Abstract

• The Razer Blade (2025) delivers ultra-smooth gameplay with low latency and glorious refresh charges as much as 240Hz.
• Its AMD Ryzen 9 CPU and NVIDIA GeForce 5090 GPU mix to create a powerhouse of computing in a slim, moveable bundle.
• A wide ranging 16-inch QHD OLED show options wealthy, vibrant colours and distinction for fascinating graphics.

Enter the thinnest gaming laptop computer Razer has ever launched—and expectations run excessive. Fortunately, the Razer Blade 16 (2025) met my expectations after which some for its gaming energy (and total efficiency). The most recent iteration of the 16-inch Razer combines an AMD Ryzen CPU and an NVIDIA GPU that shines.

Value and Availability

The Razer Blade 16 (2025) is now obtainable for pre-order beginning at $2,999 for its base configuration. A PR rep for the corporate says the primary spherical of pre-orders might be fulfilled shortly (no specifics on dates), however the laptop computer is at the moment on pause for pre-orders (TBD) till Razer is able to tackle extra. After they launch extra pre-orders, the laptop computer might be obtainable on Razer’s web site, Amazon, and different retailers.

My mannequin, the Blade 16 – RZ09-0528, runs for $4,500 for 2TB of storage, 32GB of reminiscence, the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU, and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 GPU. The very best configuration runs for $4,900 for 64GB, 4TB of storage, the 5090 GPU, and the HX 370 CPU.

The Thinnest Razer Gaming Laptop computer Ever

Anybody who has adopted Razer will know their gaming laptops are hefty—any gaming laptop computer is, for that matter. However Razer took on the problem of making a thinner model of its Blade 16, leading to a extra moveable possibility for avid gamers who need to deliver their child with them. And I say they achieved it. Don’t get me flawed, there’s nonetheless important heft to the Blade 16 (2025)—roughly 4.6 kilos. However that feels way more moveable than the Razer Blade 16 (2024), which got here in at 5.4 kilos, or the Razer Blade 18 (2023), a whopping 7 kilos.

I confidently affirm that I’d really feel snug bringing the newest Blade 16 with me on a weekend journey, as I did simply that for a good friend’s bachelorette. It match inside my journey backpack and didn’t really feel so large that I used to be uncomfortable lugging it round. That check made me really feel much more assured that, ought to I need to get on a aircraft with the Razer, I’d be effective. I’ve beforehand dragged my Lenovo Legion Pro 5i Gen 8 gaming laptop computer (5.1 kilos) on flights to Texas and again, which felt a lot heavier to me than the Blade 16—that half a pound makes a distinction!

As for its total look, the Blade 16 (2025) continues the legacy of its solidly constructed, stunning matte black aluminum chassis, per-key customizable RGB keyboard, and backlit Razer brand on the again. In comparison with the Razer Blade 16 (2024) ’s 0.86-inch base, the Blade 16 (2025) reaches as skinny as 0.59 inches. Its slimmer design impacts its energy, as this mannequin reaches a max of 160W, whereas the 2024 iteration may attain as much as 175W on its RTX 4090. Should you actually care about these additional 15W, you would possibly need to follow a heftier gaming laptop computer.

Ports Aplenty

Regardless of its slimmed-down dimension, the Razer Blade 16 (2025) nonetheless has all of the ports you’ll have to work, recreation, and join.

On the left facet is an influence port for charging, two 3.2 Gen USB-A ports, one USB-C port, and a 3.5mm combo jack.

The laptop computer’s proper facet homes a UHS-II SD card reader, one other USB-C port, one other USB-A port, an HDMI 2.1 port, and a Kensington lock.

The again of the laptop computer is freed from ports.

An Upgraded Keyboard and Giant, Responsive Touchpad

A bone of rivalry with Razer house owners has been their keyboards. In reality, after I reviewed the Razer Blade 18 (2023), I used to be stymied by its compact dimension. Earlier iterations felt too awkward to kind on comfortably. Fortunately, Razer listened to the suggestions. The model upgraded the keyboard on the Blade 16 (2025), including a couple of quarter of an inch in area. It felt so way more snug to kind on that I virtually forgot about my previous qualms, and I may comfortably use the keyboard whereas gaming with out feeling like I wanted to plug in my Keychron Q6 Pro for extra space.

