The MSI Thin A15 B7V (2024) is classified as a gaming laptop and carries a weight of 1,860 g, with physical dimensions of 359 mm wide, 254 mm deep, and 21 mm thick, resulting in a total volume of approximately 1,914.9 cm³. It features a backlit keyboard for use in low-light environments and comes with a 2-year warranty. The laptop does not use a fanless design, nor does it offer weather sealing or splashproofing.
The laptop features a 15.6″ IPS panel with a 1920 x 1080 px resolution and a pixel density of 141 ppi, delivering a standard full HD image across its screen area. A 144Hz refresh rate makes it well-suited for gaming and fast-moving content. The display does not include a touchscreen or an anti-reflection coating, and the system supports up to 4 connected displays simultaneously.
The system is powered by an 8-core CPU running at 3.2 GHz with a turbo frequency of 4.75 GHz, 16 threads, and multithreading support, built on a 5 nm semiconductor process. It comes with 16GB of DDR5 RAM at 4800 MHz across two memory slots, with a maximum supported capacity of 64GB. Storage is handled by a 1024GB NVMe SSD using PCIe 4.0, and the system supports 64-bit operation. On the graphics side, the GPU carries 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM, a base clock of 1545 MHz boosting to 2370 MHz, and delivers 14.56 TFLOPS of floating-point performance alongside a texture rate of 227.52 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 113.76 GPixel/s, with DirectX 12 Ultimate support. XeSS (XMX) is not supported.
In CPU benchmarks, the laptop scores 1,929 in Geekbench 6 single-core and 8,979 in Geekbench 6 multi-core, while Cinebench R20 records 604 in the single-core test and 5,420 in the multi-core run. On the PassMark side, the overall result comes in at 23,164 with a single-core score of 3,295, and the PassMark G3D result of 17,710 reflects the GPU's rendering capability across graphics workloads.
The laptop's port selection includes one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port, three USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports, and a single HDMI 2.1 output, while Thunderbolt 3 and 4, DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, and VGA outputs are absent. Wired networking is covered by one RJ45 port, and there is no external memory card slot. Wireless connectivity spans Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) along with Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 5, and Wi-Fi 4, complemented by Bluetooth 5.3 and AirPlay support.
The laptop is equipped with a 52 Wh battery and supports sleep-and-charge functionality through its USB ports, allowing connected devices to be charged even when the laptop is not in active use. A MagSafe power adapter is not included or supported.
On the audio and media side, the laptop includes stereo speakers, a 3.5 mm headset jack, a single microphone, and a front-facing camera, though Dolby Atmos and S/PDIF output are not present. For gaming, it supports both ray tracing and DLSS, while a stylus is not included. Biometric and motion features are absent across the board — there is no fingerprint scanner, 3D facial recognition, gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, or GPS — and voice commands and an optical disc drive are likewise not supported.
The CPU carries a clock multiplier of 32, a TDP of 115W, a maximum operating temperature of 95°C, and supports instruction sets including MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, along with NX bit and Double Precision Floating Point (DPFP); the multiplier is locked and big.LITTLE technology is not used. Cache consists of 512 KB L1, 4 MB L2 at 0.5 MB per core, and 16 MB L3 at 2 MB per core, with two memory channels, a maximum RAM speed of 6,400 MHz, and ECC memory support. The integrated graphics unit is identified as the Radeon 680M with 12 execution units, while the discrete GPU is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture with 3,072 shading units, 96 TMUs, 48 ROPs, 18,900 million transistors, a 128-bit memory bus, GPU memory speed of 2,000 MHz, effective memory speed of 16,000 MHz, and maximum memory bandwidth of 256 GB/s; LHR is not present. The GPU supports multi-display technology, stereoscopic 3D, OpenCL 3.0, and OpenGL 4.6, and the PassMark DirectCompute result stands at 6,787 with an overclocked PassMark score of 23,883.
