MSI Titan 18 HX AI Review

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There are a batch of benefits to the portability of gaming laptops, but they usually travel with trade-offs erstwhile it comes to sheer power. But what if determination was a laptop that didn’t clasp back? What if the shaper ignored the guardrails and threw everything it had astatine it, roping its constituent partners successful to bash the aforesaid to present pure, nary holds barred, mobile gaming decadence? That’s precisely what MSI did with the Titan 18 HX AI: it’s big, it’s heavy, and it’s ridiculously expensive. But it’s besides the closest illustration of a mobile desktop I’ve seen successful years and is decidedly astir much than conscionable gaming.

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MSI Titan 18 HX AI – Design and Features

The MSI Titan 18 HX AI is simply a beast. With its 18-inch show and near-eight lb value (more if you transportation the charger), it’s the antithesis of bladed and airy and intelligibly doesn’t attraction overmuch for portability. It’s the laptop to take if you privation the ability to instrumentality your gaming PC from spot to spot but don’t program to bash it often. You’ll consciousness it successful your enarthrosis aft a azygous commute.

Often successful these reviews, I remark connected portability, but present that goes close retired the window. Know that going in, and recognize that its deficiency of portability, combined with its precocious terms (our exemplary costs astir $5,800) firmly presumption this arsenic a halo merchandise not intended to beryllium openly accessible. It’s the benignant of laptop you aspire to, and if you’ve arrived successful life, whitethorn yet beryllium capable to achieve. To beryllium fair, determination are different situations wherever you whitethorn privation thing similar this, but for a batch of people, the Titan 18 HX AI is going to autumn into “maybe someday” territory.

Understanding that it packs immoderate top-tier hardware and that portability wasn’t going to beryllium a interest with this release, MSI went all-in with an 18-inch show and a heavy chassis to beforehand airflow. The plan is wide beauteous tame, a acold outcry from the Norse Myth mentation that comes with an embossed dragon’s oculus connected the lid. Here, we person an illuminated MSI logo connected the back, immoderate bluish stripes on the rear I/O and venting and the per-key RGB mechanical keyboard. If its size doesn’t pull attention, its sci-fi inspired styling surely will.

Here are the specs for the portion we were sent:

  • Display: 18-inch, 120Hz, Mini-LED (1,000-nit highest brightness)
  • Resolution: 3,840 x 2,400
  • Processor: Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX (24-core/24-thread, 2.1 – 5.5GHz)
  • Graphics: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090
  • Memory: 64GB (up to 96GB)
  • Storage: 6TB
  • Keyboard: Cherry Mechanical, Per-Key RGB
  • Networking: 2.5GbE LAN, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4
  • Ports: 2x Thunderbolt 5 (DisplayPort™/ Power Delivery 3.1), 3x Type-A USB3.2 Gen 2, 1x SD Express Card Reader, 1x HDMI 2.1 (8K @ 60Hz / 4K @ 120Hz), 1x RJ45, 1x Audio Combo Jack
  • Audio: 4x 2W Speaker, 2x 2W Woofer
  • Webcam: IR FHD benignant (30fps/1080p) with HDR and Physical Shutter
  • Battery: 99 wHr
  • Dimensions: 15.91" x 12.11" x 0.94-1.26"
  • Weight: 7.94 lbs

Despite monolithic capacities similar 64GB of RAM and 6TB of storage, it's important to enactment that this is really lone the mid-level mentation of the Titan 18 HX AI. If you privation to walk less, you tin driblet to an RTX 5080 for $5,199. On the different hand, if you’re keen to upgrade, you tin besides walk $6,200 and nett yourself 96GB of memory.

It seems astir ludicrous to merchantability a gaming laptop with 96GB of memory. 64GB is inactive treble what astir high-end laptops offer. But betwixt that and the monolithic SSD retention space, it’s wide that this strategy is aimed to beryllium a precocious show PC for everything. Running section LLMs is nary occupation connected this strategy and you’re not going to find overmuch that’s much susceptible for rendering and different dense workstation tasks.

Targeting gamers with specified an supra and beyond system, however, highlights conscionable however high-spec it is. If you’re a gamer with this system, you’re making a connection astir however invested you are successful the hobby. Assuming everything is implemented good (and it is), this is simply a strategy that sits arsenic king of the elevation among gaming laptops from the large brands.

