The MSI Crosshair 17 HX D14V is a gaming laptop with a weight of 2800 g and overall dimensions of 383 mm wide, 279 mm tall, and 22 mm thick, giving it a total volume of approximately 2350.854 cm³. It features a backlit keyboard for low-light use, while the chassis does not employ a fanless cooling design, indicating active cooling is used. The laptop is also not weather-sealed, so it offers no splash resistance.
The display is a 17″ IPS panel with a 2560 x 1600 resolution and a pixel density of 177 ppi, offering a fairly detailed image across its large surface. It runs at a 240Hz refresh rate, which benefits fast-paced applications, and the GPU supports up to four simultaneous external displays. The screen does not include touch input or an anti-reflection coating.
The processor runs sixteen cores — eight at 2.2 GHz and eight at 1.6 GHz — with a turbo ceiling of 5.2 GHz, 24 threads, and multithreading support, built on a 4 nm semiconductor process. System memory stands at 32GB of DDR5 RAM at 5600 MHz across two slots, with a maximum supported capacity of 96GB. Storage is handled by a 1024GB NVMe SSD using flash memory and a PCIe 4 interface. On the graphics side, the GPU carries 8GB of GDDR6X VRAM, a base clock of 1230 MHz boosting to 2175 MHz, and delivers 20.04 TFLOPS of floating-point performance alongside a texture rate of 313.2 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 104.4 GPixel/s, with DirectX 12 Ultimate support. The system is 64-bit compatible, does not support XeSS, and does not include an unlocked memory multiplier.
In Geekbench 6, the system scores 2443 in the single-core test and 13325 in the multi-core test, reflecting the processor's threaded throughput. The overall PassMark result comes in at 34910, with a single-core PassMark score of 3862. Graphics performance is measured at 19574 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, representing the GPU's rendering capability under that workload.
Wired connectivity includes one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port, three USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports, one RJ45 Ethernet port, and one HDMI 2.1 output; there are no DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, Thunderbolt, USB 4, or VGA outputs. Wireless options cover Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) alongside backwards-compatible Wi-Fi 6, 5, and 4 standards, paired with Bluetooth 5.3. AirPlay is supported, while an external memory card slot is not present.
The laptop is equipped with a 90 Wh battery and supports sleep-and-charge functionality, allowing connected USB devices to be charged even when the system is powered off or in sleep mode. It does not use a MagSafe power adapter.
Audio output is handled by stereo speakers, and a 3.5 mm headset jack is present alongside a single built-in microphone; Dolby Atmos and S/PDIF output are not included. The laptop has a front camera but lacks a fingerprint scanner, 3D facial recognition, and voice command support. On the graphics feature side, the GPU supports both ray tracing and DLSS, while no gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, or GPS sensors are present, and no stylus or optical disc drive is included.
The CPU is a laptop-type processor with a clock multiplier of 22, a 115W TDP, a 30 MB L3 cache, and a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C; it uses big.LITTLE technology, supports the NX bit, and includes integrated graphics (UHD Graphics 710) with 16 execution units, but does not have an unlocked multiplier. Supported instruction sets cover MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, and the processor operates across two memory channels with a maximum RAM speed of 5600 MHz, also supporting ECC memory. On the GPU side, the Ada Lovelace architecture brings 4608 shading units, 144 texture mapping units, 48 ROPs, and 22900 million transistors, running GPU memory at 2000 MHz with an effective speed of 16000 MHz across a 128-bit bus for a maximum bandwidth of 256 GB/s; LHR is not present. The GPU supports multi-display output, stereoscopic 3D, and double precision floating point, with API coverage including OpenCL 3 and OpenGL 4.6. The PassMark DirectCompute result is 8162, the overclocked PassMark score reaches 37537, and the system's passmark result in standard operation reflects broad compute capability across both CPU and GPU workloads.
