Review of the MSI Stealth GS77: Slim, compact, and powerful, this gaming laptop can easily go from gaming to work

As a time-honoured brand in the gaming industry, MSI has accumulated more than ten years of experience and a good reputation in the research and development of related products. Taking gaming laptops as an example, a wide and diverse product line follows the needs of today’s consumers. With different functional positioning, the most well-known MSI GS series is a masterpiece that achieves the ultimate balance between “performance” and “slim design”. The tonality of high-end business makes it difficult to perceive visually that this is an extremely powerful gaming machine!

In terms of appearance, the MSI Stealth GS77 continues the design spindle of the previous “Slim Black Soul”. The entire machine shell is made of metal matte material. The body lines are also more visually slender through more obvious edges and corners. The designed screen hinges are also different from the common ones placed on the left and right sides, and the recognizability can be said to be quite high.

The MSI Stealth GS77 has a professional and high-quality business laptop appearance and powerful hardware specifications. The “crossover” positioning can be said to be a unique product designed for users with diverse needs.

Of course, the upgrade of the internal hardware is definitely the core highlight of the MSI Stealth GS77. The 12th generation Intel Core i9-12900H processor is one of the best computing performance options in gaming laptops at this stage, and the discrete graphics card is also equipped with the top-spec NVIDIA GeForce. The RTX 3080 Ti notebook GPU has a performance comparable to that of a desktop host, and it is amazing that such powerful performance is integrated into a slim body with a thickness of about 20 mm and a weight of about 2.8 kg, which is equivalent to using Take the workstation-class performance with you.

MSI Stealth GS77 Features Sneak Peek

  • Powered by the latest 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-12900H processor
  • With NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 16GB GDDR6 laptop GPU
  • 17.3-inch 4K UHD panel, 120 Hz refresh rate, 100% Adobe RGB color gamut IPS-rated panel
  • 64 GB DDR5-4800 memory
  • Support PCIe Gen4 M.2 SSD
  • Built-in Thunderbolt 4 ports
  • Equipped with 99.9 Whr large capacity battery
  • Equipped with SteelSeries single-key RGB full-color backlit keyboard
  • Equipped with Dynaudio dual-sound single woofer
  • Equipped with an HD webcam that supports infrared facial recognition technology
  • Built-in Killer Wi-Fi 6E wireless network with Bluetooth 5.2 specification

Consistently slim and low-key, but more recognizable

The brand-new MSI Stealth GS77 continues the series’ low-key and not overly exaggerated design concept. The shell made of metal material adds a delicate matte finish, which is not only resistant to fingerprints but also successfully improves the visual texture and touch feel. It is said to be both practical and beautiful. In addition, the classic Dragon Soul shield emblem on the upper cover of the fuselage also maintains the previous monochrome line draft method, which makes the GS77 lack the dazzling RGB lighting effects and muscle lines that are common in general gaming laptops. At first glance, I thought it was a Taiwanese business. type laptop.

The entire MSI Stealth GS77 is painted in a deep black, and the metal case is also treated with a matte finish, which greatly improves the texture.
The dragon soul shield emblem on the upper cover symbolizes the purest e-sports pedigree of the MSI Stealth GS77. The black line draft is less high-profile than the general e-sports laptop, and the overall exudes a strong business atmosphere.
You can see the style at the bottom of the fuselage that echoes the geometric ridges on the edge of the fuselage. The large-area punching netblock in the upper half ensures sufficient cold air intake efficiency. The built-in dual fans are equipped with a Cooler Boost 5 composed of 6 sets of heat pipes. The cooling system can bring a better cooling effect.
A set of speaker holes are set on the left and right sides of the front end of the bottom of the fuselage, and two sets of mid-woofer speakers are built in.

Compared with the previous generation, the MSI Stealth GS77 has been adjusted in many details, such as the unibody body is trimmed with more angular trims at the corners, making the whole machine look slimmer, and the 17.3-inch display is also equipped with The redesigned hinge improves the sturdiness and at the same time changes the layout of the left and right sides to the centre design, which not only makes the vision more concise and neat but also makes the body more “dynamic” when the top cover is opened.

