MSI Raider A18 HX A9WIG-082US

$3,599.00 price as of 49 minutes ago

View on Amazon sold by EXCaliberPC

How it compares

• 18 in screen: the most of the 658 laptops here that state it.
• 120 Hz refresh: less than 87% of the 274 laptops here that state it.
• 2000 GB storage: more than 71% of the 623 laptops here that state it.
• 16 GB gpu memory: more than 69% of the 162 laptops here that state it.
• 32 GB ram: less than 53% of the 595 laptops here that state it.

Counted across the laptops on this site whose seller stated the figure, not across every laptop made. It is arithmetic, not a verdict: nobody here has used this laptop.

What you pay for it

Among the 7 closest laptops we list, this one is 6th cheapest at $3,599.00. They run from $2,529.00 to $4,499.99.

5 of them cost less and 1 cost more. Closest means sharing at least six stated specifications, not sharing a name, and every price in the comparison carries the moment it was read. The whole set is below.

Laptops like this one

An empty cell means that seller did not state it. These are the laptops sharing the most stated specifications with this one, chosen by the numbers rather than by the name on the lid.

Specifications

What it is for

Gaming laptops 225

Laptops whose listing states a separate graphics card and a screen that refreshes at 120Hz or faster.

Laptops for video editing 195

Laptops whose listing states a separate graphics card, at least 32GB of memory and a screen of 15 inches or more.

Big screen laptops 98

Laptops whose listing states a screen of 17 inches or more.

Laptops for AI work 69

Laptops whose listing states a graphics card with 12GB of memory or more, which is what decides the size of model that fits on the machine.

Laptops for programming 276

Laptops whose listing states at least 32GB of memory and a terabyte of storage, which is what a container stack and a few checkouts ask for.

Laptops with room for everything 179

Laptops whose listing states two terabytes of storage or more.

Laptops for engineers 85

A mobile workstation: dedicated graphics with 8GB of its own memory, 32GB of system memory, a screen of 16 inches or more and a terabyte of storage. CAD, simulation and BIM software asks for all four together, which is why all four are in the rule.

Laptops for architects 40

The largest screens with real graphics behind them: 17 inches or more, dedicated graphics with 8GB of memory and a terabyte of storage. Drawing is done at a distance you cannot fake on a 14 inch panel.

Laptops for company fleets 202

A professional edition of the operating system, 16GB of memory and 512GB of storage. The professional edition is what domain joining and disk encryption need, and it is the line most purchasing departments start from.

Each group is decided by a rule read from the specifications the seller stated, applied to every laptop here at once. Nothing is tagged by hand, so this machine joined the day its listing said it belonged.

From the listing

What the seller says

• Display: 18" UHD+ (3840x2400) 120Hz Mini LED HDR 1000 100% DCI-P3
• Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16GB GDDR7
• Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D 16 Cores (2.5GHz-5.4GHz, 128MB Smart Cache)
• RAM: 32GB (2x 16GB) DDR5 5600MHz | Hard Drive: 2TB PCIe NVMe SSD
• OS: Microsoft Windows 11 Pro | Warranty: 1-Year MSI USA Warranty Parts & Labor (include 1 Year Global Warranty) + Lifetime Tech Support from EXCaliberPC

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Specifications are read from the listing itself, never invented. An empty row means the seller did not state it.

As the seller lists it: EXCaliberPC [2025] MSI Raider A18 HX A9WIG-082US (AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D, 32GB DDR5 RAM, 2TB NVMe SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX

Listing read 49 minutes ago.