MSI Cyborg 15 A12VF-466FR, gaming laptop PC to play recent games 15″ IPS 144Hz Intel Core i5-H with its GeForce RTX 4060 – LaptopSpirit

Our opinion on the MSI Cyborg 15 A12VF-466FR

Performing well in games and multimedia work, the MSI Cyborg 15 A12VF-466FR is a lightweight creative gaming laptop based on a high-end NVIDIA Ada Lovelace GeForce RTX 4060 ray tracing graphics card combined with 16 GB of RAM as well as a high-performance Intel Alder Lake-H Core i5-12450H hybrid processor. Equipped with a 15-inch Full HD anti-glare IPS screen which improves fluidity in games with its frequency of 144Hz, this black laptop designed for gaming and creating on the go with a battery life of 7 hours under Windows 11 benefits from enhanced responsiveness with its fast 512 GB SSD storage, a backlit keyboard or even connectivity with Wi-Fi 6 and USB-C.

Features of the MSI Cyborg 15 A12VF-466FR

The MSI Cyborg 15 A12VF-466FR faces the competition

The MSI Cyborg 15 A12VF-466FR is currently on sale at Darty and the Fnac. It offers a configuration/price ratio attractive for its category where it is one of the cheapest to offer such a powerful graphics card in such a lightweight package.

If this MSI Cyborg 15 A12VF-466FR does not meet all your criteria, you will find it in our guide Gaming laptop other configurations to play with a similar budget. For the same budget, choose the model with the most powerful graphics card, it will have the greatest impact on performance.

You can also consult our guide Student laptop.

Chassis, connectors, screen of the MSI Cyborg 15 A12VF-466FR

With its lightweight Translucent Black design with angular lines and translucent parts, this versatile laptop for gamers and creatives has a gamer appearance.
It is cooled by Cooler Boost technology via 2 fans, heat pipes and ventilation grilles.

This creative gaming laptop PC integrates good connectivity including 1 USB-C, Bluetooth 5.2 and Wi-Fi 6 axis wireless modules to communicate and connect remotely, a practical HDMI video output to easily connect it to a TV or a monitor for example, Ethernet and audio ports as well as 3 USB including 2 USB 3.0 (USB 2.0 compatible) guaranteeing transfers up to 10 times faster than USB 2.0 if USB 3.0 devices are connected.

We can obviously backlight the keys of the chiclet keyboard in order to better distinguish them in a dimly lit environment. The keyboard design was made with the help of SteelSeries to adapt to the habits of gamers.

To appeal to gamers, the screen adopts a refresh rate of 144Hz higher than the 60Hz standard, which improves everyday fluidity, including in games. For the rest, the screen adopts specifications expected with regard to the positioning of this creative gaming laptop PC with its 16:9 format and its Full HD definition suitable for videos and more generally for High Definition content. But also its IPS technology ensuring significant vertical and horizontal viewing angles.

Performance, autonomy of the MSI Cyborg 15 A12VF-466FR

The MSI Cyborg 15 A12VF-466FR may appeal to those who wish to acquire a versatile laptop PC that performs well in creative-oriented gaming equipped with recent components.

It is capable of running recent games because it features the high-end NVIDIA Ada Lovelace GeForce RTX 4060 ray tracing graphics card.

Players will enjoy it as will creators. Because the GeForce RTX 4060 also accelerates processing under software that takes advantage of the power of GPU calculations, such as Sony Vegas, Adobe Photoshop/Premiere or VSDC.

In practice, the GeForce RTX 4060 is used by NVIDIA Optimus technology to carry out graphics processing deemed too heavy for the Intel Iris Xe. The Iris Xe is a graphics module directly inserted into the processor.

Like the GeForce RTX 4060, the Iris Xe allows you to view photos and videos but also to play light games. Above all, it consumes less energy, which promotes autonomy.
In this area, count on around 7 hours of battery operation in light use, which is appreciable given the power supplied.

Depending on the tasks accomplished, Optimus actually switches automatically and in real time between the Intel Iris Xe and the GeForce RTX 4060.

The Iris
This heart, which supports the GeForce RTX 4060 well in games, delivers its full potential under software using multi-core and RAM, such as photo editing, video editing or 3D rendering.

The storage is obviously entrusted to an SSD because it is silent, more resistant to shocks than a hard drive, more energy efficient and much faster.
As a result, the SSD ensures much better fluidity and responsiveness in use than a hard drive.

Thanks to the SSD, game/software launches are carried out more quickly than with a hard drive, as are starts/stops and processing, and you can access online game cards more quickly.

The 512 GB capacity of the SSD is equivalent to what hard drives offer as standard in this area. However, if you need more space, you can obviously use an external storage unit such as a USB 3.0/USB-C device to benefit from fast transfers.

Finally, when this lightweight, multimedia-oriented, versatile creative gaming laptop PC is heavily pushed (e.g. games, processing), it is noisy and heats up.

If necessary to contain the temperatures, we can add a ventilated support (remember to check the dimensions carefully!) to this model which may be suitable for those looking for a student laptop not needing a lot of autonomy.