According to Laptop Mag experts, the Razer Blade 16 (2024) is the most popular gaming laptop.
As a powerful laptop that straddles the line between desktop replacement and portable gaming machine, the Razer Blade 16 2024 is hard to beat.
Razer Blade 16 2024.
Specifications:
- Selling price: starting at 112.4 million VND
- Processor: Intel Core i9-14900HX
- GPU: Nvidia RTX 4090
- RAM: 32GB
- Hard drive: 2TB SSD
- Display: 16-inch OLED, QHD + resolution with 240Hz refresh rate
- Battery life: 4 hours 41 minutes
- Dimensions: 14 x 9.6 x 0.87 inches
- Weight 5.3 pounds
Product design
Razer has kept the same exterior design of the Blade 16 series for years, with a minimalist aluminum shell. This “Apple-style” design approach has brought Razer success over the years.
The device is equipped with many connection ports.
In terms of portability, the Blade 16 is a desktop replacement laptop that's slightly larger than the Blade 14 but still fits into a backpack.
Connection port
The Razer Blade 16 is a desktop replacement laptop with all the ports you need: 1x Thunderbolt 4 port with 100 watts of power, 1x USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 port, 3x USB-A 3.2 Gen 2 ports, HDMI 2.1 output, 3.5mm headphone jack, and UHS-II SD card reader.
Screen
The Razer Blade 16's 16-inch OLED display is gorgeous, offering sharp contrast and vibrant colors when playing videos and games.
Super bright screen.
The standard QHD+ display covers 78.1% of the DCI-P3 color gamut with a Delta-E accuracy of 0.21. The Razer Blade 16 2024 UHD+ Mini-LED display is more accurate with 81.8% DCI-P3 color gamut coverage and a Delta-E of 0.23.
The Blade 16 2023 with UHD+ Mini-LED display offers the most vivid display with 93% coverage and 0.18 accuracy. The Razer Blade 16 2024 QHD+ model has an average brightness of 378 nits, which eliminates most of the screen glare.
The Blade 16 2024 UHD+ Mini-LED also handles glare better, reaching 509 nits of brightness. The Blade 16 2023 UHD+ Mini-LED has 466 nits of brightness, which is higher than both the Legion 5 Pro (318 nits) and the Alienware m16 (288 nits).
Keyboard and touch
The Razer Blade 16 has a fairly large 6.1 x 3.7-inch touchpad and an RGB keyboard powered by Razer Chroma. This is a familiar setup from the Blade 16 series.
The Razer Blade 16 has a fairly large touchpad.
The keyboard is comfortable and has good springiness, excellent clickability. Per-key lighting can be fully controlled in Razer Synapse.
In addition, the large touchpad also allows for smoother control. Users can comfortably rest their hands on the keyboard and type without accidentally activating it.
Sound quality
The Razer Blade 16's quad-speaker array of two tweeters and two subwoofers is big enough to deliver big sound. You won't even need headphones when gaming.
Visuals and gaming performance
Since the Blade 16 is a gaming laptop, graphics and gaming performance are the most important factors.
In real-world testing, the Razer Blade 16 handles well and is powerful, on par with a gaming desktop.
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Efficiency
For casual work, there's no task that's too much for the Razer Blade 16, from photo editing via Photoshop to opening a large number of Chrome tabs.
Familiar but no less impressive design.
On the Geekbench 6 cross-platform CPU benchmark, the Blade 16 2024 QHD+ averaged a single-core score of 2,284 and a multi-core score of 17,461. The Razer Blade 16 2024 UHD+ had a better single-core average score of 2,850, though its multi-core average was slightly worse at 17,025.
In our 25GB multimedia file copy and multi-tasking test, the Razer Blade 16 2024 QHD+ OLED model took just 14.7 seconds to complete the file transfer for a rate of 1,833 MBps (megabits per second). The Blade 16 2024 UHD+ Mini-LED was faster at 13.3 seconds for a transfer rate of 2,016 MBps. The Blade 16 2023 was the slowest at 27.8 seconds for a rate of 972 MBps. The Alienware m16, on the other hand, took 13 seconds for a rate of 2,015 MBps. The Lenovo Legion 5 Pro was the fastest at 12.5 seconds for a rate of 2,149 MBps.
Battery life
Gaming laptops rarely have great battery life, and the Blade 16 is no exception. In Laptop Mag's test with the screen brightness set to 150 nits, the Razer Blade 16 (2024) lasted just 4 hours and 41 minutes. The version with the UHD+ Mini-LED display lasted just a little longer, at 4 hours and 57 minutes.
Meanwhile, the Blade 16 2023 has a battery life of 5 hours and 29 minutes. The Lenovo Legion 5 Pro leads the battery life with 4 hours and 38 minutes while the Alienware m16 R2 has the longest battery life with 6 hours and 13 minutes.
Temperature rating
Heat is often the weakest point of gaming laptops. Despite its built-in vapor chamber cooling system, the Blade 16 still generates a fair amount of heat when gaming.
During Laptop Mag's gaming heat test, the laptop peaked at 118 degrees Fahrenheit (about 47 degrees Celsius) on the underside of the rear. That's well above Laptop Mag's comfort threshold of 95 degrees (about 35 degrees Celsius). As such, gamers should place the Blade 16 on a desk when gaming and use a separate keyboard and mouse instead of the integrated keyboard and touchpad.
Conclusion
The Razer Blade 16 (2024) is a great machine, no matter which configuration you choose. Even the base model offers an Intel Core i9-14900HX GPU and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070, which can keep up with any modern game.
Like every other gaming laptop, the Blade 16's major weaknesses are its high price and poor battery life.
So, as long as gamers have enough income to buy the Razer Blade 16, this will be a worthy option.