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.
Specifications
| Design |
| type of product | laptop |
| Color of product | Black |
| Form factor | Clamshell |
| display |
| Display diagonal | 39.6 cm (15.6" ) |
| Resolution | 1920 x 1080 pixels |
| touchscreen | No |
| HD type | full HD |
| Original aspect ratio | 16 |
| Maximum refresh rate | 144 Hz |
| processor |
| processor family | Intel® Core™ i7 |
| Processor manufacturer | Intel |
| Processor model | i7-12650H |
| Processor generation | Intel® 12th Generation Core™ i7 |
| Number of processor cores | 10 |
| Maximum processor turbine frequency | 4.7 GHz |
| Processor cache | 24 MB |
| Configurable TDP down | 35 W |
| Memory |
| Internal memory | 16 GB |
| Maximum internal memory | 64 GB |
| Internal memory type | DDR5-SDRAM |
| Clock speed memory | 4800MHz |
| Memory form factor | SO-DIMM |
| Memory Slots | 2x SO-DIMM |
| Storage media |
| total storage capacity | 512 GB |
| Storage media | SSD |
| Type of optical drive | No |
| Total capacity of SSDs | 512 GB |
| Number of SSDs installed | 1 |
| SSD capacity | 512 GB |
| SSD interfaces | PCI Express 4.0 |
| NVMe | Yes |
| Graphic |
| Built-in graphics adapter | Yes |
| Separate graphics adapter | Yes |
| Discreet graphical adapter model | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 |
| On-board graphics adapter model | Intel® UHD Graphics |
| Discrete graphics adapter manufacturer | NVIDIA |
| Graphic memory | 8 GB |
| Specific graphic memory type | GDDR6 |
| audio |
| Number of built-in speakers | 2 |
| Power speakers | 2 W |
| Camera |
| Camera front | Yes |
| Front camera HD type | HD |
| Video capturing speed | 30fps |
| Network |
| Mobile network connection | No |
| Wifi-standaard | Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) |
| Wi-Fi-standaarden | Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) |
| Ethernet LAN | Yes |
| Ethernet LAN, data transfer rates | 10,100,1000 Mbit / s |
| Bluetooth | Yes |
| Bluetooth-versie | 5.2 |
| Gates & Interfaces |
| Number of USB 2.0 ports | 1 |
| Number of ports USB 3.2 Gen 1 (3.1 Gen 1) Type A | 2 |
| Number of portsUSB 3.2 Gen 1 (3.1 Gen 1) Type C | 1 |
| Number of HDMI ports | 1 |
| Number of Ethernet LAN (RJ-45) ports | 1 |
| HDMI version | 2.1 |
| Combo headphone / microphone port | Yes |
| USB Type-C DisplayPort Alternate Mode | Yes |
| Keyboard |
| Numeric keypad | Yes |
| Pointing device | Touchpad |
| Backlit keyboard | Yes |
| Keyboard backlight color | RGB |
| Zone with keyboard illumination | 4-zone RGB |
| Software |
| Includes operating system | Windows 11 Home |
| Processor special features |
| Intel® Flex Memory Access | Yes |
| Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT) | Yes |
| Execute Disable Bit | Yes |
| CPU configuration (max) | 1 |
| Built-in options available | No |
| Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d) | Yes |
| Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x) | Yes |
| Accu/Batterij |
| Battery capacity | 53.5 Wh |
| Number of battery cells | 3 |
| Energy |
| AC adapter, power | 200 W |
| Weight & dimensions |
| Weight | 2.25 kg |
| Width | 359 mm |
| Depth | 259 mm |
| Height | 24.9 mm |
