A few days ago, we got our hands on MSI’s latest Engineering Sample of the GS76 STEALTH 11UE. For the GS series, which is mainly thin and light, MSI has kept the tradition of balancing lightweight, mould quality and high performance, and this one is equipped with the latest 11th generation Intel i7-11800H and Nvidia RTX3060 Mobile to solve productivity problems and play AAA games without any problem. So let’s dig into the details.
Product Specification
MSI GS76 STEALTH 11UE Tech Specs from Official Website
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Product Unboxing
Package Appearance
The insider package is the general GS series black box with thick form protection
The AC adapter is 20V 11.5A, a total of 230W and manufactured by Delta
The weight of the AC adapter and power cable is around 755g
The pure black internal box
The main body is warped by a double-layered suit which has an anti-static layer and a black fabric layer
Product Analysis
The main look of GS76 STEALTH
The thin-bezel design
The Steelseries Keyboard with per-key backlight
The Dynaudio audio system
The laptop front side – Smooth design without any indicator
The laptop rear side – Semi-symmetrical design with MSI logo and a large opening area
The laptop right side – 1 x battery charging indicator, 1 x Type-C(USB3.2 Gen.2 w/DP), 1 x SDXC Card Reader, 1 x Thunderbolt™ 4, 1 x (8K @60Hz / 4K @ 120Hz) HDMI 2.1
The laptop left side – Power jack, 1 x 2.5Gb LAN, 2 x Type-A(USB3.2 Gen2), 1 x Mic/Headphone combo jack
The laptop weight: 2.33KG, around 3.1KG total with AC adapter and power cable
Screen Calibration
MSI GS76 STEALTH 11UE is using a 17″ FHD Sharp LQ173M1JW05(SHP14EC) IPS-level panel
Calibration result: Average △E≈0.10, Maximum △E≈1.57
After calibration, we have a 108.0% of sRGB, 74.4% of Adobe RGB and 76.5% of DCI P3 coverage
Calibration Curves
Gamut
Tone Response Curves
Software & Hardware Introduction
The new looking MSI Center laptop management software
Monitor section
Features section – User Scneario selection
Features section – General Settings
Support section – Live Update
Support section – System Info
Support section – Backup
Feature sets page
Settings page
My Device page
HWINFO System detail – Intel 11th gen i7-11800H 8-cores 16 threads with Nvidia RTX3060 Mobile Graphics card
HWINFO WIFI & LAN detail
WIFI Card – Killer Wifi6E AX1675x(Intel AX210NGW) with Bluetooth v5.2
LAN Card – Killer E3100G 2.5Gb(Intel i225-V)
HWINFO SSD detail – Kingston OM8PCP3512F-AI1 512G PCIe Gen3
HWINFO Smart battery detail
CPU-Z snapshots
GPU-Z
GPU-Z PWR (70W around)
Run-time Benchmark Test
Unfortunately, we cannot change the power plan to the ‘Ultimate Power Performance’ in Win10. All test are based on the ‘performance mode’ in the settings of MSI Center.
Cinebench R15 Single core & Multi core
Cinebench R20 Single core & Multi core
Cinebench R23 Single core & Multi core
PCMark10 – | 6,065
3DMARK – Time Spy | 6,938
3DMARK – Time Spy Extreme | 3,273
3DMARK – Port Royal | 3,644
3DMARK – Fire Strike | 14,481
3DMARK – Fire Strike Extreme | 8,359
3DMARK – Fire Strike Ultra | 4,500
3DMARK – DirectX Raytracing feature test | 18.35 Average FPS
3DMARK – Mesh Shader feature test | OFF: 62.26 FPS, ON: 242.3 FPS
3DMARK – VRS: Tier 1 | OFF: 414.47 FPS, ON: 602.59 FPS
3DMARK – DLSS 2 v1.3 | OFF: 27.28 FPS, ON: 44.54 FPS
FURMARK FHD ｜ 78 Average FPS
CPU-Z Benchmark | Single-Thread: 566.6, Multi-Threads: 4514.7
BLENDER Benchmarks
7ZIP 128MB Dictionary Size
VRAY Benchmark
X264 Benchmark
TxBENCH
Thermal Tests
We are pressure testing this laptop by using AIDA64 and FURMARK.
