MSI Katana 15 B12VFK

Well-balanced gaming laptops from the MSI Katana lineup with the latest hardware from Intel and NVIDIA. They do not belong to the entry-level, but to the middle level and are an upgrade over their brothers in the Katana series 2021-2022 of release. In particular, the manufacturer has finalized the keyboard, and instead of a solid red backlight, it has equipped it with a full-fledged 4-zone RGB backlight.

Hardware filling has become more powerful. Instead of the popular GeForce RTX 3050 graphics card, the manufacturer used a more modern and powerful version in the face of the RTX 4060, built on the Ada Lovelace micro architecture. For the GPU, a 105-watt TGP, 8 GB of video memory, an advanced ray tracing system and third-generation tensor cores with DLSS 3.0 support are announced.

The video card company is a hybrid 8/10-core Intel Core i5/i7 processor from the Alder Lake family. Instead of the usual DDR4 RAM, a more productive DDR5 (frequency 4800 MHz, 16 GB) is used, which only at the end of 2023 gained a foothold in the gaming laptop market. And as a drive, the manufacturer installed a modern M.2 SSD with support for the PCI-E 4.0 bus. So that all this goodness does not overheat, MSI engineers went over the proprietary Coler Boost cooling system, providing it with Shared-Pipe heat pipes, which are simultaneously attached to the CPU and GPU platform.

All models in the family are equipped with mid-range 15-inch IPS displays with 1080p resolution, adequate color reproduction, a modest margin of brightness and increased hertz (144 Hz), thanks to which especially fast and dynamic scenes in games look smooth and natural. Other features of the MSI Katana 15 B12VFK laptops include a powerful 200W power supply, Hi-Res sound card with support for Nahimic software, a network card with a dedicated LAN port and Wi-Fi 6, as well as proprietary MSI Center software for configuring and optimizing work laptop.