MSI Vector A18 Series
Processor: AMD Dragon Range (Zen 4, Ryzen 7X4X/8X4X) R9 9955HXGraphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
Display: 18.00 inch
Weight: 3.512kg, 3.6kg
Price: 2700, 3200 euro
Average of 2 scores (from 3 reviews)
MSI Vector A18 HX A9W
Specifications
Notebook: MSI Vector A18 HX A9WProcessor: AMD Dragon Range (Zen 4, Ryzen 7X4X/8X4X) R9 9955HX
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop 12288 MB
Display: 18.00 inch, 16:10, 2560 x 1600 pixels
Weight: 3.512kg
Price: 3200 euro
Links: MSI homepage MSI notebook section
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Reviews
The Vector A18 HX is one of the first 18-inch gaming laptops to pair an AMD Zen 5 CPU with the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti. It balances efficiency with performance quite well considering the hefty size and huge 400 W AC adapter.
MSI Vector A18 HX A9WIG
Specifications
Notebook: MSI Vector A18 HX A9WIGProcessor: AMD Dragon Range (Zen 4, Ryzen 7X4X/8X4X) R9 9955HX
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop 16384 MB
Display: 18.00 inch, 16:10, 2560 x 1600 pixels
Weight: 3.6kg
Price: 2700 euro
Links: MSI homepage MSI notebook section
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Average Score:
Reviews
Source: Techradar
The MSI Vector A18 HX A9W easily stands among the first choices when buying a gaming laptop, with a powerful RTX 5080 mobile GPU acting as the driving force for high-quality gaming. At its native 2560x1600 resolution, it storms through the most demanding triple-A games like Cyberpunk 2077 without much effort.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 05/31/2025
Rating: Total score: 80%
Foreign Reviews
Source: PurePC
PL→ENPositive: Big screen; high performance; great built quality; rich set of ports; good ergonomics. Negative: Overheats while using; short battery life; somewhat high price.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 05/13/2025
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 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.
AMD Dragon Range (Zen 4, Ryzen 7X4X/8X4X):
R9 9955HX: High-end mobile 16-core processor with 32 threads and large 64 MB L3 cache. Very fast, especially for games. Uses the new Zen 5 architecture.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
3.512 kg:
A laptop with this weight is comparatively heavy and less designed for mobility than for use at the desk. Therefore, the devices tend to shine less with battery life than with a large screen and higher performance.
3.6 kg:
82.4%: 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.
