Intel’s H35 Core CPU enables 5GHz power in MSI’s thin Stealth 15M

Choosing a gaming laptop is often an exercise in picking your compromises. But what’s making recent notebooks so impressive is how minor those compromises really are. That’s thanks to tech like Intel’s recent H35 mobile processors that bring high-end gaming to an ultraportable form factor. And after experiencing that first hand with MSI’s Stealth 15M (available for $1,700), it’s a great time to recommend a gaming laptop.

The new Stealth 15M comes with an Nvidia RTX 3060 and the Intel Core i7-11375H CPU. That is a 4-core, 8-thread processor that is capable of boosting all the way up to 5GHz on a single core. These specs make the Stealth 15M a gaming beast, and yet MSI claims this is the “world’s thinnest 15-inch gaming laptop.” And at 16mm, it feels very slight indeed, and yet it is capable of high-refresh rate graphics with real-time raytracing.