I seen this upgraded keyboard felt extra responsive (and took much less work to push down the keys). That’s as a result of they elevated key journey by 50%, giving the Blade 16’s keyboard a 1.5mm journey. It additionally had a 63G actuation drive, which meant I may speedily kind and keep away from (principally) hitting keys I didn’t want to. Often, I made clumsy typing errors, however I received’t blame the keyboard for these. In keeping with a word-per-minute check, I may comfortably kind anyplace from 70 to 80 phrases per minute with about 97% accuracy.

As with Razer’s different gaming laptops, the Blade 16 (2025) had customizable per-key RBG lighting, which I may tweak within the pre-installed Chroma app (obtainable on Home windows 10 and 11). Customizing the keyboard was straightforward—I may select from 8 preset gentle results or head to the “Studio” tab to pick out varied colours or results for every keyboard key.

The Blade 16’s glass touchpad had a matte floor however felt {smooth} sufficient that my fingers didn’t catch throughout necessary parts of video games when my fingers have been getting sweaty. It was bigger than common laptop computer touchpads, measuring roughly 5.9 by 3.8 inches.

t carried out effectively with gentle faucets but in addition had a clickable floor space that didn’t stick and felt nice whether or not I used to be working in Photoshop, searching the online, or gaming. It was very responsive, however I didn’t discover my wrist brushing it as I typed or gamed, which was a plus for anybody who will get lazy, drained wrists after long-term pc use.

Extremely-Clear Show and Graphics With Wealthy Distinction

Gaming, streaming, modifying pictures, or watching YouTube movies felt like an expertise on the Razer Blade 16. Its shiny, 16-inch OLED has a decision of two,560 by 1,600p and delivers some actually excellent visuals at almost any brightness. I most popular to maintain the brightness at round 50% or greater to benefit from the full depth of colour and distinction.

As a result of it was an OLED, darker colours and black seemed true to shade, offering a depth that different non-OLED screens usually lack. Its Calman-verified colour profiles embrace sRGB, Adobe RGB, DCI-P3, and Rec.709, which could possibly be useful for content material creators.

It doesn’t matter what media I used to be consuming, I received crisp, wealthy graphics with a distinction that, fairly frankly, blew my thoughts in comparison with a few of the different laptop computer shows I’ve seen prior to now six months. The display screen was additionally rated for ClearMR 10000, which offered readability and sharp particulars whereas transferring in video games. Whereas operating or present process stealth duties in video games, I felt the graphics seemed crisper than I’m used to seeing on gaming laptops (an enormous, huge win for avid gamers).

Black colours popped effectively towards vibrant reds and blues in The Avengers, whereas actors like Scarlett Johansson and Mark Ruffalo seemed so dang clear I felt like I may attain out and contact them by means of the display screen. Equally, the depth of colour and distinction shone when watching wildlife movies. As an example, a toucan’s colourful beak popped towards greenery, and its black feathers had the blue undertones many black shades have.

As a bizarre caveat, for some motive, all of Razer’s default show settings on Home windows make the whole lot look tiny in comparison with different commonplace laptop computer shows (i.e., app icons, internet browser home windows, and many others.) The textual content was so arduous to learn that I altered the show settings to scale at 150% (somewhat than the advisable 125%). It doesn’t appear to be an equal scale to different PCs, and I’m unsure why it is a factor. Nevertheless it irked me. (And doubtless received’t bug anybody else because it’s a straightforward repair?) Nevertheless it’s price noting that you simply would possibly need to tweak the size if you happen to seize one for your self.

AMD’s Ryzan AI 9 HX 370 and the RTX 5090

I admit I used to be a bit skeptical about Razer switching over to an AMD processor as a result of I are inclined to desire Intel CPUs. That stated, the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 carried out fairly effectively and made me really feel like I may (virtually) convert. The CPU boasts AI integration with Copilot+, bringing as much as 50 TOPS for AI duties. The Blade 16 options all of the Copilot+ experiences you would need, together with Cocreator in Paint, Stay Caption for movies, and AI Recall to simply discover what you’re searching for.

Apart from the AI options, the HX 370 gives 12 cores and 24 threads that may deal with loads of resource-heavy processing. And I discovered that coupled with the 32GB of RAM, usually gave me extra energy than I wanted. That is, nevertheless, considerably of a downgrade from the Blade 16 (2024), which had an Intel Core i9-14900HX CPU with 24 cores and 32 threads—a powerhouse that may undeniably be a bit speedier for multicore work. That processor additionally outperforms the Ryzen HX 370 in benchmarks for single and multicore efficiency.

I can attest to this, as my gaming laptop computer has an Intel Core i9-13900 HX CPU (24 cores, 32 threads), which felt rather a lot quicker to me than the HX 370 for some multitasking (multicore) work (a bit extra on this later).

