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MSI Crosshair 16 Series

MSI Crosshair 16 HX AI D2XWFKGProcessor: Intel Arrow Lake Ultra 9 275HX, Intel Arrow Lake Ultra 9 285HX, Intel Raptor Lake-HX i7-14700HX
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
Display: 16.00 inch
Weight: 2.5kg
Price: 2500 euro
Average Score: 73.24% - average
Average of 12 scores (from 13 reviews)
price: 90%, performance: 89%, features: 60%, display: 78%, mobility: 73%, workmanship: 82%, ergonomy: 83%, emissions: 72%

 

MSI Crosshair 16 HX D14VFKG

Specifications

MSI Crosshair 16 HX D14VFKGNotebook: MSI Crosshair 16 HX D14VFKG
Processor: Intel Raptor Lake-HX i7-14700HX
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU 8192 MB
Display: 16.00 inch, 16:10, 2560 x 1600 pixels
Weight: 2.5kg
Links: MSI homepage
 MSI notebook section

Price comparison

Average Score: 76% - good

Average of 3 scores (from 3 reviews)

 

Reviews

70% MSI Crosshair 16 HX D14V (2024) Review
Source: Trusted Reviews English
The MSI Crosshair 16 HX D14V (2024) is a solid, if quite expensive gaming laptop. Its 14700HX and RTX 4060 power core offer decent 1080p and 1440p, although feel underpowered relative to the fantastic 16-inch QHD+ 240Hz panel. The ports here are good, as is battery life, although you can get a more powerful package for a similar price. For instance, the HP Omen 17 (2024) ups the screen size by an inch and utilises an RTX 4070 while having the same asking price, although makes a sacrifice by offering a Full HD panel and while the Gigabyte Aorus 17H pushes further towards the £2000 mark, it offers an RTX 4080 and beefier performance. For more options though, check out our list of the best gaming laptops we’ve tested.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 12/14/2024
Rating: Total score: 70%
85% MSI Crosshair 16 HX Monster Hunter laptop review: monstrous power, stunning design
Source: 91mobiles English
If we set aside the limited edition aspect and focus on the broader picture, this is a solid gaming laptop. It both looks and performs like a true gaming machine. For fans of Monster Hunter, this laptop is not only a functional powerhouse but also a collectable piece, embodying the essence of the game in all the key areas.|
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 09/12/2024
Rating: Total score: 85% performance: 90% display: 85% mobility: 80% workmanship: 85%

Foreign Reviews

73% MSI Crosshair 16 HX review
Source: PC Games German DE→EN
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 08/21/2024
Rating: Total score: 73%

 

MSI Crosshair 16 HX AI D2XWGKG

Specifications

MSI Crosshair 16 HX AI D2XWGKGNotebook: MSI Crosshair 16 HX AI D2XWGKG
Processor: Intel Arrow Lake Ultra 9 275HX
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop 8192 MB
Display: 16.00 inch, 16:10, 2560 x 1600 pixels
Weight: 2.5kg
Price: 2500 euro
Links: MSI homepage
 MSI notebook section

Price comparison

Average Score: 66% - average

Average of 6 scores (from 8 reviews)

 

Reviews

81.9% MSI Crosshair 16 HX AI Laptop Review: Solid performance with caveats that don't mar the core gaming experience | Notebookcheck
The MSI Crosshair 16 HX AI aims to please the upper mid-range gaming crowd with its Core Ultra 9 275HX and RTX 5070 Laptop combination, and it is able to do so for the most part. The Crosshair 16 HX AI can handle 1440p gaming and even content creation fairly well, but there some obvious compromises to keep the price in check.
75% MSI Crosshair 16 HX AI (2025) review
Source: PC Gamer English
The MSI Crosshair 16 HX AI is a highly portable workstation. While it's a little on the slower side when it comes to gaming out of the box, it really leans into the AI nomenclature. Rendering and image generation workloads is where this laptop does best, with some low-res gaming chops that leave room for Nvidia's Tensor Cores to work their magic. The supporting components could be on the speedier side, but as a work laptop with some gaming capabilities you could do a lot worse for the price.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 09/01/2025
Rating: Total score: 75%
75% MSI Crosshair 16 HX AI (2025) review
Source: PC Gamer English
The MSI Crosshair 16 HX AI is a highly portable workstation. While it's a little on the slower side when it comes to gaming out of the box, it really leans into the AI nomenclature. Rendering and image generation workloads is where this laptop does best, with some low-res gaming chops that leave room for Nvidia's Tensor Cores to work their magic. The supporting components could be on the speedier side, but as a work laptop with some gaming capabilities you could do a lot worse for the price.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 09/01/2025
Rating: Total score: 75%

