It easily handles transcoding 4K videos, rendering 3D images in Blender, everyday tasks like keeping a bunch of tabs open in Google Chrome-anything that relies on multi-core processing power to help you get your work done faster. Looking at its ridiculously high 9478 multi-core processing Cinebench score, it’s no wonder the Pavilion 15 gaming laptop performs well across a variety of tasks. It’s not the most powerful of AMD’s newest 5000-series mobile processors, but with six cores, 12 threads, and up to a 4.2GHz boost clock, this processor is more than capable of handling a variety of tasks beyond gaming. The Ryzen 5 5600H processor helps push higher frame rates in those lower-fidelity games. Things got a little dicier with Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Total War: Warhammer II, and of course Control on the same or equivalent settings, but nothing that can’t be fixed by turning the graphics settings to Low. In our testing, the Pavilion 15 topped out at an average of 117 fps at 1080p on the Ultra graphics setting in Overwatch, and it even managed 55 fps with the same settings in Far Cry 5. What we like Lots of power for most games and then some HP is also supposed to offer up to a Ryzen 7 5000-series processor as well, but at the time of this review’s publication it didn’t appear in HP’s online shop. There’s also a GTX 1650 option with either of those processors. If you’re interested in a different Pavilion Gaming 15 model, HP has an option for either an Intel 11th-gen Core i5-11300H or Core i7-11370H with an RTX 3050.

Warranty: One-year limited hardware warranty.

Wireless: Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2 (WiFi 6 AX200 and Bluetooth 5.0 combo also available).