MSI Cyborg 15 review: The perfect budget gaming laptop for 2026?

[Redaktion]

With the Cyborg, MSI is selling an exciting 15-inch notebook in the 1,000 Euros (~$1180) range that is aimed at price-conscious gamers. We took a detailed look at the RTX 5050 device and discovered a few surprises.

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[Not a gaming panel]

21% slower than "Average NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop":
Time Spy Graphics: 7166 Points.
3dmark.com/search -> 5050 (notebook): "Average score: 9604".

144 Hz

With pixel response times of 20 ms and 27.6 ms, this is a true 1/0.02 = 50 Hz and 1/0.0276 = 36 Hz display, which is almost business, non-gaming, laptop type slow.

sRGB Coverage (%)   
64.8

Not supporting at least the ancient sRGB web-standard is lame.

sRGB (standard RGB) is a color space, for use on monitors, printers, and the World Wide Web. It was initially proposed by HP and Microsoft in 1996[2] and became an official standard of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) as IEC 61966-2-1:1999.[1] It is the current standard colorspace for the web, and it is usually the assumed colorspace for images that do not have an embedded color profile.