Protect your honor and defeat the enemies. Awaken your inner power and inherit the will of the Dragon. In your hands is the Dragon's Blade, flowing with ancient power, and engraved with runes of wind. Strike down any foe that stands in your way with the legendary blade Katana 15 B12V.REINVENTING MULTI-CORE ARCHITECTUREKatana 17 B12U equips the latest 12th Gen. Intel® Core i7 processor, features with performance and efficiency cores, providing unprecedented boost in multitasking works and heavy games.GEFORCE RTX 40 SERIES LAPTOPSBEYOND FASTNVIDIA® GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs are beyond fast for gamers and creators. They're powered by the ultra-efficient NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture which delivers a quantum leap in both performance and AI-powered graphics. Experience lifelike virtual worlds with ray tracing and ultra-high FPS gaming with the lowest latency. Discover revolutionary new ways to create and unprecedented workflow acceleration.AI-POWERED PERFORMANCEAND LIFELIKE GRAPHICS*Get a quantum leap in performance in games and creative apps with AI-powered DLSS 3 and enable lifelike virtual worlds with full ray tracing.RAY TRACINGHYPERREALISTIC. HYPERFAST.The Ada architecture unleashes the full glory of ray tracing, which simulates how light behaves in the real world. With the power of RTX 40 Series and third-gen RT Cores, you can experience incredibly detailed virtual worlds like never before.OPTIMIZED POWER ANDPERFORMANCENVIDIA Max-Q is an advanced suite of AI-powered technologies that optimize your system for peak efficiency. This enables blazing-fast laptops that are thin, quiet, and have amazing battery life.LIGHTNING FAST AND SMOOTH DISPLAYNever miss a shot with the striking visuals and smooth refresh rate of the 144Hz IPS-level display.LIGHT UP WITH GAMING STYLEThe Katana Series is equipped with a 4-Zone RGB Keyboard with the lightened WASD and specially-designed keycaps. Enjoy the colorful light that shines like pulse energy giving you an immersive gaming experience with style!REFORGED COOLING SOLUTIONWITH CPU&GPU SHARED-PIPE DESIGNIntroduction the new Shared-Pipe design, the heat pipe which attached on both CPU and GPU. Shared-Pipe can improve the thermal capability, especially releasing the CPU performance! With MSI Cooler Boost 5, gamers can explore the increasingly complex game world freely.STRIKE FASTERAccelerate performance on all levels with faster memory read/write speed on DDR5 memory.LIKE MAGIC LOADING SPEEDWith extremely high performance and up to 7.88 GB/s bandwidth, the PCIe Gen 4 allows users to load up any game and task with lighting fast speeds.THE WAY MUSIC SHOULD BEImmerse yourself in lossless music and enjoy the premium sound quality with Hi-Resolution Audio.ELEVATE YOUR AUDIOExperience audio the way it was intended and share it with Nahimic in-game 3D surround & Sound Sharing via Bluetooth.GET ALL THE BUFFSThe exclusive MSI Center helps you control and customize your MSI laptop the way you want.MSI APP PlayerDeveloped under an exclusive partnership with BlueStacks, the MSI APP Player provides a seamless gaming experience between mobile gaming and the PC.
| Design | |
| Product type: | Notebook |
| Product colour: | Black |
| Form factor: | Clamshell |
| Display | |
| Display diagonal: | 39.6 cm (15.6") |
| Display resolution: | 1920 x 1080 pixels |
| Touchscreen: |  |
| HD type: | Full HD |
| Maximum refresh rate: | 144 Hz |
| Processor | |
| Processor family: | Intel® Core i7 |
| Processor manufacturer: | Intel |
| Processor model: | i7-12650H |
| Processor generation: | 12th gen Intel® Core i7 |
| Processor boost frequency: | 4.7 GHz |
| Processor cores: | 10 |
| Processor cache: | 24 MB |
| Configurable TDP-down: | 35 W |
| Memory | |
| Internal memory: | 16 GB |
| Maximum internal memory: | 64 GB |
| Internal memory type: | DDR5-SDRAM |
| Memory clock speed: | 4800 MHz |
| Storage | |
| Total storage capacity: | 512 GB |
| Storage media: | SSD |
| Optical drive type: | |
| Total SSDs capacity: | 512 GB |
| Number of SSDs installed: | 1 |
| SSD capacity: | 512 GB |
| SSD interface: | PCI Express 4.0 |
| NVMe: |  |
| Graphics | |
| On-board graphics card: | |
| Discrete graphics card: | |
| Discrete graphics card model: | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 |
| On-board graphics card model: | Intel® UHD Graphics |
| Discrete GPU manufacturer: | NVIDIA |
| Discrete graphics card memory: | 8 GB |
| Discrete graphics memory type: | GDDR6 |
| Audio | |
| Number of built-in speakers: | 2 |
| Speaker power: | 2 W |
| Camera | |
| Front camera: | |
| Front camera HD type: | HD |
| Video capturing speed: | 30 fps |
| Network | |
| Mobile network connection: | |
| Top Wi-Fi standard: | Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) |
| Wi-Fi standards: | Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) |
| Ethernet LAN: | |
| Ethernet LAN data rates: | 10,100,1000 Mbit/s |
| Bluetooth: | |
| Bluetooth version: | 5.2 |
| Ports & interfaces | |
| USB 2.0 ports quantity: | 1 |
| USB 3.2 Gen 1 (3.1 Gen 1) Type-A ports quantity: | 2 |
| USB 3.2 Gen 1 (3.1 Gen 1) Type-C ports quantity: | 1 |
| HDMI ports quantity: | 1 |
| Ethernet LAN (RJ-45) ports: | 1 |
| HDMI version: | 2.1 |
| Combo headphone/mic port: | |
| USB Type-C DisplayPort Alternate Mode: | |
| Keyboard | |
| Numeric keypad: | |
| Pointing device: | Touchpad |
| Keyboard backlit: | |
| Keyboard backlit colour: | RGB |
| Keyboard backlit zone: | 4-zone RGB |
| Software | |
| Operating system installed: | |
| Processor special features | |
| Intel Flex Memory Access: | |
| Intel VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT): | |
| Execute Disable Bit: | |
| CPU configuration (max): | 1 |
| Embedded options available: | |
| Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d): | |
| Intel Virtualization Technology (VT-x): | |
| Battery | |
| Battery capacity: | 53.5 Wh |
| Number of battery cells: | 3 |
| Power | |
| AC adapter power: | 200 W |
| Weight & dimensions | |
| Weight: | 2.25 kg |
| Width: | 359 mm |
| Depth: | 259 mm |
| Height: | 24.9 mm |
