MSI Stealth 16 Studio (A13V) review – it has the power and it has the bling


Temperatures and comfort, Battery Life

Max CPU load

In this test we use 100% on the CPU cores, monitoring their frequencies and chip temperature. The first column shows a computer’s reaction to a short load (2-10 seconds), the second column simulates a serious task (between 15 and 30 seconds), and the third column is a good indicator of how good the laptop is for long loads such as video rendering.

Average P-core frequency; Average E-core frequency; CPU temp.; Package Power

Intel Core i7-13700H (45W TDP)0:02 – 0:10 sec0:15 – 0:30 sec10:00 – 15:00 min
MSI Stealth 16 Studio (A13V)3.77 GHz @ 2.34 GHz @ 87°C @ 101W3.61 GHz @ 2.32 GHz @ 87°C @ 91W3.62 GHz @ 2.43 GHz @ 87°C @ 92W
Acer Swift Go 14 (SFG14-71)3.13 GHz @ 2.34 GHz @ 75°C @ 67W3.08 GHz @ 2.32 GHz @ 91°C @ 66W2.46 GHz @ 1.83 GHz @ 89°C @ 43W
MSI Pulse 15 (B13V)3.70 GHz @ 2.36 GHz @ 86°C @ 96W3.52 GHz @ 2.37 GHz @ 87°C @ 89W3.23 GHz @ 2.54 GHz @ 77°C @ 87W
MSI Vector GP773.86 GHz @ 3.08 GHz @ 89°C @ 135W3.75 GHz @ 3.10 GHz @ 94°C @ 128W3.24 GHz @ 3.00 GHz @ 81°C @ 90W

Interestingly, the MSI Stealth 16 Studio (A13V) has the highest P-core clock speeds of any device we’ve currently tested with this CPU. However, it trails behind the Vector GP77 by a big margin when it comes to E-core speeds. By the way, something you won’t see in the table above is that the clock speeds plummeted to about 2.50 GHz for the P-cores for about 5 minutes, before going back to the values we saw for the last 5 minutes of the test.

Real-life gaming

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070GPU frequency/ Core temp (after 2 min)GPU frequency/ Core temp (after 30 min)
MSI Stealth 16 Studio (A13V)2325 MHz @ 77°C @ 98W2325 MHz @ 80°C @ 99W
MSI Pulse 15 (B13V)2280 MHz @ 71°C @ 109W2280 MHz @ 70°C @ 109W
MSI Vector GP772295 MHz @ 61°C @ 95W2295 MHz @ 61°C @ 95W

This laptop is both the best in terms of frequencies and the worst in terms of temperature when it comes to the RTX 4070 among the laptops we’ve tested with this GPU.

Gaming comfort

Interestingly, this laptop is not super loud. Also, the keyboard and the palm rest area are not too warm. However, you should be careful with the grill above the keyboard, which is really hot during gaming.

Battery

Now, we conduct the battery tests with the Windows Better performance setting turned on, screen brightness adjusted to 120 nits and all other programs turned off except for the one we are testing the notebook with. Here, you get a 99.9Wh battery pack. It lasts for 9 hours and 5 minutes of Web browsing, or 8 hours and 47 minutes of video playback.

In order to simulate real-life conditions, we used our own script for automatic web browsing through over 70 websites.



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Ferran González
Ferran González
10 months ago

Una pregunta: cómo se puede activar la pantalla a 60hz?

Karlos
Karlos
7 months ago

Nvidia panel.

r.a
r.a
11 days ago

Hi, could you please help me. do set the GPU to hybrid mode or only integrated mode. I simply cant replicate the 9 hours of web browsing