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Razer Blade 16 (2025)

A 175W 5090 is as wasteful and expensively pointless as it sounds, I see.

The chassis is nice, though it's a shame about the inflexibility of these configurations; It makes the only appealing option the $3000 5070Ti with 32GB. Lesser models are eye-wateringly expensive for weak hardware and a mere 16GB of RAM, Higher models are strangled by the miniscule little heatsinks.
 
Yeah nice review. I also think 5070ti sweetspot with 12gb vram, also that may push less heat onto that oled screen being limited to 140w? Worried about instability reports re Synapse..
 
That's a solid little machine if you can stomach the desktop replacement price point.
 
I own one, with the HX370 and nVidia 5090. Yes, it can run any game at a great frame rate, and the OLED display is awesome, so awesome that I upgraded my desktop to an OLED. It lasts a long time on battery - unless gaming, and the sound is pretty great for a thin laptop. BUT, WOW! IT gets HOTTTTTT! You cannot place it on your lap or get burned. It's stupid hot. My Asus 4080 ran hot, but this is cooking eggs hot. I would not trade it, it is a great machine that will last. And yes, I am old school, so I have to say it: Yes, it can run Crysis ;)
 
Lynton said:
Yeah nice review. I also think 5070ti sweetspot with 12gb vram, also that may push less heat onto that oled screen being limited to 140w? Worried about instability reports re Synapse..
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Synapse is junk, but so is the bloatware from HP, Lenovo, Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI.

Amusingly, Dell/Alienware are the least bad offenders. Don't misinterpret that; they're still offenders.
 
Chrispy_ said:
A 175W 5090 is as wasteful and expensively pointless as it sounds, I see.

The chassis is nice, though it's a shame about the inflexibility of these configurations; It makes the only appealing option the $3000 5070Ti with 32GB. Lesser models are eye-wateringly expensive for weak hardware and a mere 16GB of RAM, Higher models are strangled by the miniscule little heatsinks.
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The limited power isn't great for gaming, but I remember seeing a review a long time ago showing that even with lower clocks, those GPUs did better in productivity because of the higher CUDA core count
 
Chrispy_ said:
Synapse is junk, but so is the bloatware from HP, Lenovo, Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI.

Amusingly, Dell/Alienware are the least bad offenders. Don't misinterpret that; they're still offenders.
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Alienware control panel (AWCC) is one of the worst pieces of software I’ve ever encountered. Just having it open will make your system stutter.
 
@rampage99
Nice review! Razer delivers another quality device, but pricey. I agree with you about the CPU choice for the 5090, a bit limiting. I'll bet the 5070ti/5080 would be a better balance.
 
How come you're testing games at 1440p and 2160p, when the screen is 1600p...??
 
JimBob69 said:
How come you're testing games at 1440p and 2160p, when the screen is 1600p...??
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So we have apples-to-apples data that can be compared to other laptops, to compare performance

The "Gaming Performance" page has the same games but at native res, which of course isn't comparable to another laptop unless it has a 1600p display, too.

Any thoughts how we could make this more clear?
 
I think it would be interesting to know how much performance you retain in silent mode.
 
Visible Noise said:
Alienware control panel (AWCC) is one of the worst pieces of software I’ve ever encountered. Just having it open will make your system stutter.
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Interesting. My only recent experience is with Dell G-series laptops rather than Alienware, which use Dell Power Manager - a simple, fuss-free option that uses very few resources and has fan/power presets that seem to persist even when the app is closed down entirely - ie it has zero overhead or RAM footprint if you don't leave it open.

I just incorrectly assumed Alienware models had software that ran the same way, since for some of the gaming laptop lineup the differences between some G-series and Alienware models are only really cosmetic.
 
W1zzard said:
So we have apples-to-apples data that can be compared to other laptops, to compare performance

The "Gaming Performance" page has the same games but at native res, which of course isn't comparable to another laptop unless it has a 1600p display, too.

Any thoughts how we could make this more clear?
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I kinda figured this was the situation. The differences between 1440p and 1600p at the same horizontal resolution are not going to be huge. So the metrics on offer are a solid basis to gauge performance expectations.
 
W1zzard said:
So we have apples-to-apples data that can be compared to other laptops, to compare performance

The "Gaming Performance" page has the same games but at native res, which of course isn't comparable to another laptop unless it has a 1600p display, too.

Any thoughts how we could make this more clear?
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Ah, I missed that page. You could perhaps mention that page on first or second page of the review? When describing the screen?
 
on the spec sheet regarding the ports, is says micro-sd, even at razer's site. but the photos show a full SD card port! which is which??
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If Razer did not screw over so many people it would be fantastic.

Reports all over reddit of people receiving broken laptops or bad deliveries and Razer not helping.

Make sure you get yours fully insured if you buy this. The Dell 5090 with 64gb of ram at microcenter is 35% less at $3,299

Great review Techpowerup! Best one out on this.
 
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