MSI Vector 16 Series
Processor: Intel Arrow Lake Ultra 7 255HX, Intel Arrow Lake Ultra 9 275HX, Intel Raptor Lake-HX i9-13980HX, Intel Raptor Lake-HX i9-14900HXGraphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop, NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU
Display: 15.60 inch, 16.00 inch
Weight: 2.612kg, 2.657kg, 2.7kg
Price: 2000, 2150, 2550, 2700 euro
Average of 17 scores (from 32 reviews)
MSI Vector 16 HX A14V
Specifications
Notebook: MSI Vector 16 HX A14VProcessor: Intel Raptor Lake-HX i9-14900HX
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU 12288 MB
Display: 16.00 inch, 16:10, 2560 x 1600 pixels
Weight: 2.657kg
Price: 2700 euro
Links: MSI homepage MSI notebook section
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Average Score:
Reviews
Thin-and-light gaming laptops are nice and all, but they often shave off some GPU performance in order to reach a certain size and weight. The MSI Vector 16 HX is unabashedly big in order to preserve and improve graphics performance as much as possible.
Source: Ricks Tech
Support, online available, Medium, Date: 04/07/2025
Source: Ricks Tech
Support, online available, Medium, Date: 04/07/2025
Source: Laptop Mag
The MSI Vector 16 HX A14VHG exceeded my expectations, and while my jaw has come up from the floor, I’m still stunned by its best qualities, considering its relatively low price. Excluding a few quibbles, it spares no expense in providing an all-around phenomenal gaming laptop experience while staying under the $3,000 threshold. It boasts leading productivity scores, a powerful RTX 4080 GPU, a bright and colorful display, solid audio, decent battery life, and a clicky keyboard without costing a fortune. However, it’s not perfect, weighed down by overly noisy fans that will get annoying if you’re not wearing headphones, alongside a flimsy trackpad and SSD speed that fails to match competitors.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 06/07/2024
Rating: Total score: 90%
Source: Laptop Mag
The MSI Vector 16 HX A14VHG exceeded my expectations, and while my jaw has come up from the floor, I’m still stunned by its best qualities, considering its relatively low price. Excluding a few quibbles, it spares no expense in providing an all-around phenomenal gaming laptop experience while staying under the $3,000 threshold. It boasts leading productivity scores, a powerful RTX 4080 GPU, a bright and colorful display, solid audio, decent battery life, and a clicky keyboard without costing a fortune. However, it’s not perfect, weighed down by overly noisy fans that will get annoying if you’re not wearing headphones, alongside a flimsy trackpad and SSD speed that fails to match competitors.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 06/07/2024
Rating: Total score: 90%
MSI Vector 16 HX A13VHG
Specifications
Notebook: MSI Vector 16 HX A13VHGProcessor: Intel Raptor Lake-HX i9-13980HX
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU 12288 MB
Display: 15.60 inch, 16:10, 2560 x 1600 pixels
Weight: 2.7kg
Price: 2550 euro
Links: MSI homepage MSI notebook section
Price comparison
Average Score:
Reviews
Source: Creative Bloq
The MSI Vector 16 HX is a reliable gaming laptop with a more compact form factor compared to the more common 17 and 18-inch alternatives. The smaller screen benefits from a 16:10 aspect ratio, providing much-needed additional display height. The build quality is generally good but is let down by a plastic base construction instead of a metal chassis, which may disappoint most users considering the price. On the inside, there's not much to criticize. The Intel CPU and GeForce RTX™ 4080 GPU perform well for both gaming and work, especially in creative applications.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/25/2024
Rating: Total score: 70%
Source: Laptop Media