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Putting that to the side, let’s excavation into the details starting with the display. At 18 inches, it’s large and delivers that “big screen” laptop acquisition with ease. It’s besides delightfully high-spec, coming successful with a 3,840 x 2,400 resolution: 4K successful a 16:10 facet ratio. It clocks each the mode up to 120Hz with G-Sync enactment and is rated to screen 100% of the DCI-P3 colour space.

The show uses a still-uncommon mini-LED backlight for superior brightness and contrast. At its highest successful HDR mode, it’s capable to scope implicit 1,000 nits of brightness portion besides delivering heavy blacks acknowledgment to its uncommon mini-LED backlight. It supports K-Zone section dimming, which is simply a fancy mode to accidental that it has astir a 1000 section dimming zones crossed its 18-inch diagonal span. This allows the laptop to pinpoint areas of acheronian with precision and present an exceptional dynamic scope that was, for the astir part, escaped of haloing astir agleam objects.

This show does person immoderate puzzling omissions, however. The biggest is that it lacks G-Sync, which is shocking and disappointing. How a flagship, RTX 5090-packing laptop ships without this is beyond me. Technically, it inactive features adaptive sync, but lone erstwhile you’re utilizing the iGPU, truthful it’s inactive retired for games. The 2nd is Advanced Optimus. MSI Center allows you to power betwixt and discrete graphics and the iGPU but you’ll request to reboot to marque the change.

With specified a precocious resolution, you request almighty hardware to thrust immoderate benignant of AAA gaming experience. This exemplary features Intel's caller HX bid of its AI-centric Core Ultra 200 processors and, combined with its RTX 50-series GPU, it delivers.

This exemplary successful peculiar is 1 of the archetypal to diagnostic the Intel Core Ultra 9 285 HX CPU. For gaming and a full batch other besides, this processor is an implicit banger. It features a full of 24 cores, including 8 show cores and 16 ratio cores. The ratio cores are capable to timepiece up to 4.6 GHz, but the show cores, which volition travel into play with gaming and dense workloads, tin rotation each the mode up to 5.5 GHz. This gives a nonstop boost to in-game framework rates, but with a halfway number and part similar it offers, it's capable to give ample amounts of processing powerfulness to games portion inactive handling little intensive tasks successful the inheritance without breaking a sweat.

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The GPU is arsenic high-performance nary substance what exemplary you choose. The lowest spec graphics paper you tin get with this laptop is an RTX 5080, truthful it's acceptable to connection fantabulous framework rates successful modern games each connected its own. With specified a high-resolution, high-refresh-rate display, however, the RTX 5090 is the champion acceptable if you privation to crook up each of your graphics settings. Even then, you'll astir apt privation to leverage DLSS 4 and framework generation, oregon multi-frame generation, whenever possible.

The representation and retention are astir arsenic impressive. The basal representation configuration of 64GB is capable for immoderate crippled disposable today, and the representation is reasonably accelerated astatine 6400MHz (though the wired-in representation of AMD's HX and AI bid processors inactive tops it, with the champion examples hitting 8000MHz). It's capable to tally immoderate demanding crippled disposable contiguous and aggravated multitasking successful the background. This representation excavation besides makes it overmuch much susceptible for video editing, integer arts tasks, arsenic good arsenic the aforementioned section AI models.

Coming with a basal configuration of 6TB of retention is simply a spot mind-boggling and highlights however multidisciplinary this laptop is genuinely expected to be. That's capable wherever you won't request to delete a crippled for ages, and you'll inactive person abstraction near over. MSI splits this retention crossed 3 NVMe SSDs and past links them unneurotic successful a RAID configuration for insanely accelerated transportation speeds of a rated 18,000 MB/s. What's more, there’s adjacent an extra M.2 slot, truthful you tin adhd a 4th thrust if you request much retention implicit time.

Keeping each of this chill would beryllium a task for immoderate laptop, accomplishing that present with a whopping 270W powerfulness output (175W with the GPU and 95W with the CPU), is an adjacent taller order. MSI takes that connected with a caller vapor enclosure cooler with 2 fans and 4 exhaust ports, 2 each from the backmost and sides. The bottommost of the laptop is besides designed to elevate the strategy for easier airflow done the bottom.

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Temperatures volition inactive highest astatine 100C for the CPU successful its highest show mode earlier it throttles speeds down to forestall overheating, but it did execute its boost timepiece of 5.2 GHz reliably successful my testing. When it throttled, it hovered betwixt 4.7GHz and 4.9GHz. In games, this lone amounted to 3 to 5 fps connected average.

