Few issues are guaranteed, however we are in a position to utter you indisputably that MSI’s updated GE76 Raider is faster than Apple’s touted MacBook Pro 16.
How affect we know? Because Apple has already admitted the older GE76 Raider—our well-liked gaming notebook of 2021—changed into as soon as faster than its M1 Max-basically based entirely mostly MacBook Pro 16, and MSI lawful updated it’s CPU, GPU, and cooling intention to dangle it even faster.
While the older faster than MacBook Pro 16 featured up to an 8-core Intel Core i9-11980HK and a Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU, it now goes up to an Intel’s new 14-core “Alder Lake” Core i9-12900HK and Nvidia’s new GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU.
While we don’t know too well-known about how the Core i9-12900HK performs in a computer lawful yet (it changed into as soon as solely equipped Tuesday), some distributors maintain acknowledged it’s 40 p.c faster than its predecessor. Besides the Alder Lake buff, MSI acknowledged the GE76 Raider contains a brand new section-alternate liquid metal pad that changes from sturdy to liquid at 58 degrees Celsius. MSI acknowledged the new section-alternate liquid metal pad is a extra legit and atmosphere friendly thermal interface fabric than aged pastes and liquid metals being frail at the original time, which would possibly prolong the CPU’s efficiency by 10 p.c. Likewise, Nvidia hasn’t spilled particulars GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU’s efficiency yet other than to say it outperforms a Titan RTX desktop GPU—yes, a desktop Titan RTX.
Which intention the GE76 Raider goes to indubitably be faster than the model it replaces, which all yet again, Apple already admitted changed into as soon as faster than the M1 Max MacBook at some level of its keynote (albeit whereas the utilization of extra power.) The different characteristic of the GE76 Raider that we are in a position to guarantee is additionally faster is its SD card reader, which supports those radically like a flash new SD Specific playing cards. The Apple MacBook Pro 14 and MacBook Pro 16 maintain taken some dings for solely having an horrifying UHS-II card reader. To be gorgeous, one advantage the united statesII offers you over SD Specific is legacy SD Card enhance. On playing cards rather than SD Specific, the slots tumble support to UHS-I speeds.
Different new suggestions within the GE76 Raider embody enhance for 32GB of DDR5/4800 RAM (with a maximum of 64GB) and a 4K 120Hz panel. Great of the the relaxation of the GE76 Raider remains the equal with NVMe PCIe 4.0 storage, Wi-Fi 6E, and Thunderbolt 4.
MSI acknowledged the computer will be on hand for pre-mutter on Jan. 25th, with ship dates in early February. The associated price? Properly, let’s lawful speak it’s unbiased a small Apple-love with the live-live configuration reaching $4,199.
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One of founding fathers of hardcore tech reporting, Gordon has been covering PCs and substances since 1998.
