MSI Has Six Gaming Laptop Lines and Four Others
Titan and Raider cards were 18-inch only; Summit’s 13.3-inch was the smallest. MSI’s US store, list prices, read 30 October 2026.
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MSI’s US store sells gaming laptops under six names (Titan, Raider, Stealth, Vector, Crosshair and Cyborg) and work laptops under four (Prestige, Summit, Venture and Creator). The two 18-inch-only lines were Titan and Raider; the screens of 15.6 inches and under were on Summit, Venture, Cyborg, Prestige and Creator cards. On 30 October 2026 the store listed 42 laptops across ten series, at list prices from $929.99 to $6,799.99.
Every price below is a list price on MSI’s US store, us-store.msi.com, read on 30 October 2026. We counted each series listing card by card: 42 in all, 29 marked Add to Cart and 13 Notify Me. Many were on sale below list; sale prices change daily.
The names at a glance
| Line | MSI store’s title for the series | Cards (Add to Cart) | Screen sizes on the cards (in) | Lowest list price marked Add to Cart | That model |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Titan | “Ultimate Gaming Notebooks” | 2 (2) | 18 | $4,099.99 | Titan 18 HX AI (A2XWIG-616US) |
| Raider | “Premium Gaming Notebooks” | 2 (2) | 18 | $3,299.99 | Raider A18 HX (A9WIG-272US) |
| Stealth | “Slim Gaming Notebooks” | 12 (8) | 16, 18 | $2,899.99 | Stealth A16 AI+ (A3HWIG-073US) |
| Vector | “Performance Gaming Notebooks” | 7 (6) | 16, 17, 18 | $1,999.99 | Vector 16 HX AI (A2XWHG-061US) |
| Crosshair | “Versatile Gaming Notebooks” | 2 (1) | 16, 18 | $2,399.99 | Crosshair A16 HX MLG Edition |
| Cyborg | “Essential Gaming Notebooks” | 4 (0) | 15.6, 17.3 | None; all Notify Me | — |
| Creator | “Creative Professional Notebooks” | 2 (2) | 14, 16 | $1,299.99 | Creator M14 (A13VE-083US) |
| Prestige | “Premium Business Notebooks” | 7 (5) | 14, 16 | $2,149.99 | Prestige 16 Flip AI+ (C3MTG-058US) |
| Summit | “Executive Business Notebooks” | 1 (1) | 13.3 | $1,399.99 | Summit 13 AI+ Evo (A2VMTG-016US) |
| Venture | “Business & Productivity Laptops” | 3 (2) | 14, 15.6, 16 | $929.99 | Venture A14 AI+ (A3HMTG-019US) |
The store groups its series under three headings: Gaming Laptops for the first six, Content Creation for Creator, and Business & Productivity for Prestige, Summit and Venture. The letters it prints beside the gaming names (Titan GT, Stealth GS, Raider GE, Vector GP) are series codes; the laptops’ own model names on the cards do not carry them.
Gaming: what the cards put inside
| Line | Processors on the cards | Laptop GPUs on the cards | Weight (kg), per MSI | Model weighed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Titan | Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX, 290HX Plus | RTX 5080, RTX 5090 | 3.6 | Titan 18 HX AI A2XW |
| Raider | AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D | RTX 5080 | 3.6 | Raider A18 HX A9W |
| Stealth | AMD Ryzen AI 9 365, HX 370; Intel Core Ultra 7 255H, Ultra 9 275HX | RTX 5060 to RTX 5090 | 2.1 | Stealth A16 AI+ A3XW |
| Vector | Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX, Ultra 9 275HX, Core i9-14900HX; AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX, 9955HX | RTX 4070 to RTX 5090 | 2.7 | Vector 16 HX AI A2XW (affiliate link to Amazon, opens in a new tab) |
| Crosshair | AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX | RTX 5070 | 2.3 | Crosshair A16 HX MLG Edition E8W |
| Cyborg | Intel Core 7 240H; AMD Ryzen 9 270 | RTX 5050, RTX 5060 | 2.1 | Cyborg 15 B2RW |
An A after the series name marks the AMD models on these cards (Raider A18, Stealth A16, Vector A18, Crosshair A16, Cyborg A15); the Intel models drop it. Titan had no AMD card on the store, and Raider no Intel one. The same GPU name can run at different power limits from one laptop to the next, which our explainer on laptop GPU wattage sets out; the store cards do not print it.
