MSI Titan 18 HX AI A2XWJG
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Primary Camera: 2.1 MPix
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Average of 13 scores (from 26 reviews)
Reviews for the MSI Titan 18 HX AI A2XWJG
The Titan 18 HX AI leaves no stone unturned in its quest for mobile gaming dominance with its elite-tier Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX, Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU, and 4K 120 Hz mini-LED display. While the Titan 18 HX AI serves as a halo product that showcases the best of Intel and Nvidia, there are a few striking compromises that question its prohibitive $6,600 asking price.
Source: Ultrabook Review

The 2025 MSI Titan 18 HX still delivers excellent performance in a premium 18-inch notebook package. It is, however, a hardware refresh of the exiting Titan 18 chassis, and that means it gets a handful of quirks and particularities that you must embrace, with the mini LED display and the mechanical keyboard and the haptic touchpad. It also runs toasty at higher settings at chassis level, and actually excels on a Silent mode that you can only get with older control software right now. But are you going to drop 4-5K on this and use it on Silent mode?
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 08/22/2025
Rating: Total score: 85%
Source: Laptop Media

Support, online available, Very Long, Date: 07/28/2025
Source: Laptop Media

The MSI Titan 18 HX A2XW is not so much a laptop as it is a statement. It is an unapologetic, flagship desktop replacement that throws subtlety to the wind in a relentless pursuit of power, features, and sheer presence. This is a machine for the enthusiast who wants everything – the best CPU, a top-tier GPU, an incredible keyboard, and storage options that defy logic…and is willing to accept the significant trade-offs in portability and battery life that come with it. MSI has engineered a true monolith of mobile computing here. It is an awe-inspiring, deeply impressive, and equally flawed machine that represents the absolute peak of what is currently possible in a portable (in the loosest sense of the word) form factor.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 07/28/2025
Source: Techradar

The MSI Titan 18 HX AI A2XWJG isn't your typical gaming laptop. Rather than focusing on portability and good-enough performance, the Titan brings serious power to the table - where it'll stay most of the time. It's not without faults, like loud fans and a touchy trackpad, but when you consider the capabilities of an RTX 5090 paired with a gorgeous 4K display, the MSI Titan 18 HX is easy to recommend as a desktop replacement if you have the scratch.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/17/2025
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 50% performance: 100% mobility: 60% workmanship: 80%
Source: Ben G Kaiser

Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 07/09/2025
Source: Pokde

While this exact unit Intel sent us is a US-specific model (A2XWJG-614US) with the $5799.99 price tag, Malaysia markets similarly has a model (A2XWJG-471MY) that shares identical specs and costs RM29,999 apiece. This is the kind of price bracket where “money-no-object” is somewhat justified, but even then the MSI Titan 18 HX AI comes with lots of flaws – despite its performance prowess – that prevents it from being a proper halo product.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/26/2025
Rating: Total score: 74% price: 70% performance: 90% mobility: 60% workmanship: 80%
Source: IGN

While it's not for everyone and is certainly eye-wateringly expensive, the MSI Titan 18 HX AI is an impressive laptop that’s clearly out for more than just gaming. It's not perfect, but the sum of its parts – including its powerful combination of CPU, GPU, expansive memory and storage, and great mechanical keyboard – make it the desktop replacement to beat if you fit its niche.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/18/2025
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: CG Mag Online

The MSI Titan 18 HX AI is the muscle car of gaming laptops, designed for the hardcore gamer. While its price point will be a barrier to many, for those looking for the ultimate 4K portable gaming experience, the Titan 18 is king.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 06/11/2025
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Ben G Kaiser

Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/10/2025
Source: Mobile Tech Review

The MSI Titan 18 HX is one of the most powerful gaming laptops on the planet for 2025. It’s an 18” 4K mini LED desktop replacement PC with 175 watt NVIDIA RTX 5090 graphics and Intel’s significantly improved Arrow Lake HX Core Ultra 9 285HX. The laptop has a Cherry MX low profile mechanical keyboard, haptic backlit trackpad, Windows Hello camera, up to 96GB DDR5 RAM and it has 4 SSD slots. It’s also monumentally expensive. Given the high res wide gamut display, performance and ample storage it also appeals to creatives doing video editing, 3D modelling and more.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 05/24/2025
Source: Unbox

The MSI Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Norse Myth is a beast of a laptop, boasting immense processing power, lightning-fast RAM, blazing storage speeds, and a premium design that makes it one of the most formidable gaming laptops on the market. But is it worth its steep Php 421,995 price tag (promo price)? Likely not for most, as savvy PC gamers could build a more powerful desktop for less. However, practicality isn’t the point—this laptop is crafted for those who demand the absolute pinnacle of gaming laptops, regardless of cost.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/20/2025
Source: Tom's Guide

