At the 2025 International CES, we went hands on with some of the first Schenker XMG enthusiast notebooks that feature a next-generation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU. These include the Schenker Key 18 PRO, and the XMG Neo 16. The Key 18 Pro is a massive portable workstation featuring an 18-inch 16:10 display with either 2560 x 1600 or 3840 x 2400 pixels resolution, with either 500 nits or 400 nits brightness, respectively. The notebook is powered by an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor (8P+16E, 36 MB cache), with four DDR5 SODIMM slots that you can add up to 192 GB of memory to. The star attraction of course is its NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU, which is configured with 24 GB of video memory, and 175 W of power. A large 98 Wh battery powers the beast.

Meanwhile, the XMG Neo 16, as its name suggests, has a 16-inch display. This is 16:10, with 2560 x 1600 resolution, comes with 300 Hz refresh rate, and 1000 nits brightness. You get the same combination of a Core Ultra 9 275HX processor and GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU, with the GPU getting 175 W of power. There are two DDR5 CSODIMM slots (SODIMMs with CKD). The company also showed off two of its key innovations that power the two notebooks, its mainboard with a proprietary bridge connector between the motherboard and discrete GPU board; and its two new cooling solutions.On both notebooks, the mainboard consists of the motherboard with the CPU and PCH; and a breakaway discrete GPU board. A bridge connector gives the GPU a PCI-Express 5.0 x16 connection from the CPU. We also got our first look at the RTX 5090 Laptop GPU, which is based on the GB203 silicon, and comes with 24 GB of GDDR7 memory across a 256-bit memory bus, using mixed-density chips.The XMG Oasis cooling solution features a massive copper baseplate that pulls heat from the CPU, GPU, PCH, and the GPU's other hot components, such as the memory chips and VRM. The cooling solution is air-based, but can be plugged in via a proprietary V4 connector to a liquid cooling loop.Schenker includes an FSP-supplied 420 W power brick with these notebooks.