Onto the NVIDIA 5090 GPU—it kills it. The brand new Blackwell structure in RTX 50 sequence laptops like this has twice the effectivity and efficiency as earlier generations, and I did really feel the distinction when it comes to total velocity. It hits as much as 160W whole graphics energy (much less energy than the final iteration of the Blade, as beforehand talked about). I didn’t discover that this severely affected gaming efficiency, and it might be price it for the slimmer body if you would like a transportable gaming laptop computer.

The GPU has all of the NVIDIA stuff you’d hope for, together with NVIDIA G-Sync (which prevents display screen tearing tearing) and DLSS 4 for quicker body technology. DLSS 4 contains NVIDIA’s Tremendous Decision, Ray-Reconstruction, and a brand new AI-Transformer Mannequin in addition to multi-frame technology.

Highly effective Efficiency For Most Duties

A few of my browser pages and packages lagged barely when utilizing the “Balanced Mode” energy plan. There was a couple of half-second delay when closing tabs or making an attempt to open packages. Once I switched to “Greatest Efficiency,” the laptop computer ran a lot smoother, however it relied on how a lot multitasking I used to be making an attempt to do.

Pushing the CPU to its limits, I had YouTube operating, 20 browser tabs, a recreation operating within the background, the Xbox app open, and I edited pictures in Photoshop. This severely slowed down the laptop computer, however most individuals would by no means try to run these mixtures of packages in a single go; I wished to see how far I may take it. After closing a online game, I nonetheless struggled with velocity, so I closed out Xbox, YouTube, the Chroma app, and a pair extra browser tabs. This lightened the load sufficient to speedily edit these pictures in Photoshop.

The Razer Blade 16 (2025) managed to breeze by means of duties for my each day workload regardless of these small delays and principally felt speedy. My workload usually concerned a number of browser tabs, phrase processing packages, and Spotify for music.

I did expertise some gradual processing for Photoshop in comparison with different laptops I’ve examined. I rebooted the laptop computer as soon as to attempt to treatment this. This didn’t make it that a lot quicker. So, I checked to see if the PC was throttling down because of temperature or bandwidth and located that it was a bandwidth situation. Photoshop carried out finest when no different packages have been open, and even the gradual delay was a minuscule half-second to a second between clicks. Nothing too loopy to override the general improbable efficiency of the CPU.

As for the Blade 16’s cooling system, it encompasses a new thermal hood design, twin followers, a vapor chamber cooling answer, and .05mm exhaust fins. I discovered the cooling system’s efficiency efficient (I solely noticed the CPU and GPU hit about 80 levels Celsius or so after lengthy gaming classes).

When pushed to the restrict or plugged in whereas gaming, the laptop computer feels fairly scorching, and the followers kick up noisily. However that is nothing I’m not used to on gaming laptops, and the air flow performs effectively sufficient to maintain the laptop computer shielded from overheating.

Gaming Efficiency: It’s Price The Hype

Gaming on the Razer Blade 16 (2025) was so pleasant that I performed for longer than deliberate. As soon as, I used to be up until 4:30 a.m. as a result of I misplaced monitor of time. Oops!

DLSS 4 provided multi-frame technology for loads of video games, making my gaming expertise {smooth} as butter. As an example, after I performed Avowed and Dragon Age: The Veilguard, all my graphics settings have been on excessive or epic, and there was no latency to talk of, no screen-tearing, and {smooth}, crisp body technology that made it straightforward to get misplaced within the video games.

Testing Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle, I had a splendidly responsive expertise on graphics set to excessive and extremely. Throughout gameplay, I monitored the frames per second (FPS) and located full ray tracing nonetheless offered a 55-60fps common. Once I turned off the optionally available ray-tracing settings, my recreation hit a ballpark of 80 to 100fps.

Atomfall was additionally extremely {smooth} to play with graphics on medium (60fps common) with a 9 to 14% CPU and 65% GPU load.

One other spectacular efficiency got here from Cyberpunk 2077, which I performed on the Blade 16 on battery energy. Nonetheless, with graphics settings on excessive and extremely, ray tracing on low, and DLSS on auto, I famous round 60fps.

With this {smooth} expertise for all of the above video games, I may interact in fight with none points and recreation to a near-competitive stage if I so wished. I’d advocate that actually aggressive avid gamers flip the graphics settings down barely for greater FPS, as that’s after I hit these 80 to 100fps marks. However total, many medium- to high-resource video games performed fantastically effectively for me on the Blade 16, and the ability is sufficient to please avid gamers who do not have already got a extra highly effective GPU. Razer hyped this as a “important improve for avid gamers utilizing an RTX 30 Collection or decrease,” and I agree.

