The keyboard has gotten just a few noteworthy adjustments. The keys have a 1.5 mm journey distance, giving them a tactile and mechanical really feel. The actuation feels heavy, although I just like the precision it provides. Razer has additionally added 5 macro keys on the correct beneath the facility button and “dual-LED” RGB backlighting. Which means urgent and holding the Operate or Shift keys will gentle up the secondary perform of every key that has one. It’s superfluous, sure, however I’ve to confess it’s neat. The expansive, glass touchpad is nice as properly. I’ve had issues previously with misclicks and palm rejection, however that’s all been ironed out.
Razer used to supply two show choices, one in every of which was a 4K panel, however now there’s only one possibility: an OLED 240-Hz screen with a 2,560 x 1,600-pixel decision. Curiously, with the RTX 5090 onboard, this appears like the primary show that might produce higher body charges at that prime decision.
The OLED panel is unbelievable when it comes to picture high quality. It’s spectacular when it comes to colour saturation (one hundred pc sRGB, 94 % AdobeRGB) and color accuracy (Delta-E of 0.42). At a max of 381 nits, it’s not the brightest show on this planet, however that’s what you get with OLED. The mini-LED shows Razer previously supplied had been significantly brighter each in SDR and HDR, however the excessive distinction and quick response occasions of OLED make it unbeatable. I haven’t examined it myself, however the 2025 model of the ROG Zephyrus G16 claims to hit 500 nits with its OLED panel.
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My solely criticism with the Blade 16’s display is it’s extraordinarily shiny. I usually discovered myself growing the brightness to beat my very own reflection. It may be distracting within the incorrect lighting.
The six-speaker audio system is first rate. It bests most different gaming laptops available on the market, even offering some bass to the combo, ok for watching YouTube movies or perhaps a film. It’s nonetheless not aggressive with Apple’s MacBook Pro. And the 1080p webcam suffices for video calls, but it surely gained’t impress your coworkers. Even in first rate lighting, I discovered the picture fairly noisy.
Multi-Body Era
My configuration of the Razer Blade 16 has an RTX 5090 Laptop computer GPU inside, paired with an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. That’ll value you a cool $4,500. You learn that proper. A part of that sky-high value comes from being pressured to go for 32 GB of RAM and a pair of TB of storage. Razer isn’t promoting a 16 GB mannequin in any respect anymore. The beginning configuration begins at $3,000, with the Ryzen AI 9 365, RTX 5070 Ti, 32GB of RAM, and 1TB of storage. The Blade sequence has by no means been low cost, however that value is hard to swallow. You possibly can nonetheless purchase older fashions, however even these begin at $2,400.
That is additionally the primary time Razer has completely supplied solely AMD for the CPU on the Blade 16. That appears like an enormous deal. Nobody can argue anymore that Intel is the extra premium possibility. It’s not as beefy because the “desktop alternative” chip utilized in final 12 months’s Intel mannequin, however there’s loads of energy right here to your gaming wants.
