MSI Stealth 18 AI Studio A1V (2024) 18"

The MSI Stealth 18 AI Studio A1V is a gaming laptop with a physical footprint of 399 mm wide by 289 mm tall, and a 19 mm thickness that keeps the chassis relatively compact for an 18-inch class machine. It weighs 2890 g and occupies a total volume of 2190.909 cm³. The design includes a backlit keyboard, while active cooling is present — this is not a fanless build. The laptop does not carry weather sealing or a rugged construction, placing it firmly in the category of standard indoor gaming use.

The display on the MSI Stealth 18 AI Studio A1V is an 18-inch Mini-LED panel running at a resolution of 3840 x 2400 pixels, which works out to a pixel density of 251 ppi. It operates at a 120 Hz refresh rate and supports up to four simultaneous displays through the GPU. The screen does not include a touchscreen interface or an anti-reflection coating.

The MSI Stealth 18 AI Studio A1V is equipped with 64 GB of DDR5 memory running at 5600 MHz across two slots, with a maximum supported capacity of 96 GB. The CPU operates across 22 threads with a base configuration of 6 cores at 2.3 GHz and 8 cores at 1.8 GHz, reaching a turbo clock of 5.1 GHz, and supports multithreading and 64-bit operation. Storage is handled by a 2048 GB NVMe SSD using PCIe 4, built on flash storage technology. On the graphics side, the GPU carries 16 GB of GDDR6 VRAM, a base clock of 1455 MHz that boosts up to 2040 MHz, and delivers 39.69 TFLOPS of floating-point performance alongside a texture rate of 620.2 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 228.5 GPixel/s. The GPU is manufactured on a 5 nm process and supports DirectX 12 Ultimate, though it does not include XeSS (XMX) support.

In benchmark testing, the MSI Stealth 18 AI Studio A1V records a Geekbench 6 multi-core score of 11,950 and a single-core score of 2,235, reflecting the CPU's threaded and per-core output respectively. On the PassMark side, the overall result stands at 29,380 with a single-core PassMark score of 3,697, while the PassMark G3D score of 31,814 captures the GPU's measured graphics performance.

The MSI Stealth 18 AI Studio A1V offers a well-rounded port selection, including one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port, two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, one USB 4 40Gbps port, and one Thunderbolt 4 port — there are no USB 2.0, USB 3.2 Gen 1, or Thunderbolt 3 ports present. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port, with no DisplayPort or mini DisplayPort outputs available. Wired networking is covered by one RJ45 port, and an external memory slot is also included. On the wireless side, the laptop supports Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) along with Wi-Fi 6E, Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 5, and Wi-Fi 4, paired with Bluetooth 5.4. AirPlay is supported, while a VGA connector is not present.

The MSI Stealth 18 AI Studio A1V includes sleep-and-charge USB ports, allowing connected devices to be charged even when the laptop is powered off or in sleep mode. It does not use a MagSafe power adapter.

The MSI Stealth 18 AI Studio A1V includes stereo speakers and a 3.5 mm headset jack for audio output, though it does not feature Dolby Atmos or an S/PDIF output port. On the graphics side, the laptop supports both ray tracing and DLSS. For security and authentication, it combines a fingerprint scanner with 3D facial recognition. A front-facing camera is present, capable of recording video at 1080p and 30 fps, accompanied by a single built-in microphone; voice commands are not supported. The device does not include a stylus, optical disc drive, gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, or GPS.

The CPU in the MSI Stealth 18 AI Studio A1V is a laptop-class processor using a BGA 2049 socket with a clock multiplier of 39, a maximum operating temperature of 110 °C, and a 150W TDP. It employs big.LITTLE technology, supports a 24 MB L3 cache, and carries instruction sets including MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2. The multiplier is not unlocked, and an NX bit is present. Integrated graphics are included alongside the dedicated GPU, which is based on the Ada Lovelace architecture and identified as the Arc Graphics 128EU with 8 execution units, 9728 shading units, 304 texture mapping units, and 112 render output units. The GPU runs its memory at 2250 MHz with an effective speed of 18,000 MHz across a 256-bit bus, yielding a maximum memory bandwidth of 576 GB/s. The system supports ECC memory across 2 memory channels, with a maximum RAM speed of 7467 MHz. Additional GPU capabilities include stereoscopic 3D, multi-display support, Double Precision Floating Point, OpenCL 3, and OpenGL 4.6, while LHR is not present. The GPU is built with 45,900 million transistors.