Compared to some bigger laptops, the MSI Vector 16 HX A13V can give them a run for their money. The device is bulky for a 16-inch machine. There is a reason for that – the high-end hardware that is well-cooled by the massive Cooler Boost 5 thermal system. The end result is great gaming performance thanks to the high CPU and GPU clocks during full loads. The 175W GPU TGP is tied with the “Extreme Performance” preset that will torture your ears with high noise levels. Still, in this mode, the Vector 16 HX isn’t as noisy as the MSI Vector GP78 HX (13V) or Acer Predator Helios 3D 15 SpatialLabs Edition (PH3D15-71). The “Balanced” preset is much more suitable for normal usage because the fans don’t spin that aggressively in this scenario but unfortunately, the GPU TGP is heavily reduced to just 120W.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 04/12/2024
Source: Laptop Media
Support, online available, Medium, Date: 04/12/2024
Foreign Reviews
Source: Geektopia
ES→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 01/22/2025
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Geektopia
ES→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 01/22/2025
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Profesional Review
ES→ENSingle Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 09/26/2024
Rating: Total score: 86% price: 88% performance: 90% display: 84% mobility: 75% workmanship: 87%
Source: Geeknetic
ES→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/17/2024
Rating: Total score: 92%
Source: Noticias 3D
ES→ENPositive: Powerful processor; high gaming performance; good cooling system; great speakers; comfortable keyboard; affordable price. Negative: Noisy under loads; heavy and bulky; poor display.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 04/29/2024
Source: El chapuzas Informatico
ES→ENPositive: Excellent gaming performance; powerful processor; great dedicated graphics card; big screen; nice display; very good connectivity; comfortable keyboard. Negative: Expensive; noisy under loads; average autonomy.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 04/03/2024
Source: Smart World
IT→ENSingle Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/02/2024
Rating: Total score: 78% price: 75% features: 80% display: 85% mobility: 55% workmanship: 50% ergonomy: 70%
Source: Quotidiano Hardware Upgrade
IT→ENPositive: High gaming performance; great mobility; good connectivity; premium design. Negative: Poor display; noisy under loads.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 05/16/2024
Source: Tweakers
NL→ENSingle Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 07/26/2024
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: ITHardware.pl
PL→ENSingle Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 04/12/2024
Rating: Total score: 85%
Source: Laptopmedia CN
zh-CN→ENPositive: Big screen; excellent gaming performance; great display; comfortable keyboard; powerful CPU and GPU; long battery life; nice speakers. Negative: Heavy and bulky.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 04/12/2024
Source: Eprice.com.hk
zh-TW→ENPositive: Decent processor; high gaming performance; affordable price. Negative: Plastic case.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 07/22/2024
MSI Vector 16 HX AI A2XWHG
Specifications
Notebook: MSI Vector 16 HX AI A2XWHGProcessor: Intel Arrow Lake Ultra 7 255HX
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop 12288 MB
Display: 16.00 inch, 16:10, 2560 x 1600 pixels
Weight: 2.612kg
Price: 2000 euro
Links: MSI homepage MSI notebook section
Price comparison
Average Score:
Reviews
With the Vector 16 HX AI, MSI delivers a compelling gaming notebook powered by cutting-edge Intel (Arrow Lake) and Nvidia (Blackwell) hardware. However, a closer look reveals a handful of minor imperfections beneath the surface.
