MSI Crosshair 17 Series

Processor: Intel Arrow Lake Ultra 7 255HX
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
Display: 17.00 inch
Weight: 2.8kg
price: 80%, performance: 85%, display: 85%, mobility: 95%, workmanship: 85%, ergonomy: 85%

 

MSI Crosshair 17 HX AI D2XWGKG

Specifications

Notebook: MSI Crosshair 17 HX AI D2XWGKG
Processor: Intel Arrow Lake Ultra 7 255HX
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop 8192 MB
Display: 17.00 inch, 16:10, 2560 x 1600 pixels
Weight: 2.8kg
Links: MSI homepage
 MSI notebook section

Price comparison

Average Score: 84% - good

 

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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.

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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.

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Intel Arrow Lake:

Ultra 7 255HX: Mobile high-end CPU for gaming notebooks based on the Arrow Lake architecture. Offers 20 cores consisting of 8 fast performance cores with up to 5.2 GHz and 12 smaller efficiency cores with up to 4.5 GHz clock speed. The CPU has access to 30 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.

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

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17.00: This display size is a standard format for desktop replacements (DTR). The DTR laptops are heavier to carry, need more power, but texts are easy to read and high resolutions are no problem. DTR are mainly intended for stationary desk use, where weight and energy hunger don't matter. In return, you enjoy the advantages of high resolutions (more details, better legibility).

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

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2.8 kg:

With this weight, a laptop is rather heavier than average. Devices in this range shine more with screen size and performance than with mobility.

2.8 kg:

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84%: This rating is slightly above average, there are somewhat more devices with worse ratings. However, clear purchase recommendations look different.

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

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