MSI confirms the Claw will have a 48-120Hz VRR screen
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MSI confirms the Claw will have a 48-120Hz VRR screen
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By Sean Hollister, a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget.
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The MSI Claw will be one of the first handheld gaming PCs with an Intel Core Ultra processor inside — and the second with a variable refresh rate (VRR) screen. Previously, the Asus ROG Ally was the only handheld with that dynamic gameplay smoothing display feature, and it’s one of its biggest advantages, and — after a lot of back and forth — MSI has now triple-confirmed that the Claw will contain a 7-inch, 1080p, 48-120Hz VRR screen too.
Earlier today, I published that it wouldn’t have a VRR screen, after explicitly fact-checking that with the company on Friday, MSI initially said you could manually set it to 48Hz or 60Hz refresh rate if you’d rather go lower than the full 120Hz on offer.
MSI marketing specialist Anne Lee now tells me that product managers have explicitly confirmed it’s a 48-120Hz VRR screen, and I confirmed over the phone that that means dynamically and automatically adjusting its refresh rate, like the Asus ROG Ally. MSI also provided a screenshot of the Variable Refresh Rate setting turned on in Windows.
VRR is the generic form of technologies like Nvidia G-Sync and AMD FreeSync, which let a screen’s refresh rate dynamically match the frame rate delivered by your system’s GPU. That means you don’t experience choppy gameplay or screen tearing just because your graphics don’t hit, say, 60fps, because the screen can automatically display 59fps or 50fps or 48fps perfectly fine.
You can often still manually set the refresh rate of screens without VRR. The Steam Deck lets you set arbitrary manual refresh rates of most any number the display supports, and the Lenovo Legion Go lets you pick between 60Hz and 144Hz, for example. But VRR can be better. The Asus ROG Ally’s VRR screen comes in handy particularly when your game is running between 48 and 60fps, which are within its VRR range. A game running at 48fps on the Ally can look smoother than one running at 59fps on the Lenovo Legion Go, for example.
Now, it sounds like the same will be true of the MSI Claw.
The MSI Claw doesn’t have a confirmed release date yet, but rumors suggest it could arrive as soon as February or March.
Correction, 11:58PM ET: The MSI Claw will have a variable refresh rate screen. In an earlier version of this story, I wrote it wouldn’t. We regret the error.
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