RTX 2060 Laptop in 2025 - Still Good Enough For Gaming?

This is my HP Omen gaming laptop - this bad boy is a 2020 model, making it between 4 and 5 years old, and it’s sporting a Ryzen 4800H with 16GB of DDR4-3200 RAM, and importantly here, an RTX 2060 Laptop GPU with 6GB of VRAM. Considering I mostly use this for programming these days, I want to know how well that 2060 holds up for gaming, and to no one's surprise, it’s a hell of a lot better than the other older machines I’ve checked out recently! Let’s take a look.

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[jaffer]

I have this exact model. Upgraded to 40gb RAM for FEA. I’m able to get >100 FPS on all the games I play still but I never meet the 300Hz refresh rate of the screen. This was def worth the money, only complaint is terrible battery life and build quality

[Leefyy]

If 2060 still killing it, I've might consider buying 2080

[OneDollaBill]

Honestly for 1080 its still ok if you get one used for ok price. The stores are still selling 2050 and 3050 laptops which are both worse than 2060.

[dekz]

I have the exact model... I updated the gpu vbios to 115W version and ram to 32gb. It works better than when it was new as i took care of the laptop with regular thorough cleaning and thermal paste change.

Also, I game on 1440p monitor with this laptop 😄

[alexvswrld]

I have an HP Omen 2020 as well, but it only has the 1660ti. Regardless, it's cool to see that these older laptops can still run games at playable fps. I have a much more capable desktop now, but I game on my laptop from time to time when I travel. I do wish I had spent a little more on the 2060 variant so that I could take advantage of DLSS especially with the recent updates in DLSS 4.

[Darth]

I just bought a legion 5 ryzen 7 4800h, rtx 2060, 16gb laptop, i upgraded the storage to x2 1tb m.2 ssd's and will double the ram in the future. But it plays elite dangerous and world of warcraft well which is what i want. Coming from a ryzen 5 3500u apu for gaming. Its massive upgrade

[robo-james]

Hi, I also have an rtx 2060 laptop at this day and age. Tbh, I don't have the money for an upgrade and I still would stick to a gaming laptop and if I had the money, I would probably just wait for the 50* series. I still have my legion 5 w ryzen 7 4800h and rtx 2060 and planning to upgrade to 32 gb ram. Legion laptops are known for using the highest tdp available for the gpu, does this mean I could get better performance in these games? I still didn't tried them coz I'm afraid my laptop would explode but I with this I can assume I would have at least playable experience with triple A games. I played spiderman on this thing but I guess it's an optimised game given that it's running on a ps4. I also play the new gen nba 2k25 on this thing and still holds quite well. I guess I'll stick with this for the next 2-3 years

[greenman]

I have a Legion 5 version of your Omen.
It was the height of the Video Card crises, and I needed to replace the GTX780ti in my 2015 Skylake PC.
I decided to go a new route, by getting a Laptop instead.
I was kinda a PC Snob, and I wasn't thrilled with it only having an RTX 2060 (Most reviews on the RTX 2060 at the time were, "meh")
I was expecting my Laptop to be a compromise, and I would have to rely on my other PC, using a Ryzen 1600 & GTX 980ti, if I wanted to game anything difficult.
LOL, I love this Laptop, and use it as much as my upgraded PC (Now with an R5-5600&RTX3060ti)
My only thought is to upgrade from 16 GB to 32GB of RAM.

[Ironic-Social-Phobia]

The WiFi card should be very easily and cheaply replaceable. I upgraded a very old 3rd gen Intel laptop with a new Intel AX210 WiFi card can it works and added bluetooth as a bonus.
Yes it was that old it didn't have bluetooth, think it's a 2013 machine, still works OK with the SSD and 12GB RAM upgrades but was getting a bit limited.
Got a Legion 5P with 4800H and 2060 now so very similar to your Omen but I miss some things on older laptops like optical drives and a removable battery.

[dtsdigitalden]

Still seems capable enough. The concept of gaming on a laptop is still very odd to me, however. Maybe I'm weird, but I buy very cheap laptops for on-the-go duties, and run a beefy DIY desktop PC for all my heavy duty (and gaming) needs, stuff I only do at home anyway. Whenever / wherever I need a laptop, it's for email, getting plane seats / boarding passes, web browsing for a restaurant, a little Youtube, a little word and excel; a tiny ultra-thin potato does that just fine. Gaming is never on the to-do list for me when it comes to the laptops. In fact, a laptop is the only use-case I have for Apple products; their Macbooks are pretty awesome for having seriously good battery life, and excellent portability / light-weight. That's more than I need on the go, honestly.

[AnirudhTammireddy]

Hey! What to do with old laptops if not selling them to others?
(Diy Perks did a similar video but it was destructive to laptop. And those laptops are a decade older than the ones you are posting about)

[gassygasgassy]

i have a same one not good for 1440 gaming :) Lenovo Legion 5 15IMH05 with i7 10750h with rtx 2060 6gb and 24g ram

[mobileplayers]

WTF eBay sellers those for 1000$+ each nah rather get RTX 4050 easy to find n under 700$

[sarphic]

My CPU temperature is 95 Celcius while gaming is it ok?