(Image credit: Future) Razer Blade 14: Design If you want high-powered gaming performance in a diminutive frame, this is the best option out there – at least, until other manufacturers catch up. There is one key factor though: the Razer Blade 14 is basically the only 14-inch laptop you can buy right now with this GPU, making it officially the most powerful compact gaming machine on the market. Obviously a laptop is always going to be more expensive than a desktop, but there are plenty of cheaper laptops packing the same GPU from MSI, Asus, and Gigabyte.
It’s not cheap I ran the numbers, and you can build a desktop PC with comparable components to this Blade 14 for under $1,500 right now – and that’s with the still-inflated pricing of the RTX 3070 Ti. Most other components remain the same the Ryzen 9 6900HX processor and 16GB of DDR5 RAM are ubiquitous, and only the RTX 3060 model has a different display (a 144Hz FHD panel as opposed to the 165Hz QHD one found in our review unit). Ports: 2x USB-A 3.2 Gen 2, 2x USB-C 3.2 Gen 2, 1x HDMI 2.1, combi audio jackĪt $2,600 (£2,700, AU$4,699), this model of the Razer Blade 14 sits roughly in the middle of the available versions, which span from an RTX 3060 all the way up to a powerhouse RTX 3080 Ti model. Here is the Razer Blade 14 configuration sent to TechRadar for review: The above-average battery life further enhances this laptop’s portability, making this one of the best laptops on the market right now. If you want a strong gaming system that you can easily throw in a backpack and take on the go, the Razer Blade 14 is a stellar pick. The density of color and sharpness of contrast are incredible, putting many gaming laptops to shame and ensuring that this laptop is a competent tool for content creation work too. The screen on this review unit is a 1440p 165Hz panel, which Razer guarantees are individually factory-calibrated. Of course, great performance in games is nothing without a good display to play those games on, and the Razer Blade 14 has that too. I don’t think it’s quite the coolest gaming laptop I’ve ever reviewed, but I was seriously impressed. Gaming performance here is unsurprisingly excellent given the internal components, but what really blew me away was how quiet and cool this little unit ran, even while powering through demanding benchmarks and the latest games.