The MSI Katana 15 B13VGK is classified as a gaming laptop, measuring 359 mm wide, 259 mm tall, and 24.9 mm thick, with a total volume of 2315.23 cm³ and a weight of 2250 g. It features a backlit keyboard and comes with a one-year warranty. The laptop does not use a fanless design and is not weather-sealed or splashproof.
The MSI Katana 15 B13VGK features a 15.6-inch IPS LED-backlit panel running at a resolution of 1920 x 1080 px with a pixel density of 141 ppi. The 144Hz refresh rate supports smoother motion during gaming and fast-paced content, and the display includes an anti-reflection coating to help manage glare in varied lighting conditions. The system supports up to four connected displays simultaneously, expanding the available screen real estate for multi-monitor setups. Touch input is not available on this panel.
The laptop is configured with 32GB of DDR5 RAM at 5200 MHz across two memory slots, with a maximum supported capacity of 64GB, paired with a 1TB NVMe SSD as the sole storage device. The CPU operates across 10 cores and 16 threads using a 6 x 2.4 and 4 x 1.8 GHz clock configuration, reaching a turbo frequency of 4.9 GHz on a 4 nm semiconductor process with multithreading enabled and PCIe 4.0 support. The discrete GPU carries 8GB of GDDR6X VRAM, a base clock of 1230 MHz and a boost of 2175 MHz, delivering 20.04 TFLOPS of floating-point performance, a texture rate of 313.2 GTexels/s, and a pixel rate of 104.4 GPixel/s, with support for DirectX 12 Ultimate and 64-bit operation; XeSS is not supported on this configuration.
In standardized benchmark testing, the MSI Katana 15 B13VGK records a PassMark overall score of 23,805 and a single-core result of 3,569, reflecting the CPU's performance across both multi-threaded workloads and single-threaded tasks. The GPU achieves a PassMark G3D score of 19,574, indicating the level of graphics processing capability available for rendering and compute tasks.
The MSI Katana 15 B13VGK provides a functional but modest port selection, with one USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C port, two USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports, and one USB 2.0 port for peripheral connectivity. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port, while there are no DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, VGA, or Thunderbolt connections of any version. Wired networking is covered by one RJ45 port, and wireless connectivity spans Wi-Fi 6E, Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 5, and Wi-Fi 4 alongside Bluetooth 5.2. There is no external memory card slot and no AirPlay support on this model.
On the graphics side, the MSI Katana 15 B13VGK supports both ray tracing and DLSS, enabling more realistic lighting rendering and AI-based upscaling in compatible titles. Audio output is handled by stereo speakers alongside a 3.5 mm headphone jack, while a single built-in microphone and a front-facing camera cover basic communication needs; voice commands are also supported. Dolby Atmos, S/PDIF output, and a fingerprint scanner are all absent, and the laptop includes no stylus, no optical disc drive, and no motion or positioning sensors such as a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, or GPS. Biometric login via 3D facial recognition is likewise not available on this model.
The discrete GPU is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture and comprises 4,608 shading units, 144 texture mapping units, 48 render output units, and 64 execution units, operating across a 128-bit memory bus with 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, and the PassMark DirectCompute result stands at 8,162; LHR is not present. The CPU carries a 115W TDP, a clock multiplier of 24, a maximum operating temperature of 100°C, 9.5 MB of L2 cache, and 24 MB of L3 cache, with integrated UHD Graphics 770 featuring 64 execution units also on board. The processor uses big.LITTLE technology across two memory channels, supports ECC memory and NX bit, has a locked multiplier, and is compatible with instruction sets including SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, AES, FMA3, F16C, and MMX, while maximum RAM speed is rated at 5200 MHz and the GPU is built from 22,900 million transistors.
