This year, NVIDIA only launched the Super suffix on the desktop is RTX 40 series graphics card, and the notebook platform continues to use RTX 40 series, but Intel has released their new generation of Core HX series processors, so there will definitely be a round of updates in the game book market, Titan series game laptops as MSI's benchmark flagship products, they have also ushered in a wave of updates, what we want to test today is MSI's Titan 17 2024, which is the sub-flagship of MSI's notebook family, Although there are also advanced big brothers of Titan Ultra and Titan Pro on it, its performance as a flagship family goalkeeper is already good enough.
The MSI Titan 17 2024 gaming laptop can be powered by up to a 14th Gen Core i9-14900HX processor, with 8 P-Cores and 16 E-Cores for a total of 32 threads, and a P-Core all-core frequency of up to 52GHz, dual-core turbo frequency is as high as 58GHz, up to a full-blooded RTX 4080 graphics card, the maximum power consumption can reach 175W, support dual-display three-mode mode, support DLSS 35 and other latest technology.
In terms of other configurations, it is equipped with DDR5-5600 16GB*2 memory and 1TB PCIe 40 SSD, supplied with PCIe 50 m.2 slots for expansion, built-in 90whr large battery, support for the latest WiFi 7 wireless network, you can enjoy an ultra-low latency network experience, and Thunderbolt 4 interface, the overall expansion capacity is quite strong.
As a flagship product, the A-side design of the MSI Titan 17 2024 is still relatively low-key, with a light gray background color, MSI's iconic dragon shield logo is faintly visible, and this logo has no lights, the entire A-side is a large area of frosted surface, to be honest, it is actually difficult to tell whether this is plastic or metal from the appearance, of course, if you touch it, you will know that the feel is metal, the texture and firmness are obvious, in addition, the edge treatment is also very appropriate, quite silky and no cutting feel, The overall quality is quite good, and it deserves to be a 10,000-yuan product.
Flipping the screen, the MSI Titan 17 2024 uses a 17-inch, 25KHz high brush IPS screen,It's quite a high specification in a game book,It's also the most balanced configuration,Not only is the resolution high enough、Clear enough,The refresh rate has also reached to meet the requirements of e-sports players,Plus the color gamut of this screen has also reached100%DCI-P3Color gamut,The color and viewing angle of the display are very good,The daily use of video outside the game is also very comfortable。
If you look closely, you will see that the reels of the MSI Titan 17 2024 are different from the color of the B and C sides, with the entire machine being titanium gray and the AXIS Ultra reeling in Nebula Blue.
The C side is a single-key RGB backlit keyboard of Steel, which can freely customize the light color of each key, equipped with full-size arrow keys and a reduced version of the numeric keypad, the keypad has a certain difference between the layout and the conventional 104-key keyboard due to space problems, and it takes time to get used to it, in addition, the WASD and power keys of the keyboard are translucent design, which is particularly eye-catching under the illumination of the backlight, and the arrow keys are also large area of light transmission.
Although it is a membrane keyboard, it has a long key travel, a more comfortable sense of percussion, and there are also function shortcuts on the arrow keys, the position of the fn key of this notebook is a bit special, MSI has enlarged the left CTRL key due to the frequency of use and the feeling relationship, so the fn key is placed in the corner, this position is very difficult if you want to press the fn disk + the upper left corner function key with one hand, so MSI Center provides the function of WIN and FN left and right interchange, whether you want to exchange depends on personal habits. The trackpad is large in size and silky to the touch, making it very comfortable to use.
MSI Titan 17 2024 has quite a lot of expansion interfaces, and the two black USB Type-A ports on the right side of the fuselage thought they were USB 2 at a glance0, but in fact, the front one is USB 5Gbps and the middle one is USB 10Gbps, and the Type-C port is full-featured USB 10Gbps, which supports DP** output and PD 30 fast charging, can support a maximum of 100W input and 5V 3A output, you can directly use a high-power PD charger to charge a laptop when you go out, or you can directly use a laptop to charge a mobile device.
There is a Thunderbolt 4 interface on the left side of the fuselage, the interface bandwidth is up to 40Gbps, and it also supports DP** output, the highest output resolution is 8K, and it can provide 5V 3A output when powered by AC power supply, next to it is the SD card reader can be headset microphone interface.
In the middle of the top is the Kensington security keyhole, and there is also a 25G Ethernet port, one HDMI 21 interface, a USB 10Gbps Type-C port that supports DP output, and the power interface is also at the top. The copper fins inside the top of the fuselage and the cutouts on both sides of the fuselage, this Titan 17 2024 is equipped with four air outlets, and four heat dissipation radiators can bring better heat dissipation capacity, which is also the design used by most of the top gaming laptops today.
