The MSI Crosshair 16 (2024) is a gaming laptop measuring 359 mm wide, 266 mm deep, and 21 mm thick, with a total volume of approximately 2005 cm³ and a weight of 2,500 g. It features a backlit keyboard and uses an active cooling system rather than a fanless design. The chassis is not weather-sealed, so it offers no splash or moisture protection.
The Crosshair 16 (2024) features a 16″ IPS panel running at a resolution of 2560 x 1600 px with a pixel density of 188 ppi and a 240Hz refresh rate, making it well suited to fast-paced gaming. The display supports up to four simultaneous outputs and is not a touchscreen. Anti-reflection coating is not included, and the panel surface is glossy or uncoated by default.
The Crosshair 16 (2024) is configured with 16GB of DDR5 RAM running at 5600 MHz across two memory slots, with a maximum supported capacity of 96GB. The CPU operates across 28 threads using a multi-cluster layout of 8 cores at 2.1 GHz and 12 cores at 1.5 GHz, reaching a turbo frequency of 5.5 GHz, and is built on a 5 nm process with 64-bit and multithreading support. Storage is handled by a 1TB NVMe SSD over PCIe 4.0. On the graphics side, the GPU runs at a base clock of 1545 MHz with a turbo of 2370 MHz, backed by 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM, delivering 14.56 TFLOPS of floating-point performance, a texture rate of 227.52 GTexels/s, and a pixel rate of 113.76 GPixel/s, with DirectX 12 Ultimate support. XeSS is not available on this configuration.
In benchmark testing, the Crosshair 16 (2024) achieves a Geekbench 6 multi-core score of 13,529 and a single-core score of 2,504, reflecting the CPU's performance across both parallel and single-threaded workloads. On the PassMark side, the overall result comes in at 37,155 with a single-core result of 3,987, while the PassMark G3D score of 17,710 represents the GPU's measured graphics performance.
The Crosshair 16 (2024) offers a wired port selection that includes one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port, three USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports, one HDMI 2.1 output, and one RJ45 Ethernet port. There are no Thunderbolt 3 or 4 ports, no DisplayPort or mini DisplayPort outputs, no USB 4 ports, and no VGA connector. Wireless connectivity is handled by Wi-Fi 6E (with backwards compatibility down to Wi-Fi 4) and Bluetooth 5.3, and AirPlay is supported. No external memory card slot is available.
The Crosshair 16 (2024) is equipped with a 90 Wh battery and includes sleep-and-charge USB ports, allowing connected devices to be charged even when the laptop is in a low-power state. A MagSafe power adapter is not supported.
The Crosshair 16 (2024) supports ray tracing and DLSS, two key GPU-driven rendering features for gaming workloads. Audio output is handled by stereo speakers and a 3.5 mm headphone jack, though Dolby Atmos and S/PDIF output are not available. A front camera and a single microphone are included, while fingerprint scanner, 3D facial recognition, and voice commands are all absent. The laptop does not include a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, GPS, optical disc drive, or a stylus.
The dedicated GPU in the Crosshair 16 (2024) is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture and comprises 3,072 shading units, 96 texture mapping units, and 48 render output units, with a memory bus width of 128 bits, a GPU memory speed of 2,000 MHz, an effective memory speed of 16,000 MHz, and a maximum memory bandwidth of 256 GB/s. It supports OpenCL 3, OpenGL 4.6, stereoscopic 3D, multi-display output, and double precision floating point, while LHR is not present. The CPU side features a clock multiplier of 21, a 33 MB L3 cache, a 115W TDP, a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C, an unlocked multiplier that is not available, big.LITTLE architecture, NX bit support, ECC memory compatibility, two memory channels with a maximum RAM speed of 5,600 MHz, and instruction set support covering MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2. Integrated graphics are present in the form of the UHD Graphics 770 with 32 execution units. The PassMark DirectCompute result is 6,787 and the overclocked PassMark result reaches 39,466, with the GPU built from 18,900 million transistors.