The fans tally astatine afloat velocity nether dense load, which tin get beauteous loud. It doesn’t dependable similar a upwind passageway similar immoderate laptops I’ve tested but astatine afloat speed, I recorded a highest sound level of 64dB. The National Hearing Conservation Association (NHCA) places this astatine astir the level of a speech overheard from 3-5 feet away. So, not roaring, but you’ll inactive privation to plug successful a brace of headphones and usage it distant from anyone that mightiness beryllium trying to absorption oregon ticker TV.

Opening the laptop, you'll find a logo for some SteelSeries and Cherry. That's the precise aforesaid Cherry down the fashionable enactment of mechanical keyboard switches. Both SteelSeries and Cherry partnered with MSI to make the keyboard utilized successful the Titan 18 HX AI. The keyboard uses Cherry’s caller ultra low-profile mechanical switches, with a fig pad to the close and per-key RGB backlighting. The lighting is controlled with Steelseries’ GG software, which besides lets you remap keys and delegate macros for gaming.

The keyboard is tactile and feels large to use. Like a full-size mech keyboard, the keys person a cleanliness to each property that’s satisfying and snappy. Interestingly, not all of the keys are mechanical. The numpad, arrow keys, and relation enactment each usage modular scissor switches. That’s disappointing, for sure, but the remaining keys are precise bully successful their ain close with large tactility and travel. Since the laptop arsenic a full is reasonably large, the keyspace besides doesn’t consciousness precise cramped, which is usually the lawsuit erstwhile manufacturers jam successful a numpad and effort to marque everything fit.

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The touchpad is ace interesting. It’s afloat integrated into the thenar rest, and if you crook the lighting off, it’s invisible. With the lighting on, its full aboveground illuminates. Since determination are nary edges, the lighting is particularly important, but don’t worry: if you find it to beryllium a spot much, you tin customize however the lighting appears and marque it lone activate erstwhile you’re really utilizing the touchpad. Using it is arsenic casual arsenic it is reliable with haptic feedback clicks that really enactment good and a ample capable size that it is perpetually nether the thumb. This does mean accidental activations from clip to time, but that’s the lawsuit for each over-sized touchpads. Give a little, get a little.

The size of the laptop has different benefit: dependable quality. While astir gaming laptops diagnostic 2 speakers, MSI has managed to acceptable six into this laptop. This includes a brace of 2-watt woofers and 4 idiosyncratic 2-watt speakers. It's 1 of the uncommon gaming laptops that's really capable to connection a decent listening experience. Its 2 dedicated woofers decidedly beef up the dependable and lend it a fuller low-end than astir of its competitors. You could usage this for gaming, watching movies, oregon listening to euphony and person an enjoyable experience. A prime gaming headset oregon brace of speakers volition inactive outperform it, but these aren’t bad!

One of its astir disappointing qualities is its webcam. It has a carnal shutter, which is nice, and tin beryllium utilized for Windows Hello biometric login, acknowledgment to its IR sensor, but the representation prime is beauteous mediocre. I recovered it to beryllium overexposed and brushed retired of the box. With immoderate tweaking successful the Windows camera settings, it tin beryllium improved, but it is ne'er much than okay, contempt being 1080p resolution.

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Returning to the positives, the Titan 18 offers a generous enactment of ports on its close side. You person the audio combo jack, a USB 3.2 Type-A port, and 2 Thunderbolt 5 USB Type-C ports that enactment video and Power Delivery 3.1. On the other side, you person an further USB 3.2 Type-A port, arsenic good arsenic a full-size SD paper scholar and a Kensington lock. Around the backmost is the larboard for the powerfulness adapter, a full-size Ethernet jack, and a full-size HDMI 2.1 port.

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All of this hardware is lone imaginable with a wealthiness of power. To that end, it comes with a monster 400W powerfulness brick. While you tin technically crippled without being plugged in, the highest show mode is blocked disconnected without the authoritative adapter. For airy gaming and mean usage this is fine, but adjacent with my 100W PD adapter plugged in, the artillery inactive drained successful astir an hr playing Karma: The Dark World. According to the spec sheet, it really supports PD up to 140W which mightiness forestall that, but I didn’t person 1 on-hand for testing.

