Best laptop under $5000 | MSI Titan GT77 HX |

When Intel launched its first 16-core laptop CPU, one question reverberated throughout the world of high-end laptops: why? MSI’s 17-inch workstation replacement, the GT77 Titan, is among the first machines that try to answer that question. It features the 16-core Core i9-12900HX, and although it provides some benefits, they aren’t worth gunning for.

Multi-core performance is off the charts, but most applications are just fine with Intel’s non-HX offerings, especially considering that this is a gaming laptop, first and foremost. The GT77 Titan takes advantage of the new chip with an extra high price tag, as well, making it a bad value even compared to MSI’s other high-end offerings. The MSI GT77 Titan can go toe-to-toe with the best gaming laptops due to its 16-core CPU in performance, but it’s too expensive for that advantage to matter.

Specs

• Up to latest Intel^® Core™ i9-12900HX processor.
• Windows 11 Home / Windows 11 Pro. …
• NVIDIA^® GeForce RTX™ 3080 Ti Laptop GPU 16GB GDDR6 (12UHS)
• NVIDIA^® GeForce RTX™ 3070 Ti Laptop GPU 8GB GDDR6 (12UGS)
• 17.3″ UHD (3840×2160), 120 Hz Refresh Rate, 100% DCI-P3(Typical), IPS-Level panel (Optional)
• 32 GB / 64 GB / 128 GB RAM