Open the top cover, and the interior of the fuselage is also painted in pure black.
The narrow border design doubles the immersion of the display screen, and the 4K UHD resolution and 120Hz update rate also ensure excellent game sound and light effects.
A video camera with Full HD resolution is installed on the top of the display, and an infrared lens is also planned to support facial recognition unlocking, and the video noise reduction technology independently developed by MSI is added to provide users with higher-quality video images. The group array microphone also has an excellent sound reception effect, which greatly improves the efficiency of online meetings.
MSI’s new corporate identity Logo is embossed under the display.

In terms of display specifications, the MSI Stealth GS77 tested this time is equipped with a 4K UHD ultra-high-resolution IPS-level panel and has a gaming-level update rate of 120Hz, which satisfies the smoothness of the picture under high picture quality. The colour effect and contrast are also excellent. Users can even switch and adjust different colour rendering modes through the built-in MSI True Color software tool of the notebook to meet the user’s customized needs.

The C-side of the fuselage is equipped with an island-style keyboard with nine palace numeric keys.
The key spacing of the island-style keyboard is reasonable, and the feedback force of single-key pressing is also just right. As for the size of the Jiugong numeric keypad, although the size is small, it can still exert good efficiency when a large number of numbers need to be input.
The MSI Stealth GS77 keyboard adopts a single-key RGB backlight design, which is also the most “e-sports atmosphere” design of the entire notebook. No matter the light colour or dynamic effect, it can be customized through the built-in SteelSeries GG application tool.
The size of the keyless touchpad is quite generous, making the sliding operation process very smooth.
The left and right sides of the C side of the fuselage have a set of upward-sounding speaker holes, equipped with a pair of DYNAUDIO tweeters, plus a total of six sets of monomers at the bottom of the fuselage to integrate high, medium, and bass clear auditory effects.

In terms of I/O port configuration that many people care about, the MSI Stealth GS77 offers a variety of complete specifications, including USB 3.2 Gen2 A, USB 3.2 Gen2 C, Thunderbolt 4 ports, SD card reader, HDMI 2.1 and RJ-45 ports… etc., and adopting a three-sided layout, in actual use, there is more space to connect external devices, such as the frequently used video output and network ports are arranged at the rear of the fuselage, the whole line will be more convenient.

The slightly cutting design of the side and corners of the fuselage makes the fuselage present a slimmer visual effect.
The left side of the fuselage is equipped with two sets of USB 3.2 Gen2 A ports, a set of 3.5 mm headphone/microphone two-in-one interface, and a switch that can physically turn off the video lens.
The right side of the fuselage is equipped with a set of Thunderbolt 4 ports, a set of USB 3.2 Gen2 C ports, and an all-in-one SD card reader slot.
On the rear side of the fuselage, you can see the square power supply interface, a set of HDMI 2.1 ports and a set of 2.5 GbE RJ-45 network interfaces.

Assemble the current top specifications, excellent performance and good portability

As the representative of the thin and light flagship in the MSI gaming notebook family, the Stealth GS77 will naturally not disappoint everyone in terms of specifications and configuration. The processor is equipped with the 12th generation Intel Core H45 standard pressure processor. The Stealth GS77 tested this time is configured to Intel Core i9-12900H, the specifications of the current notebook platform can be said to be one of the best, in addition, the discrete graphics card that is very important to the gaming experience is also equipped with the top-spec NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti notebook GPU, the largest TGP Up to 105W, it can meet the high configuration requirements of 3A masterpieces.

Although the main focus is on thinness, there is no doubt that the hardware specifications of the MSI Stealth GS77 are still at the gaming level, and few laptops in the market can match it.