Finally, there is the D side, to be honest, the D side design of the MSI Titan 17 2024 is quite special, the four non-slip pads are completely asymmetrical, the anti-slip pad in the upper left corner is also dyed blue, and there is an MSI logo on it, there are two hard feet in the middle of the notebook, and there is a blue rubber foot in the middle of the notebook, which makes there be a large hollow between the notebook and the desktop, reducing the air intake resistance of the fan, so as to improve the heat dissipation efficiency.
Due to the use of the Core i9-14900HX and RTX 4080 such top-of-the-line accessories, the Titan 17 2024 also needs a large power supply to bring out its full performance, and MSI has prepared a 330W power supply for it, which is quite large in size and weight, which is considered the standard configuration of the top flagship gaming laptop.
After removing the back cover, you can see the cold cooling system carried by MSI Titan 17 2024, which consists of 2 turbofans + 6 heat pipes + cold front fins + 4 three-dimensional heat dissipation holes + 3D heat dissipation brackets, the CPU is located on the right side of the picture above, and the GPU is on the left side, it can be seen that the two share 3 8mm heat pipes, and there is one more exclusive 8mm heat pipe on the GPU side, in addition to two thinner 6mm heat pipes, one is for CPU power supply and heat dissipation, and the other is for video memory cooling, Officially, after turning on MSI Superboost Mode Ultra, the power consumption of the CPU and graphics card can reach 250W, including 175W for the graphics card and 75W for the CPU.
The MSI Titan 17 2024 comes with a 90wh battery.
Intel Killer BE1750X WiFi 7 wireless card with Bluetooth 5 support4
The SSD uses the Western Digital SN560 NVMe SSD, which supports PCIe 40, there is another m. next to it2 interface, that interface is PCIe 50, users can expand the new generation NVMe SSD, two MBoth slots are 2280 spec, so it is also convenient to expand.
The memory is installed under this shield, which can be removed from the direction indicated by the arrow, and the Titan 17 2024 provides two DDR5 SO-DIMM slots, and now both of these slots are occupied by SK hynix's DDR5-5600 16GB memory, but well, the standard 32GB memory can basically meet the needs of most gamers, and there is no need to think about expansion for a long time.
The test was run in performance mode with a plugged in graphics card in direct connection mode, the PCMark 10 benchmark MSI Titan 17 2024 scored 11993, as a flagship processor, the Core i9-14900HX with 8 P-cores and 16 E-cores performed quite well, and the score for common operations was quite high, while the RTX 4080 graphics card with two partial loads of productivity and digital content creation would intervene in acceleration, and the overall performance was excellent.
The CPU power consumption settings for different cooling modes are shown in the table above, which can be adjusted using MSI Center, in addition to the regular four modes of rage, equalization, silence and energy saving, there is also the addition of MSI AI Intelligent Engine, which can learn from user behavior and provide real-time, optimized system adjustment according to the usage scenario, and can manually specify the scene mode of a program, and the notebook will automatically switch to the specified scene mode when running the program.
PL1 and PL2 are 150W and 220W in Berserk mode, 140W and 220W in Balanced mode, 30W for PL1 and PL2 in Quiet mode, 15W for PL1 and PL2 in Eco mode, 45W in Berserk mode PL1 and PL2 and 45W and 40W respectively in Balanced mode, and remain unchanged in Quiet and Eco modes.
Let's use 3DMark Time Spy to see the impact of different cooling modes on the performance score, looking at the graphics card score, the balanced mode is only 85% of the Rage mode, the quiet mode is only 60%, and the energy saving mode is only 52%. The CPU score is the same as in Balanced mode, with half the CPU score in Quiet mode and only 22 in Energy Saving mode8% up. Of course, the noise level in balanced mode is much lower than in furious mode, and since the graphics card is RTX 4080, if the frame rate is high enough, you can get a better gaming experience even in balanced mode, and the noise is lower. As for daily Internet access and office applications, it is enough to use a quiet and even energy-saving mode with low power consumption, and even the Core i9-14900HX with only 15W can easily cope with these tasks.
We used 3DMark as the benchmark performance test for seven categories: Fire Strike, Fire Strike Extreme, Fire Strike Ultra, Time Spy, Time Spy Extreme, Port Royal, and Speedway. Among them, Fire Strike, Fire Strike Extreme, and Fire Strike Ultra test the performance index of the graphics card at 1080p resolution, 2K resolution and 4K resolution in DX11 games, respectively, and the two items of Time Spy and Time Spy Extreme are the performance index of the graphics card at 2K resolution and 4K resolution in DX12 games Royal and Speedway are the performance indices of real-time ray tracing of the graphics card tested, and the specific results are shown in the table below, which are all scores for 3DMark graphics cards.
In terms of graphics card performance, the RTX 4080 Laptop equipped with the MSI Titan 17 2024 can run up to 175W with the blessing of excellent heat dissipation in Rage mode, and the 3DMark score is quite high, and it also supports the latest DLSS 35. You should have no problem playing the game at 2k resolution.
