MSI Stealth 16 AI Studio A1V (2024) 16"

The MSI Stealth 16 AI Studio A1V is a gaming laptop with a weight of 1,990 g and a compact footprint of 355 mm wide by 259 mm deep, keeping its thickness to just 19 mm for a total volume of approximately 1,746.955 cm³. It comes equipped with a backlit keyboard but does not use a fanless design, meaning active cooling is present. The chassis is neither weather-sealed nor built to a rugged standard, positioning it as a conventional gaming machine rather than a hardened or outdoor-ready device.

The display on this laptop measures 16″ and uses a Mini-LED IPS LCD panel running at a resolution of 3840 x 2400 pixels, which translates to a pixel density of 283 ppi. It supports a refresh rate of 120 Hz, while the GPU can drive up to four displays simultaneously. The screen does not include touch input or an anti-reflection coating.

The processor is built on a 5 nm process, runs across 22 threads with multithreading enabled, and reaches a turbo clock speed of 5.1 GHz across two core configurations of 6 x 2.3 GHz and 8 x 1.8 GHz, with full 64-bit support. System memory sits at 32 GB of DDR5 across two slots, expandable up to 96 GB, while storage is handled by a 2048 GB NVMe SSD over a PCIe 4.0 interface using flash storage. On the graphics side, the GPU carries 16 GB of GDDR6 VRAM, a base clock of 1455 MHz boosting to 2040 MHz, and delivers 39.69 TFLOPS of floating-point performance alongside a texture rate of 620.2 GTexels/s, a pixel rate of 228.5 GPixel/s, and support for DirectX 12 Ultimate; XeSS (XMX) is not supported.

In CPU benchmarking, the laptop scores 11,950 in Geekbench 6 multi-core and 2,235 in the single-core test, while the overall PassMark result reaches 29,380 with a single-core PassMark score of 3,697. Graphics performance is reflected in a PassMark G3D result of 31,814.

The laptop offers a focused but capable port selection, including one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port, one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A port, one USB 4 40Gbps port, and one Thunderbolt 4 port, while USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports, Thunderbolt 3, and a USB 4 20Gbps port are absent. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port, with no DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, or VGA connector present. Wireless connectivity covers Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) along with Wi-Fi 6E, 6, 5, and 4, complemented by Bluetooth 5.4 and AirPlay support. There is no RJ45 port for wired networking, but an external memory slot is available, and USB Type-C is supported.

The laptop is equipped with a 99.9 Wh battery and supports sleep-and-charge via its USB ports, allowing connected devices to be charged even when the laptop is in sleep mode. It does not include a MagSafe power adapter.

For audio, the laptop includes stereo speakers and a 3.5 mm headset jack, backed by two built-in microphones, though it lacks Dolby Atmos and an S/PDIF output. Security and login options cover both a fingerprint scanner and 3D facial recognition, and a front camera is present for video use. On the graphics side, the laptop supports ray tracing and DLSS, adding to its gaming-oriented feature set. A stylus is not included, and voice commands are not supported. Motion and location sensors — including a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, and GPS — are all absent, as is an optical disc drive.

The CPU is a laptop-type processor using a BGA 2049 socket, employing big.LITTLE technology with a clock multiplier of 39 and a maximum operating temperature of 110 °C, a 150W TDP, a 24 MB L3 cache, and support for instruction sets including MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, along with an NX bit for security; the multiplier is not unlocked. Integrated graphics are present alongside the discrete GPU, which is based on the Ada Lovelace architecture and identified as Arc Graphics 128EU, featuring 8 execution units, 9,728 shading units, 304 texture mapping units, 112 ROPs, and 45,900 million transistors, with a memory speed of 2,250 MHz and no LHR restriction. Memory runs across a 256-bit bus over 2 channels, reaching an effective speed of 18,000 MHz and a maximum bandwidth of 576 GB/s, with RAM support up to 7,467 MHz and ECC memory compatibility. The system supports stereoscopic 3D, multi-display output, Double Precision Floating Point, OpenCL 3 and OpenGL 4.6, while also being compatible with 3D rendering workflows through its broader graphics API support.