The epitome of excess, and the image you’d find on the Wikipedia page for the saying “more money than sense.” This is a beasty gaming laptop with a monstrous price tag that makes it good on paper, but not something I’d tell anyone to go out and buy. If 5090 is your thing, the Strix Scar 18 is better value for money (nearly $2,000 less) without compromising anymore than a few frames per second. But you could legitimately get away with RTX 5080 and 5070 systems, save yourself a ton of money and still get shockingly good frame rates with all that AI trickery. Don’t get me wrong. The MSI Titan 18 HX is not exactly taking your money and setting it on fire. It is a mightily powerful system, but definitely not the smartest purchase — certainly not the best gaming laptop you can buy.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/19/2025
Rating: Total score: 60%
Source: Ben G Kaiser

Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 05/19/2025
Source: Kitguru

The core specs are impressive – the combination of an Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX, Nvidia RTX 5090 mobile, 64GB of DDR5 memory running at 6400MT/s and a whopping 6TB of Raid 0 configured SSD storage combine to deliver truly top tier mobile performance. The design is eye-catching and the machine definitely has the ‘wow factor' – The seamless, haptic trackpad and fully mechanical keyboard are exceptional and the best I've seen in any gaming laptop. There are some downsides though – the obvious one being the price – but if portability is high on your priority list then the 18″, 3.6KG behemoth of a laptop that is the Titan 18 HX AI may not be for you. What's more, the laptop does suffer from slight thermal throttling when running in its highest performance mode, but not to the level we've seen in previous high end, Intel based gaming laptops.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/17/2025
Rating: Total score: 90%
Source: Gizmodo

Let’s get one thing out of the way before we start this review. MSI’s Titan 18 HX is a hulking, powerful, and all-around excessive gaming laptop, starting at $5,279 for its lowest configuration. It demands much more from your wallet if you want the best possible specs. It’s also a similar price to what you would pay for a full-sized, pre-built desktop with all the fixings. The Titan 18 HX is an ultra-expensive desktop replacement, and when I say that, I mean it in the whole sense of what that term implies—it’s so massive in size and cost, and yet it is the closest you’ll get to having a desktop tower you can schlep from room to room.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/05/2025
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Matthew Moniz

Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 04/26/2025
Foreign Reviews
Source: HardwareLuxx

Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 05/17/2025
Source: Profesional Review

Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 05/09/2025
Rating: Total score: 90% price: 75% performance: 99% display: 99% mobility: 74% workmanship: 90%
Source: Noticias 3D

Positive: Powerful hardware; high gaming performance; premium design; solid workmanship; metal case; beautiful display; great connectivity. Negative: Non-expandable RAM; noisy under loads; overheats while using.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 07/09/2025
Source: Frandroid

Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/08/2025
Rating: Total score: 90% performance: 90% display: 90% mobility: 50% workmanship: 90%
Source: Cowcotland

Positive: High performance; nice panel calibration; powerful processor; great dedicated graphics card. Negative: Overheats while using; noisy under loads; short battery life; high price.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/11/2025
Source: Android.com.pl

Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/10/2025
Rating: Total score: 81% performance: 100% display: 90% mobility: 60% workmanship: 80% ergonomy: 90%
Source: Ixbt

Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/08/2025
Source: ITC UA

Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 05/05/2025
Rating: Total score: 95% price: 80% performance: 100% display: 95% mobility: 90% workmanship: 95% ergonomy: 95%
Source: Laptopmedia CN

Positive: Premium design; metal case; high performance; comfortable keyboard; powerful CPU; Thunderbolt 5 port. Negative: Short battery life; average display; weak GPU.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 07/28/2025
Source: HKEPC

Positive: Excellent gaming performance; powerful hardware; very large RAM & storage; beautiful display; good cooling system; premium design; solid workmanship; metal case. Negative: Expensive; heavy and bulky; short battery life.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 05/06/2025
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop: The GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile uses the GB203 chip and utilizes 10,496 shaders / CUDA cores of the maximum 10,752 that the chip has. This makes the RTX 5090 Laptop more similar to the RTX 5080 desktop variant (same chip) than the Desktop RTX 5090 with 20,760 cores and higher clock rates.
These graphics cards are able to play the latest and most demanding games in high resolutions and full detail settings with enabled Anti-Aliasing.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Ultra 9 285HX: Mobile high-end CPU for gaming notebooks based on the Arrow Lake architecture. Offers 24 cores consisting of 8 fast performance cores with up to 5.5 GHz and 16 smaller efficiency cores with up to 4.6 GHz clock speed. The CPU can access 40 MB L2 cache and 36 MB L3 cache and is specified with a TDP of 55 watts. The SoC integrates a small dedicated NPU called AI Boost with 13 TOPS (Int8) and optionally supports vPro Enterprise.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.