Razer Blade 16 announced at CES 2025 with an Nvidia RTX 5090 GPU but Intel has been dumped

Date:
Tue, 07 Jan 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Description:
Razer has announced its thinnest ever gaming laptop, the Blade 16, with an Nvidia RTX 5090 but its had to dump Intel.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Razer Blade 16 unveiled at CES 2025 Comes with the latest Nvidia RTX 50 series laptop GPUs First Razer Blade to go with AMD, not Intel

At CES 2025 , the huge tech show currently going on in Las Vegas, Razer has just announced what it claims is the thinnest gaming laptop the company has ever made: the new Razer Blade 16.

Ive always loved Razers Blade laptops, as they helped challenge the idea that powerful gaming laptops have to be big and bulky. Instead, they are thin, light and stylish, and the new Blade 16 looks to take that even further with
a new design thats just 0.59-inches at its thinnest point.

The biggest issue with ultra-thin gaming laptops is that the powerful components inside need to be kept cool, and that means they need lots of airflow and fans, which cant be fitted into svelte bodies.

However, the Razer Blade 16 now comes with a new vapor chamber cooling system which covers a larger amount of the motherboard. This comes with a dual-fan design and 0.05mm exhausts, so components are cooled, and hot air produced by the components is expelled while allowing Razer to make the overall size of the laptop as thin as possible. (Image credit: Razer) Big power, small size

The fact that the new Razer Blade 16 is so thin is especially impressive considering it comes packed with incredibly powerful hardware. This includes
a QHD+ 240Hz OLED display, plus a whole new keyboard (which includes the Copilot key, if anyone is desperate to open up Windows 11s AI app).

Most importantly (for a gaming laptop), it comes with Nvidias just-announced RTX 50 series of laptop GPUs, with up to an RTX 5090 with 24GB of GDDR7 VRAM and can use up to 155W in power. This means youll get an incredibly capable gaming laptop that will be able to run the very latest games for years to
come and it can also make use of new developments such as DLSS 4.

The new Razer Blade 16 also brings a major shakeup to the product line, as
for the first time its not powered by an Intel processor, but will feature
the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. This is a huge coup for AMD, and a big blow to Intel, which has been suffering from a series of such blows for a while now. (Image credit: Razer)

Does this mean Razers love affair with Intel is coming to an end? If that was the case, it would be a big deal for Team Blue, which has had a difficult 12 months . Thats likely not to be the case, as I am sure there will be future Razer products with Intel CPUs, but when attempting to make the thinnest gaming laptop possible, its understandable that Razer might feel the need to go with a chip that offers plenty of power without producing too much heat, hence the switch to AMD, as Intel has been struggling with keeping its chips cool while performing at maximum capacity.

Its certainly not what the company needs right now, but the new Razer Blade
16 is shaping up to be an incredible device. Will it get into our best gaming laptops list when it launches in the next few months (weve only been told
itll be available in Q1 of 2025)? Youll have to wait for our full review to find out, but theres one thing you can be sure of: this is going to be one heck of a pricey laptop. Better get saving now.

TechRadar will be extensively covering this year's CES , and will bring you all of the big announcements as they happen. Head over to our CES 2025 news page for the latest stories and our hands-on verdicts on everything from 8K TVs and foldable displays to new phones, laptops, smart home gadgets, and the latest in AI.

And dont forget to follow us on TikTok and WhatsApp for the latest from the CES show floor! You might also like... LG and Samsung have put AI everywhere in their 2025 TVs and Copilot's coming too The LG M5 wireless OLED TV might be weirdly the perfect pick for PC gamers, especially with the Nvidia RTX
5080 on the horizon We pick the best thin and light gaming laptops



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