MSI Prestige A16 AI+ A3HMG-036
Specifications
Primary Camera: 0.9 MPix
Price comparison
Average of 4 scores (from 6 reviews)
Reviews for the MSI Prestige A16 AI+ A3HMG-036
Last year, MSI introduced the Prestige 16 laptop featuring the Core Ultra 155H processor. Now, an AMD-powered A16 variant has arrived, equipped with a Ryzen 9 processor and an NPU (Copilot+), priced at €1,599. This new model makes a significant leap forward in performance. However, the AMD version isn't without its trade-offs compared to its Intel counterpart. Here's a closer look!
Source: It Pro
For its price, the Prestige A16 AI+ represents very good value, delivering a well-made package with impressive performance, long battery life, a comprehensive keyboard and a bright, colourful IPS display. Given that MSI seems to have been so careful to tick all the boxes that a demanding business user wants to see ticked, it's surprising that it didn't feel the need to fit a second SSD mount or to install a rather better sound system. Of course, unless you plan on storing masses of data on your laptop or using it to listen to Wagner, both those failings may pass you by unmarked.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/26/2025
Rating: Total score: 90%
Source: Laptop Mag
The MSI Prestige A16 AI+ boasts strong overall performance, a great display, and a solid keyboard, but it falls short of perfection due to a relatively bulky design and mediocre battery life. Those flaws won't be deal breakers for every business user, but there's tough competition in this price range. However, when it comes to basic work-related tasks, the MSI Prestige A16 AI+ has a few things going for it. The built-in webcam is surprisingly good, perfect for anyone who frequently attends video meetings. The full-size keyboard is also a major plus, great for anyone who does data entry. Lastly, the sharp, vivid 16-inch display not only looks pretty but offers space for multiple windows and gets bright enough for viewing in brightly lit office spaces.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 02/13/2025
Rating: Total score: 80%
Foreign Reviews
Source: Tweakers
NL→ENSingle Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 06/24/2025
Rating: Total score: 100%
Source: Phong Vu
VN→ENPositive: Nice performance; great display; powerful processor. Negative: Mediocre touchpad; average speakers; short battery life.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 02/04/2025
Source: Cell Phones
VN→ENPositive: Great OLED 4K display; powerful hardware; high performance; premium design; rich set of ports; nice touchpad. Negative: Mediocre keyboard; average battery life.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 11/24/2024
Source: HKEPC
zh-TW→ENPositive: Good CPU; decent performance; smart AI Features; big screen; nice display; premium design; metal case. Negative: Non-expandable RAM; weak GPU; heavy.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 04/25/2025
Comment
AMD Radeon 880M: A fairly powerful RDNA 3.5 architecture iGPU that debuted in June 2024 and a direct successor to the Radeon 780M. Its 12 CUs/WGPs (768 unified shaders) run at up to 2,900 MHz. DX12 Ultimate, ray tracing, AI image generation and other modern features are all supported here, as are many popular video codecs including first and foremost AVC, HEVC, VP9 and AV1. Its gaming performance is good enough for playing 2024 games such as Once Human and The First Descendant at 1080p on low graphics settings.
Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Ryzen AI 9 365: A relatively powerful Strix Point family processor that debuted in June 2024. The chip features 10 CPU cores running at 2.0 GHz to 5.0 GHz, along with the 12 CU RDNA 3.5 Radeon 880M graphics adapter and the 50 TOPS XDNA 2 neural engine. Other key features include PCIe 4, USB 4 and LPDDR5x-7500 RAM support. Of the 10 CPU cores, 4 are full Zen 5 cores with the other 6 being smaller Zen 5c cores.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
16.00":
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.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.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.
87.98%: This is an above-average rating. Nevertheless, it should not be forgotten that about one fifth of all tested models receive a better rating.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
