Verdict
The Medion Erazer Major 16 X1 is a very powerful gaming laptop for its price, offering some fantastic gaming performance plus a capable port selection, vibrant IPS screen and comfortable keyboard and trackpad. The battery life isn’t brilliant, though, and you may prefer an OLED screen at this price.
Very potent gaming performance
Capable port selection
Bright IPS screen
Some may prefer an OLED screen at this price
Average battery life
Key Features
Review Price: £2499.99
Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX and RTX 5070 Ti inside:
The Erazer Major 16 X1 has a very powerful core of components at its price, with a fast Intel processor and capable Nvidia GPU.
16-inch QHD+ 300Hz IPS screen:
It also has a high resolution and very high refresh rate IPS display.
80Whr battery:
To help power its hungry components, the Erazer Major 16 X1 also has a capacious battery.
Introduction
The Medion Erazer Major 16 X1 looks to be one of the most powerful laptops available in its class.
It provides some very capable specs, such as its beefy Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor, RTX 5070 Ti graphics card, a big, high-res, high-refresh-rate display, 32GB of RAM, a capacious 2TB SSD, and a sizeable 80Wh battery.
Combine that with an enviable port selection and full-size keyboard for a £2499 price tag, and you’ve got a very compelling option against rivals such as the MSI Stealth A16 AI+ (2025) and Acer Predator Helios Neo 16S AI.
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I’ve been putting this Erazer Major 16 X1 through its paces for the last couple of weeks to see if it’s a match for the bigger manufacturers, and one of the best gaming laptops you can buy. Let’s see what happens.
Design and Keyboard
- Excellent build quality
- Solid port selection
- Decent keyboard and trackpad
When I first got the Erazer Major 16 X1 out of the box, it seemed especially compact in size for what is a larger 16-inch laptop. The general build quality of the chassis is strong, with a predominantly metal shell with a glossy finish, although it lacks much in the way of flair with more of a minimalistic look to it.
A 2.5kg weight isn’t unreasonable for such a big and powerful laptop, although the likes of the Stealth A16 AI+ is thinner and lighter if you want a more ‘portable’ choice at this power level. Nonetheless, it’s still decently easy to sling this into a bag to take on your travels, just as long as you have a bag big enough for it.
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The Erazer Major 16 X1 provides a vast range of ports across the left, right, and rear sides. The left side houses a USB-A, USB-C and a headphone jack, with the right having a further two USB-A ports and a full-size SD card reader.
It’s on the rear where this laptop has its bigger ports, such as an HDMI 2.1 and even a DisplayPort 2.1a mini port, plus a DC jack for power and a further USB-C. That’s some excellent connectivity.
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The Erazer Major 16 X1’s keyboard provides useful creature comforts such as a number pad, arrow keys and a function row, and features a snappy and tactile keypress. It’s satisfying to type on for work and play, and is pleasantly RGB backlit with a crisp light if you want.
It’s much the same story with this laptop’s trackpad, providing plenty of real estate for your fingers and smooth, reliable tracking.
Display and Sound
- Average black level and contrast
- High peak brightness for punchy output
- Middling speakers
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Medion hasn’t skimped out on the Erazer Major 16 X1’s screen, opting for a larger 16-inch IPS panel with a solid 2560×1600 resolution for good detail and a rather high 300Hz refresh rate.
This arguably allows the powerful internal components to stretch their legs a little more on a screen that’s otherwise a fantastic candidate for intensive, detailed gaming.
This screen has the hallmarks of a decent IPS gaming display, with a deep 0.08 black level at moderate brightness, rising to 0.47 at peak brightness. Likewise, its 1260:1 contrast ratio allows for decent dynamic range, although you will get stronger results out of equivalently-priced machines with Mini LED or OLED panels.
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It’s also a decently colour-accurate screen for generalist productivity tasks and for more colour-sensitive tasks, as is evidenced by the 100% sRGB coverage, as well as the 82% DCI-P3 and 80% Adobe RGB results that just hit our targets. 571.1 nits of peak SDR brightness give images a great amount of punch, too.
The Erazer Major 16 X1’s speakers aren’t as strong as those of its rivals, though, with a thinner, tinier sound. They lack a certain amount of substance and low-end, meaning you are better off using this laptop’s headphone jack for your audio needs.
