The Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Norse Myth has been the star of the update to the laptop catalog that MSI has presented at CES 2025. A great renovation that includes new features throughout its portfolio, especially those for games, but also those for more general use and professionals.
MSI is, along with ASUS, the manufacturer that sells the most gaming laptops. And few may be surprised seeing the display of both at CES. For the update, the company has combined the new NVIDIA graphics cards, the GeForce RTX 50 series, with the Intel Core Ultra Series 2, AMD Ryzen 9000 series or AMD Ryzen AI 300 series processors.
A wide offer As Eric Kuo, executive vice president of the company, highlighted: “We are excited to announce a diverse range of revolutionary new MSI laptops for our end users, ensuring their needs are met, whether they are looking for exceptional performance or AI-powered features… With our latest line-up, we continue to redefine innovations, ensuring there is always an MSI laptop ready to power your journey».
AI, Cooling and SSD
In addition to the latest generations of processing and graphics from the main players in the sector, MSI has highlighted the new overall cooling design and the particular one designed for Gen5 SSDs that you already know get hot (a lot) especially in laptops. MSI claims that this SSD cooling system reduces the maximum temperature of the units by up to 10 °C. This ensures stable performance, sustained high speeds, and reliable data transfer, even under heavy workloads.
To further increase storage performance, MSI has released a Super RAID 5, which combined SSD Gen 5 and Gen 4 for a truly impressive read speed of up to 18,000 Mbytes per second, ensuring smooth data access and ultra-fast loading times for the most demanding applications.
MSI has also announced its latest innovation for the artificial intelligence section. Is called Robot AI u has been developed in collaboration with NVIDIA. This cutting-edge AI assistant integrates a small, locally deployed language model directly into the system. With AI Robot, users can control their laptops through natural language commands, even without an Internet connection, providing a more intuitive way to configure and manage computers
Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Norse Myth
Spectacular model that leads MSI’s new laptops for CES 2025. It is a limited edition, inspired by the resistance of Norse mythology, with a surprising design with hand-drawn dragon motifs and Nordic runes. The 3D dragon and dragon ring on the palm rest are hand-drawn, combining elements of Norse myth such as the nine kingdoms and rune symbols to achieve “a sophisticated metallic shine, refined texture and a flawless vintage-inspired finish”, as the manufacturer highlights in the presentation.
Of course, the Titan 18 HX combines artistry with cutting-edge performance. And the portable has a spectacular screen 18 inch IPS-MiniLED with native resolution UHD+ (3840 x 2400 pixels) and certified with VESA DisplayHDR 1000. The display covers 100% of the DCI-P3 color gamut and has a 120Hz refresh rate.
Its processor is a powerful Core Ultra 9 275HXwhile for the graphic section it offers up to GeForce RTX 5090the most powerful graphics card that can be mounted on a laptop today. The RAM section is not far behind and can be equipped with up to 96 GB of DDR5 memory. Finally, for storage, it has the aforementioned Super RAID 5 with four SSDs installed, one of them connected to PCIe Gen5.
Connectivity is cutting edgewith support for Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4, Gigabit Ethernet 2.5 GbE and Thunderbolt 5 and USB ports. Its audio system designed by Dynaudio is powered by six speakers and its keyboard is a mechanical Cherry with RGB backlighting system. It has a webcam with IR sensor for security tasks and a 100 Whr lithium-polymer battery. This special Titan 18 HX version that pre-installs Windows 11 Pro or Home is undoubtedly impressive.
MSI Raider
Another of the updated series, also intended for games and for the occasion is marketed in two models depending on the processing platform that the user prefers, Intel or AMD.
The model with Intel, Raider 18 HXhas a configuration very similar to that of the Titan 18 HX, but without its external artistic design. It has the spectacular 18-inch IPS-MiniLED screen with native UHD+ resolution and – except for a few less SSDs – its same internal hardware, including the Core Ultra 9 275HX CPU, up to the GeForce RTX 5090 for the graphics section and the 96 GB of memory stop.
The version with AMD is the Raider A18 HX. It has the same screen as the Intel version, its graphics card (always from NVIDIA), its memory capacity, storage and connectivity (except for the Thunderbolt ports that are only included in Intel platforms) with the change to a powerful Ryzen 9 processor Latest generation 9955HX3D.
MSI Vector
A small step below in performance, but always maintaining a high level, we find another of the updated lines, here with more options than the previous ones, since the manufacturer offers versions with screen sizes of 16, 17 and 18 inches. In summary:
Vector A18 HX. It has an 18-inch IPS screen with QHD+ resolution and a refresh rate of up to 240 Hz. Its CPU reaches up to a Ryzen 9 9955HX, while the GPU options can reach the RTX 5080. With up to 96 GB of RAM, double SSD and cutting-edge connectivity, it is another tremendous portable from the MSI catalog.
Vector 17 HX. It has a 17-inch IPS screen with QHD+ resolution and a refresh rate of up to 240 Hz. Its CPU is a Core Ultra 9 275HX and the GPU reaches its maximum with the RTX 5090. It can also equip up to 96 GB of RAM, it has double SSD and great connectivity, including Thunderbolt 5.
Vector 16 HX. 16-inch IPS screen with QHD+ resolution and refresh rate of up to 240 Hz. CPU options include the Core Ultra 9 275HX or Core Ultra 7 255HX. Memory, storage and connectivity is the same as the 17-inch model.
MSI Stealth
More series, similar to Raider, but with greater screen size and hardware platform options. Namely:
Stealth 18 HX. You can mount the spectacular 18-inch IPS-MiniLED screen with native UHD+ resolution or a QHD panel with 240 Hz. Its CPU is Core Ultra 9 275HX, up to GeForce RTX 5090 for the graphics section and 96 GB of memory. Compared to the previous ones, install only a Gen4 SSD for storage and downgrade Thunderbolt to version 4.
Stealth A18 HX. It has the same screen, memory, graphics and storage options as the previous Stealth with Intel and the changes come from the processor, which here is a Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, and in the connectivity, Thunerbolt is changed to USB4.
Stealth A16 HX. It has the same CPU, GPU, memory and connectivity options as the previous one. The changes come from a screen that for this model is a 16-inch OLED with native resolution of 240 Hz and in storage, mounting double Gen4 SSD.
MSI Ventura
It is the line with the widest and most economical offer of all those that MSI has presented for CES 2025. It includes a dozen models with various screen sizes and hardware platforms, both for mass consumption, as well as commercial and professional ones that carry the ‘Pro’ label and which our colleagues from MCPRO.
We summarize them for you:
Venture 14/15/16/17 AI. Four different models with screens from 14 to 17.3 inches, with Intel Core Ultra 7 or 5 processors, up to 96 GB of RAM, Gen4 SSD and integrated Intel Arc graphics.
Venture A14/A15/A16/A17 AI. The equivalents under the AMD platform also come in four models with the same screens from 14 to 17.3 inches. They all have an intermediate level Ryzen AI 7 350 processor, 96 GB of RAM, Gen4 SSD and integrated Radeon 860M graphics.
Venture AI+ and Venture A AI+. Focused on commercial and professional uses, they are available with screens (some with OLED panels) of 14, 15.6, 16 or 17.3 inches. They are equipped with Core Ultra 7 155H or Core Ultra 7 125H processors; while those from AMD mount the Ryzen AI 300.
VenturePro AI. Laptops for professionals are offered in 15.6, 16 (OLED) or 17.3-inch screens and with an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor. They can equip up to 96 GB of RAM, a Gen4 SSD and graphics options from previous NVIDIA series, from the RTX 3050 to 4060.
Source: www.muycomputer.com
