The MSI Cyborg 17 B2RW (2025) is a gaming laptop with a footprint of 399 mm wide by 258 mm tall and a 21 mm thickness, giving it a relatively slim profile for its category. It weighs 2,500 g and has a total volume of approximately 2,161.78 cm³. The design includes a backlit keyboard for low-light use, while it does not feature a fanless cooling setup, a weather-sealed or splashproof build, or a rugged chassis construction.
The MSI Cyborg 17 B2RW (2025) features a 17.3″ IPS LCD panel with LED backlighting, delivering a 1920 x 1080 px resolution at a pixel density of 127 ppi. With a 144Hz refresh rate, the display is well-suited for fast-paced content, and the system supports up to four simultaneous displays. The screen does not include a touchscreen interface or an anti-reflection coating.
The MSI Cyborg 17 B2RW (2025) is powered by a 10-core, 16-thread 64-bit processor built on a 5 nm semiconductor process, with core speeds of 6 x 2.5 GHz and 4 x 1.8 GHz and a turbo clock speed reaching 5.2 GHz; multithreading is supported. It comes with 16 GB of DDR5 RAM expandable up to 96 GB, paired with a 1,024 GB NVMe SSD using flash storage over a PCIe 4.0 interface. The discrete GPU runs at a base clock of 952 MHz and boosts up to 1,455 MHz, backed by 8 GB of GDDR7 VRAM, delivering 9.684 TFLOPS of floating-point performance alongside a texture rate of 151.3 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 46.56 GPixel/s; DirectX 12 Ultimate is supported, while XeSS (XMX) is not.
In CPU benchmark testing, the MSI Cyborg 17 B2RW (2025) achieves a PassMark multi-core score of 24,546, reflecting its overall multi-threaded processing capability, while its single-core PassMark result stands at 3,821, indicating per-core computational throughput.
The MSI Cyborg 17 B2RW (2025) offers a wired and wireless connectivity setup that includes two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports and one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port, with no USB 2.0, USB 4, Thunderbolt 3, or Thunderbolt 4 ports present. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port, while DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, and VGA outputs are absent. Wireless connectivity covers Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) along with backward-compatible Wi-Fi 6, 5, and 4 standards, complemented by Bluetooth 5.3; AirPlay is also supported. The laptop does not include an RJ45 Ethernet port or an external memory card slot.
The MSI Cyborg 17 B2RW (2025) is equipped with a 55.2 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. It does not use a MagSafe power adapter.
The MSI Cyborg 17 B2RW (2025) includes stereo speakers, a 3.5 mm headset jack, and a single built-in microphone for audio input and output, though it lacks a S/PDIF port and does not support Dolby Atmos. A front-facing camera is present and capable of recording video at 720p and 30 fps. On the graphics side, the laptop supports both ray tracing and DLSS, while motion and location sensors such as a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, and GPS are not included. Additional features like a fingerprint scanner, 3D facial recognition, voice commands, a stylus, and an optical disc drive are also absent.
The laptop CPU is a mobile-class processor with a 45W TDP, a clock multiplier of 25, a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C, and a 24 MB L3 cache; it uses big.LITTLE technology, supports the NX bit for hardware-level security, and includes integrated graphics, though the multiplier is not unlocked. Supported instruction sets cover MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, and the system is compatible with Intel Resizable BAR. The Blackwell-architecture GPU comprises 3,328 shading units, 104 texture mapping units, 32 ROPs, and 64 execution units across 21,900 million transistors, with a native memory speed of 1,750 MHz and an effective memory speed of 28,000 MHz over a 128-bit bus, yielding a maximum bandwidth of 448 GB/s; it supports multi-display output, stereoscopic 3D, Double Precision Floating Point, and ECC memory, but does not include LHR. The system supports OpenCL 3 and OpenGL 4.6, RAM runs at up to 6,400 MHz across two memory channels, and the CPU operates with a dual-channel memory configuration.
