Design / Comfort
Battery Life
Value For Money
MSI has chosen the most powerful available components for the Raider GE76-12UHS. That includes an Intel Core i9-12900K CPU based on the 'Alder Lake' architecture with differentiated P-cores and E-E-cores, as well as an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GPU. MSI offers displays ranging from 1080p 360Hz to 4K 120Hz. Indian retail units have 32GB of DDR5 RAM and a 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD. Performance in games is phenomenal and there was no stuttering whatsoever on this review unit, which had the 1080p 360Hz display option. General content creation benchmarks also showed major performance uplift compared to the previous generation of CPU.
MSI has gone with a bold RGB light strip across the entire front, plus per-key RGB keyboard backlighting. This laptop is comfortable enough to use, but gets quite hot under heavy load. It weighs 2.9kg which is not too heavy to carry around. All this hardware comes at a huge price though, and it won't be long before the next generation ups the ante again.
Incredible performance in games and benchmarks
Lots of connectivity
Upgradeable RAM and storage
Comfortable keyboard and trackpad
Gets quite hot under heavy load
Ludicrously expensive