MSI Crosshair 17 HX D14V (2024) 17" Intel Core i7-14650HX 2.2GHz / Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop / 32GB RAM / 512GB SSD

The MSI Crosshair 17 HX D14V is a gaming laptop with a physical footprint of 383 x 279 mm and a thickness of just 22 mm, giving it a total volume of roughly 2,350 cm³. It weighs 2,800 grams, which is typical for a machine of this size and category. The keyboard is backlit, adding usability in low-light conditions, while active cooling is present — the laptop does not use a fanless design. It is not weather-sealed, so it offers no splash or dust resistance.

The laptop features a 17-inch IPS panel with a 2560 x 1600 resolution and a pixel density of 177 ppi, delivering a reasonably sharp image across its large screen area. It does not include a touchscreen and lacks an anti-reflection coating on the display surface. Where it stands out for gaming use is its 240Hz refresh rate, which enables notably smooth motion rendering. The system supports up to four connected displays simultaneously, and the GPU can drive all of them at once.

The processor runs 24 threads across a hybrid core configuration clocked at 8 x 2.2 GHz and 8 x 1.6 GHz, with a turbo frequency reaching 5.2GHz, and is built on a 5 nm process with multithreading enabled and full 64-bit support. 32GB of DDR5 RAM runs at 5600 MHz across two slots, with the system supporting a maximum of 96GB. Storage is handled by a 512GB NVMe SSD using PCIe 4.0. On the graphics side, the GPU carries 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM, a base clock of 1545 MHz boosting to 2370 MHz, and delivers 14.56 TFLOPS of floating-point performance alongside a texture rate of 227.52 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 113.76 GPixel/s. DirectX 12 Ultimate is supported, while XeSS is not available on this configuration.

In CPU benchmarking, the system scores 2,443 in Geekbench 6 single-core and 13,325 in the Geekbench 6 multi-core test, reflecting the performance headroom offered by its 24-thread processor configuration. The overall PassMark result comes in at 34,910, with a single-core PassMark score of 3,862. On the graphics side, the PassMark G3D result of 17,710 gives a concrete indication of the GPU's rendering capability under standardized conditions.

The laptop's USB layout includes one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port and three USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports; there are no Thunderbolt 3 or 4 ports, no USB 4 ports, and no additional Type-C Gen 1 connections. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port, with no DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, or VGA connector present. Wired networking is covered by one RJ45 port, while wireless connectivity spans Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) and backwards compatibility with Wi-Fi 6, 5, and 4, paired with Bluetooth 5.3. AirPlay is supported, though there is no external memory card slot on this model.

The laptop is equipped with a 90 Wh battery, placing it toward the higher end of typical gaming laptop cell capacities. It includes sleep-and-charge USB ports, allowing connected devices to be charged even when the laptop is powered off or in sleep mode. There is no MagSafe power adapter on this model.

On the audio side, the laptop includes stereo speakers, a 3.5 mm headset jack, and a single built-in microphone, though it does not offer Dolby Atmos or an S/PDIF output. A front-facing camera is present, but there is no fingerprint scanner, 3D facial recognition, or voice command support. The GPU supports both ray tracing and DLSS, which are relevant for compatible games and rendering workloads. Motion and location sensors — including a gyroscope, accelerometer, GPS, and compass — are absent, and no stylus is included in the box. There is also no optical disc drive on this model.

The CPU is a laptop-class processor using big.LITTLE technology with a clock multiplier of 22, a 30 MB L3 cache, a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C, and a TDP of 115W; it carries the NX bit for hardware-level security but does not have an unlocked multiplier. It supports a broad set of instruction sets including MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, along with Double Precision Floating Point. The integrated graphics solution is the UHD Graphics 710, featuring 16 execution units, while the discrete GPU is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture and contains 18,900 million transistors, 3,072 shading units, 96 texture mapping units, and 48 ROPs. Memory runs across a 128-bit bus at an effective speed of 16,000 MHz with a maximum bandwidth of 256 GB/s across two channels, and the system supports ECC memory with a maximum RAM speed of 5600 MHz. API support covers OpenCL 3 and OpenGL 4.6, and the GPU is compatible with multi-display setups and stereoscopic 3D output. The PassMark DirectCompute result stands at 6,787, and the overclocked PassMark score reaches 37,537. LHR is not present on this GPU.