MSI Alpha 15 Review – Ryzen Laptop!

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Finally, I’ve got my hands on a Ryzen based gaming laptop, this one is the Alpha 15 A3DD from MSI. Sadly, it’s not the newest 4th gen mobile chip, I should have one of those on its way soon, but for now lets see what this 3750H machine is capable of – first though, if you haven’t already, consider subscribing for more videos like this one every monday, wednesday and friday!

So you can understand where this laptop sits in the market, I want to start with it’s price. It’s a hair over £/$1000 which fits it in the fairly budget category for gaming laptops. Funnily enough, the chassis itself is just an MSI GL65, with a gray top plate which actually looks really nice. I/O is the exact same, you’ve got 3 USB A ports, a Type C, HDMI, Mini DP, headphone and microphone jacks, ethernet, an SD card reader, and DC in. 

The main difference though is of course the spec. This Alpha 15 is rocking that Ryzen 3750H, a quad core with SMT that runs north of 3.4GHz, as well as 16GB of RAM, an RX 5500M for graphics, and my model has 512GB of SSD storage. Because of that 5500M performance on this compared to the standard GL65 with the 1660ti or even the RTX 2060 is going to be limited. 

While we are talking about performance, lets run through some gaming benchmarks, in COD Modern Warfare, Battlefield V, PUBG and Fortnite, all at high or ultra settings.

Game – 1080p	AVG FPS	1% Low FPS
BFV	59	16.9
COD Modern Warfare	74.29	38
PUBG	66.29	49.5
Fortnite	72.27	37

Performance wise, this isn’t a beastly machine. It gets 60 FPS pretty consistently at ULTRA SETTINGS, which is amazing for the price point really. Stick the games on medium or high and you’ll get to make use of that 120Hz screen with no problems.

One thing to note with AMD GPU laptops is that more often than not, the switchable graphics won’t detect games correctly and you’ll be using the integrated graphics that’s on the CPU, aka much, much less powerful, meaning you get terrible FPS. Happily the fix takes like 10 seconds. Open the AMD driver, click System then Switchable Graphics, find the game’s EXE and select “High Performance” and you are good to go. I went from 13FPS in the COD menu, to locked 60 with that one change. 

What’s more impressive than the FPS results to me, is the temps it was hitting. The CPU peaked at around 80°c, but in games actually only averaged around 65°c, a far cry from the 95°c Intel’s mobile chips sit at. The GPU did pretty well too, sitting around 66°c while gaming. It’s also really quiet, for a gaming laptop. It’s still noisy, but it doesn’t sound like a jet taking off and that’s a big deal for a laptop.

Display wise, it’s rocking the usual 144Hz “IPS Level” panel, which looks great for gaming. It seems to be fairly responsive when playing – but turns out it’s a pretty slow panel overall. It’s pretty fast going from black to white, around 7ms, but as you can see on the high speed, it has a massive trail as the release time, going from white to black takes ages, up to 30ms which is really, really long. 

Another disappointing result is the input lag. The MSI GE65 – a slightly higher end model to the GL is about 20ms faster than this, with the Alpha 15 taking around 60ms to display a mouse input on screen in CSGO. I’ve tested a lot of monitors and systems with this method, so am confident in saying ~60ms is pretty slow. A great result here is around 20ms, with 30-40ms being fairly average. 

Sticking with the display, it gets worse. While colours don’t look too bad for casual content consumption, a test with my SpyderX and Datacolor’s software showed pretty pitiful results. The panel covered only 59% of the sRGB spectrum, only 44% of the AdobeRGB spectrum, and the same for DCI P3. That’s really not great. 

What about the keyboard and track pad though? They are the same thing you’ll find on most budget MSI laptops – the track pad is responsive enough, and the keyboard is a little mushy, a little light for me, but still a decent typing experience, good enough for a student who wants to game and work – which honestly sums up this laptop well. It’s cheap enough that the naff display doesn’t matter too much. 

If you are after a content creation machine, I’d look elsewhere, but as a gaming machine for a student to do some work on inbetween gaming sessions, it’s a good shout.