- Razer Blade 16 presented at CES 2025
- Comes with the latest Nvidia RTX 50 series laptop GPUs
- The first Razer Blade to run on AMD, not Intel
At CES 2025, the big tech show currently taking place in Las Vegas, Razer just announced what it claims is the thinnest gaming laptop the company has ever made: the new Razer Blade 16.
I've always loved Razer's Blade laptops, as they helped challenge the idea that powerful gaming laptops have to be big and bulky. Instead, they're thin, light and sleek, and the new Blade 16 looks to go even further with a new design that's just 0.59 inches at its thinnest point.
The biggest problem with ultra-thin gaming laptops is that the powerful internal components must be kept cool, and that means they need a lot of airflow and fans, which they can't fit into svelte bodies.
However, the Razer Blade 16 now comes with a new vapor chamber cooling system that covers more of the motherboard. It comes with a dual-fan design and 0.05mm exhausts, so the components are cooled and the hot air produced by the components is expelled while allowing Razer to make the overall size of the laptop as small as possible. thin as possible.
Big power, small size
The fact that the new Razer Blade 16 is so thin is especially impressive considering it comes with incredibly powerful hardware. This includes a 240Hz QHD+ OLED display, plus an all-new keyboard (including the Copilot key, if anyone is desperate to open the Windows 11 AI app).
Most importantly (for a gaming laptop) it comes with Nvidia's newly announced RTX 50 series of laptop GPUs, featuring up to an RTX 5090 with 24GB of GDDR7 VRAM and can use up to 155W of power. This means you'll get an incredibly capable gaming laptop that will be able to run the latest games for years to come, and will also be able to utilize new developments like DLSS 4.
The new Razer Blade 16 also marks a major change to the product line, as for the first time it is not powered by an Intel processor, but will feature the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. This is a big coup for AMD, and a big hard blow to Intel, which has been suffering a series of blows of this type for some time.
Does this mean Razer's love affair with Intel is coming to an end? If that were the case, it would be a big problem for the Blue Team, who have had a difficult 12 months. That's probably not the case, as I'm sure there will be Razer products with Intel CPUs in the future, but when trying to create the thinnest possible gaming laptop, it's understandable that Razer feels the need to go with a chip. that offers a large number of functions. power without producing too much heat, hence the switch to AMD, as Intel has been struggling to keep its chips cool while running at maximum capacity.
It's certainly not what the company needs right now, but the new Razer Blade 16 is shaping up to be an incredible device. Will it make our list of the best gaming laptops when it launches in the coming months (we're only told it'll be available in Q1 2025)? You'll have to wait for our full review to find out, but there's one thing you can be sure of: it's going to be an incredibly expensive laptop. You better start saving now.
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