Stealth is where the store had the most cards, twelve, and MSI lists one at 2.1 kg against 3.6 kg for the Titan and Raider models it weighs. Vector’s cards mixed GPU generations, from an RTX 4070 card (Vector 17 HX, 14th-generation Core i9) to an RTX 5090.
The Katana and Sword names were absent from the store’s Sword / Katana listing, which held four Cyborg cards and nothing else, all marked Notify Me. MSI’s global laptop page still shows a Katana 15 HX C14W as new. The Katana 15 HX is the MSI in our gaming laptop shortlist, which already noted MSI’s US store search had none on 12 October.
Work and creator laptops
| Line | Processors on the cards | Graphics on the cards | Notes from the cards |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prestige | Intel Core Ultra 7 355, Ultra X9 378H and 388H; Nvidia RTX Spark N1X | Intel Arc Graphics; RTX Spark’s own GPU | All seven are Flip models; two 14-inch cards are a Van Gogh Edition |
| Summit | Intel Core Ultra 7 256V | Intel Arc Graphics | One card, 13.3-inch |
| Venture | AMD Ryzen AI 5 340, Ryzen AI 7 350; Intel Core 7 240H | AMD Radeon (integrated); RTX 5050 on both VenturePro cards | VenturePro 16 marked Notify Me |
| Creator | AMD Ryzen AI 7 350; Intel Core i7-13620H | RTX 4060, RTX 4050 | Both cards carry RTX 40-series GPUs |
The three Prestige N16 Flip AI+ cards list Nvidia’s RTX Spark N1X, “6144-core GPU, 20-core CPU”, in place of a separate processor and graphics chip, at list prices from $3,299.99 to $6,799.99; only the $4,199.99 configuration showed Add to Cart. Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra also runs on RTX Spark; its prices and memory tiers are set out separately.
Of the three business lines, Venture was the one with a separate GPU on the store, in its two VenturePro cards; Summit and the Intel Prestige cards use the graphics built into the processor. By the cards, Summit is the smallest screen MSI’s US store sold that day.
MSI’s Claw handhelds sit in the same store menu under Handheld PCs; our Claw lineup explainer covers them.
Questions people ask
What is the difference between MSI Titan and Raider?
Both were 18-inch only on MSI’s US store in October 2026, and MSI lists one model of each at 3.6 kg. The Titan cards paired Intel Core Ultra 9 chips with an RTX 5080 or 5090; the Raider cards paired AMD’s Ryzen 9 9955HX3D with an RTX 5080. MSI’s store titles Titan “Ultimate” and Raider “Premium”.
What is the difference between MSI Stealth and Vector?
MSI’s store calls Stealth its slim gaming line and Vector its performance line. MSI lists a Stealth A16 AI+ at 2.1 kg and a Vector 16 HX AI at 2.7 kg. Stealth cards used Ryzen AI 9 or Core Ultra chips, Vector cards HX-class Intel and AMD chips.
Is MSI Cyborg the same as Katana?
They carry different names, but MSI’s US store files Cyborg under its Sword / Katana series, which it titles “Essential Gaming Notebooks”. On 30 October 2026 that listing held four Cyborg laptops and no Katana or Sword, and every Cyborg card showed Notify Me.
What is MSI Prestige vs Summit vs Venture?
All three are in the Business & Productivity section of MSI’s US store. Its page titles call Prestige “Premium Business” and Summit “Executive Business”; Venture is “Business & Productivity”. In October 2026 Prestige cards were 14 and 16 inches, Summit 13.3, and Venture 14 to 16, two of them with an RTX 5050.
What do the letters GT, GS, GE and GP mean on MSI laptops?