Foreign Reviews

80% Test MSI Crosshair 16 HX AI : que vaut la GeForce RTX 5070 dans un PC portable milieu de gamme ?
Source: Clubic French FR→EN
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/30/2025
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 90% display: 70% mobility: 60% workmanship: 80%
80% Test MSI Crosshair 16 HX AI : que vaut la GeForce RTX 5070 dans un PC portable milieu de gamme ?
Source: Clubic French FR→EN
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/30/2025
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 90% display: 70% mobility: 60% workmanship: 80%
43% TEST: MSI Crosshair 16 HX AI (2025)
Source: T3 PL Turkish PL→EN
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 11/21/2025
Rating: Total score: 43%
43% TEST: MSI Crosshair 16 HX AI (2025)
Source: T3 PL Turkish PL→EN
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 11/21/2025
Rating: Total score: 43%
MSI Crosshair 16 HX AI D2XW 電競筆電
Source: HKEPC zh-TW→EN
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 11/25/2025
MSI Crosshair 16 HX AI D2XW 電競筆電
Source: HKEPC zh-TW→EN
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 11/25/2025

 

MSI Crosshair 16 HX AI D2XWFKG

Specifications

MSI Crosshair 16 HX AI D2XWFKGNotebook: MSI Crosshair 16 HX AI D2XWFKG
Processor: Intel Arrow Lake Ultra 9 285HX
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop 8192 MB
Display: 16.00 inch, 16:10, 2560 x 1600 pixels
Weight: 2.5kg
Links: MSI homepage
 MSI notebook section

Price comparison

Average Score: 86.5% - good

Average of 2 scores (from 2 reviews)

 

Foreign Reviews

88% MSI Crosshair 16 HX AI D2XW Review en Español (Análisis completo)
Source: Profesional Review Spanish ES→EN
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 09/25/2025
Rating: Total score: 88% price: 90% performance: 85% display: 87% mobility: 92% workmanship: 85%
85% MSI Crosshair 16 HX AI Recensione: Intel Core Ultra e RTX 5060 a meno di 2.000 euro
Source: Everyeye.it Italian IT→EN
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/26/2025
Rating: Total score: 85%

 

Comment

MSI: Micro-Star International (MSI) was founded in 1986 in Taiwan. MSI is especially known as a manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards for PCs, but also offers computer accessories, complete systems, motherboards, graphics cards, laptops, desktop PCs, monitors and other components. However, the Microstar brand name in Germany belongs to the Medion company. MSI is known for its gaming products and has developed a wide range of gaming laptops and desktop PCs. The company is also active in workstations, servers and industrial automation. MSI has offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.


With these GPUs you are able to play modern and demanding games fluently at medium detail settings and HD resolution.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU: High-end graphics card for laptops based on the Ada Lovelace architecture. Offers 8 GB GDDR6 (128 Bit) and is configurable with a TGP of 35 - 115W (+ Dynamic Boost). 

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop: Mobile mid-range graphics card from the Blackwell family based on the GB206 chip with 3328 shaders and 8 GB GDDR7 graphics memory (128 bit).

These graphics cards are able to play the latest and most demanding games in high resolutions and full detail settings with enabled Anti-Aliasing.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop: An upcoming graphics card from the Blackwell family for laptops, which Team Green will most likely present at CES 2025. Considering that the 4070 laptop has 4,608 unified shaders (CUDA cores), the 5070 will most likely have well over 5,000 shaders.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.


Intel Raptor Lake-HX:

i7-14700HX: High-end mobile hybrid processor based on the Raptor Lake architecture with 20 cores (8 performance and 12 efficiency cores) and 28 threads.