The Audio system, Digicam, and Microphones Carry out Effectively

For laptop computer audio system, the six woofers and tweeters (up and down-firing) on the Razer Blade 16 present respectable sound high quality. Like most laptop computer audio system, although, I’d nonetheless say they’re higher than headphones. Nonetheless, I may take pleasure in most media on the speaker system.

Throughout video games, the audio system put out immersive, well-mixed sound with a great stability of lows, mids, and highs. Films like Disney’s Alice in Wonderland and The Avengers additionally sounded pretty well-balanced (although the bass may nonetheless be heavier).

I additionally loved listening to music on the Blade 16. Sleep Token’s Euclid, for instance, sounded fairly good at 50 to 65%. I used to be impressed that, even above 75% quantity, a lot of the tracks nonetheless sounded nice. Nonetheless, there was a noticeable grating sound when the guitars kicked in at this stage, which made me flip the quantity again down. Equally, Gary Jules’ Mad World sounded superior, even at 70%. However after I handed that quantity threshold, the piano was too brilliant, overpowering the remainder of the combination and affecting my listening expertise.

Razer’s Synapse app (Home windows solely until utilizing Razer Synapse 2) allowed me to customise listening profiles, which was a pleasant contact for getting the sound I wished.

General, I believed the speaker system was above common for a laptop computer and carried out effectively. My solely remark is that after I was gaming (plugged in) and the followers kicked up, I desperately wished headphones. The intensive cooling system helps the laptop computer operate to its finest efficiency with out overheating, however imagine me—the followers are loud. With the quantity at 100%, I may nonetheless hear them, and it was troublesome to listen to the audio above the racket.

The Blade 16’s IR FHD webcam was about common efficiency to barely above. It did above common in dim lighting situations and did not overexpose or over-saturate my pores and skin tone as another cameras do.

It isn’t one of the best webcam I’ve ever seen, however it offers crisp, clear pictures and video that most individuals can be proud of.

In some situations, the dual-array microphones did fairly a formidable job with noise cancelation. Even when taking part in background music and in a loud setting, the mics picked up my voice, which stayed pleasantly on the forefront. Though there was a slight warble within the audio, I used to be nonetheless happy with this efficiency, as at one level, I held a speaker taking part in music proper as much as the mics and will nonetheless hear myself talking within the recordings.

Microphone Take a look at on the Razer Blade 16 (2025) Gaming Laptop computer in a Noisy Setting

Microphone Take a look at on the Razer Blade 16 (2025) Gaming Laptop computer in a Quiet Setting

Respectable Battery Life… For a Gaming Laptop computer

I did not anticipate a lot from the battery since it is a gaming laptop computer, however the Razer Blade 16 managed to empty at a comparatively okay tempo for one of these machine. Its common drain time was about 0.37% per minute for many functions apart from gaming. That was about 4 and a half hours earlier than I wanted to plug in. Contemplating I’ve seen gaming laptops hog a full battery in about two and a half to a few hours, this was a great efficiency. It did drain about as shortly when left on sleep, although, at about 0.28 to 0.3% per idle minute.

Gaming on battery energy, as anticipated, was one other story. It misplaced juice at a mean price of 1.35% per minute, which received me about an hour and 14 minutes of gameplay earlier than I wanted to recharge.

Charging velocity was a mean of 1.06% per minute, so a full cost took about one hour and 34 minutes—not a foul price if you happen to aren’t gaming on the factor all day. And in case you are, I would advocate staying plugged in as a lot as attainable.

Ought to You Purchase the Razer Blade 16 (2025) Laptop computer?

The largest factor getting in the best way of somebody committing to the Razer Blade 16 (2025) is probably going the value. With the bottom configuration retailing for $3,000, this mannequin is a big funding. And my specific configuration was round $4,500. The funding, although pricey, does offer you a really high-performing gaming laptop computer that may deal with simply about something. Nonetheless, it has limitations, like fewer threads than another highly ranked gaming laptops for pro-level multitasking (the Alienware m18 R2, for instance, has a mannequin with an Intel Core i9 14900HX with 32 threads) or its 160W max energy, because of its slimmer design.

Nonetheless, I discovered little to dislike concerning the newest Razer Blade 16, and I believe most avid gamers can be elated to have it of their arsenal.