Source: Hubwood
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 05/29/2025
Source: Hubwood
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 05/29/2025
Foreign Reviews
Source: HardwareLuxx
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 05/25/2025
Source: HardwareLuxx
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 05/25/2025
Source: Frandroid
FR→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 04/25/2025
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 90% display: 80% mobility: 60% workmanship: 80%
Source: Frandroid
FR→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 04/25/2025
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 90% display: 80% mobility: 60% workmanship: 80%
MSI Vector 16 HX AI A2XWIG
Specifications
Notebook: MSI Vector 16 HX AI A2XWIGProcessor: Intel Arrow Lake Ultra 9 275HX
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop 16384 MB
Display: 16.00 inch, 16:10, 2560 x 1600 pixels
Weight: 2.7kg
Links: MSI homepage MSI notebook section
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Average Score:
Foreign Reviews
Source: Chip.de
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/23/2025
Rating: Total score: 95% price: 85% performance: 99% features: 96% display: 96% mobility: 97% ergonomy: 81%
Source: PC Games
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Short, Date: 04/29/2025
Rating: Total score: 83%
Source: Quotidiano Hardware Upgrade
IT→ENPositive: Powerful hardware; high performance; great display; good cooling system; rich set of ports; premium design; comfortable keyboard; smart AI Functions; affordable price. Negative: Short battery life; noisy under loads; heavy and bulky; poor webcam; mediocre speakers; inflexible touchpad; relatively high price.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 05/05/2025
Source: Overclockers RU
RU→ENPositive: Powerful hardware; high performance; great connectivity; nice webcam; SD card reader; long battery life. Negative: Noisy under loads; heavy; average display.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 05/02/2025
MSI Vector 16 HX AI A2XWHG, Ultra 9 275HX
Specifications
Notebook: MSI Vector 16 HX AI A2XWHG, Ultra 9 275HXProcessor: Intel Arrow Lake Ultra 9 275HX
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop 12288 MB
Display: 16.00 inch, 16:10, 2560 x 1600 pixels
Weight: 2.7kg
Price: 2150 euro
Links: MSI homepage MSI notebook section
Price comparison
Average Score:
Reviews
Source: Laptop Media
The MSI Vector 16 HX AI A2XW presents itself as a formidable contender in the high-performance gaming laptop market. It combines a futuristic, robust design with next-generation hardware, aiming to deliver a top-tier experience for both hardcore gamers and demanding content creators. While it makes a few compromises, its core strengths in performance, display quality, and connectivity make it a very compelling package that successfully balances raw power with user-centric features.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/23/2025
Foreign Reviews
Source: Profesional Review
ES→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 05/16/2025
Rating: Total score: 86% price: 89% performance: 91% display: 84% mobility: 76% workmanship: 85%
Source: Noticias 3D
ES→ENPositive: Powerful hardware; high gaming performance; great cooling system; decent battery life; good connectivity; affordable price. Negative: Mediocre design; average display; heavy and bulky.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/11/2025
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.
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 4080 Laptop GPU: High-end graphics card for laptops based on the Ada Lovelace architecture. Offers 12 GB GDDR6 (192 Bit) and is configurable with a TGP of 60 - 150W (+ Dynamic Boost).
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop: An upcoming graphics card from the Blackwell family for laptops, which Team Green will most likely present at CES 2025. We assume that it will be based on GB205 chip, with 5,888 active unified shaders (CUDA cores).
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop: A fast graphics card from the Blackwell family for laptops that is based on the GB203 chip and uses 8,192 shaders and 16 GB GDDR7 graphics memory (256-bit graphics bus).
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Raptor Lake-HX:
i9-14900HX: High-end mobile hybrid processor based on the Raptor Lake architecture with 24 cores and 32 threads. Clocks at a maximum of 5.8 GHz (P cores).
i9-13980HX: Mobile CPU of the Raptor Lake series that offers 24 cores (8 performance, 16 efficiency cores) with a Boost core of up to 5.8 GHz for the P-cores. Similar to the Desktop i9-13900K but with reduced clock speeds and TDP.
Intel Arrow Lake:
Ultra 7 255HX: Mobile high-end CPU for gaming notebooks based on the Arrow Lake architecture. Offers 20 cores consisting of 8 fast performance cores with up to 5.2 GHz and 12 smaller efficiency cores with up to 4.5 GHz clock speed. The CPU has access to 30 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 Essentials.
Ultra 9 275HX: 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 5.4 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 Essentials.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
16.00:
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.
2.612 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.
2.7 kg:
83.94%: This rating is slightly above average, there are somewhat more devices with worse ratings. However, clear purchase recommendations look different.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