The MSI Stealth GS77 also supports DDR5-4800 memory and can be expanded up to 64 GB. It also has two PCIe Gen4 x4 M.2 SSD slots, which greatly contributes to the overall performance improvement. In the following paragraphs, the author will sort out the key specifications of the MSI Stealth GS77 and the actual measurement results of various types of benchmarking tools for your reference.

A list of system specifications of the MSI Stealth GS77 tested this time.
MSI Stealth GS77 key specs at a glance
MSI Stealth GS77 processor and storage performance benchmarks at a glance
MSI Stealth GS77 3D Performance Benchmarks at a Glance
MSI Stealth GS77 System Comprehensive Performance Benchmarks at a Glance

Game performance test

According to the usual practice, we also actually used the MSI Stealth GS77 to run 3A-level game masterpieces to verify the performance of the game experience. The author chose three games this time and measured the real-time ray tracing project to be turned off/on at different resolutions (if adjustable). Running FPS difference as a reference.

The first game tested was “Long March 5”, the picture quality settings were all adjusted to automatic, and the built-in performance benchmark was run twice, once with real-time ray tracing turned off, and once with real-time ray tracing turned on.
The actual measurement results of the “Long March 5”, the picture shows the real-time ray tracing function is turned off, and the average result is 97 FPS.
In “Tomb Raider: Shadow”, the benchmark test results of real-time ray tracing turned off (the image preset is the highest) and real-time ray tracing turned on (high quality) were measured at three different resolutions. The above is the 4K UHD resolution (3840 x 2160), the picture shows the real-time ray tracing turned off, and the average frame rate is 73. The bottom picture shows the real-time ray tracing turned on, and the average frame rate is 52.
Switch the resolution to 2K (2560 x 1440) for an actual measurement. The picture above shows that real-time ray tracing is turned off, and the average frame rate is 108. The picture below shows that real-time ray tracing is turned on, and the average frame rate is 85.
Switch the resolution to Full HD (1920 x 1080) for an actual measurement. The picture shows the real-time ray tracing turned off, and the average frame rate is 126. The picture below shows that the real-time ray tracing is turned on, and the average frame rate is 103.
Next, we conducted the actual measurement with the popular game masterpiece “Dian Yu Ren Ke 2077”. The built-in fast preset settings were used to run the benchmark test with two settings: off ray tracing (extremely high) and open ray tracing (ray tracing: highest). And also measured the test results of 4K UHD, 2K and Full HD three resolutions.
The actual measurement results of 4K UHD resolution (3840 x 2160), the left of the picture is the “Very High” setting with real-time ray tracing turned off, and the average result is 30.25 FPS, and the right of the picture is “Ray Tracing: Highest” with real-time ray tracing turned on settings, and achieved an average of 30.08 FPS.
The actual measurement results of 2K resolution (2560 x 1440), the left of the picture is the “extremely high” setting with real-time ray tracing turned off, and an average result of 49.12 FPS, the right of the picture is the “ray tracing: highest” setting with real-time ray tracing turned on, achieving an average of 57.03 FPS.
Finally, the actual measurement results of Full HD resolution (1920 x 1080), the left of the picture is the “extremely high” setting with the real-time ray tracing effect turned off, and an average result of 74.50 FPS, the right of the picture is the “ray tracing” with real-time ray tracing turned on: Highest” setting, achieved an average of 85.98 FPS.

MSI Center combines completeness and ease of use, meeting the actual needs of players

In addition to its excellent hardware specifications, MSI Stealth GS77 also provides super-complete built-in system tools to assist users in understanding the operating status of the system and adjusting various functions, the most important of which is the MSI Pen The “standard” MSI Center is a one-stop design that integrates functions such as system resource monitoring, performance optimization, and switching of common options. The modular design also allows users to choose the functions they want to install and use.

