Outwardly, the Razer Blade 14 is similar to any Razer Blade PC we've come across in recent years. It features an all-aluminum suspension, RGB console, three-headed snake logo, and unpretentious dark energy. However, this Razer Blade is completely different. This is the very first AMD based blade. That chip — the Ryzen 9 5900HX — enabled Razer to deliver the most impressive 14-inch gaming PC ever.
This is not only due to the raw power of the processor. AMD's product performance has enabled Razer to use Nvidia's best all-round graphics cards RTX 3070 and RTX 3080. This is the first 14-inch PC to use these chips. The Asus Zephyrus G14, which broke some of the best gaming records over the year, peaked with the RTX 3060. Whether or not this computer is a great achievement for Razer, this is an alternate question whether you really want it to be there. have to get from. The Blade 14 is no modest platform - our review unit costs $2,199.99 - and many people rightly want a bigger screen at that price. If you need mobility, this computer should definitely be in your inventory. It combines power, performance and craftsmanship that you will not find anywhere else.
The framework I tested accompanies the 100W RTX 3070, despite 16GB RAM (non-expandable), 1TB SSD storage (expandable to 2TB), and 165Hz QHD shows. For the same price, you also get a Blade 15 Base with a similar GPU and RAM, but with an Intel Core i7 6-cylinder and 512 GB. The Blade 14 is also thinner and nearly a pound lighter: the base of Blade 15 is 4.6 pounds and 0.78 inches thick, while the 14 is 3.92 pounds and 0.66 inches thick.
However, the Blade 14 is still as expensive as ultraportable gaming PCs - you'll pay a $500 premium for the FHD 120Hz Razer Blade Stealth 13 (which has a much more fragile GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q GPU and smaller screen). .) and $200 more than the top-of-the-line Zephyrus G14 (which has an RTX 3060 but an extra 32GB of RAM and an extravagant dotted grille on the lid). Elsewhere, you can get the Blade 14 for $1,799.99 with a 144Hz FHD display and RTX 3060, and the RTX 3080 with QHD show for $2,799.99. (There is no alternative to a touchscreen.) We saw no noticeable difference between the RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 frameworks - the 3070s can actually outperform the 3080s depending on performance and clock speed - so it's hard to imagine that the RTX 3080 Blade 14 is highly valued… $600 more. (You could buy two Zephyrus G14s for this price.)
It seems Razer accurately reviewed this RTX 3070, as the exhibit I saw was incredibly similar to what we saw on the Blade 15 Base with the RTX 3070. That means, from the water, it's more modest PCs like the Stealth 13 and Zephyrus G14 hits.
RAZER BLADE 14 SPECIFICATIONS
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX (3.30 GHz, eight centers)
16GB DDR4-3200MHz memory (on board)
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 GPU (8GB VRAM, 100W TGP)
1 TB solid-state drive (M.2 NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4)
QHD display (2560 x 1440) 165 Hz
12.59 x 8.66 x 0.66 inches (319.7 x 220 x 16.8mm)
3.92 lb (1.78 kg)
Li-polymer battery 61.6 Watt
230W charger
Two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C with Power Delivery and DisplayPort 1.4, two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A, one HDMI 2.1
WLAN 6E
Red Dead Redemption, which runs on the Ultra preset, averaged 58 fps - just one advantage of Blade 15 Base. (All games started with a local destination.) The game averaged 51 fps with each physically maximized slider, which is still acceptable for gaming. Skyline Zero Dawn ran at 70 frames per second, with only one advantage worse than Blade 15 Base. Blade 14 outperformed Blade 15 in Shadow of the Tomb Raider, where it hit a midpoint of 51 fps with beam tracking on Ultra (Blade 15 found an average of 46 fps) and 81 fps with Beam Off.
Those numbers are really compelling evidence of buying an AMD-powered Blade 14 instead of an Intel-powered Blade 15 Base. The Blade 14 offers virtually indistinguishable gaming performance, while doubling the performance at no extra cost. It's also thinner and lighter overall, and the eight-center processor gives you an edge over the six-cylinder Blade 15 processor for heavy multi-center tasks. Of course you need Blade 15