MSI Stealth 16 AI Studio (A1Vx) - Specs

    • Innolux N160GME-GTB (CMN162F)
    • Color accuracy  1.7  1.1
    • HDD/SSD
    • up to 16000GB SSD
    • M.2 Slot
    • 2x 2280 M.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 x4  See photo
    • RAM
    • up to 96GB
    • OS
    • Windows 10 Pro, Windows 11 Pro, Windows 11 Home, No OS
    • Battery
    • 99.9Wh, 4-cell
    • Body material
    • Aluminum, Magnesium alloy
    • Dimensions
    • 355.8 x 259.7 x 19.95 mm (14.01" x 10.22" x 0.79")
    • Weight
    • 1.99 kg (4.4 lbs)
    • Ports and connectivity
    • 1x USB Type-A
    • 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps)
    • 1x USB Type-C
    • 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps), DisplayPort
    • 1x USB Type-C
    • 4.0, Thunderbolt 4, Power Delivery (PD), DisplayPort
    • HDMI
    • 2.1 (8K@60Hz / 4K@120Hz)
    • Card reader
    • microSD (microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC)
    • Ethernet LAN
    • Wi-Fi
    • 802.11be
    • Bluetooth
    • 5.4
    • Audio jack
    • 3.5mm Combo Jack
    • Features
    • Fingerprint reader
    • optional
    • Web camera
    • FHD IR with HDR, 3D Noise Reduction+ (3DNR+)
    • Backlit keyboard
    • Microphone
    • Speakers
    • 2x 2W Speakers + 4x 2W Woofers, Dynaudio, Nahimic 3, Hi-Res Audio
    • Optical drive
    • Security Lock slot
    • Kensington Lock

     

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    Office Work

    Office Work should be used mostly by users who spend most of the time looking at pieces of text, tables or just surfing. This profile aims to deliver better distinctness and clarity by keeping a flat gamma curve (2.20), native color temperature and perceptually accurate colors.

    Design and Gaming

    This profile is aimed at designers who work with colors professionally, and for games and movies as well. Design and Gaming takes display panels to their limits, making them as accurate as possible in the sRGB IEC61966-2-1 standard for Web and HDTV, at white point D65.

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    Health-Guard eliminates the harmful Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) and reduces the negative Blue Light which affects our eyes and body. Since it’s custom tailored for every panel, it manages to keep the colors perceptually accurate. Health-Guard simulates paper so the pressure on the eyes is greatly reduced.

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    CPU performance

    Here you can find the price/performance difference between all the CPUs that come in the MSI Stealth 16 AI Studio (A1Vx) series.

    Here, we evaluate the CPU's performance using a real-world 3D rendering task, assessing its ability to handle complex computations and rendering workloads efficiently.

    Results are from the Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core test (higher is better)

    GPU performance

    Here you can find the price/performance difference between all the GPUs that come in the MSI Stealth 16 AI Studio (A1Vx) series.

    MSI Stealth 16 AI Studio (A1Vx) in-depth review

    The 14-inch MSI Stealth 14 AI Studio A1V is an impressively powerful small device with two major cons - a hot keyboard and very high noise levels during gaming or other GPU-heavy tasks.Now, it's time to test the Stealth 16 AI Studio A1V which offers similar hardware under the hood but since the chassis is bigger, we expect a positive impact on the thermals of the internals. Again, you can rely on 28W Meteor Lake CPUs and this time around, you can order the bigger sibling with up to a GeForce RTX 4090 which is a bold decision by the manufacturer given the sub-20mm chassis.You get a lot [...]

    Pros

    • Good CPU performance
    • 2x SODIMMs + 2x M.2 slots
    • 1600p resolution + 240Hz refresh rate (CMN162F)
    • Full sRGB and 98% DCI-P3 coverage + accurate colors with our "Design and Gaming" profile (CMN162F)
    • High max brightness of 510 nits (CMN162F)
    • Great per-key RGB keyboard by SteelSeries + smooth and accurate touchpad
    • Solid magnesium aluminum chassis
    • The Core Ultra 9 185H can maintain a 3.2 GHz / 2.7 GHz P and E core clock during heavy loads
    • The MSI Center offers plenty of customizations
    • Thunderbolt 4, 1x Type-C port + HDMI 2.1
    • 1080p IR Web camera with privacy shutter
    • MUX switch
    • Compact for a 16-inch form factor
    • The fans don't spin in idle during light loads in "Silent" mode

    Cons

    • Loud fan noise during gaming in "Extreme Performance"
    • No G-Sync or NVIDIA Advanced Optimus support
    • Just three USB ports
    • High GPU memory temperatures which lead to TGP throttling

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