MSI has unveiled a refreshed notebook lineup featuring the new quad-core Intel Broadwell mobile processors.
Broadwell launched as a dual-core only option, which resulted in some high-performance notebooks opting to stay with Haswell CPUs. With the introduction of quad-core versions of the new Broadwell chips for mobile, MSI has jumped on the bandwagon to offer a few different options. Of the 20 new notebooks offered by MSI, 18 of them are powered by Intel Core i7 chips.
Intel’s 5th Generation Core i7 processor powers 18 MSI laptop models, including the GT80 Titan SLI, GT72 Dominator, GS70 Stealth, GS60 Ghost, GE72 Apache, GE62 Apache, GP72 Leopard, GP62 Leopard, and the newly announced PX60 Prestige. Available immediately, all gaming notebook models come with an array of superior technologies, including Killer DoubleShot Pro for lag-less gaming, SteelSeries Gaming Keyboard for exceptional customization and feel, and more.
The flagship GT80 Titan SLI has these impressive specs, including an Intel Core i7-5950HQ processor:
GT80 Titan SLI
- Screen: 18.4” 1920×1080 WideView Non-Reflection
- CPU: Intel Core i7-5950HQ, 2.9 – 3.7 GHz
- Chipset: HM87
- Graphics: Dual GTX 980M SLI, 8GB GDDR5 VRAM each
- Memory: 24GB (8GB x3) DDR3L 1600MHz (4 SoDIMM slots, max 32GB)
- Storage: 256GB Super RAID (128GB M.2 SATA x2, RAID 0) + 1TB 7200 RPM HDD
- Optical: BD Burner
- LAN: Killer Gaming Network
- Wireless: Killer N1525 Combo (2×2 ac), BT 4.1
- Card Reader: SDXC
- Video Output: HDMI 1.4, mDP v1.2 x2
- MSRP: $3799.99
The GT80 Titan SLI gaming notebook
1920×1080 with this model seems low, especially considering the obscene amount of VRAM (8GB per card on a laptop? Really?). Still, this notebook has excellent external monitor support with dual mini-DisplayPort outputs, though HDMI is limited to version 1.4.
MSI has also introduced a refreshed GT72 Dominator with NVIDIA G-Sync (covered here), and this new version also features USB 3.1. And for the more business-minded there is the premium PX60 Prestige, now refreshed with Broadwell Core i7 as well.
These refreshed notebook models will be “available immediately” from MSI’s retail partners.
I’m not sure if this is a
I’m not sure if this is a mistake or not, but there is no link for “(covered here)”. 🙂
Mistake 🙂 Now fixed, thanks
Mistake 🙂 Now fixed, thanks
No problem! 🙂
No problem! 🙂
Where are the 6 core laptop
Where are the 6 core laptop SKUs, maybe when Zen gets here AMD will do a 6 core laptop SKU, and then I’ll have more cores/threads for ray tracing workloads. AMD’s HSA implementation should allow for more ray tracing functionality to be done on the GPU, provided the OpenCL ray tracing algorithms are included in the graphics software, are you listening Blender Foundation. HSA is definitely a good thing, if it can speed up ray tracing by accelerating some of the workload on the GPU, and AMD’s or Nvidia’s GPUs(integrated or discrete) have more execution resources compared to Intel’s graphics resources. AMD at least is not stripping out double precision resources(Like Nvidia is on their non pro GPUs) from its non professional/affordable GPUs, so AMD will still be usable for other non gaming workloads without breaking the bank.
This is most definitely a sponsored article, and that price is up there in the trust fund kid territory, as Nvidia based kit is always on the pricy side, with an Intel price cherry on top. With DX12 and Vulkan both able to make use of cores, all of the cores, its about time for some 6 core, 12 processor thread laptop SKUs, and it will probably take a AMD Zen laptop SKU with 6 cores/12 processor threads to shake those starched shirts at Intel into moving off their lard A$$e$! I’m looking forward to some Zen Based gaming laptops, and DX12’s multi-adaptor will just mean that a lot on gaming and non gaming laptops will be able to use all of the integrated/discrete GPUs on systems for graphics/gaming. Hopefully Khronos’ Vulkan API will get multi-adaptor capabilities for non windows based gaming/graphics.
Multi-adaptor should be part of the OS, and it should have been available years ago, about the time when GPUs were first introduced to personal computing!
“This is most definitely a
"This is most definitely a sponsored article"
I'm assuming that's a joke? We cover news from Computex. The specs and pricing (when available) are simply what is published by the manufacturer/vendor (i.e. public information).
Thanks for reading 🙂
Why would you cover actual
Why would you cover actual products from a terrible company like Intel? You *should* be validating my speculations that a year-out architecture will make this product irrelevant! Such blatant bias!