MSI Modern 15 H C13M (2024) 15.6"

The MSI Modern 15 H C13M (2024) has a physical footprint of 359 x 241 x 19 mm with a total volume of 1,643.861 cm³, and tips the scales at 1,900 g. It includes a backlit keyboard for use in low-light environments, while active cooling is present since the design is not fanless. The laptop does not carry a rugged build rating and offers no weather-sealing or splashproofing.

The laptop features a 15.6″ IPS LCD panel with LED backlighting, delivering a resolution of 1920 x 1080 px at a pixel density of 141 ppi and a refresh rate of 60Hz. The display does not include a touch screen or an anti-reflection coating. The system supports up to 4 external displays simultaneously.

The system is equipped with 16GB of DDR4 RAM running at 3200 MHz, expandable up to 64GB across two memory slots, alongside a 512GB NVMe SSD for flash-based storage. The CPU operates across eight cores and 12 threads using a split configuration of 4 x 2.1 GHz and 4 x 1.5 GHz, with a turbo clock speed reaching 4.6GHz, and is built on a 10 nm semiconductor process with multithreading and 64-bit support. The GPU runs at a base clock of 350 MHz with a turbo of 1,400 MHz, supports DirectX 12, and connects via PCIe 4, though XeSS (XMX) acceleration is not supported.

In PassMark testing, the laptop records a multi-threaded score of 17,409 alongside a single-threaded score of 3,396, providing a measurable reference point for both overall and per-core CPU throughput.

Wired connectivity consists of one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port and three USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, while there are no USB 2.0, USB 3.2 Gen 1, USB 4, Thunderbolt 3 or 4, DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, RJ45, or VGA ports present. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port, and an external memory card slot is also included. On the wireless side, the laptop supports Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) along with Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 5, and Wi-Fi 4, pairs that with Bluetooth 5.3, and additionally supports AirPlay.

The laptop houses a 53.8 Wh battery and includes sleep-and-charge USB ports, allowing connected devices to be charged even when the system is powered off or in sleep mode. It does not use a MagSafe power adapter.

Audio is handled by stereo speakers alongside a 3.5 mm headset jack, though there is no Dolby Atmos or S/PDIF output. The laptop includes a front-facing camera capable of recording at 720p and 30 fps, backed by a single built-in microphone, but does not offer 3D facial recognition, a fingerprint scanner, or voice command support. Graphics features such as ray tracing and DLSS are not supported, and the machine lacks motion sensors including a gyroscope, accelerometer, and compass, as well as GPS, an optical disc drive, and a bundled stylus.

The laptop-class CPU has a clock multiplier of 21, a TDP of 45W, and a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C, with the multiplier locked and big.LITTLE technology in use. It features 8 MB of L2 cache and 12 MB of L3 cache, supports the NX bit for hardware-level security, operates across two memory channels with a maximum supported RAM speed of 5200 MHz, and does not support ECC memory. Supported instruction sets include SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, AES, FMA3, F16C, and MMX. Graphics are provided by the integrated Iris Xe Graphics 80EU, which comprises 384 shading units, 24 texture mapping units, 12 ROPs, and 48 execution units, with support for OpenCL 3 and OpenGL 4.6.