
Looking for a gaming laptop and only the best will do? Then you should be looking at MSI. The company, famous for its high-performance PC gear from motherboards to laptops, has refreshed its gaming portable range with new models sporting NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 50 Series Laptop graphics chips, bringing innovative features and unparalleled performance.
And while gaming runs like hot lava through the veins of MSI’s laptops, they’re much more than that. They have embraced AI, with Intel processors bringing their NPU chips to accelerate the calculations behind this modern-day marvel. MSI’s AI Software Suite has a transformative impact on your experience whatever you’re doing, whether it’s office work, content creation, or other daily productivity tasks. From STEM professionals crunching large datasets to students working on high-performance computing tasks, the 50 Series laptops effortlessly handle demanding workloads with AI-enhanced efficiency
Competitive gamers will appreciate the newly released laptop GPUs’ AI-driven frame interpolation, latency reduction, and power optimization ensure smoother, sharper gameplay with faster response times.
Content creators will love the RTX Studio support, and the ability to use ultra-high refresh rate displays and AI-assisted workflows. Editing, rendering, and streaming become effortless and highly efficient with MSI laptops’ NVIDIA® GPUs.
Alongside the gaming and creator machines, MSI has a range of laptops optimised for work in STEM fields by professionals requiring fast computation and efficient workflows. Gaming laptops are amazing machines for content creation and design too, as their fast components and powerful processors allow the pushing of pixels into whatever shapes you choose.
MSI Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Norse Myth
The Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Norse Myth is MSI’s mightiest gaming machine. It’s also an AI developer’s dream, providing consistent high-performance computing that’s about more than just framerates, and leaves others in the dust. Not only is this magnificent PC equipped with the NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 5090 GPU, but comes with exclusive SSD heat sinks, Super Raid 5 blazing-fast transfer speeds and revolutionary DDR5 6400 CSODIMM RAM technology, memory sticks that generate their own clock signals to provide extremely precise synchronisation across all 96GB of available RAM. There's 6TB of fast SSD storage available too, which should be enough to download most of your Steam library onto. Of course you get a 4K screen - slightly more thanks to its 16:10 aspect ratio - that is capable of 1000 nits of brightness thanks to its mini LED backlight. It’s all brought together by an Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX processor, with 24 cores and a boost speed of 5.4 GHz to blast through whatever tasks you give it.
The Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Norse Myth is available at Currys, starting from £6,299.
MSI Raider series
Raider laptops offer the ultimate gaming experience. They’re designed for gamers seeking performance and immersion, offering top-tier visuals along with lightning-fast reaction times and up to 260W combined CPU and GPU output. For peak performance in the most technically demanding titles, Raider laptops are available with a choice of AMD Ryzen 9000HX / 9000HX3D or Intel Core Ultra 200HX CPUs, and NVIDIA® GeForce 5000-series GPUs. They use the new CSODIMM RAM, and keep their storage cool with exclusive heat sinks, so that you’re never forced to compromise.
Raider laptops are available at Amazon, Very, Scan, Overclockers, and Laptops Direct starting from £4,899.
MSI Stealth series
Lightweight design is hugely important for portable PCs, and the MSI Stealth range offers the best of both worlds. Not only do you get supreme portability, but they redefine ultra-thin gaming. Using a magnesium-alloy chassis and AI-driven performance tuning, these ultralight laptops, with their NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 50 Series Laptop GPUs, offer strong, sustained performance. Choose from AMD Ryzen AI 300, or Intel Core Ultra 200H series processors, and sit back as Cooler Boost 5’s brand-new fan design provides optimal cooling for these sleek and portable PCs.
Stealth laptops are available at Very, Overclockers, Cyberpower, Scan and Ebuyer starting from £4,399.
This exciting laptop range is built to enable professionals and researchers to accelerate computational workloads. But it’ll play games just fine too. The range offers Thunderbolt 5 and SD Express card readers to connect to fast peripherals and memory cards, while retaining the top-spec Intel Core Ultra 200HX, or AMD Ryzen 9000 series, processors with NVIDIA® GeForce 5000-series GPUs and super-fast RAM of the gaming machines. MSI vector laptops set new standards in professional performance, and are available at Currys, Very, Scan, Overclockers, Cyberpower, Laptops Direct, Ebuyer, Amazon starting from £2,729.
MSI laptops offer more than just raw speed. Their performance is fuelled by efficiency and AI-powered computing that ushers in a new era of work and play. Gaming today is about intelligent performance, and the MSI AI Engine adapts in real time to what’s being asked of it, optimising power, cooling, and responsiveness based on usage needs. Whether it’s enhancing frame rates with NVIDIA® DLSS 4, dynamically adjusting thermals, or maximizing battery life without sacrificing performance, MSI is shaping the next generation of smart gaming laptops.
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