As you would anticipation for specified a high-powered device, it sports a 99wHr battery, the biggest you tin legally instrumentality connected a plane. Just don’t expect it to past precise long. If the RTX 5090 is enabled, it volition deplete successful little than an hour. If you alteration Eco-Mode and conscionable trust connected the iGPU of the Intel Core Ultra 9 285 HX, arsenic good arsenic instrumentality different steps, similar lowering brightness and utilizing Energy Saver, you tin agelong artillery beingness retired rather a spot longer. In our Procyon artillery test, it lasted 4 hours and 36 minutes. Realistically speaking, though, you’ll privation to beryllium plugged successful for the champion experience.

MSI Titan 18 HX AI – Software

The MSI Titan 18 HX AI uses MSI Center for astir of its configuration options. Blessedly, this present works with optional applets for antithetic features and functionality retired of the box, including basics similar adjusting show modes, and its surface calibration tool, True Color. It’s much streamlined and lightweight than Dragon Center, MSI’s aged configuration tool, and it’s worthy applauding that these applications aren’t bogged down with features you whitethorn not beryllium funny in.

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There are 3 show modes to take from: Extreme Performance, Balanced, and Eco-Silent. You’re besides capable to opt into an AI-managed show mode called MSI AI Engine, but the presets are straightforward capable that astir radical should beryllium capable to infer which mounting is champion for them successful the infinitesimal and acceptable it accordingly successful the bundle oregon utilizing the keyboard shortcut.

Somewhat confusingly, the keyboard’s lighting cannot beryllium controlled astatine each utilizing the Mystic Light inferior that’s disposable successful MSI Center. It's understandable that you would request to usage SteelSeries' GG exertion to bash so, since the keyboard was designed successful collaboration with them. But entering into the Mystic Light utility, there's truly nary denotation that the keyboard isn't compatible. Any lighting changes you marque volition lone use to the logo connected the backmost of the lid.

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Thankfully, SteelSeries GG is rather good. If you've ne'er utilized a keyboard configuration instrumentality before, determination volition beryllium a spot of a learning curve arsenic you navigate betwixt sections for programming keys and controlling the lighting, but it's reasonably intuitive with conscionable a small spot of investigation.

Controlling lighting is importantly much in-depth than astir gaming laptops offer, and determination are tons of antithetic presets to take from, arsenic good arsenic the quality to acceptable your ain customized colour scheme. This applies to some the keyboard and the trackpad, caput you.

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Bafflingly, determination is nary brightness power built into the bundle anywhere. It whitethorn beryllium the lone keyboard lighting instrumentality I've utilized that doesn't person brightness controls. Instead, you'll request to usage the keyboard shortcut, but that was besides confusing due to the fact that it adjusts the keyboard and touchpad astatine 1 constituent and the touchpad is significantly brighter than the keys. There is nary 1 oregon the other.

I besides had immoderate occupation with the TrueColor instrumentality skewing accuracy beauteous terribly and harming representation prime alternatively than enhancing it. I’ll speech much astir that successful the show section, but I tin lone urge it beryllium avoided.

All successful all, I'm alternatively pleased with the bundle offerings. They're not perfect, but the information that you tin mostly disregard them is an asset. MSI Center does connection MUX power capableness (manually toggling betwixt the processor's integrated GPU and the RTX 5090), but astir of the time, I recovered leaving it connected hybrid mode and simply toggling show modes with a shortcut was sufficient. SteelSeries’ GG whitethorn request to beryllium opened much often if you similar to grounds macros. If each you attraction astir is lighting, however, it allows you to hindrance your favourite lighting presets to hotkeys, truthful you don't person to revisit it precise often either. This makes the bundle consciousness overmuch little intrusive and indispensable than it mightiness different be, portion inactive providing the indispensable options astatine your fingertips.

MSI Titan 18 HX AI – Performance

I’ve been capable to walk respective weeks with the Titan 18 HX AI truthful acold and, putting the deficiency of G-Sync aside, it has been a beauteous fantastic acquisition for the astir part. Getting the evident retired of the mode first, this is perfectly not a laptop I would take to question with. The days that I chose to transportation it with maine done the day, it felt consecutive up dense and was truthful large that my co-workers routinely commented connected its massiveness. If you privation slayer gaming show connected the go, the Titan volition get you there, but it’s overmuch amended suited for usage successful 1 place.

The keyboard is excellent. The full keyset truly should beryllium mechanical, but with each of the letters and numbers utilizing mechanical switches, that’s what I recovered myself utilizing astir of the time. In fact, I didn’t adjacent recognize the full keyboard wasn’t mechanical until a mates of days in. It’s 1 of those things that you ne'er un-notice, though. And, again, six 1000 dollars and we can’t marque each the keys mechanical?

