MSI Katana GF76 12UC

Mid-range gaming laptops with the best balance between price, features and performance. They are part of the MSI Katana line of weapons, which the Taiwanese manufacturer launched in 2021 together with the famous Japanese illustrator Nagano Tsuyoshi. Aimed at experienced gamers who are not satisfied with low graphics settings and frame rates below 30 frames per second, but are not ready to pay exorbitant prices for a video card to play in 4K.

As a hardware basis in this line, a bunch of an 8-thread Intel Core i5 processor (Tiger Lake, 12th generation) and a GeForce RTX 3050 video card with 4 GB of video memory are most often used, which complement 8 GB of DDR4 RAM and a reactive SSD with a capacity of 512 GB. The video card is equipped with 6 GB of GDDR6 video memory, supports hardware ray tracing and artificial DLSS scaling technologies.

Such hardware can handle most current games at 1080p, delivering a stable 60 FPS at medium graphics settings in Cyberpunk 2077, God Of War, COD: MW2 and RDR2. Other features of MSI Katana laptops include a comfortable keyboard with a solid red backlight, a Hi-Res sound card with Nahimic support, a network card with a dedicated LAN port and Wi-Fi 6 wireless module. It delivers 1080p resolution and a 144Hz refresh rate, which is required for crisper and smoother action game scenes. At the same time, the manufacturer left room for independent modernization and memory replacement.