The MSI Cyborg A15 AI B2HWX (2025) is a gaming laptop with a compact footprint of 359 × 245 mm and a 23 mm thickness, giving it a relatively slim profile for its category while weighing 1,945 g. Its total volume sits at approximately 2,022.97 cm³. The chassis includes a backlit keyboard but does not feature a fanless design, weather sealing, or a rugged build. The laptop comes with a one-year warranty.
The laptop features a 15.6″ IPS LCD panel with LED backlighting, delivering a 1920 x 1080 resolution at a pixel density of 141 ppi. With a 144Hz refresh rate, the display is well-suited for fast-paced content, and it supports up to four simultaneous displays. The screen does not include a touch layer or an anti-reflection coating.
The system is powered by an 8-core, 16-thread CPU built on a 5 nm process, running at a base clock of 3.8 GHz per core and reaching a turbo speed of 5.1 GHz, with full 64-bit and multithreading support. It is paired with 16GB of DDR5 RAM at 5,600 MHz, expandable up to 256GB, alongside a 1TB NVMe SSD for flash-based storage. The discrete GPU operates at a base clock of 2,235 MHz with a boost up to 2,520 MHz, backed by 8GB of GDDR7 VRAM, delivering 12.9 TFLOPS of floating-point performance, a texture rate of 201.6 GTexels/s, and a pixel rate of 80.64 GPixel/s. It supports DirectX 12 Ultimate and PCIe 4.0, but does not include XeSS acceleration.
In CPU benchmark testing, the laptop achieves a PassMark multi-core score of 29,915, reflecting its multi-threaded processing capacity, while the single-core PassMark result stands at 3,826, indicating per-core computational throughput.
Wired port options include one USB 3.2 Gen 1 USB-C port and two USB 3.2 Gen 1 USB-A ports, along with a single HDMI 2.1 output for external display connections; there are no Thunderbolt 3 or 4 ports, no DisplayPort or mini DisplayPort outputs, no RJ45 ethernet port, no USB 2.0 ports, and no external memory card slot. Wireless connectivity is handled by Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) with backwards compatibility down to Wi-Fi 4, paired with Bluetooth 5.3. The laptop also supports AirPlay and includes USB Type-C, but does not have a VGA connector.
The laptop is equipped with a 55.2 Wh battery and supports sleep-and-charge functionality through its USB ports, allowing connected devices to be charged even when the system is in sleep mode. It does not use a MagSafe power adapter.
On the audio and visual side, the laptop includes stereo speakers, a 3.5 mm headset jack, a single built-in microphone, and a front-facing camera, though it lacks Dolby Atmos and an S/PDIF output. For gaming, it supports both ray tracing and DLSS, while motion and biometric features — including a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, GPS, fingerprint scanner, and 3D facial recognition — are absent. There is no optical disc drive, no stylus included, and voice commands are not supported.
The discrete GPU is based on the Blackwell architecture and carries the Radeon 780M name for integrated graphics, featuring 2,560 shading units, 80 texture mapping units, 32 ROPs, a 128-bit memory bus, and a maximum memory bandwidth of 224 GB/s at an effective memory speed of 14,000 MHz; it supports multi-display output, stereoscopic 3D, ECC memory, Double Precision Floating Point, OpenCL 3.0, OpenGL 4.6, and Intel Resizable BAR, but does not include LHR. The CPU carries a 50W TDP with a clock multiplier of 38, a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C, and is built with 16,900 million transistors across a cache hierarchy of 512 KB L1, 8 MB L2 at 1 MB per core, and 16 MB L3 at 2 MB per core; it supports instruction sets including MMX, AVX2, FMA3, AES, F16C, and SSE 4.1/4.2, has the NX bit enabled, and supports two memory channels with a maximum RAM speed of 7,500 MHz, though it does not use big.LITTLE technology and the multiplier is locked. The system does not use air-water cooling.