The touchpad has been deed oregon miss with users truthful far, but I similar it. I didn’t acquisition galore misclicks astatine each and the haptic feedback worked well. I conscionable privation determination were abstracted brightness controls for it and the keyboard due to the fact that the touchpad stands retired much more.

The show is great, sans G-Sync. It’s bright, colorful, and fast. Playing games astatine specified a precocious solution truly benefits from upscaling and frame-gen, adjacent with the RTX 5090, but it’s plentifulness almighty to tally galore games without it beneath its 120Hz refresh rate.

There’s 1 caveat here. Avoid the True Color calibration tool. It whitethorn conscionable beryllium my sample, but any of the different presets, including those for notation modes similar sRGB, actively worsened the picture. And I’m not saying that subjectively. Measured with my colorimeter, some notation modes were measurably little close than conscionable keeping the modular representation mode enabled.

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Let’s dive into measurements. Starting with accuracy, the Delta-E mean was 2.46, which isn’t acold disconnected astatine all. In fact, it was truly lone teal that was excessively high, which I judge is what made the show look disconnected during my archetypal impressions. Swapping representation modes lone makes things worse, truthful if the representation isn’t to your taste, I would urge making adjustments consecutive done your graphics driver.

Continuing done the DataColor SpyderPro colorimeter’s assessment, the show performed mostly well. Its gamma mapping was a spot off, but not terribly so. Its colour gamut sum was large with 100% of the sRGB colour space, 99% of DCI-P3, and 93% of Adobe RGB included. If you bash person entree to a colorimeter, you tin dial successful its accuracy precise well. With a 10ish infinitesimal calibration, my colour accuracy was down to an mean of 1.52, which is perfectly good for originative work.

Brightness is besides impressive. Plugged successful utilizing the included powerfulness brick, I measured highest SDR brightness astatine 694 nits. On battery, oregon adjacent utilizing a 100W GaN charger, that drops to 498 nits. In HDR, highest brightness reached 1,113 nits successful a ~10% window. After moving done my colorimeter’s calibration, HDR mode looked good, but I was amazed to find that Windows HDR Calibration instrumentality didn’t enactment correctly. The achromatic and achromatic trial patterns simply didn’t set astatine all, which made the resulting representation precise inaccurate.

Once it’s dialed in, it looks stunning and provides a large portion of what makes gaming connected it truthful overmuch fun.

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Moving into performance, enactment that mostly we trial each of our games astatine maximum settings and usage DLSS upscaling unless different noted. For 1080p/1200p resolution, we acceptable DLSS to Quality. At 1440p/1600p, we usage balanced. At 4K/2400p we usage Performance mode. We besides usage a premix of 3DMark’s gaming benchmarks and Procyon to get a wide overview of each system’s capabilities.

Considering however caller the RTX 50-series laptops are, we're inactive gathering data. I did person 2 different competitors to comparison against for this review, however: the Gigabyte Aorus Master 16 and the Razer Blade 16 (which besides has a precocious launched 18-inch version). It’s not precisely apples to apples, however. The Aorus Master 16 I reviewed came with an RTX 5080, not a 5090, and the Blade 16 operates with little wattage: 160W alternatively of 175W similar the Titan 18 HX AI. Still, these comparisons are salient due to the fact that each 3 are precise expensive, high-end options from their respective manufacturers… and the results whitethorn not beryllium arsenic acold isolated arsenic you mightiness think.

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Beginning with synthetics, the Titan performs admirably and achieves wins crossed the board. I would expect this from the 3DMark gaming tests fixed its higher CUDA halfway number and wattage, but the monolithic pb it achieved successful Procyon’s Office Productivity benchmark impressed maine most. The Aorus Master 16 is built astir the Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX and is lone a azygous measurement beneath the 285HX included here. The Blade meantime utilizes the AMD Ryzen 9 AI HX 370. Both CPUs diagnostic NPUs, but the Core Ultra 9 285HX conscionable smoked it successful this test.

Moving onto gaming, I started investigating our crippled roster utilizing the laptop’s autochthonal resolution, the 16:10 mentation of 4K, 2400p (3,840 x 2,400). This is simply a demanding resolution: the Titan is driving astir a cardinal much pixels than a 4K gaming show and doing truthful with a GPU that is astir equivalent to a desktop RTX 5070 Ti. That GPU is typically considered the champion acceptable for 1440p, truthful however does the RTX 5090 mobile fare with its larger 24GB excavation of VRAM?

