The MSI Stealth 18 HX AI A2XW is a gaming laptop with a physical footprint of 399mm wide by 289mm tall and a thickness of just 23mm, resulting in a total volume of approximately 2,652 cm³. It weighs 2,898 grams and features a backlit keyboard for low-light use. The chassis does not use a fanless design, is not weather-sealed, and does not carry a rugged build rating. The laptop comes with a one-year warranty.
The laptop features an 18-inch Mini-LED display with a resolution of 3840x2400 pixels, yielding a pixel density of 251 ppi, and a 120Hz refresh rate for reasonably smooth motion rendering. The panel does not include a touch screen or an anti-reflection coating. The system supports up to four simultaneous external displays.
The laptop is equipped with a 24-thread CPU running at speeds of 8 cores at 2.7GHz and 16 cores at 2.1GHz, with a turbo clock reaching 5.4GHz, built on a 4nm semiconductor process with multithreading and 64-bit support. System memory stands at 64GB of DDR5 RAM clocked at 5,600MHz, with a maximum supported capacity of 192GB. Storage is handled by a 2,048GB NVMe SSD using flash storage and a PCIe 3 interface. On the graphics side, the GPU carries 24GB of GDDR7 VRAM, runs at a base clock of 990MHz with a turbo of 1,515MHz, and delivers 31.8 TFLOPS of floating-point performance alongside a texture rate of 496.9 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 193.9 GPixel/s, with support for DirectX 12 Ultimate but no XeSS capability.
In CPU benchmark testing, the laptop recorded a PassMark multi-core score of 56,426, while the single-core PassMark result came in at 4,723.
The laptop's wired port selection includes two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, one USB 4 40Gbps port, and one Thunderbolt 4 port, while USB 3.2 Gen 1, USB 2.0, DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, VGA, and RJ45 connections are absent. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port. On the wireless side, the machine supports Wi-Fi 7 along with Wi-Fi 6E, 6, 5, and 4, paired with Bluetooth 5.4, and AirPlay is also supported. There is no external memory card slot.
The laptop is fitted with a 99.9Wh battery and 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.
Audio is handled by stereo speakers and a 3.5mm headset jack, though Dolby Atmos and S/PDIF output are not present. A single microphone is built in, and the laptop includes a front camera with 3D facial recognition for biometric login, while a fingerprint scanner and voice commands are not supported. On the graphics feature side, the machine supports both ray tracing and DLSS. No stylus is included, and the laptop lacks motion and positioning sensors such as a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, and GPS, and there is no optical disc drive.
The CPU is a laptop-type processor using a BGA 2114 socket with a clock multiplier of 27, an unlocked multiplier, Turbo Boost version 2, a TDP of 95W, and a maximum operating temperature of 105°C. It employs big.LITTLE technology, includes integrated graphics, and supports the MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2 instruction sets, along with an NX bit, 36MB of L3 cache, and 40MB of L2 cache across a dual-channel memory configuration with a maximum RAM speed of 6,400MHz. The Blackwell-architecture GPU features 10,496 shading units, 328 texture mapping units, and 128 ROPs, with a 256-bit memory bus running at 2,000MHz for an effective memory speed of 25,400MHz and a maximum memory bandwidth of 811.5 GB/s. It supports OpenCL 3, OpenGL 4.6, stereoscopic 3D, multi-display output, Intel Resizable BAR, ECC memory, and Double Precision Floating Point, and does not include LHR.
