Tuesday, January 30th 2024
MSI Confirms Claw Prices for All Three SKUs, Confirms VRR Screen
MSI has officially confirmed the price for all three Claw gaming handheld SKUs, including two SKUs with the Intel Core Ultra 7-155H CPU and one equipped with the Core Ultra-135H CPU. The MSI Claw starts at $699.99 for the base version with an Intel Core Ultra 5-135H CPU, 16 GB of LPDDR5 memory, and 512 GB of PCIe Gen 4 M.2 storage. The other two SKUs, are priced at $749.99 and $799.99, both come with a Core Ultra 7-155H CPU, 16 GB of LPDDR5 memory, and either 512 GB or 1 TB of PCIe Gen 4 M.2 storage. Unfortunately, there is no word on the rumored SKU with 32 GB of LPDDR5 memory.
These prices make the MSI Claw just a tad bit more expensive than the ASUS ROG Ally and the Lenovo Legion Go, but it should do well if the performance is there. MSI has also confirmed to The Verge that the Claw's 7-inch 1080p screen comes with Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) operating between 48 and 120 Hz. The MSI Claw is rumored to launch in February or March.In case you missed it, the Intel Core Ultra 7-155H is a 16-core/22-thread CPU (6 P-cores/10 E-cores) boosting up to 4.8 GHz, and comes with 8 GPU Xe-Cores, leaving it with 128 Execution Units (EUs). In earlier reviews, the Core Ultra 7-155H did quite well in GPU benchmarks, and it is still left to be seen how well it will do in the MSI Claw handheld and against the rest of the competition like the ASUS ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion Go, and the Valve Steam Deck. The Core Ultra-135H, on the other hand, is a 14-core/18-thread CPU boosting up to 4.6 GHz (4 P-cores/10 E-cores), and comes with 7 GPU Xe-Cores, or simply, 96 Execution Units. The performance difference between these two Intel CPUs should not be as big as the difference between AMD's Ryzen Z1 and the Ryzen Z1 Extreme.
These prices make the MSI Claw just a tad bit more expensive than the ASUS ROG Ally and the Lenovo Legion Go, but it should do well if the performance is there. MSI has also confirmed to The Verge that the Claw's 7-inch 1080p screen comes with Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) operating between 48 and 120 Hz. The MSI Claw is rumored to launch in February or March.In case you missed it, the Intel Core Ultra 7-155H is a 16-core/22-thread CPU (6 P-cores/10 E-cores) boosting up to 4.8 GHz, and comes with 8 GPU Xe-Cores, leaving it with 128 Execution Units (EUs). In earlier reviews, the Core Ultra 7-155H did quite well in GPU benchmarks, and it is still left to be seen how well it will do in the MSI Claw handheld and against the rest of the competition like the ASUS ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion Go, and the Valve Steam Deck. The Core Ultra-135H, on the other hand, is a 14-core/18-thread CPU boosting up to 4.6 GHz (4 P-cores/10 E-cores), and comes with 7 GPU Xe-Cores, or simply, 96 Execution Units. The performance difference between these two Intel CPUs should not be as big as the difference between AMD's Ryzen Z1 and the Ryzen Z1 Extreme.