With Auto FAN profile and non-OC settings:
Test room temperature: 18℃±2℃
CPU Idle temperature: 43℃±2℃
GPU idle temperature: 42℃±2℃
Under AIDA64 Single FPU pressure test, this Intel i7-11800H is partial throttling down @ 2.51GHz
The CPU package temperature is around 90℃±6℃
Under AIDA64 Single CPU pressure test, the Intel i7-11800H is partial throttling down @ 3.70GHz
The CPU package temperature is around 88℃±7℃
Under AIDA64 CPU + Memory & FURMARK GPU pressure test, the Intel i7-11800H is partial throttling down @ 2.58GHz
The GPU clock is average @ 947.9Mhz
The CPU package temperature is around 94℃±4℃
The GPU temperature is around 74.6℃
Overclock test
Test room temperature: 21℃±2℃
CPU Idle temperature: 37℃±2℃
GPU idle temperature: 36℃±2℃
With Cooler Boost FAN profile and Full OC settings:
Under AIDA64 Single FPU pressure test, this Intel i7-11800H is partial throttling down @ 2.83GHz
The CPU package temperature is around 79℃±17℃
Under AIDA64 Single CPU pressure test, the Intel i7-11800H is partial throttling down @ 4.06GHz
The CPU package temperature is around 88℃±7℃
Under AIDA64 CPU + Memory & FURMARK GPU pressure test, the Intel i7-11800H is partial throttling down @ 3.45GHz
The GPU clock is average @ 1038.4Mhz
The CPU package temperature is around 90℃±7℃
The GPU temperature is around 60.6℃
3DMARK Time Spy OC | 8,176 +15.1%
3DMARK Time Spy Extreme OC | 3,928 +16.7%
3DMARK Fire Strike OC | DID NOT PASS THE TEST
3DMARK Fire Strike Extreme OC | 9,600 +12.9%
3DMARK Fire Strike Ultra OC | 5,179 +13.1%
3DMARK Port Royal OC | DID NOT PASS THE TEST
3DMARK DirectX Raytracing OC | 21.14 Average FPS +13.2%
3DMARK Mesh Shader OC | 265.94 +8.9%
3DMARK VRS Tier 1 OC | 682.61 FPS +11.7%
3DMARK DLSS 2 v1.3 | DID NOT PASS THE TEST
The thermal snapshots under the MAX pressure test(AIDA64 + FURMARK)
Front – A panel | Left vent temperature is around 70.4℃ | Right vent temperature is around 58.3℃
Front – Top of the C panel | It’s around 56.8℃ in the middle of the vents and 40℃ on the average of the keyboard
Bottom – D panel | It’s around 64℃ crossing the CPU and GPU between the two exhausting fans
Sides – Left vent temperature | It’s around 50.9℃ at the Left vent and the hottest spot is 70℃
Sides – Right vent temperature | It’s around 45.6℃ at the Left vent and the hottest spot is 63.1℃
AC adapter – It’s around 45.4℃ average on the surface and the hottest spot is 49℃
Under Idle mode, the noise level is around 37.7dBA
Under normal fan mode under pressure, the noise level is around 51.4dBA
Under Cooler Boost mode, the noise level is around 61.7dBA
We only got the Engineering Sample this time, so the cooling solution may not be the final solution, but it still holds up well to the latest 11th gen i7-11800H, especially when the fan is running at full speed, and the overclock can actually reach an average of 12% performance increase. After all, this 45W TDP, 8-core, 16-thread CPU is far more powerful than the i7-1185G7. Unfortunately, a few of the 3DMARK tests did not pass because the card was overclocked and needed to be turned off to run properly, so we did not test the gaming performance in detail. Also, the fan is as noisy as ever with Cooler Boost on.
SUMMARY
The design is the same as before but with a few modifications, the sturdiness is guaranteed and at the same time it is as thin and light as possible. And for a 17″ laptop, the weight is close to that of the Razer Blade 15, proving that MSI has compressed the weight to the extreme. And the A-panel with the Dragon Shield design remains and has not been replaced with The MSI text logo is also a testament to the pedigree of its gaming series.
Instead of a 2K resolution screen, the GS76 STEALTH 11UE uses a 240Hz high refresh rate gaming screen with over 100% of the sRGB colour gamut (the official description is ‘close to 100%’) seems modest), with a much-higher 300Hz upgraded version available. The full-size per-key RGB Steelseries keyboard will satisfy most people’s pain points, while the full-size SD card reader is a favourite among office users. 16G of 3200Hz DDR4 and a 1TB NVMe SSD are enough for everyday applications and entertainment, and MSI hasn’t forgotten about those gamers and corporate users who need high-speed and stable Internet. The 2.5Gb LAN port is perfectly suited for these activities. Meanwhile, the Thunderbolt 4 interface, Type-C connector with DP protocol and the deployment of HDMI 2.1 allow the machine to be connected to three monitors with up to 8K resolution for Matrix Display.
Performance-wise, the new standard voltage laptop CPU does bring more performance, even MSI’s proprietary cooling is not able to fully suppress this CPU, but the reduced voltage overclocking through MSI’s own control does have a good effect. As we didn’t take any screenshots of the game scores, the overall frame rate is much better than the previous model STEALTH 15M, especially for very CPU-intensive games, such as GTAV, Total War series, etc.
Thermal dissipation is, as expected, MSI’s best item. But without being able to take it apart, according to MSI’s official figures, the cooling system used on the GS76 is a triple-fan, 6 heat pipes ‘Cooler Boost Trinity+’.
Price-wise, the pre-order price is roughly AU$3,499 and the GE76 Raider 10UE, also powered by the RTX3060 Mobile, is priced at AU$3,099, so users can take a little reference. Of course, we can’t rule out some price adjustments, but everything will be based on the retail version once it is listed.
MSI GS76 STEALTH 11UE OFFICIAL WEBSITE: HERE