The overall interface of MSI Center is minimalist, and the operation of various functions is easy to use. After opening the tool, you can see the information on “Hardware Monitoring” on the main page, and you can master the CPU / GPU / Disk / Memory … and other systems at one time. The utilization status of the resource.
On the “Function” page, you can see different system operating modes. In addition to the smart mode that can be automatically switched by AI artificial intelligence, the manual mode can also switch between four modes of extreme performance, balance, quietness and superpower.
In the advanced performance setting, the core frequency and VRAM frequency of the GPU can also be adjusted to achieve the effect of overclocking and further improve the operating performance of the discrete graphics card.
The cooling fan can also switch between automatic, maximized cooling acceleration and advanced settings.
In the advanced settings, the fan operation efficiency of the CPU and GPU can be set separately when the specific usage rate is reached.
The “Game Mode” is also preloaded in the function tab, which can enable optimization of the game runtime, and can also provide lighting effects corresponding to hotkeys for different games.
In addition to the built-in functions, we can also view more different types of function modules in the “Function Set”, and choose the functions that we want to install and use.
In general settings, you can see common function switch items, such as the Windows key function switch, the Fn key function switch…etc. In addition, the video camera can also be turned off here to protect personal privacy.

In addition, the colour rendering mode of the display and auxiliary tools can also be controlled through MSI True Color, and the familiar sound enhancement tool Nahimic can also provide adjustment functions for speaker/headphone sound and microphone radio.

The built-in keyboard of the MSI Stealth GS77 adopts the SteelSeries solution, so it also has the SteelSeries GG software tool built-in.
The backlight and macro function of the keyboard can be customized through the Engine function.
Relevant settings all use a graphical interface, and you can also preview the effects presented after the settings in real-time.
At the same time, there are also many different types of applications that can be downloaded and used by users.
MSI Stealth GS77 also adopts Nahimic’s sound effect enhancement mechanism, and the audio part can be switched according to different usage scenarios.
The noise suppression and echo cancellation of the microphone radio also provides corresponding adjustments.
The built-in MSI True Color tool can choose different types of display modes, including games, movies, word processing, etc. for different usage scenarios, as well as Adobe RGB, Display P3, etc. for professional applications.
Different colour rendering modes also have more adjustment parameters that can be set by yourself and saved as a setting file.
The MSI True Color tool also provides useful auxiliary tools such as screen window splitting, viewing mode, calibration, hotkeys, etc.

Summary: The top attack option in the “Crossover” laptop! One machine for productivity and entertainment

As we all know, the MSI gaming laptop family not only has a variety of products but also has significant differences in positioning. Gaming laptops have also undergone changes under the development strategies of different series branches. Among them, the GS series, which mainly promotes lightness and portability, has evolved from the earlier “pure gaming lineage” to the current “professional business” new look, but the only constant. Yes, the hardware specification is still at a solid gaming level, such as the MSI Stealth GS77 measured this time, the hardware configuration is indeed quite satisfactory! Needless to say, the golden combination of the 12th generation Intel Core i9-12900H standard pressure processor + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti notebook GPU, it also supports DDR5-4800 memory and PCIe Gen4 SSD, which can provide gamers Bringing stable overall performance, the previous performance benchmark results are enough to prove it.

MSI Stealth GS77 maintains the usual low-key and restrained appearance of the series, but it is an uncompromising gaming-grade configuration inside.

In addition to excellent performance, the built-in 17.3-inch large display of the MSI Stealth GS77 also brings more stunning visual performance. The top-of-the-line 4K UHD resolution and 120Hz gaming-level update rate make the top performance more vivid. For more and more 3A-level masterpieces that support real-time ray tracing, MSI Stealth GS77 not only allows gamers to enjoy the highest level of picture quality but also takes into account the smooth running of the picture. Miniaturize the body and get rid of the bulky feeling common to medium and large notebooks.

The 17.3-inch narrow-bezel display on the MSI Stealth GS77 has an impressive colour gamut performance.
The MSI Stealth GS77 of “Yunwen Yunwu” allows players to easily travel between games and work.

Unlike some laptops on the market that claim to be “crossovers”, their performance and professional image are not in place, the MSI Stealth GS77 is undoubtedly a “top” option that can satisfy top-tier users, truly allowing you to take the top-level performance with you. Take it with you.

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