On their own, however, the scores indicate powerful performance in the MSI GE66 Raider. But here too, the gap is extremely close between the two, unlike what we’ve seen with the Core i5 and the Core i9 processors. Benchmark AnalysisĪs has been the case throughout the year, benchmark scores indicate the Core i7 is well behind its rival from AMD, except for single-core performance. And thrive, it does, especially thanks to the cooling solution MSI provides under the hood.
On paper, the Core i7 is complemented by a high-wattage RTX 3070, DDR4 3200MHz memory, and PCIe Gen 4 storage, creating the perfect environment for performance to thrive. Only, I’d rather game on this, than get any work done. While this is aimed squarely at gamers with its SteelSeries Keyboard, and high refresh rate display, the MSI GE66 Raider works just as well for creative workloads. Of course, there’s Wi-Fi 6E support along with one of the largest selections of ports I’ve seen in a gaming laptop lately. You get 1TB PCIe 4.0 storage by default in both variants.
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The laptop also makes full use of 11th Gen’s PCI Express 4.0 support, offering one PCIe 4.0 M.2 slot, and another PCIe 3.0 slot. There are two 8GB DDR4 3200MHz sticks soldered to the board, but can be upgraded to up to 64GB in two SO-DIMM slots. It’s a 2K display with a 165Hz refresh rate and 100% DCI-P3 support.
The rest of the specifications are the same across the two variants. Both run on the Intel Core i7 11800H but has a choice between the RTX 3080 and the 3070. The MSI GE66 Raider is actually available in multiple variants, one with even a 4K OLED display, but only two 15.6-inch variants made their way to India.