It’s a new year, and the new award-winning MSI Titan 18 HX was on full display at CES 2024 in Las Vegas. The annual Consumer and Electronics Show once again took over Las Vegas, with a plethora of different brands and industries showcasing their latest technologies and products. The MSI Titan 18 HX gaming laptop is no different. With some amazing features like a per-key RGB Cherry mechanical switch keyboard, NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 4090, a world-first display and more, the Titan 18 HX is a fantastic choice for your next gaming laptop.
Winner of the CES 2024 Innovation Awards for both the Gaming & eSports and Artificial Intelligence (AI) categories, the MSI Titan 18 HX is a force to be reckoned with. Looking at the laptop, it is easy to see what is so exciting about this gaming powerhouse. It has a massive 18-inch screen squeezed into a 17-inch chassis. The larger chassis is also made of an Al-Mg alloy, which allows for an optimal cooling environment and makes it sturdy, durable, lightweight and portable.
The huge 18-inch screen is also the world’s first 18″ 4K Mini LED 120hz display. Featuring 1000-nits brightness and a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio, the Titan 18 HX’s display allows for incredible realism in all environments, like indoors, outdoors, and even in direct sunlight. Rounding out the display is a 120hz refresh rate, making it an ideal gaming companion, hence the CES 2024 Innovation Award for Gaming & eSports.
In terms of memory, the Titan 18 HX comes outfitted with 4 sets of expansion memory slots that utilize 4x DDR5 memory, allowing you to attain as much as 128 GB of memory and a possible 6.4 Gbps transfer speed! With 3x M.2 SSD slots, the Titan 18 HX can reach incredibly high speeds and up to 8 TB of storage space.
“…the Titan 18 HX’s display allows for incredible realism in all environments like indoors, outdoors, and even in direct sunlight.”
The Titan 18 HX sports 2 Thunderbolt 4 ports, 3x USB-A 3.2 Gen 2 ports, 1 SD card slot, 1 Audio jack, a Kensington lock slot, an HDMI 2.1 port, as well as a DC jack, and an RJ45 port for Ethernet. For those of us who want to connect wirelessly, it also features an Intel Killer Wi-Fi 7 card that allows for speeds of up to 5.8 Gbps, ensuring you are always in the game with the lowest latency possible.
Like the Titan GT77, the Titan 18 HX has a SteelSeries keyboard with Cherry Mx Mechanical RGB keys per key and a 65% larger number pad and arrow keys. They felt and sounded fantastic, especially considering this is a laptop. It is crazy to think how much innovation has gone into something like this, but MSI has delivered. While it may sound minor, even the touchpad helps to give a sense of the innovation at play within the Titan 18 HX. The touchpad is a seamless, RGB-integrated experience with haptic navigation to boot. Not only does it make navigation easier, but it is also more responsive thanks to the haptics it incorporates.
This laptop has been plucked right from the top of the line, and the specs show it. With up to an NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 4090 and an Intel i9-14900HX processor, there’s not much the Titan 18 HX can’t handle, whether it’s video editing, Photoshop, or playing Cyberpunk 2077 at max resolution.
“The Titan 18 HX aims to be MSI’s most powerful laptop yet…”
To keep this gaming monster cool, MSI has used the revolutionary Vapor Chamber Cooling, which is designed to keep things cool even under load. 2 fans and 4 separate vents allow for maximum airflow and cooling to ensure the computer doesn’t overheat even under the most intense use. Combine this with MSI’s brilliant work with temperature performance management, and you have a machine that stays cool under pressure.
We now arrive at the coolest part of the Titan 18 HX, and that is the MSI AI Engine. This exclusive technology helped MSI receive a CES 2024 Innovation Award for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and is on full display here. With a simple toggling of a button, the AI Engine will automatically start learning user preferences for a broad range of things like brightness, audio, and visual, as well as gaming preferences like optimal settings when playing something like Forza Motorsport or Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. It’s not limited to gaming either, as there are a massive amount of applications that the AI Engine can be used for, such as Zoom calls, Adobe Creative Cloud, YouTube, and more.
The AI Engine also gives the user control over which settings are affected when the button is turned on. For example, if you want the AI Engine not to dim the screen when the environment is dark or increase or decrease the volume, you can disable that part of the data collection.
Users can also provide feedback directly to MSI through the MSI Center application to assist with ensuring that the deep learning that the AI Engine is doing is done correctly with the most relevance and context to the user experience.
The Titan 18 HX aims to be MSI’s most powerful laptop yet, and with things like the AI Engine, the incredible 4K 120hz display, as well as the ability to utilize ray-tracing in some of the most graphically intense titles, such as Cyberpunk 2077 and Forza Motorsport speaks volumes about just how incredible this machine is. Then, when you take into account the fact that this is a portable device and not a stationary desktop computer, it becomes all the more impressive.
Buyers can find the MSI Titan 18 HX available at authorized retailers.
