TOPS, or trillions of operations per second, has emerged as the standard measurement rating for AI workloads. There’s more to it than that, of course, just as there is more to a processor’s general purpose performance than its raw gigahertz (GHZ) / megahertz (MHz) speed rating. TOPS is largely tied to a dedicated NPU in today’s chips, though not necessarily entirely.
Regardless, hardware makers are quickly adopting TOPS as a rough measuring stick of AI performance. HP is touting that its latest OmniBook Ultra with AMD inside is capable of 55 NPU-powered TOPS, which beats the Snapdragon X Elite hexagon NPU’s 45 TOPS. To put it into further perspective, HP further claims that it’s twice as powerful as Apple’s custom M3 silicon and 45% more powerful than its M4 chip, both of which Apple designed in-house.
On the graphics side, this Strix Point SKU flexes a Radeon 890M GPU with 16 graphics cores clocked at up to 2.9GHz.
It’s a slick-looking system with a backlit keyboard, large trackpad, and a Meteor Silver colorway (which is one of two colorways available for the OmniBook X, the other being Ceramic White that isn’t offered on the OmniBook Ultra). However, it features the same 14-inch 2.2K touchscreen IPS display with a 2240×1440 resolution, which HP says helps with battery life.
HP is keeping some of the specs under wraps, though we’re told it will come with 32GB of RAM (we suspect other configs will be available as well). We’re also told that the OmniBook Ultra supports Thunderbolt 4 connectivity, which the OmniBook X lacks.
Like the Snapdragon model, HP claims its OmniBook Ultra can last well beyond a typical work day—up to 21 hours, which is based on video playback.
We’ll be curious to check out that claim when we have a chance to test the OmniBook Ultra, as well as its NPU and overall performance. As it stands, on paper the OmniBook Ultra features more TOPS than currently-available Copilot+ PC.