MSI’s 2025 gaming laptops have the latest from Nvidia, Intel, and AMD — plus lots of RGB

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Nvidia’s launch of its new RTX 50-series graphics cards is a big moment for a gaming-focused company like MSI. The PC component maker is refreshing most of its laptop line with new Nvidia GPUs, revised designs, and of course, plenty of AI branding fluff. It’s also offering more CPU options from AMD across its dizzying array of models and configurations. But while there’s a plethora of choices here for gamers, they’re best if you’re partial to jumbo-sized laptops, since many of them are big and heavy 18-inchers.

Here’s the rundown of what MSI is offering for its gaming laptops in 2025, starting from the top. (MSI hasn’t sent us finalized pricing and availability, but we’ll update this post once we have it.)

MSI Titan 18 HX AI Image: MSI Even in the standard-edition version, the MSI Titan is an over-the-top laptop.

Toward the top of MSI’s lineup is the new Titan 18 HX AI — the standard one, not the ridiculous Dragon Edition.

MSI’s halo gaming laptop sports an 18-inch Mini LED screen with a resolution of 3840 x 2400 (16:10) and 120Hz refresh. It only comes with an Intel CPU option — specifically, the new Core Ultra 9 275HX — where many other new MSI notebooks now offer AMD alternatives. For the standard-edition Titan’s GPU, you can pick from Nvidia’s new RTX 5080 or flagship 5090. It can be outfitted with up to 96GB of DDR5 RAM and both Gen5 and Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSD slots (the Gen5 slot even has extra cooling by way of a dedicated heat pipe for maximum performance).

The laptop weighs in at 7.94 pounds and has a 99.9Wh battery inside it, which is the largest capacity allowed on a plane. For ports, it’s got two Thunderbolt 5 / USB-C, three USB-A 3.2 Gen 2, HDMI 2.1, gigabit ethernet, and an SD card slot.

As the Titan is the capital-F flagship of MSI’s lineup, it’s once again got a sky-high starting price of around $5,000.

MSI Raider 18 HX AI

But you’ll notice some similar specs are present in cheaper MSI laptops, like the new Raider 18 HX.

The Raider has always been one of MSI’s most powerful laptops, with some of its showiest RGB lighting. For 2025, the Raider has a similar Mini LED screen, GPU options, RAM, ports, battery, and storage with dedicated SSD cooling as the Titan. It looks a bit like the Titan, too, but without the light-up touchpad and an added RGB strip on its front instead. Unlike the Titan, the Raider offers configurations with either the Intel Ultra 9 275HX or AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D.

MSI Vector A18 HX Image: MSI The new MSI Vector. This is what MSI considers a more low-key design for its gaming laptops.

If excessive RGB isn’t your thing, the MSI Vector line (in 18-inch, 17-inch, and 16-inch versions) offers a slightly more subtle gray styling with no colorful lights to speak of outside of its per-key RGB keyboards.

The Vector A18 has an 18-inch 2560 x 1600 (16:10) 240Hz IPS display, the choice of RTX 5070 Ti / 5080 GPUs, AMD CPU configurations, 99.9Wh battery, and a plethora of ports like its pricier counterparts (but with slower Thunderbolt 4 instead of Thunderbolt 5). The Vector 16 HX AI and Vector 17 HX AI models may have slightly smaller screens, but they still support 2560 x 1600 resolution and 240Hz. Each of them has new Intel Arrow Lake CPU options, but the 17-inch has more configurations that go up to the RTX 5090 GPU.

MSI Stealth 18 HX AI

While many of the above laptops are thick and heavy, the Stealth line is one of MSI’s most popular due to its slightly smaller and thinner size for those who don’t want to carry around a cinder block of a notebook.

For 2025, MSI offers the Stealth in 16-inch and 18-inch configurations with GPUs ranging from the RTX 5070 Ti to the 5090. The 18-inch model also offers a 4K 120Hz screen or QHD 240Hz model as well as either an Intel Ultra 9 275HX or AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. The 16-inch Stealth only comes with the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 .

MSI Cyborg A17 AI Image: MSI Seethrough tech? I am so here for it. Regrettable decisions made in tattoo parlors? Nahh, bro. Nahh.

But if you want something cheaper and funkier, MSI’s Cyborg is back again with yet another take on its partially seethrough design.

The Cyborg 14 and 15 have designs that look like last year’s models, with their innards only visible on the sides and bottom, but the Cyborg 17 has a new chassis with a smoked translucent top deck, allowing you to look directly into it from above. Unfortunately, it’s also uglier than ever thanks to its weird mix of Venom symbiote-style webbing / tribal tattoo line art / whatever that design is. It has CPU options up to the Intel Core Ultra 7 240H or AMD Ryzen 7 260 and RTX 50-series GPUs.

MSI Crosshair 18 HX AI and MSI Pulse

Lastly, MSI is also updating its economy-class Crosshair and Pulse series gaming laptops, which top out at configurations with just the Nvidia RTX 5070. MSI says the Crosshair will be its cheapest 18-inch laptop.

With the jump to RTX 50-series GPUs, MSI is taking its usual shotgun approach and trying to hit all facets of gamers who prioritize specs. It’s also riding the AI train hard. In addition to adding “AI” to the name of most everything, even its latest Claw handheld, MSI’s laptops will ship with a new chatbot dedicated to controlling your computer. Considering some Windows settings are buried in legacy menu structures that still look like they’re from the XP era, the thought of asking your computer to adjust those settings for you sounds a teeny-tiny bit appealing. But I haven’t had a chance to test it yet, and I fear it won’t work as it should — because, let’s be honest, Windows gonna Windows.

If you didn’t like MSI’s giant spec-heavy laptops before, there’s a good chance its new offerings may not move the needle for you. But if Nvidia’s new GPUs are all they’re cracked up to be, perhaps MSI can impress with raw performance per dollar.