MSI Katana GF66 11UD-092

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66% MSI Katana GF66 Review – Slick Budget Gaming Laptop Tested
Source: Hitech Century
For the price of entry, the MSI Katana GF66 gaming laptop gives you access to a high-refresh rate display, a relatively beefy 11th Gen Intel Tiger Lake CPU and an NVIDIA RTX 3050 Ti graphics card to tackle current gen-gaming. As it stands, it’s a fairly decent budget gaming laptop without significant drawbacks that would affect its intended role bar the need for additional RAM out of the box and is well worth a look.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 02/13/2022
Rating: Total score: 66% price: 70% performance: 70% display: 70% mobility: 50% workmanship: 70%

Review – MSI Katana GF66 11UD (i7-11800H | RTX 3050 Ti (60W Max) | 1x8GB DDR4-3200 | 512GB NVMe SSD | 15.6″ 1080p 144Hz)
Source: Tech Critter
At this point, you might think this is a negative review. IT IS NOT. I must clarify that MSI has done nothing wrong with the decision to go with RTX 3050 Ti and RTX 3050 for the GF66 series. The laptop itself is well built and the overall user experience has been positive without any hiccups. It is just how the industry moves forward with the latest selection of chip. PCMark10 clearly shows the pairing of 11th Gen Intel and RTX 30 series card is still beneficial to the overall user experience. I just wanted to point out that NVIDIA’s promise for ray tracing experience might cause disappointment when customers thought their entry-range RTX card can produce magical results. Generally, I think the RT cores in the RTX 3050 Ti is only useful in less demanding titles or if the user is trying out ray tracing in their own software or games development.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 09/16/2021

80% MSI Katana GF66 review: great gaming performance on a budget
Source: T3
The MSI Katana GF66 has an 11th-gen i7 Intel CPU and an Nvidia RTX 3050 Ti under the hood, and yet won't cost you much money at all – and that makes it an appealing package overall, even if there are some compromises make to keep it as affordable as possible.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 08/12/2021
Rating: Total score: 80%

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU: Mid-range gaming laptop graphics card based on the Ampere GA107 chip.

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

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

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.

15.60":

15-inch display variants are the standard and are used for more than half of all laptops.

The reason for the popularity of mid-sized displays is that this size is reasonably easy on the eyes, often allows high resolutions and thus offers rich details on the screen, yet does not consume too much power and the devices can still be reasonably compact - simply the standard compromise.

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.

73%: 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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