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Performance
- Very powerful components
- Immense power at 1080p and 1440p
- Fast RAM and capacious SSD combo
The Erazer Major 16 X1 comes with a potent core to try and maximise its QHD+ resolution screen, pairing Intel’s beefy Core Ultra 9 275HX processor with an RTX 5070 Ti laptop GPU for some great performance overall.
The Core Ultra 9 275HX features 24 cores (split between 8 Performance and 16 Efficiency Cores) and 24 threads, which allows it to make for a rather potent chip in our testing in both Geekbench 6 and Cinebench R23.
Single-core performance is some of the strongest I’ve seen with this chip outside of modern MacBooks, while its multi-core performance is commendable, even if Intel decided to do away with hyperthreading on this chip. It’s easily one of the most powerful laptop chips I’ve tested, and that continues with its inclusion here.
In addition, its gaming performance is especially strong, thanks to a bulkier chassis with more cooling power and a full 140W of power, compared to the 105W of the RTX 5070 Ti inside the Stealth A16 AI+. For instance, at 1080p, we’re seeing 124.05fps in Cyberpunk 2077 and 136fps in Returnal, representing a 25-30% increase over MSI’s choice. Rainbow Six Extraction at 214fps proves eSports titles are no trouble, either.
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Moving up to 1440p, Cyberpunk 2077 and Returnal are still immensely playable at 77.60fps and 92fps, respectively. These are higher numbers than both the Stealth A16 AI+ and the Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 (2025) with its theoretically higher-tier RTX 5080 and Intel Core Ultra 9 285H processor.
Bringing the DLSS Transformer upscaler to the party with Cyberpunk took non-ray-traced results up to 137.97fps at 1080p and to 99.62fps at the laptop’s native 2560×1600 resolution. RT: Ultra Cyberpunk sat at 50.96fps at 1080p and 30.02fps at native res, while with DLSS, results were almost doubled with 75.03fps at 1080p and 56.08fps at native res. The results narrow between the MSI and Medion laptops here, although the Erazer Major 16 X1 is still ahead.
Being a 50-series laptop means the Erazer Major 16 X1 benefits from Nvidia’s clever Multi-Frame-Gen tech that adds in up to three ‘fake frames’ for every traditionally generated one, thanks to AI, for a perceivably smoother experience. The addition of these frames is reliant upon a base FPS figure that is high enough to mean the displayed image with Multi Frame Gen isn’t choppy or laggy.
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With this, you can take advantage of high-refresh-rate displays with smooth, responsive output without much latency penalty. Using the maximum 4x multiplier, it was able to take Cyberpunk 2077 with RT: Ultra at 2560×1600 resolution to 175.35fps, and at 1080p, pushed it to 243.38fps, nearly maxing out the 300Hz refresh rate of its display.
As has been the case with its other laptops, Medion also hasn’t skimped on this laptop’s RAM and storage configuration, pairing 32GB of fast DDR5 RAM with a capacious 2TB SSD. It’s also firmly one of the fastest I’ve tested in some time, with reads and writes of 10374.10 MB/s and 8689.71 MB/s, making it a modern Gen 5 option.
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Software
- Quite a clean Windows 11 install
- Medion Control Center is handy for controlling system functions
- Not enough AI horsepower to be a Copilot+ PC
The Erazer Major 16 X1 comes running Windows 11 and has one of the cleaner installs for it, only coming with McAfee antivirus built-in as some additional third-party software.
There is also only one piece of Medion’s own software, with the Medion Control Center app allowing for convenient access to controlling settings such as the backlighting of the keyboard and light bar on the front, as well as for toggling settings such as the laptop’s power mode and such. It’s a handy catch-all app.
As much as there is a Copilot key on this laptop for waking Microsoft’s AI assistant, this laptop isn’t powerful enough on the AI front to become one of Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs with its extra AI gubbins.
Battery Life
- Lasted for 4 hours and 45 minutes in the battery test
- Capable of lasting for half a working day
Medion has packed the Erazer Major 16 X1 with a large 80Whr battery, giving enough go-juice inside to hopefully keep the beefy components inside this laptop running for a reasonable amount of time. They quote the laptop as being able to run for three hours before conking out, which is just okay, admittedly.
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In my testing with the PCMark 10 Modern Office battery test run with the screen’s brightness at its requisite 150 nits, this laptop managed to last for four hours and 45 minutes, which is admittedly longer than Medion’s rather aggressive estimate.