Intel Arrow Lake:

Ultra 9 275HX: Mobile high-end CPU for gaming notebooks based on the Arrow Lake architecture. Offers 24 cores consisting of 8 fast performance cores with up to 5.4 GHz and 16 smaller efficiency cores with up to 4.6 GHz clock speed. The CPU can access 40 MB L2 cache and 36 MB L3 cache and is specified with a TDP of 55 watts. The SoC integrates a small dedicated NPU called AI Boost with 13 TOPS (Int8) and optionally supports vPro Essentials.

Ultra 9 285HX: Mobile high-end CPU for gaming notebooks based on the Arrow Lake architecture. Offers 24 cores consisting of 8 fast performance cores with up to 5.5 GHz and 16 smaller efficiency cores with up to 4.6 GHz clock speed. The CPU can access 40 MB L2 cache and 36 MB L3 cache and is specified with a TDP of 55 watts. The SoC integrates a small dedicated NPU called AI Boost with 13 TOPS (Int8) and optionally supports vPro Enterprise.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.


16.00:

This range for display formats was and is a rarity. It is larger than the general standard of 15 inches, but not yet in the range of large workstations. One usually has higher screen resolutions available, but portability suffers from that.

» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.


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73.24%: This rating is poor. More than three quarters of the models are rated better. That is rather not a purchase recommendation. Even if verbal ratings in this area do not sound that bad ("sufficient" or "satisfactory"), they are usually euphemisms that disguise a classification as a below-average laptop.

» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.

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Devices from a different Manufacturer and/or with a different CPU

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GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, Raptor Lake-H Core 7 240H
Gigabyte Gaming A16 CVH
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, Raptor Lake-H i7-13620H
HP Victus 15-fa2000na
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, Raptor Lake-H Core 7 240H
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GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, Dragon Range R7 8745HX
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GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, Dragon Range R9 8940HX
Lenovo Yoga Pro 9 16IAH10, Ultra 9 285H
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, Arrow Lake Ultra 9 285H
Asus TUF Gaming F16 FX608JMR
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, Raptor Lake-HX i7-14650HX
Asus ROG Strix G16 G615JMR
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, Raptor Lake-HX i7-14650HX
Alienware 16X Aurora
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, Arrow Lake Ultra 7 255HX
Asus ROG Strix G16 G615LM
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, Arrow Lake Ultra 9 275HX
Lenovo LOQ 15AHP10
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, Hawk Point (Zen 4/4c) R7 250

Devices with the same GPU and/or Screen Size

Honor MagicBook Pro 16 Hunter 2025
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, Arrow Lake Ultra 9 285H, 1.89 kg
Gigabyte Aero X16 1VH
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, Strix / Gorgon Point Ryzen AI 7 350, 1.9 kg
Lenovo Legion 7 16IAX10
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, Arrow Lake Ultra 7 255HX, 1.978 kg

Devices with the same GPU

Acer Predator Helios Neo 14 AI PHN14-71, RTX 5060
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, Arrow Lake Ultra 9 285H, 14.50", 1.9 kg
Asus TUF Gaming A18 FA808UM
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, Hawk Point (Zen 4/4c) R7 260, 18.00", 2.6 kg
Lenovo Legion 5 15IRX10, i7-14700HX RTX 5060
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, Raptor Lake-HX i7-14700HX, 15.10", 1.9 kg
Lenovo Legion 5 15IRX10, i7-13650HX RTX 5060
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, Raptor Lake-HX i7-13650HX, 15.10", 1.9 kg
Monster Tulpar T7 V26.2.5
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, Raptor Lake-H i7-13620H, 17.30", 2.65 kg
Acer Nitro V14 AI ANV14-62
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, Strix / Gorgon Point Ryzen AI 7 350, 14.50", 1.7 kg
Asus TUF Gaming A14 FA401KM
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, Strix / Gorgon Point Ryzen AI 7 350, 14.00", 1.46 kg
Lenovo Legion 5 15AHP G10
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, Hawk Point (Zen 4/4c) R7 260, 15.10", 1.936 kg

Devices with Same Screen Size and/or Weight

MSI Vector A16 HX A8W
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Stefan Hinum, 2025-08- 4 (Update: 2025-08- 4)