Review of Crosshaira MSI 16 HX AI (2025)

After the trends of hitting the AI ​​marker on everything, the latest MSI add -ons to the Crosshair laptop family emphasize the fifth generation Blackwell GPU Nvidia. This is a testimony of how proud laptop manufacturers are to host one of the most expert game technology. Regardless of whether Crosshair MSI 16 HX AI will cope with the recalculated strength of the RTX 50 series without all magic of rock height, we will soon reach. Let’s talk about aesthetics first.

There is something in the updated project of the Crosshair HX MSI series, which makes me want to pinch its diminutive cheeks. This lightweight 16-inch in 16:10 in the shape of 16:10 has cut rounded corners with faint, cyberpunk design on the chassis. It gives fun, practical and a bit noise. The cut of the letter on the keys is a bit exaggerated, and the WASD keys also contain a translucent mountain that makes them illegible with RGB on, but you are expected that you will know what these keys with this LapPy are for.

The rest of the details are subtle enough so that this game beast can also mask among the average work machine. It is a type of laptop on which you can record in the classroom and then show your attitude of the k/d during lunch. Like backward colonen, Crosshair HX MSI appears very party at the front, business at the back. That is, until you look at rendering comparative tests. Then it’s all business.

As an ex game student, I would like Intel to invent even Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX in 2018. It would save me a lot of time to render gears … AND He was portable. Thanks to the multi -trad Cinebench sampling indicators, matching 3600 GBP/3500 USD Lenovo Legion 7i Pro Gen10, Crosshair MSI 16 HX and it really does not break down when it comes to efficiency. All synthetic comparative tests say that thermals seem to stop him a bit against other Ultra 9 275HX core machines. I saw the processor temperature of 100 degrees Celsius, which, at the same time causing a slight drop in performance, is enough to make a cheaper, but similarly specific predator Acer Helios Neo 16 AI-Z its RTX 5070 ti-eats more tempting.

GPU temperatures do not look too bad and are supported by several raw numbers throughout the bell to the PC Gamer comparative test. He overcomes the much more exorbitant Razer Blade 14 RTX 5070 model, partly thanks to its size, although it is a bit slower against others in the weight class.

Fighting on the slightly generation of NVIDIA frames, Crosshair HX AI is saved from the shocking number of frames per second in Cyberpunk 2077, especially in a native resolution of 2560 x 1600, but everything that goodness AI manages to drag her on an equal footing with ASUS ROG ROG Zephyrus G14 120 in RTX 5070 Ti. And it is without The magic of withdrawing it. It is a machine that shines when it can be based on this wicked processor, for example in games such as Metro Exodus, which are slightly more intense. Go a little easier by reducing the resolution to 1080p, and we begin to see what is really intended: Gaming Low Res with the height enabled.

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This and, as the name suggests, generating AI image. By covering laptops costing more than a thousand dubloones more, this diminutive beast is faster and ran more in the face of our preferred stable diffusion reference than many people in the weight class, although in particular it does not overcome the compact blade 14, which can think about a diminutive amount of memory.

Probably PCIe 4.0 NVME SSD MSI pops under the hood, it is a bit slower compared to similar laptops, which instead operate PCIe 5.0, but it is not indigent and there is a spare socket M.2 to add PCIe 5.0 drive if you feel the need. As for external ports, everything is very to zero, with the Thunderbolt 4 port accompanying three quick USB 3.2 Type-C ports, there are more than enough for most people without docks. And although this machine would have difficulty playing games at 4K/60 Hz, there is a displayport that allows you to watch a movie between rounds.

When it comes to gaming laptops, Crosshair MSI 16 HX AI is close to striving for other laptops in the current GPU, but on the market there are much better machines for the game today. If you are not worried about the life of the battery, it is possible to get several other frames per second and slightly less thermal choking of cheaper with RTX 5070 Ti predator also Helios Neo 16 AI.

Of course, it all depends on your priorities. Apart from the 1440p+ game, its maneuvering size and battery life of over an hour and a half make Crosshair MSI 16 HX AI a highly portable machine with justified frame generation technology and generate artificial intelligence.