Nonetheless, it means you will be kept closer to a mains plug than you may well have liked. It’s a virtually identical runtime to the MSI Stealth A16 AI+, which managed a single minute longer than Medion’s choice.
The Erazer Major 16 X1 comes with a beefy 230W power brick that was able to put charge back into that large 80Whr cell reasonably quickly, taking 28 minutes to get it back to 50 percent. A full charge at 90 minutes is a little longer than I was necessarily expecting, though.
Should you buy it?
The Core Ultra 9 275HX and RTX 5070 Ti combo makes for some of the beefiest performance on a laptop at its price, and it is significantly faster than some of its rivals.
Key rivals at this price do provide stronger overall screens with greater dynamic range and depth, being OLEDs and all, oftentimes at the same price as this Medion option.
Final Thoughts
The Medion Erazer Major 16 X1 is a very powerful gaming laptop for its price, offering fantastic gaming performance, a capable port selection, a vibrant IPS screen, and a comfortable keyboard and trackpad. The battery life isn’t brilliant, though, and you may prefer an OLED screen at this price.
Its performance is significantly stronger than the MSI Stealth A16 AI+ (2025) that also has a 5070 Ti inside, although what MSI’s option lacks in some potency, it makes up for in portability and style.
The Acer Predator Helios Neo 16S AI is a thorn in Medion’s side, though, as it has the exact same internal CPU and GPU, plus a high-refresh-rate OLED screen, and is some £500 cheaper.
The Medion Erazer Major 16 X1 is an excellent choice for all-out performance at its price, though if you want an OLED screen or a more portable chassis, you will be looking elsewhere. For more options, check out our list of the best gaming laptops you can buy.
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How We Test
This Medion laptop has been put through a series of uniform checks designed to gauge key factors, including build quality, performance, screen quality and battery life. These include formal synthetic benchmarks and scripted tests, plus a series of real-world checks, such as how well it runs popular apps and extensive gaming testing.
FAQs
How much does the Medion Erazer Major 16 X1 weigh?
The Medion Erazer Major 16 X1 weighs 2.5kg, which is about average for such a powerful 16-inch laptop.
Test Data
Medion Erazer Major 16 X1
PCMark 10
9075
Cinebench R23 multi core
30833
Cinebench R23 single core
2192
Geekbench 6 single core
3088
Geekbench 6 multi core
18761
BaseMark
16283
CrystalDiskMark Read speed
10374.10 MB/s
CrystalDiskMark Write Speed
8689.71 MB/s
Brightness (SDR)
571.1 nits
Black level
0.08 nits
Contrast ratio
1260:1
White Visual Colour Temperature
6700 K
sRGB
100 %
Adobe RGB
80 %
DCI-P3
82 %
PCMark Battery (office)
4.75 hrs
Battery discharge after 60 minutes of online Netflix playback
22 %
Battery recharge time
86 mins
Cyberpunk 2077 (Quad HD)
77.60 fps
Cyberpunk 2077 (Full HD)
124.05 fps
Cyberpunk 2077 (Full HD + RT)
50.96 fps
Cyberpunk 2077 (Full HD + Supersampling)
99.62 fps
Returnal (Quad HD)
92 fps
Returnal (Full HD)
136 fps
Rainbow Six Extraction (Quad HD)
150 fps
Rainbow Six Extraction (Full HD)
214 fps
Full Specs
Medion Erazer Major 16 X1 Review
UK RRP
£2499
CPU
Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX
Manufacturer
Medion
Screen Size
16 inches
Storage Capacity
2TB
Front Camera
1080p webcam
Battery
80 Whr
Battery Hours
4 45
Size (Dimensions)
357 x 245 x 30 MM
Weight
2.5 KG
Operating System
Windows 11
Release Date
2025
First Reviewed Date
07/11/2025
Resolution
2560 x 1600
HDR
Yes
Refresh Rate
300 Hz
Ports
3x USB-A, 2x USB-C, 1x Ethernet, 1x HDMI, 1x Mini DP, 1x 3.5mm, 1x SD card reader
GPU
Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti
RAM
32GB
Colours
Silver
Display Technology
IPS
Screen Technology
IPS
Touch Screen
No
Convertible?
No
