MSI Stealth A16 Series

MSI Stealth A16 AI+ A3XVGG

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Average Score: 70% - average

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I replaced my desktop with this MSI laptop for a week, and it surpassed my expectations
Source: Zdnet.com
The MSI Stealth A16 AI Plus is sold exclusively at Best Buy for $2,000 MSRP. However, at the time of this writing, the model has been discounted to $1,700. I recommend picking up the laptop at that price, especially as a desktop replacement. With the right laptop docking station, you can connect to a pair of external displays to enjoy everything it offers, although its 16-inch WQXGA (2,560 x 1,600 pixel) display is still quite nice.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 11/21/2024

70% MSI Stealth A16 AI+ review: AI won’t help make this anything other than mediocre
Source: Laptop Mag
I can’t say I’m a big fan of the MSI Stealth A16 AI+. Yes, it offers a comfortable keyboard and touchpad experience. I even like that it supports long gaming battery life, all packed into a svelte chassis. However, it falls short on performance and with its display. Both are respectable, but they can’t justify the Stealth’s $2K price. For the same price, you can buy the Lenovo Legion 7i Gen 9, which supports a brighter and more colorful display, a faster SSD, and much stronger overall performance. Overall, the MSI Stealth A16 AI+ is a decent gaming laptop, but it’s one that you should wait to get on a severe discount ($500 at minimum).
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 11/08/2024
Rating: Total score: 70%

80% MSI Stealth A16 AI+ review: A jack-of-all-trades
Source: PC World
The MSI Stealth A16 AI+ is a well-rounded laptop that’s best for people who need one machine capable of handling many tasks. It’s quick enough to handle demanding content creation, has a GPU that can play modern games at respectable resolutions and detail settings (and accelerate some productivity tasks), and has battery life long enough to make the laptop a good travel companion. This isn’t the best laptop for any single job. Some alternatives have better battery life, stronger performance, or a superior display. But if you need a laptop that can handle a bit of everything, the Stealth A16 AI+ fits the bill. And, speaking of bills, it’s not especially expensive; the base MSRP of $1999.99 compares well to more luxurious alternatives like the Dell XPS 16, Asus ProArt P16, and Razer Blade 16.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 10/29/2024
Rating: Total score: 80%

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60% Was kann man von einem Laptop für 3.000 Euro erwarten?
Source: Gamestar DE→EN
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 01/20/2025
Rating: Total score: 60%

MSI Stealth A16 AI+ A3XVGG, HX 370

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Average Score: 90% - very good

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MSI Stealth A16 AI+ | Beefy 16-Inch AMD Ryzen AI 300 Gaming Laptop
Source: Tech Spurt
This sizeable yet slender notebook runs the AMD Ryzen™ AI 9 HX 370 AI chipset, based on AMD’s XDNA 2 architecture with a heavy emphasis on AI. That dedicated built-in NPU can handle 50 Trillion Ops Per Second, five times the TOPS vs the first generation XDNA NPU. So the MSI Stealth A16 is one clever girl. One of the main benefits is the AI mode of the MSI Centre. This auto control ensures you get the best balance between crotch-thrustingly awesome power for your gaming shenanigans, and more efficient running when you’re simply playing with office apps. So the MSI Stealth A16+ will deliver when you're getting stuck into the latest PC titles, and drain little battery when you're simply web browsing etc.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 12/30/2024

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90% TEST MSI Stealth A16: AI, gaming, praca biurowa? Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 + RTX 4070 105 TGP
Source: Video testy PL→EN
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 03/07/2025
Rating: Total score: 90%

Thưởng Tết 70 triệu, designer "all in" mua laptop gaming MỎNG NHẸ và cái kết không ngờ!
Source: Cell Phones VN→EN
Positive: Premium design; slim size; light weight; great ergonomics; good cooling system; beautiful mini LED display. Negative: Average gaming performance; noisy under loads; short battery life.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 01/21/2025

MSI Stealth A16 5060 Engineering Sample

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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.

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 5060 Laptop: An upcoming Blackwell family graphics card for laptops that Team Green is very likely to unveil during CES 2025. Considering the 4060 Laptop has 3,072 unified shaders (CUDA cores) at its disposal, the 5060 will most most likely sport over 4,000 shaders.

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

AMD Radeon 890M: The most powerful AMD iGPU as of mid 2024. It features 16 RDNA 3.5 architecture CUs (1024 unified shaders) running at up to 2,900 MHz. On average, the 890M finds itself very close to the GTX 1650 Laptop making it possible to play 2024 AAA games at 1080p with most settings set to Low.

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

AMD Strix Halo/Point (Zen 5/5c, Ryzen AI 300):

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.

Ryzen AI 9 HX 370: A powerful Strix Point family processor that debuted in June 2024. The Ryzen AI 9 series APU comes with 12 CPU cores, the 16 CU RDNA 3+ Radeon 890M graphics adapter and the 50 TOPS XDNA 2 neural engine. There is still no PCIe 5 support here and 8 of the CPU cores are slower than the other 4.

AMD :

Ryzen AI 7 350: A relatively powerful Krackan Point family processor that was introduced in early 2025. The APU integrates 8 CPU cores (4 Zen 5 cores with up to 5 GHz and 4 Zen 5c cores with up to 3.5 GHz).

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

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This range for display formats was and is a rarity. It is larger than the general standard of 15 inches, but not yet in the range of large workstations. One usually has higher screen resolutions available, but portability suffers from that.

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

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75%: 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.

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