes it a better buy.

Plus, in such a portable 14-inch form factor, you’re usually going to be limited to low-TGP GPUs anyway. At least it should be power efficient, although that brings me on to the other drawback—the OG HP Omen Transcend didn’t have the greatest battery life, and this one has the same 71-hour 6-cell unit.

That being said, we’ve been impressed by how power-efficient RTX 50-series mobile GPUs have been so far, so perhaps this will have a better shot at keeping the power draw low. Regardless, this is still a slim and sleek little gaming laptop for reasonable money with a nice stack of components, including an also-relatively-power-efficient Core Ultra 7 255H CPU and 32 GB of DDR5 in combination with a 1 TB SSD.

That makes it well worth considering, in my opinion, and even straight-up desirable. As someone who travels often for this very website, I think I’d probably be very pleased taking one of these on the road with me, and who knows—you may be too.

Andy built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 12, when IDE cables were a thing and high resolution wasn’t—and he hasn’t stopped since. Now working as a hardware writer for PC Gamer, Andy’s been jumping around the world attending product launches and trade shows, all the while reviewing every bit of PC hardware he can get his hands on. You name it, if it’s interesting hardware he’ll write words about it, with opinions and everything.