MSI Katana 17 Series
Processor: Intel Alder Lake-P i5-12450H, Intel Alder Lake-P i7-12650H, Intel Raptor Lake-H i7-13620H, Intel Raptor Lake-HX i7-14650HXGraphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Laptop GPU, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop, NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU, NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU
Display: 17.30 inch
Weight: 2.6kg, 2.748kg, 2.759kg
Price: 1500, 1800, 2100 euro
Average of 5 scores (from 14 reviews)
MSI Katana 17 B13VFK
Specifications
Notebook: MSI Katana 17 B13VFKProcessor: Intel Raptor Lake-H i7-13620H
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU 8188 MB
Display: 17.30 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 2.759kg
Price: 2100 euro
Links: MSI homepage MSI notebook section
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Average Score:
Reviews
The high-end models of Nvidia's new laptop GPUs recently debuted and are now followed by the mid-range RTX 4060 - a card we were able to test in the MSI Katana 17 B13V.
Source: Laptop Media
Support, online available, Very Short, Date: 05/26/2023
Source: Laptop Media
Support, online available, Very Short, Date: 05/26/2023
Source: Geek Culture
A great pick for gaming, but not so much for everything else. The MSI Katana 17 shows great promise at becoming one of the sharpest blades on the market, but ultimately falls short of its potential with an underwhelming display performance.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 05/03/2023
Rating: Total score: 76% price: 70% performance: 70% workmanship: 85%
Source: Geek Culture
A great pick for gaming, but not so much for everything else. The MSI Katana 17 shows great promise at becoming one of the sharpest blades on the market, but ultimately falls short of its potential with an underwhelming display performance.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 05/03/2023
Rating: Total score: 76% price: 70% performance: 70% workmanship: 85%
Foreign Reviews
Source: PurePC
PL→ENPositive: Simple design; large screen; affordable price; good cooling system. Negative: No USB 4; without Thunderbolt 4 ports; lack of memory card slot; short battery life.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 03/30/2025
Source: PurePC
PL→ENPositive: Simple design; large screen; affordable price; good cooling system. Negative: No USB 4; without Thunderbolt 4 ports; lack of memory card slot; short battery life.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 03/30/2025
MSI Katana 17 B12VFK
Specifications
Notebook: MSI Katana 17 B12VFKProcessor: Intel Alder Lake-P i7-12650H
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU 6144 MB
Display: 17.30 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 2.6kg
Price: 1500 euro
Links: MSI homepage MSI notebook section
Price comparison
Reviews
Source: Laptop Media
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 09/13/2023
Source: Laptop Media
As a gaming notebook in 2023, the Katana 17 (B12V) is fairly competitively priced. It offers wide configuration options based on capable GPUs from NVIDIA’s RTX 4000 roster. It’s worth mentioning that its RTX 4060 didn’t manage to fill its 105W TGP limit, but it ran pretty close with 85W detected by GPU-Z during full load. For all performance-based tests, we used the Extreme Performance preset through the MSI Center. Interestingly, there is a function that allows the use of a battery-saving display mode, which runs the screen at 60Hz. As a result, the device offers 6 hours and 30 minutes of Web browsing, or 5 hours and 30 minutes of video playback – about 50% better than the MSI Sword 17 (A12V), which lacks this function. MSI Katana 17 (B12V)’s IPS panel has a Full HD resolution, comfortable viewing angles, and good contrast. Unfortunately, it covers only 51% of the sRGB color gamut, and has slow pixel response times, despite the 144Hz refresh rate. On the bright side, the panel doesn’t use PWM for brightness adjustment.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 05/26/2023
Source: Laptop Media
Support, online available, Very Short, Date: 05/26/2023
MSI Katana 17 B13VGK
Specifications
Notebook: MSI Katana 17 B13VGKProcessor: Intel Raptor Lake-H i7-13620H
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU 8192 MB
Display: 17.30 inch, 16:9, 2560 x 1440 pixels
Weight: 2.6kg
Links: MSI homepage MSI notebook section
Price comparison
Reviews
Source: Ben G Kaiser
In this video, I'm going to go through a complete review of the performance, screen, user experience, and best use case of the MSI Katana 17 B13V. This laptop is packed with performance and at currently (as of the recording of this video) priced at $1,299. For an RTX 4070, i7-13620H CPU, and 32GB of RAM that is an incredible price.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 11/20/2023
Foreign Reviews
Source: 3DNews.ru
RU→ENPositive: Powerful hardware; high gaming performance; big screen; good cooling system; nice display. Negative: Average battery life; no Thunderbolt port.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 09/28/2023
Source: Ixbt
RU→ENPositive: Great display; big screen; excellent battery life; nice gaming performance. Negative: Mediocre connectivity.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/04/2023
MSI Katana 17 B12UDXK
Specifications
Notebook: MSI Katana 17 B12UDXKProcessor: Intel Alder Lake-P i5-12450H
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Laptop GPU
Display: 17.30 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 2.6kg
Links: MSI homepage MSI notebook section
Price comparison
Average Score:
Foreign Reviews
Source: Android.com.pl
PL→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 06/28/2024
Rating: Total score: 70% performance: 80% display: 80% mobility: 60% workmanship: 70% ergonomy: 60%
MSI Katana 17 HX B14WGK
Specifications
Notebook: MSI Katana 17 HX B14WGKProcessor: Intel Raptor Lake-HX i7-14650HX
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop 8192 MB
Display: 17.30 inch, 16:9, 2560 x 1440 pixels
Weight: 2.748kg
Price: 1800 euro
Links: MSI homepage MSI notebook section
Price comparison
Reviews
Compared to other gaming series from MSI (for example, Vector & Titan), the Katana models are somewhat cheaper and slimmed-down We pitted a current version with Core i7-14650HX and GeForce RTX 5070 against the competition. Can the 17-incher hold its own?
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 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 3050 6GB Laptop GPU: Mid-range gaming laptop graphics card based on the Ampere GA107 chip. Offers 2560 shaders and is offered in different TGP (power consumption) variants from 35 to 80 Watt with different clock speeds and therefore performance. Refresh of the RTX 3050 with 6GB, higher shader count but a reduced memory bandwidth of 96Bit.
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 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 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 5070 Laptop: Fast mobile graphics card from the Blackwell family, which Team Green presented at CES 2025. The 5070 have 4608 CUDA cores with 8 GB GDDR7 VRAM.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Raptor Lake-H:
i7-13620H: Alder Lake based mobile CPU with 6 performance cores and 4 efficient cores. The performance cores offer hyper threading, leading to 16 threads that can be processed. The CPU clocks from 1.8 to 4.9 GHz and supports vPro.
Intel Alder Lake-P:
i7-12650H: Alder Lake based mobile CPU with 6 performance cores and 4 efficient cores. The performance cores offer hyper threading, leading to 16 threads that can be processed. The CPU clocks from 1.7 to 4.7 GHz and supports vPro.
i5-12450H: Alde Lake based mobile CPU with 4 performance cores and 4 efficient cores. The performance cores offer hyper threading, leading to 12 threads that can be processed. The CPU clocks from 1.5 to 4.4 GHz and supports vPro.
Intel Raptor Lake-HX:
i7-14650HX: High-end mobile hybrid processor based on the Raptor Lake architecture with 16 cores (8 performance and 8 efficiency cores) and 24 threads. Based on the Raptor Lake S 13700K chip.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
2.6 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.
2.759 kg:
76.28%: This rating is not earth-shattering. This rating must actually be seen as average, since there are about as many devices with worse ratings as better ones. A purchase recommendation can only be seen with a lot of goodwill, unless it is about websites that generally rate strictly.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