They are the series codes MSI’s US store prints beside each gaming name: Titan GT, Stealth GS, Raider GE, Vector GP, Crosshair / Pulse GL and Sword / Katana GF. The store does not spell the letters out, and the model names on the cards themselves do not carry them.
Does MSI still sell Modern and Thin laptops in the US?
Neither name appeared in the Laptops menu of MSI’s US store on 30 October 2026, and no card in its ten laptop series carried either name. We did not check other US retailers for them.
How we researched this
No one at bitcritiq has handled this product. Everything here comes from published sources, listed below.
- What this cannot tell you
- An Add to Cart button is what MSI’s store showed, not a check that stock shipped; Notify Me may mean out of stock, and MSI does not say. Each card describes one configuration, so a line’s lowest price belongs to that configuration. Many cards were on sale on 30 October; sale prices change daily. MSI’s US site (us.msi.com) and MSI’s specification pages for the Prestige, Summit, Venture and Creator models could not be read on 30 October, so we have no weights for those four lines, and we did not re-read the store’s individual product pages. Weights are for the model named, which is not always the exact configuration on the store’s card. The Katana, Sword, Pulse, Thin and Modern names had no card on the store that day; we did not check other retailers for them. We have not used any of these laptops, and this page does not rank them.
How we chose this, and what we did
- Why this subject
- Search Console shows our best-laptops shortlist collecting impressions for “best laptops 2025” and “what is the best laptop”, and MSI’s US store sells laptops under ten series names in its menu, most with a letter code (GT, GS, GE, GP, GL, GF) that does not say what the line is for. No bitcritiq post sets out which MSI name means what; best-gaming-laptops gathers outlets’ verdicts on one MSI model, and which-msi-claw-model covers MSI’s handhelds, not its laptops.
- How we looked at it
- Read on 30 October 2026 in the research browser. MSI’s US store (us-store.msi.com) lists ten laptop series in its Laptops menu: Titan GT, Stealth GS, Raider GE, Vector GP, Crosshair / Pulse GL and Sword / Katana GF under Gaming Laptops, Creator under Content Creation, and Summit, Prestige and Venture under Business & Productivity. We opened each series listing at 60 items per page and collected every product card by hand: its name, processor line, graphics line, screen line, price or prices and button. Counts: Titan 2, Stealth 12, Raider 2, Vector 7, Crosshair / Pulse 2, Sword / Katana 4, Creator 2, Prestige 7, Summit 1, Venture 3, 42 cards in all; 29 showed Add to Cart and 13 Notify Me. Where a card showed two prices we took the one in the page’s price-old element as the list price and the price-new one as the sale price, checked in the markup. The at-a-glance table has ten rows, one per series with cards, named by the line printed on the cards (the Sword / Katana listing held only Cyborg cards, the Crosshair / Pulse listing only Crosshair). What each series is for is quoted from the title MSI’s store gives that series page. Weights are from MSI’s own specification pages on msi.com, one model per gaming line, “Weight (w/ Battery)”.
What this rests on
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MSI’s US store lists six gaming series, one content-creation series and three business series in its Laptops menu.Official
us-store.msi.com Laptops menu, 30 October 2026: “Titan GT Series”, “Stealth GS Series”, “Raider GE Series”, “Vector GP Series”, “Crosshair / Pulse GL Series”, “Sword / Katana GF Series” (Gaming Laptops); “Creator Series” (Content Creation); “Summit Series”, “Prestige Series”, “Venture Series” (Business & Productivity).
MSI’s store titles its gaming series pages Ultimate (Titan), Premium (Raider), Slim (Stealth), Performance (Vector), Versatile (Crosshair and Pulse) and Essential (Sword and Katana).Official
Page titles, us-store.msi.com, 30 October 2026: “MSI Titan GT Gaming Laptops | Ultimate Gaming Notebooks”; “MSI Raider GE Gaming Laptops | Premium Gaming Notebooks”; “MSI Stealth GS Gaming Laptops | Slim Gaming Notebooks”; “MSI Vector GP Gaming Laptops | Performance Gaming Notebooks”; “MSI Crosshair & Pulse Gaming Laptops | Versatile Gaming Notebooks”; “MSI Sword & Katana Gaming Laptops | Essential Gaming Notebooks”.