Let's take a look at DLSS's game test first, the above games have opened the highest level of ray tracing in the game except for "Call of Duty" without ray tracing, "Cyberpunk 2077" is overloaded, and DLSS 3 is used because the demand is too high5 performance mode, and with frame generation and ray reconstruction turned on, Titan 17 2024 can run up to 95fps, 3D performance is quite good, while other games that support DLSS 3 can run the average frame rate of more than 100 casually, the smoothness is quite good, Titan 17 2024 can easily run a variety of ray tracing games.
We also tested some other games that were not so demanding, and these didn't have DLSS on, but they still ran above 100FPS casually, which shows that the RTX 4080 LAPTOP with a 2K high screen is completely sufficient.
The MSI Titan 17 2024 uses dual-channel DDR5-5600 32GB RAM with a timing of 46-45-45-89, a memory read bandwidth of 86,000 Mb s, and a write and copy bandwidth of 78,000 Mb S with a memory latency of 831ns。
In the real performance test of CDM, the sequential read and write speed is 4176 3530 MB s, the mixed test speed of 70% read and 30% write is 2982 MB s, the 4K random read delay is 60us, and the random write delay is 15us, and the performance is not bad.
In the CDM peak performance test, the sequential read and write speed of QD8 is 5018 3547 MB s, the mixed read and write speed is 3506 MB s, the random read and write IOPS of QD32 are 258K and 171K respectively, and the performance of Western Digital SN560 1TB is not bad.
Here, the single-bake CPU and single-bake GPU tests are used to simulate the scenarios of high-load applications and high-load GPUs, respectively, and finally the dual-baking is carried out to simulate the most demanding usage environment. The CPU roast was loaded with the AIDA 64 FPU project, while the GPU was loaded with a 3DMark Speed Way stress test, all under rage.
In the CPU single bake, the peak power consumption of the CPU can reach 205W, of course, the temperature also peaks at 95 at this time, and then the CPU power will slowly decrease, and finally it will stabilize at about 130W.
In the GPU oven, in fact, the temperature and power consumption of the graphics card have not been very high, the maximum temperature is 75, the average is about 72, the peak power consumption is 180W, the average power consumption is about 175W, and the power consumption curve is actually quite stable.
The frequency of the GPU The power consumption curve is shown in the table above, the maximum frequency can reach 2445MHz, and the frequency fluctuates roughly around 2325MHz after the frequency is stable.
Through the double baking, the power distribution of the machine can be seen very well. The CPU is obviously not as high as the power consumption when it is baked, the highest is 86W, and the subsequent fluctuations are basically around 75W, and the power consumption of the GPU is basically around 175W, which is basically in line with the 250W performance release and the power consumption of the CPU and GPU as MSI said.
Since the CPU and GPU share some heat pipes, it will definitely lead to mutual influence, the maximum temperature of the GPU is 78 when double baking, which is slightly higher than when single baking, and the power consumption of the CPU is significantly lower than that of single baking, but the maximum temperature can still reach 88. Overall, the MSI Titan 17 2024 has a good cooling performance, the temperature of the GPU is within 80 throughout the whole process, and the stable performance release of 250W when double baking is also the current flagship level.
The battery life test is run in energy-saving mode, using the nuclear display mode, the screen brightness is adjusted to 100nits according to PCMARK's requirements, the PCMARK 10 modern office battery test ran for 5 hours and 23 minutes, MSI Titan 17 2024 is equipped with a 90wh battery, but considering that it is equipped with a Core i9-14900HX, the battery life is also good, of course, for the game book, the battery is basically for users to use for short-term emergencies, in terms of its volume and size, I don't think anyone wants to go out to work with it.
In fact, the specifications of the Core i9-14900HX used in the MSI Titan 17 2024 are completely consistent with the Core i9-14900 on the desktop, of course, the notebook is subject to volume and heat dissipation, and there will be some restrictions on performance, but the Titan 17 2024 with its excellent heat dissipation design allows the Core i9-14900HX to achieve 130W stable performance release, and the heat dissipation on the GPU side is stronger, which can allow the RTX 4080 to maintain 175W full blood release performance, The CPU and GPU together can maintain 250W of performance release, with its high brush 2The 5K screen can bring players a very smooth gaming experience.
Of course, as a sub-flagship product, the MSI Titan 17 2024 will naturally not be cheap, requiring 18999 yuan, after all, it is equipped with core i9-14900HX and RTX 4080 These top hardware, as well as 32GB of large-capacity memory and 1TB PCIe 40 SSD, it's not strange to sell**, as a flagship product, its expansion ability is also quite good, leaving PCIe 50 m.2 ports are ready for the future, Thunderbolt 4 and a full-featured USB Type-C port are readily available, as well as WiFi 7 and 25G wired these advanced network equipment is a pretty good flagship gaming laptop, MSI also provides a two-year national warranty and door-to-door service, and the after-sales link is also quite guaranteed.