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MSI GF66 Series

MSI Katana GF66 11UC-809NLProcessor: Intel Alder Lake-S i7-12700H, Intel Tiger Lake i7-11800H
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Laptop GPU, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU
Display: 15.60 inch
Weight: 2.25kg, 2.27kg
Price: 1100 euro
Average Score: 80.15% - good
Average of 2 scores (from 5 reviews)
performance: 94%, features: 48%, display: 81%, mobility: 53%, workmanship: 72%, ergonomy: 78%, emissions: 76%

 

MSI Katana GF66 12UGS

Specifications

MSI Katana GF66 12UGSNotebook: MSI Katana GF66 12UGS
Processor: Intel Alder Lake-S i7-12700H
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU 8192 MB
Display: 15.60 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 2.27kg
Links: MSI homepage
 MSI notebook section

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Reviews

80.3% MSI Katana GF66 12UGS laptop review: The update to Alder Lake brings significantly more performance | Notebookcheck
This is exactly what the Katana GF66 offers. After the upgrade to Alder Lake, the Katana gaming laptops are even more powerful. However, to end up at a sales price of around 2000 Euros ($2142), MSI cuts some corners in many areas. With this, the gaming laptop looks better on paper than some of our measurements reveal.
[REVIEW] MSI Katana GF66 (12Ux) - Be careful!
Source: Laptop Media English
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 06/22/2022
[REVIEW] MSI Katana GF66 (12Ux) - Be careful!
Source: Laptop Media English
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 06/22/2022
MSI Katana GF66 (12Ux) - disassembly and upgrade options
Source: Laptop Media English
Support, online available, Very Short, Date: 06/13/2022
MSI Katana GF66 (12Ux) - disassembly and upgrade options
Source: Laptop Media English
Support, online available, Very Short, Date: 06/13/2022

 

MSI Katana GF66 11UC-809NL

Specifications

MSI Katana GF66 11UC-809NLNotebook: MSI Katana GF66 11UC-809NL
Processor: Intel Tiger Lake i7-11800H
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Laptop GPU 4096 MB
Display: 15.60 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 2.25kg
Price: 1100 euro
Links: MSI homepage
 MSI notebook section

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Average Score: 80% - good

Average of 1 scores (from 1 reviews)

 

Foreign Reviews

80% MSI GF66 Katana 11UC-809NL Review
Source: Tweakers Dutch NL→EN
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 10/16/2022
Rating: Total score: 80%

 

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.


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 3070 Ti Laptop GPU: High-End laptop graphics card based on the Ampere GA104 chip. Available in different versions with a TDP from 80 to 125 Watt and different maximum Boost clock speeds of 1035 - 1485 MHz.

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Laptop GPU: Mid-range gaming laptop graphics card based on the Ampere GA107 chip. Offers 2048 shaders and is offered in different TGP (power consumption) variants from 35 to 80 Watt with different clock speeds and therefore performance. Older variant with 4GB VRAM.

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


Intel Alder Lake-S:

i7-12700H: Alder Lake based mobile CPU with 6 performance cores and 8 efficient cores. The performance cores offer hyper threading, leading to 20 threads that can be processed. The CPU clocks from 1.7 to 4.7 GHz and supports vPro.

Intel Tiger Lake:

i7-11800H: Tiger Lake (H45 series) based high end octa-core SoC for gaming laptops and workstations. The eight CPU cores run at 2.3 GHz to 4.6 GHz. The integrated UHD Graphics GPU offers 32 EUs at up to 1.45 GHz. The chip is manufactured on the second-gen 10 nm Intel SuperFin process.

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


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


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80.15%: 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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Stefan Hinum, 2023-01-27 (Update: 2023-01-27)