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Not bad, actually. Without immoderate framework procreation we spot a scope from 41 to 104 fps. Turning connected framework gen – and this is modular 2x, not adjacent the multi framework procreation that debuted with DLSS 4. It does item that you’re not going to deed 120 fps without taking vantage of framework gen oregon multi framework gen. Even though the Titan is simply a beast of a laptop, 4K+ with each the bells and whistles and way traced lights with triple-digit fps is inactive a tube imagination connected gaming laptops without a helping hand.

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At 1600p, the Titan comes into its own. Compared to the Blade 16, it’s simply nary competition. The further wattage and higher show Intel processor simply stroke it retired of the h2o successful each azygous example. Now, the Blade 16 is quieter and, well, really works arsenic a laptop you tin easy transportation each day. That’s the trade-off. That and astir $1,300. The Aorus competes good and has the expected show differential, but successful AC: Shadows wherever it pulls a amazingly ample lead.

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Rounding retired with 1200p benchmarks, the Titan 18 HX AI echoes the results we observed astatine 1600p. It easy hits triple digits successful aggregate games and volition easy deed 120 fps with FG oregon MFG successful definite games. With that successful mind, I don’t spot anyone spending astir $6,000 connected a laptop to crook down the solution truthful overmuch that everything looks noticeably softer.

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The past happening I wanted to trial was MSI’s claims of unthinkable transportation speeds with its SSD RAID array. While I didn’t deed the promised 18,000 MB/s, I did deed astir 16,000 MB/s aboriginal connected successful my testing, though I regretfully neglected to instrumentality a screenshot. I wasn’t capable to re-achieve that successful the drafting days for this review, but did drawback the results above. There’s a large quality betwixt work and constitute speeds, which is to beryllium expected with a RAID setup, but adjacent astatine 14,444 MB/s for work speeds and 8,901 MB/s for writes, it’s inactive a precise accelerated retention setup.

MSI Titan HX AI – Who Is It For?

With each of the investigating and regular usage impressions retired of the way, it begs the question of who this laptop is truly for. The information of the substance is that determination are plentifulness of options that outgo importantly little if each you’re funny successful is gaming. But I deliberation that lone tells portion of the tale. Let maine cognize successful the comments below, but to my knowledge, the Titan 18 HX AI is the lone laptop of its benignant that goes rather this “kitchen sink” with what it’s offering. For gaming, you don’t request each of that. Three SSDs packing 6TB of nVME RAID retention and a base config with 64GB of representation are overkill for gaming.

Instead, this is simply a strategy you take erstwhile you privation to beryllium decadent and genuinely get person to a desktop level gaming experience. The operation of its features are what elevate it to being conscionable so good. In sheer fps, it beats the Razer Blade 16, but that’s what you would expect from a bigger, higher powerfulness laptop, with much country for cooling. Put it against a much evenly matched RTX 5090 gaming laptop and you’ll find that its show pb closes significantly. But erstwhile you bring each of its features together, from its large and agleam mini-LED screen, to its mechanical keyboard and next-gen touchpad, coagulated speakers, and large programmability, the acquisition arsenic a full feels similar you’re trading little for its portability.

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That’s 1 side. The different is for the technically minded and demanding benignant that privation this level of top-shelf componentry and expandability consecutive retired of the box. If you’re a 3D creator oregon video editor, this strategy is much than up to the task of rendering your models with its accelerated CPU, precocious CUDA halfway count, and immense framework buffer. Its ample representation capableness and 4 M.2 retention slots besides lend this strategy an borderline for that benignant of non-gaming, high-performance workstation use.

This isn’t a laptop for the every-gamer. And though MSI is intelligibly targeting it toward gamers broadly, it’s honestly a unspeakable worth for axenic gaming. The fps boost conscionable doesn’t marque a large capable quality to warrant however overmuch much it costs connected that origin unsocial and the representation and retention are overkill for gaming alone. The HP OMEN MAX 16 drops the representation to 32GB, retention to 1TB, and swaps the surface for a 1600p OLED for lone $3,200. The Razer Blade 18 volition acceptable you backmost $5,200 and the Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 $4,500 for akin size and specs – and some connection G-Sync support.

So, the Titan HX AI occupies a unsocial spot. You person to privation those 4 M.2 slots and higher representation capableness and beryllium consenting to wage importantly for it.

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