2021-06-26 22:16:00
In the past few years, the design of the Razer Blade series has not been too much of a breakthrough, typically the latest version of the Razer Blade 14. It has an all-aluminum chassis, an RGB keyboard, Razer logos, and a subtle black finish.
But this Razer Blade is different in that it is the first Blade equipped with an AMD processor. The Ryzen 9 – 5900HX chip has allowed Razer to create the most powerful 14-inch gaming laptop ever made. It’s not just the CPU’s own power. AMD’s product performance has given Razer the space to stock Nvidia’s flagship RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 mobile graphics cards. This is the first 14-inch laptop with these features.
However, whether this laptop is a significant achievement for Razer is a different question than whether you should really buy it. The Blade 14 isn’t a cheap device – the version in this article costs $2,199.99, and many people want a bigger screen for that price. But if portability is your priority, then this laptop should be on the list. It has a combination of performance, specs, and build quality that you won’t find anywhere else.
Price
The machine in the article owns a Ryzen 9 – 5900HX chip, an RTX 3070 100W discrete graphics card, 16GB of RAM (not upgradable), 1TB of SSD memory (expandable up to 2TB) and a 165Hz QHD screen. Compared to the Blade 15 Base with the same price, GPU and RAM but using a six-core Intel Core i7 chip, the Blade 14 has the advantage of being thinner and lighter.
But the Blade 14 is still as expensive as today’s ultraportable gaming laptops. Compared to the Razer Blade Stealth 13 FHD 120Hz (which has a much weaker GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q GPU and a lower refresh rate display) the Blade 14 is $500 more. As for Zephyrus 14 with RTX 3060, Blade 14 will be slightly more than 200 USD.
Performance
In the game Horizon Zero Dawn, Blade 14 runs at 70fps, just one frame behind Blade 15 Base. Meanwhile, when playing the game Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Blade 14 actually beat Blade 15 when it averaged 51fps.
These numbers make a pretty compelling case to buy an AMD-powered Blade 14 in lieu of the Intel-powered Blade 15 Base. Blade 14 gives you almost identical gaming performance but double the storage at no extra cost. It’s also significantly thinner and lighter, and its eight-core processor should give you an edge over the Blade 15’s six-core processor in heavy multi-core tasks.
However, Blade 14 fell behind in the render test. It took seven minutes and six seconds to output a five-minute 33-second 4K video in Adobe Premiere Pro. This is slower than the Blade 15 Base and a minute slower than the Stealth 13. AMD systems tend to lag behind Intel in this task, perhaps because AMD’s chip doesn’t have much support for Adobe yet. Premiere. But the Blade 14 beat its two brothers with ease on the Puget Bench for the Premiere Pro benchmark.
Finally, the Blade 14 includes Razer’s “next-generation” vapor chamber cooling system, which includes dual 88-blade fans with blades just 0.1mm thick. The Ryzen 9-5900HX chip often falls into a temperature of 90 (degrees Celsius) while playing games. However, the cooling system seems to work very well as the bottom of the chassis, keyboard and palm rest never get uncomfortably hot.
Design
In case you haven’t used Razer laptops before, their standout feature (aside from gaming performance) is the RGB keyboard. The Blade 14 features per-key RGB lighting that you can customize in the pre-installed Razer Synapse software. While many colorful gaming keyboards look eye-catching and colorful, the Blade keyboard is subtle and classy, in part because there’s almost no backlight emanating from beneath the keys and simple fonts. You will have no problem bringing this Blade to the office or coffee shop as it is very classy.
The whole chassis is CNC aluminum, and it’s pretty solid. There’s an incredible selection of ports, allowing you to power up to three external displays at once. You get one HDMI 2.1, in addition to two USB-C ports with DisplayPort 1.4, two USB-A ports, an audio jack, a lock slot, and a charging port. While there’s no Thunderbolt support, as it’s an Intel feature, you do get Wi-Fi 6E (Gig+) and Bluetooth 5.2.
Screen
Games also look great on the QHD screen, allowing to take full advantage of the frame rates produced here. The screen maxed out at 310 nits in the test, and it covered 100% of the sRGB color gamut. With the matte texture, you’ll never have any problems with glare in bright settings. Blade 14 with 16:9 aspect ratio, which is a common aspect ratio on gaming laptops, but it leaves less vertical space for work and productivity than a 16:10 or 3: 2. Users are looking forward to a 16:10 ratio next year, to make work easier.
summary
The Razer Blade 14 is the ideal gaming laptop for you. Of course, 14 inches won’t be enough screen for everyone, especially at this price point, many people might be willing to forgo fancy RGB and a few frames per second in favor of battery life. amazing Zephyrus G14. And if you really need a machine to play thin and light games, this is definitely a perfect device.
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