On 30 October 2026 MSI’s US store showed 42 laptop cards across its ten series listings, 29 with Add to Cart, at list prices from $929.99 to $6,799.99.Official
Venture listing: “Venture A14 AI+ A3HMTG-019US … $929.99 $849.00 ADD TO CART”. Prestige listing: “Prestige N16 Flip AI+ C1XMT-062USY … $6,799.99 NOTIFY ME”. Card counts per listing, by hand: 2, 12, 2, 7, 2, 4, 2, 7, 1, 3.
The Sword / Katana listing on MSI’s US store held only Cyborg laptops on 30 October, all marked Notify Me.Official
us-store.msi.com Sword-Katana-GF-Series, 30 October 2026: four cards, “Cyborg 15 B2RWEKG-292US”, “Cyborg A15 AI B2HWFKG-006US”, “Cyborg A17 AI B2HWFKG-002US”, “Cyborg A17 AI B2HWFKG-046US”, each with “NOTIFY ME”.
The Prestige N16 Flip AI+ cards on MSI’s US store list Nvidia’s RTX Spark N1X in place of a separate processor and GPU.Official
Prestige listing, 30 October 2026: “Prestige N16 Flip AI+ C1XMT-066USY [16-inch] 2.8K UHD+ OLED Touch Ultra Thin 2-in-1 Laptop … NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core CPU) … $4,199.99 ADD TO CART”.
MSI lists the Titan 18 HX AI A2XW and Raider A18 HX A9W at 3.6 kg and the Stealth A16 AI+ A3XW and Cyborg 15 B2RW at 2.1 kg.Official
msi.com specification pages, 30 October 2026, “Weight (w/ Battery)”: Titan 18 HX AI A2XW “3.6 kg”; Raider A18 HX A9W “3.6 kg”; Stealth A16 AI+ A3XW “2.1 kg”; Cyborg 15 B2RW “2.1 kg”; Vector 16 HX AI A2XW “2.7 kg”; Crosshair A16 HX MLG Edition E8W “2.3 kg”.
Sources 18
- MSI Laptops — MSI-US Official StoreOfficialaccessed Oct 30, 2026
- MSI Titan GT Gaming Laptops — MSI-US Official StoreOfficialaccessed Oct 30, 2026
- MSI Stealth GS Gaming Laptops — MSI-US Official StoreOfficialaccessed Oct 30, 2026
- MSI Raider GE Gaming Laptops — MSI-US Official StoreOfficialaccessed Oct 30, 2026
Show 14 more · 14 official or standards
- MSI Vector GP Gaming Laptops — MSI-US Official StoreOfficialaccessed Oct 30, 2026
- MSI Crosshair & Pulse Gaming Laptops — MSI-US Official StoreOfficialaccessed Oct 30, 2026
- MSI Sword & Katana Gaming Laptops — MSI-US Official StoreOfficialaccessed Oct 30, 2026
- MSI Creator Series Laptops — MSI-US Official StoreOfficialaccessed Oct 30, 2026
- MSI Prestige Laptops — MSI-US Official StoreOfficialaccessed Oct 30, 2026
- MSI Summit Laptops — MSI-US Official StoreOfficialaccessed Oct 30, 2026
- MSI Venture Series — MSI-US Official StoreOfficialaccessed Oct 30, 2026
- Gaming Laptops — MSI GlobalOfficialaccessed Oct 30, 2026
- Titan 18 HX AI A2XW specification — MSIOfficialaccessed Oct 30, 2026
- Stealth A16 AI+ A3XW specification — MSIOfficialaccessed Oct 30, 2026
- Raider A18 HX A9W specification — MSIOfficialaccessed Oct 30, 2026
- Vector 16 HX AI A2XW specification — MSIOfficialaccessed Oct 30, 2026
- Crosshair A16 HX MLG Edition E8W specification — MSIOfficialaccessed Oct 30, 2026
- Cyborg 15 B2RW specification — MSIOfficialaccessed Oct 30, 2026
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