MSI Prestige 16 AI Plus Evo B2VM 16"

The MSI Prestige 16 AI Plus Evo B2VM is a productivity-class laptop with a slim 16mm thickness and a footprint of 358mm wide by 254mm tall, resulting in a total volume of roughly 1,454.9 cm³. It weighs 1,500 grams and features a backlit keyboard for comfortable use in low-light environments. The design does not include a fanless configuration, weather sealing, or a rugged build, keeping it oriented toward standard office and professional use. A one-year warranty is included with the device.

The laptop features a 16-inch IPS LCD panel with a 2560x1600 resolution, delivering a pixel density of 188 ppi across an LED-backlit screen. The display runs at a 60Hz refresh rate and does not include a touch screen or anti-reflection coating. It supports up to three simultaneous displays, making it capable of driving external monitors alongside the built-in panel.

The processor runs eight threads across a configuration of 4 x 3.3 GHz cores with a turbo clock speed reaching 5.1GHz, built on a 3nm semiconductor process with multithreading and 64-bit support. Memory consists of 32GB of DDR5 RAM at 8533MHz, which also represents the maximum supported capacity across two channels. Storage is handled by a 1TB NVMe SSD using flash memory over a PCIe 5 interface, ensuring fast read and write throughput. The integrated GPU reaches a turbo frequency of 2050MHz and supports DirectX 12 Ultimate and OpenCL, though XeSS (XMX) acceleration is not available on this configuration.

In CPU benchmark testing, the laptop achieves a PassMark multi-thread score of 20,093, reflecting its overall processing throughput across all available threads. The single-thread PassMark result comes in at 4,333, indicating the per-core processing capability of the processor.

The laptop's port selection includes two Thunderbolt 4 ports alongside two USB 4 40Gbps ports, offering high-bandwidth connectivity for peripherals and external displays, plus one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A port for standard accessories. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port, while DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, VGA, and RJ45 are absent. There is no external memory card slot and no USB 2.0 ports. Wireless connectivity covers Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) with backward compatibility through Wi-Fi 6E, 6, 5, and 4, paired with Bluetooth 5.4. AirPlay is also supported, and USB Type-C is available through the Thunderbolt 4 and USB 4 ports.

The laptop 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.

For audio, the laptop is equipped with stereo speakers and a 3.5mm headset jack, though it lacks Dolby Atmos and an S/PDIF output. The 5MP front camera is paired with dual microphones and supports 3D facial recognition for biometric login, complemented by a fingerprint scanner as an additional authentication option. Voice commands are not supported. On the graphics side, ray tracing and DLSS are not available, and no stylus is included. Motion and navigation sensors such as a gyroscope, accelerometer, GPS, and compass are absent, and there is no optical disc drive.

The laptop-class processor uses big.LITTLE technology and carries a clock multiplier of 33, a 30W TDP, and a maximum operating temperature of 100°C. Its multiplier is locked, and it supports a broad set of instruction sets including MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, along with NX bit for hardware-level security. The 12MB L3 cache and dual memory channels support a maximum RAM speed of 8533MHz, though ECC memory is not supported. Graphics are handled by the integrated Arc Graphics 140V with 8 execution units, supporting OpenCL 3 and OpenGL 4.6. The overclocked PassMark result stands at 21,054, and the processor's architecture relies on the big.LITTLE design for workload distribution.